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		<title>Complementary and alternative medicine need more randomized trials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the KeviMD column of Wed Feb 1, 2012 11:00   Since I dedicated an entire issue of JAMA on Nov. 11, 1998 to the theme of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in an effort to move CAM into the mainstream, I keep hoping that some of the numerous CAM offerings will make it out of the realm of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8238&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Wrong With a Welfare Nation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on January 31, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist At The Atlantic, a post by Alex Tabarrok, “The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State“, has been making its way around the bloggysphere, in part due to the big shout out to science, as embodied by this figure: Tabarrok: We like to think of ourselves as an innovation nation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8230&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Careers &#8211; Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility &#8211; Career Advice Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility via MSN Careers &#8211; Tense times: Overcoming workplace incivility &#8211; Career Advice Article Excerpt some tips: Take rudeness for what it&#8217;s worth. Being on the receiving end of an unnecessarily sharp barb or inconsiderate brush-off can ruin your day. Why let it? Constructive criticism merits reflection; rudeness does not. So, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=7936&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workstation &#8211; Building a Bridge to a Lonely Colleague &#8211; NYTimes.com and Related Article about Lonliness in General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Workplace Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workstation &#8211; Building a Bridge to a Lonely Colleague &#8211; NYTimes.com From the 28 January article IT’S lonely at the top, or so it is said. But in fact it doesn’t matter where a person is in the office hierarchy — employees at all levels become lonely, even when other workers are all around them&#8230;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8202&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Bad Habits &#8211; NIH News in Health, January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking Bad Habits &#8211; NIH News in Health, January 2012 From the article If you know something’s bad for you, why can’t you just stop? About 70% of smokers say they would like to quit. Drug and alcohol abusers struggle to give up addictions that hurt their bodies and tear apart families and friendships. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8204&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elsevier&#8217;s Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke &#8211; Forbes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsevier&#8217;s Publishing Model Might be About to Go Up in Smoke &#8211; Forbes  From the 28 January 2012 article Academic publishing is a very good game indeed if you can manage to get into it. As the publisher the work is created at the expense of others, for free to you. There are no advances, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8208&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Animated Video on Current Health Care System Changes &#8211; Kaiser Health Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Reform Hits Main Street &#8211; Kaiser Health Reform From the Kaiser Health Reform Source Web page Confused about how the new health reform law really works? This short, animated movie &#8212; featuring the &#8220;YouToons&#8221; &#8212; explains the problems with the current health care system, the changes that are happening now, and the big changes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8210&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Data Day” Conference Shows the Power of Numbers « Science Is Everyone&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Data Day” Conference Shows the Power of Numbers « Science Is Everyone&#8217;s Story. From the 28 January 2012 blog item There’s power in numbers. That was the consensus in the workshops I visited this Friday at the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission’s Data Day in Boston. The name “Data Day” may not conjure up visions of dramatic reversals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8212&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Educational Comics: Schizophrenia and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educational Comics: Schizophrenia and more « ScienceRoll From the 31 January blog item at ScienceRoll Last week, I gave a presentation about how people with mental conditions and their doctors use the web and social media at the Congress of Psychiatry and I saw a great idea when walking around after my talk. The comics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=8214&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pollution, Crime, and Education by  Mike the Mad Biologist (And a Somewhat Related Mental Health Study)</title>
		<link>http://jflahiff.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/pollution-crime-and-education-by-mike-the-mad-biologist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janice Flahiff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This short blog entry points to examples of how there is most likely links between air pollution and brain development and function. For example a recent study indicates schools in areas of high air pollution have higher rates of absenteeism. Crime rates have gone down in areas where lead removal was a high priority. While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jflahiff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3119573&amp;post=7969&amp;subd=jflahiff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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