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		<title>Boston, Downton and spinal injuries in World War I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or, an excuse to write about &#8220;Downton Abbey.&#8221; If you didn&#8217;t watch last night, know that we give away a major development, aka spoiler alert. After dismissing it as just another period drama, we admit, we&#8217;ve been sucked into BBC WWI-era soap opera. Wondering about whether Matthew Crawley could recover from this battle wounds, we went [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5660&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The question of headlines on all Wall Street Journal #health debates #boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we need to wonder why we saw a string of WSJ tweets come in this morning as questions? Didn&#8217;t our search engine optimizers tell us to do the same thing? Wouldn&#8217;t have be kind of annoying? Are there any Boston doctors in the long list of posts debating the &#8220;Big Issues&#8220;? Should we link to them? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5647&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books by doctors on health reform and beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a freelancer, I’ve been known to grumble about doctors who write. After all, why should they hog the Pulitzers and the pages of The New Yorker when they have perfectly good day jobs? On the other hand, doctors in print often offer us an alternative to the mass-marketed Dr. Oz or the perky, laminated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5641&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hold the fried chicken: RedSox workout tips from the Globe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the BoSox players were lifting chicken legs instead of weights last spring, but not Ellsbury and Pedroia.  Jacoby returned from an injury for a great year and Dustin was solid all season. The Globe&#8217;s Daily Dose offers some advice from their off-season trainers, who counsel them &#8220;on the importance of sleep, self-massage to relieve soreness, and what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5627&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New fitness and exercise blog on the Globe web site</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/new-fitness-and-exercise-blog-on-the-globe-web-site-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Globe has added another health blog &#8212; this one on fitness: Elizabeth Comeau is the senior health &#38; wellness producer at Boston.com. She will be blogging about her personal fitness journey and using a device called a FitBit to track her weekly goals and progress (see below). Follow her journey and share your own. Read [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5616&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will competition in Hep C drug market bring down costs? #hepatitis</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/will-competition-in-hep-c-drug-market-bring-down-costs-hepatitis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of health news emerges from investor events like this week&#8217;s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The Globe&#8217;s Robert Weisman reports this morning on competition for Cambridge-based (soon to be Boston-based) Vertex Pharmaceuticals. SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; It was supposed to be a victory lap for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. executives: their first appearance at the life sciences industry’s most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5601&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MIT science news tracker accuses NY Times of &#8220;trashing&#8221; yoga #altmed #yoga</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/mit-science-news-tracker-accuses-ny-times-of-trashing-yoga-altmed-yoga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More discontent about reporting on alternative approaches to wellness. Paul Raeburn &#8211; who discloses that he&#8217;s been practicing yoga for a dcade &#8212; writes: The magazine excerpt notes, in the setup near the top, that “Among devotees, from gurus to acolytes forever carrying their rolled-up mats, yoga is described as a nearly miraculous agent of renewal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5594&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Yorker: Former NEJM editor dismisses placebo claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>by Tinker Ready</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Relman writes in this week&#8217;s New Yorker.  He argues that researchers claiming placebos can cure are driven by &#8221;substantial financial support for their anti-establishment views&#8221;  from NIH and private donors. From the letter&#8217;s page: There is simply no evidence that physical diseases, such as cancer,  atherosclerosis, or organ disorders, can be cured or measurably improved by  placebos. Experienced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5574&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard video: The Supercommittee Collapse and America&#8217;s Healthcare Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard School of Public Health Panel Filed under: Health care news, Reform Tagged: access to health insurance, Health care costs, Reform, The politics of health care<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5563&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYTimes starts its TBI / PTSD series in Maine</title>
		<link>http://tinkerready.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/nytimes-starts-its-tbi-ptsd-series-in-maine-va-veterans-iraqwar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEXTER, Me. — The roadside bomb that separated Sgt. Matthew Pennington from his left leg in 2006 also shattered his right leg and scorched his lungs. Those injuries he understood. But then came the ones he did not, the ones inside his head&#8230; Like Mr. Pennington, many veterans injured in combat are finding that their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinkerready.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6495857&amp;post=5558&amp;subd=tinkerready&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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