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Snoozing through the Throne Speech
On Wednesday, Canadians were treated once again to the self-serious pomp of a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament and the silly, interminable march of the Usher of the Black Rod.That's right: yet another Speech from the Throne in which o...
Google Kills 3-D World, Lively
Well, its official. After just a few months, Google has decided to pull the plug on their 3-D world, Lively. While many of us were hoping this would evolve into a scalable, open source 3-D platform for e-learning and Web 2.0 initiatives, Google'...
What's in the news: Nov. 21 -- Ontario FP wins $1,000,000
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Friday, November 21.Congratulations are due to Dr Diane Hawthorne, a family doctor from London, Ontario, who won a million dollars when she cashed in a two-for-one br...
Blogging and pathology articles about blogs
Since starting this blog over a year ago I have relied upon "word of blog" from other physician bloggers (see: New Digital Pathology Blog by Keith Kaplan & The Bits and Bytes of Pathology), other digital pathology blogs (see: Medicine...
DMP (Devuelvame Mi Plata)
El post de hoy es una colaboración de MCB (para ustedes María C), candidata a master en administración de negocios y directora asociada de la unica calificadora de valores seria de este país. Para Hermes Blog es un verdadero privilegio publicar &...
Europeana dominé par la France
Qu'est-ce qu'Europeana ? C'est une grande bibliothèque numérique, culturelle financée par l'Union européenne.Et le New York Times a été impressionné par le nombre important de documents français : 1 million sur les 2 millions. La chute du mur de B...
What's in the news: Nov. 20 -- PEI looks to update its healthcare system
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Thursday, November 20.Prince Edward Island gears up for what promises to be a protracted battle over a major overhaul of the province's healthcare system after a cons...
DLC Creates Adobe AIR Application for Cancer Clinical Trials Training
DLC Solutions was selected by the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials (ENACCT) to create an e-learning platform for oncology professionals to use to train other health care professionals and the general public about cancer clinical...
Stem cells and DNA - things that make me go hmmmm...
I was busy working at my computer last night when twice I turned to catch something on the news. The first was a story about a windpipe from a cadaver and stem cells from a woman's bone marrow and a...
Recent Health and Technology Links
Here are some really interesting recent links on how people are tracking and tackling health issues through computer and cell-phone based technologies. Some of them are better ideas than in practice, but I appreciate the potential! Project Masilu...
Drupal Camp Philadelphia a Success!
DLC Solutions is proud to have co-sponsored and participated in Drupal Camp - Philadelphia on November 11, 2008. The conference brought together programmers, designers, and project managers from around the region to discuss Drupal development and...
Researchers aim to learn how patients react to information culled from genome scans
In the Los Angeles Times (11/12) Booster Shots Blog, Rosie Mestel asked what individuals should do with the info they receive after spending "a thou' or two" to learn about their "genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease, colon cancer, heart ...
Hot, Flat and Crowded - Ideas for Innovation
Tom Friedman's latest book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, gives an excellent overview of some of the crises facing us - over consumption, energy poverty by many nations, and the wrong incentives for fixing the energy crisis. His suggested solutions are m...
What's in the news: Nov. 19 -- Toronto RN fired for sex scandal
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Wednesday, November 19.The doctors treating Tom Wilson, the sole survivor of a British Columbia plane crash on Sunday, can hardly believe he not only survived the imp...
The Evolution of Writing
Robert Scoble left a message on Friendfeed yesterday: “I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision?” I replied to him: No question about that. In the past, websites were static co...
Gene Genie #40 at Human Genetics Disorders
The 40th edition is up at Human Genetics Disorders. A great compilation of articles and blogposts about human genetics and personalized medicine. Thank you, Chavonne Jones, for hosting Gene Genie. Gene Genie is the blog carnival of genes and gene...
What you have to know about Twitter
I thought I should collect and share all the things I’ve learnt or found about Twitter as this is one of my favourite web 2.0 services these days. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows us to send 140 character-long messages to our f...
Mark your Calendar - APIII 2009 - September 20-24, Pittsburgh, PA
http://apii.upmc.edu Mark Your Calendar / Plan to Attend APIII 2009 Sunday, September 20 ??? Thursday, September 24, 2009 Marriott City Center Hotel, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
11 Décembre: Web 2.0 et santé
Le 11 Décembre dans le cadre de la journée Benchmark que Basil Strategies co-organise, je vais faire un exposé portant sur le Web 2.0 dans la santé. Les lecteurs de ce blog sont eux-mêmes des connaisseurs. Quel est votre point...
Physiotherapy after surgical treatment of secondary habitual patellar dislocation with a transfer of patellar tendon procedure
Keywords: post-operative physiotherapy; Habitual dislocation of the patellofemoral joint; Transfer of patellar tendon Description: This case is related to other described in this web: “Secondary habitual patellar dislocation...
API Scholarships for Medical Technology Students Announced
The American Proficiency Institute (API) recently announced a new $10,000 scholarship program for medical technology students. In introducing the program, Dan Edson, API President, explained, "We are looking for future, visionary leaders of the pr...
XO Laptop Now Available
Buy one, give one, read more here too: http://www.amazon.com/One-Laptop-per-Child-Give/dp/B001GB87EI/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Link between Beer and AIDS? More from the OHTN Conference, Day 2
On Friday at the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Conference, I saw this great movie filmed at the 2006 AIDS Conference in Toronto, about two little girls interviewing several participants about HIV and AIDS. In Please Talk to Your Kids About AIDS, ...
23andMe Poem: Enough to make you spit?
A reader (beerbelliesuk) just left a comment on one of my posts. It’s a poem about 23andMe, the Google-sponsored genetic company. I have no idea who wrote it but is quite ironic. Update: The poem belongs to Helen Wallace who wrote it while s...
Aperio Receives Second FDA Clearance for Diagnosis of Digital Breast Cancer Slides
Aperio has recently received FDA clearance for interpretation of progesterone receptor to its already approved HER2 clearance for digital reads as well as image analysis applications for ER and PR. Excellent news for signing out breast cancers wit...
Grand Rounds: call for submissions
Next Tuesday Canadian Medicine will publish a new edition of Grand Rounds, a weekly collection of the best writing from health blogs.If you wrote something you think I should include, or if you read a blog post elsewhere that warrants consideratio...
Growing the Tree Trunk - An Argument for User-Friendly Personal Health Platforms
"A common theme that emerged was the desire to better integrate their health and healthcare into "real life." As a seasoned nurse reported, one of the most common patient questions is “where am I in this care regimen?”" -Lygeia Ricciardi, Project...
What's in the news: Nov. 18 -- Self-experimentation, asthma, Insite
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Tuesday, November 18.The physician who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for medicine for his experiment in which he drank some Helicobacter pylori to prove it causes stoma...
Scienceroll is 2 years old!
Scienceroll is 2 years old today. I’m very happy because medical blogging gave me so many things, opportunities and friends. This year was definitely dedicated to Webicina.com, my service that aims to help patients and physicians enter the w...
Nikon Instruments Partners With ChromoDynamics To Bring Hyperspectral Imaging to Widefield Microscopy
There is no doubt that hyperspectral imaging technologies will play a role in diagnostic surgical pathology for the reasons I already discussed and recently blogged about (see: Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2009). Nikon has recently entered the m...
eHealth (web-based behavior change programs) in the Toronto Star
Today, the Toronto Star published an article about Web-based behavior change programs [Pigg, Susan: Monitoring your vices online. Toronto Star, 17.11.2008, URL:http://www.thestar.com/article/537988. Accessed: 2008-11-17. (Archived by WebCite(R) at...
What's in the news: Nov. 17 -- Way up north, Tory politicking, Grit critics
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Monday, November 17.Two more reports of pills mixed in to sealed boxes of kids' Halloween candies have police looking at where the candy -- all cases have involved by...
The doctor will see you now
Poking around in one of our latest areas of interest, Clinical Decision Support Systems, I found my way to FreeMD, subtitled your interactive medical library. Dr. Stephen Schueler, the virtual doctor, interviewed me about my "problem" and provided...
Open Access journal JMIR funded by SSHRC's Aid to Scholarly Journals competition - finally!
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada has just announced that the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) (which I publish) will receive a $90.000 grant over the next 3 years. In the decision letter the agency ...
Pathology Informatics Fellowship Programs
Training Opportunities in Pathology Informatics A number of residents from my own institution as well as others have inquired about formal training opportunities in pathology informatics. According to the directory on the Association for Pathology...
Control Your Home with iPhone or is this really a telehealth app in disguise?
"It's coming from inside the house." Home automation vendors have announced new software that will let iPhone and iPod touch users dim the lights, control the temperature, and even view live surveillance video over Wi-Fi at home and over cellular ...
Second Life 2.0?
Daneel Ariantho wrote about it on his blog. Linden Lab is working on something really unique. But if you want to know what Second Life would be like in reality, check this out: Second Life, the virtual world and medical education: Top 10: Virtu...
Personalized medicine: report of US President’s Advisory Committee
I’ve recently come across the newest US report on personalized medicine on the site of PHG Foundation. It’s definitely worth reading it. The report explains some of the barriers preventing widespread adoption of personalised medicine s...
What’s on the web? (15 November 2008): National Dialogue
STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction): A minute-by-minute guide from a doctor from the first symptoms to the diagnosis. SearchMedica.com Earns 2008 WebAward: Best Directory or Search Engine National Dialogue on health information tech...
World Diabetes Day: A day of a diabetic vlogger
Kerri Morrone is a world-famous diabetic blogger who is a great encouragement to diabetic patients all over the world. Recently, she has made a video for my Medicine 2.0 credit course and now she posted a video for the World Diabetes Day. DonR...
Google Flu Trends uses web search to track real flu
From Google.org (headed by 2006 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant) comes this neat data display: Google Flu Trends. The project came about after some Google search engineers wondered if, in communities where more people searched on the term "flu," ...
¿Premio nobel de economia?
Bueno, me encontré esto. No puedo decir si estoy o no de acuerdo porque hasta ahora no he entendido el negocio. Creería que es una buena oportunidad para entenderlo a través de algun “caso de estudio”. Si es cierto el modelo de negocio, valdr...
AMIA Presentation on Web 2.0 for Clinical Decision Support
Of the many presentations at the American Medical Informatics Association, one was about the specific application of Web 2.0 technology to clinical decision support. Three examples were given:Clinfowiki - a wiki devoted to clinical informaticsPart...
New study adds weight to call for boys to get HPV vaccine too
Should boys be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) alongside the girls?That’s what Harald zur Hausen (right), the German scientist who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine and a 2008 Gairdner award for discovering the virus's li...
Telehealth Offers Patient Care Anytime, Anywhere
Telehealth has the potential to increase access, savings, and quality. Yet low consumer awareness, along with provider reimbursement and liability barriers, have hampered adoption. Two new CHCF reports look at the progress to date. LINKS TO ARTI...
What's in the news: Nov. 14 -- Fast food hospitals
A round-up of Canadian health news, from coast to coast to coast and beyond, for Friday, November 14.In 2006, the Colonel Harland Sanders Charitable Organization donated one million dollars to the McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario....
Drupal Camp Philly
DLC Solutions is proud to announce the sponsorship of DrupalCamp Philly.DrupalCamp Philly is a one-day meeting for like-minded web developers, managers, and end-users to get together and learn and share Drupal knowledge. The event is appropriate f...
BioImagene Appoints Former GE Healthcare Executive as Global Customer Care Executive for Digital Pathology Customers
Frequent readers of this blog appreciate that companies I mention appear in boluses as press releases from those companies "hit the wires". Recently this company has been BioImagene who recently announced the appointment of Rajeev Agarwal as Vice ...
Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2009
For the third year in a row, Cleveland Clinic doctors and consultants have picked the medical innovations they think will rise to the top next year. The Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2009 were announced on the closing day of...
BioImagene Appoints Former GE Healthcare Executive as Global Customer Care Executive for Digital Pathology Customers
Frequent readers of this blog appreciate that companies I mention appear in boluses as press releases from those companies "hit the wires". Recently this company has been BioImagene who recently announced the appointment of Rajeev Agarwal as Vice ...