Jacqueline L

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Friday Foolery #13: A Virus Walks into a Bar

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 6:42 am
For Friday Foolery a picked up this fragment from the science comedian Brian Malow. He performed in the session Science Laughs at Wonderfest 2009, The San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. The c...
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Adding Methodological Filters to MyNCBI

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 11:54 am
Idea: Arnold Leenders Text: “Laika” Methodological Search Filters can help to narrow down a search by enriching for studies with a certain study design or methodology. PubMed has build-i...
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Engage with Grace (Blog Rally)

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 12:58 am
Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate ou...
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My Little Golden Llama

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 3:16 pm
Doctor Rob send me A little golden Llama Prestigious Price I did not earn it by spitting acid musings* Just wrote this haiku: Dark when he leaves home, Dark when he returns from work. Resident Life.*...
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Screening Can't Hurt, Can it?

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 6:45 pm
The next Grand Rounds is hosted by How To Cope With Pain and, not surprisingly, the main theme will therefore be pain. Now, I had a personal story in mind on the downside of testing, but I didn’...
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#FollowFriday #FF Dutch @Nutrigenomics @Beatis @TheSofa @DrShock @digicmb

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 5:55 pm
Last week I announced that I would weekly update my FollowFriday Twitter list. On the FollowFriday list are people I would like to recommend to you. When you’re on Twitter you can follow my FF-list...
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Friday Foolery #12: A Happy Twitter Song

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 1:24 am
There are many Twitter Comics around, many showing the downside of Twitter (with a smile). But here is a cheerful song, showing that on Twitter “one is loved, loved, loved”. Enjoy! hattip...
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Kaleidoscope 2009 wk 47

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 6:44 pm
Kaleidoscope is a new series, with a “kaleidoscope” of facts, findings, views and news gathered over the last 1-2 weeks. Most items originate from Twitter, my Google Reader (RSS) and somet...
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Presentation at the #NVB09: "Help, the doctor is drowning"

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 6:45 pm
Last week I was invited to speak at the NVB-congress, the Dutch society for librarians and information specialists. I replaced Josje Calff in the session “the professional”, chaired by Bra...
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Medlibs Round 1.8 at Highlight Health

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 3:30 pm
For those that haven’t yet seen it: The MedLib’s Round, the monthly blog carnival that highlights some of the best writing on medical librarianship, encompassing all stages in the publication ...
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Friday Foolery #11. Is Friday the 13th bad for your Health?

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:56 pm
Is Friday the 13th bad for your health? Apparently it is, at least according to a study published in the BMJ in 1993. This retrospective study comparing driving and shopping patterns and accidents sho...
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Laika's #FollowFriday #FF Twitter List

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:45 am
In my post Twitter’s #FollowFriday #FF – Over the Top. Literally I explained what Twitter’s FollowFriday or FF means, how this Twitter meme started and how FollowFriday should and shouldn&#...
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Role of Consumer Networks in Evidence Based Health Information

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 4:44 pm
Guest author: Janet Wale member of the Cochrane Consumer Network People are still struggling with evidence or modern medicine – clinicians, patients, health consumers, carers and the public alike. ...
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Finding Skin Disease Pictures on the Web

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 10, 2009, 1:32 pm
Guest author: Eric Rumsey (@ericrumsey on Twitter) Librarian and Web Developer at University of Iowa Creater and Keeper of Hardin MD —————————...
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Friday Foolery #10. 6 x X-Rays

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 5:26 pm
“X-rays” were in the news this week, at least there was an illuminating exposure on Twitter. Here are 6 stories, half serious and half not so serious.
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Twitter Lists of Medical and other Scientific Journals

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 6:33 pm
In the previous two posts (“Biomedical Journals on Twitter” and List(s) of Tweeting Journals: Your Votes Please!) I introduced the Google-spreadsheet of (Bio-)medical Journals, manually compiled b...
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Health Care Haikus

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 9:22 am
Dr Rob Lamberts of Musings of a Distractible Mind is holding a “Health Care Haiku Contest“. The actual contest is at his Facebook page. Inspired by the beautiful haiku of Dr. Ramona Bates ...
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Medlib's Round 1.8. Call for submissions

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 5:36 pm
Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of the MedLib’s Round Blog Carnival, edition 1.8, next week on Tuesday, November 10th. Walter Jessen of Highlight Health: The Highlight HEALTH Netwo...
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Laika's MedLibLog on the Longlist of the Dutch Bloggies!

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 7:04 am
Laika’s MedLibLog is nominated for the Dutch Bloggies-awards. The Dutch Bloggies is a  yearly contest by the foundation “Dutch Bloggies” that awards weblogs from Dutch-speaking regi...
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Hot News: Curry, Curcumin, Cancer & Cure

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:37 pm
*Hot* News via Twitter and various news media a few days ago. Big headlines tell the following in respectively The Sun, Herald, Ireland, BBC News / NHS Health and Reuters: Curry is a ‘cure for c...
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The New PubMed: Trick or Treat?

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 5:15 pm
The New PubMed: Trick or Treat? After a long days work, when looking at the screen, there it was: PubMed’s new interface, so it seemed, But one blink – and it had gone… To come back ...
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De Ivoren Toren van Thomése

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 8:06 pm
By way of exception I write a Dutch blog post to respond to an article in a Dutch Newspaper ridiculing speakers, writers, chatting and twittering people in a long-winded (3 pages) pompous, “lite...
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Silly Sunday #9: the Apocalypse of the Vocal Bubblewrap.

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 6:48 pm
Tuesday Grand Rounds will be hosted by Gina Rybolt of Code Blog (see announcement). O dear, a few hours left before the deadline expires …. What to do? I could submit the post on BlogWorld Expo,...
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How a Flu-Virus Invades your Body: An Animation

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 10:42 am
I’ve seen “viral invasion, replication and spread” more elaborately and scientifically explained, but nothing comes near a clear visual and audible presentation of what happens on a ...
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BlogWorld Expo [SOTB]: Two Additional Videos

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 7:30 am
Today I learned there were two more videos realted to the BlogWorld Expo, that I shouldn’t withhold you. First, the ABC News Covered the Medblogger Track At Blog World Expo. Here is an interview...
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BlogWorld Expo [SOTB] & The Status of the Medical Blogosphere

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 7:17 pm
During my stay in Singapore from October 9th-16th there were 2 other great events, one of them  being the Blogworld Expo, the  World largest Conference on Blogging in the Las Vegas Convention Center...
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Friday Foolery #8: Dynamic LAIKA Sputnik and Pandora's box

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 6:36 am
@fackeldeyfinds on Twitter alerted me to the following video saying: “This one is for you”. more about “LAIKA on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod Indeed the video is about Laika Spu...
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#Cochrane Colloquium 2009: Better Working Relationship between Cochrane and Guideline Developers

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 5:02 pm
Last week I attended the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Singapore. I will summarize some of the meetings. Here is a summary of an interesting (parallel) special session: Creating a closer working relat...
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A Spooktacular Medlibs Round at Alisha764's blog

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 10:13 am
While I was attending the Cochrane Colloquium, Alisha Miles of Alisha’s blog wrote a really spectacular spooktacular Medlib’s Round, the blog carnival of *best* posts in the medical librar...
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Friday Foolery #7 Play Doh World, the Safe and Unexpected

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 12:07 pm
Seen at the Loom of Carl Zimmer: using Play Doh, Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour talk about multicellularity and the specialization of reproductive cells. The video, made by the evolutionary bio...
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A Personalized Twitter Times: useful to others too.

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 12:41 pm
Yesterday I posted my “Introduction to Medicine 2.0″ presentation on this blog and on Slideshare (where it is currently featured at their homepage). Looking back I think that half of the p...
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Cochrane 2.0 Workshop at the Cochrane Colloquium #CC2009

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 12:14 pm
Today Chris Mavergames and I held a workshop at the Cochrane Colloquium, entitled:  Web 2.0 for Cochrane (see previous post and abstract of the workshop) First I gave an introduction into Medicine 2...
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This week I will blog from…..

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 2:54 am
Picture taken by Chris Mavergames http://twitpic.com/kxrnl Chris and I will facilitate a web 2.0 workshop for the Cochrane (see here, for all workshops see here). The entire program can be viewed at t...
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Friday Foolery #6 Man-to-Man-Hug

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 9:00 am
General Etiquette: How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug Hattip: @precordialthump (Twitter) more about “How To Give A Great Man To Man Hug (C…“, posted with vodpod Posted in General
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Of Art and Medicine

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 8:01 pm
The topic for Pallimed’s edition of Grand Rounds will be the ‘Art of Medicine/Nursing’ which may be interpreted “as you like, kind of like art.” Pallimed reviews current...
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Silly Sunday [5]: Best use of Twitter so far!

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 9:10 am
I had no time to post a Friday Foolery post. So I make it a Silly Sunday post. The comic is posted at: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-04/ Thanks to @Pharmagossip (for strip and title) Oh a...
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PubMed® Redesign [2] News, webcast

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 4, 2009, 6:15 am
Since last week you can try the redesigned PubMed (see post). There is a link on the PubMed homepage which will connect to a preview version. The direct link to the preview is: http://preview.ncbi.nlm...
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NLM's PillBox, a new pill identification system

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 6:30 pm
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) not only launched a redesigned PubMed interface, but also another service (though still in beta): Pillbox beta for “rapid identification and reliable infor...
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PubMed® Redesign is here… to try.

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 8:50 pm
We have been waiting months for it, it has been announced several times, we have seen previews, webinars, small changes were introduced over time, till suddenly, today (30-09-09) there was a bright bu...
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Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 2

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 3:50 pm
Welcome to the latest edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere! I presume you would rather take a tour through the Netherlands, visiting windmills and tul...
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MEDLIB's ROUND 1.6

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 27, 2009, 5:39 pm
Welcome to the sixth edition of MedLib’s Round, a blog carnival of “excellent blog posts in the field of medical librarianship”. First I have to apologize for the postponement in publication. T...
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Friday Foolery [4]: Maps & Mapping

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 2:27 am
In the previous post I showed a map of the world made in 1689. Here only half of North America was represented, because the world was “Europe-centered”. The map was made in Amsterdam, Euro...
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The Grand Rounds is coming! Please start submitting!

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 4:59 am
I have the honor to host my first GRAND ROUNDS ever on Tuesday September 29th. For those who don’t know what the Grand Round is about,  it is the weekly rotating carnival of the best of the me...
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The Trouble with Wikipedia as a Source for Medical Information

Jacqueline L posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 2:38 am
Do you ever use Wikipedia? I do and so do many other people. It is for free, easy to use, and covers many subjects. But do you ever use Wikipedia to look up scientific or medical information? Probably...
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