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Oct 25, 2011, 9:40 pm
Welcome to the Grand Rounds, the weekly summary of the best health blog posts on the Internet. I am pleased to host the Grand Rounds for the second time. The first time, 2 years ago, was theme-less, but during the round we took a trip around the library. Because, for those who don’t know me, afte... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 5:43 pm
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its 5th year, “is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 10:45 am
This post is part of a short series about Evidence Based Point of Care Summaries or POCs. In this series I will review 3 recent papers that objectively compare a selection of POCs. In the previous post I reviewed a paper from Rita Banzi and colleagues from the Italian Cochrane Centre Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 7:25 pm
Grand Rounds is a weekly round up of the best health blog posts on the Internet. Each week a different blogger takes turns hosting and summarizing the best submissions of the week. October 25th I will be your host. Again…. for I have hosted Grand Rounds once before. Then we made a trip around th... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 6:13 pm
Foursquare (4square) is a web and mobile application that allows registered users to connect with friends and update their location. Points are awarded for “checking in” at venues. The user with the most number of *days* with check-ins at a specific place within the past 60 days qualifies to be... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 12:19 pm
For many of today’s busy practicing clinicians, keeping up with the enormous and ever growing amount of medical information, poses substantial challenges Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 5:55 pm
I enjoyed reading “Your Medical Mind” from start to end. The style of this book was light, but the content was not. Jerome Groopman, oncologist, and Pamela Hartzband, endocrinologist, are to be congratulated on their ability to write clearly about a difficult topic. They explain all aspects ... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2011, 7:46 pm
Last week, I happened to see this Facebook post of the The Medical Registrar where she offends a GP, Anne Marie Cunningham*, who wrote a critical post about black medical humor at her blog “Wishful Thinking in Medical Education”. I couldn’t resist placing a likewise “funny” comment in th... Comment - Like
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Sep 8, 2011, 10:28 am
A few weeks ago I was discussing possible relevant papers for the Twitter Journal Club (Hashtag #TwitJC), a succesful initiative on Twitter, that I have discussed previously here and here [7,8]. I proposed an article, that appeared behind a paywall. Annemarie Cunningham (@amcunningham) immediate... Comment - Like
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Sep 6, 2011, 10:24 am
In the old days, bloggers whose posts were included in the Grand Rounds would link to that post from their own blog. Grand Rounds, for those who are not familiar, is a weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere. I used to refer to the Grand Rounds once in a while, but quit this Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2011, 4:26 pm
Meanwhile you might want to listen to “Wrong” (Depeche Mode) Yesterday I screened my spam-folder. Between all male enhancement and lottery winner announcements, and phishing mails for my bank account, there was an invitation to peer review a paper in “SCIENCE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY”. Such an ... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2011, 3:21 pm
Is it just me, or are biomedical papers about searching for a systematic review often of low quality or just too damn obvious? I’m seldom excited about papers dealing with optimal search strategies or peculiarities of PubMed, even though it is my specialty. It is my impression, that many of the... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 6:12 pm
If you’re on Twitter you probably seen the #FF or #FollowFriday phenomenon. FollowFriday is a way to recommend people on Twitter to others. For at least 2 reasons: to acknowledge your favorite tweople and to make it easier for your followers to find new interesting people. However, some #FollowFri... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2011, 5:55 pm
This headline in Boing Boing caught my eye today: RIP Paul Meier, father of the randomized trial Not surprisingly, I knew that Paul Meier (with Kaplan) introduced the Kaplan-Meier estimator (1958), a very important tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment. But I didn’... Comment - Like
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Jun 19, 2011, 7:37 pm
The theme of the Upcoming Grand Rounds held at June 21th (1st day of the Summer) at Shrink Rap is “hot”. A bit far-fetched, but aah you know….shrinks“. Of course they hope assume that we will express Weiner-like exhibitionism at our blogs. Or go into spicy details of hot sexpectations... Comment - Like
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Jun 18, 2011, 4:48 am
This week Google launched “Search by Image”. Google already offered the possibility to search for certain characteristics like color, size, faces, or license-free images. See for instance this fabulous search of “sea stars” limited to pink (never knew such sea stars exist). But now Google ... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2011, 8:28 am
In the previous post I wrote about a new initiative on Twitter, the Twitter Journal Club (hashtag #TwitJC). Here, I shared some constructive criticism. The Twitter Journal Club is clearly an original and admirable initiative, that gained a lot of interest. But there is some room for improvement. I... Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2011, 4:15 am
There is a new initiative on Twitter: The Twitter Journal Club. It is initiated by Fi Douglas (@fidouglas) a medical student at Cambridge, and Natalie Silvey (@silv24) a junior doctor in the West Midlands. Fi and Natalie have set up a blog for this event: http://twitjc.wordpress.com/ A Twit... Comment - Like
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May 10, 2011, 7:28 pm
Last year I aired my concern about Organized Wisdom in a post called Expert Curators, WisdomCards & The True Wisdom of @organizedwisdom. Organized Wisdom shares health links of health experts or advocates, who (according to OW’s FAQ), either requested a profile or were recommended by OW’s Me... Comment - Like
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May 8, 2011, 5:25 pm
It takes some doing to breathe life into “Medical Information Matters” (blog carnival about medical information). A month ago I wrote a 2nd call for submissions post for this blog carnival. Unfortunately the next host, Martin Fenner, didn’t have time to finish a blog post and has come up w... Comment - Like
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Apr 26, 2011, 7:51 pm
Dr. Lazar Greenfield, recently won the election as the new President of ACS (American College of Surgeons). This position would crown his achievements. For Greenfield was a truly pre-eminent surgeon. He is best known for his development of an intracaval filter bearing his name. This device pro... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2011, 6:49 pm
It is only recently that I heard about the controversial speech of Jeffrey Trzeciak, Chief Librarian at McMaster University, at Penn State University. Jeff seemed to have said incredible offending things about traditional librarians. Things like “the library of the future gets rid of librarians in... Comment - Like
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Apr 19, 2011, 11:45 am
I did not attend TEDx Maastricht (you have to be invited)*, but I followed it with one eye on Twitter. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience: ideas worth spreading. This special TEDx event was held April 4th in the beautiful city ... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2011, 10:11 am
LOL? Peer review?! Comments? Peer review is never funny, you think. It is hard to review papers, especially when they are poorly written. From the author’s point of view, it is annoying and frustrating to see a paper rejected on basis of comments of peer reviewers, who either don’t understand th... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 6:04 pm
It is National Library Week! Did you know that? To be honest I didn’t. Today, Tuesday, is even National Library Workers Day — a time to thank librarians and the rest of the library staff (LA-Times). I didn’t know that either, until I received a tweet from @doc_emer which was retweeted by docto... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 12:56 pm
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine‘s (NLM) premier bibliographic database of citations from biomedical journals. The content of MEDLINE is available via commercial, fee-for-service MEDLINE vendors, like OVID. On June 26, 1997, Vice President Al Gore officially announced free MEDLINE... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 6:59 pm
How is (was) your April Fool Day (today)? Mine was really quiet. Only my youngest daughter (11) was fooled …. by her teacher. She has 2 teachers. Today (April 1st), one of them was to be replaced by another. When the class started, the main teacher came in and said: “Sorry guys, the new teache... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 5:10 pm
You may have noticed that my blog was barely updated between November and February. Lets say I had the winter blues. As a consequence, the Blog Carnival “Medical Information Matters” hibernated as well. Unintended… But as a host you need to actively engage in blog carnivals. Else few people w... Comment - Like
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Mar 27, 2011, 1:06 pm
NLM’s PubMed is so well know that you almost forget NLM has a lot of other excellent resources. Of course there is NIH/NLM’s MedLine Plus, a health web site for consumers. And there is TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork, managed by TEHIP, SIS and NLM) which is a cluster of databases covering toxic... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2011, 7:37 am
It has been long since I have posted a Kaleidoscope post with a “kaleidoscope” of facts, findings, views and news gathered over the last 1-2 weeks. There have been only 2 editions: Kaleidoscope 1 (2009 wk 47) and 2 (2010 wk 31). Here is some recommended reading from the previous two weeks.... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2011, 10:24 pm
The Frantic Friday belongs to the same series as the Silly Saturday, Funny Friday etc. posts. These are not directly related to Science or library matters. Often these post are about humorous things, but not in this case. Therefore the name of the series was adapted. It took me a week to write it ... Comment - Like
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Mar 15, 2011, 1:53 pm
At this blog I have mentioned Bertalan (Berci) Mesko a couple of times. Berci, a MD who does a PhD in personalized genetics, is most famous for his award-winning blog Scienceroll, his health 2.0 presentations and his creation of Webicina, a free service that curates medical social media resourc... Comment - Like
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Mar 13, 2011, 7:48 pm
The established method to prenatally diagnose chromosomal gross abnormalities is to obtain fetal cells from the womb with a fine needle, either by Amniocentesis (a sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus in the womb) or by Chorionic villus sampling (CVS, a sample of the placenta taken via th... Comment - Like
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Mar 9, 2011, 12:15 pm
Recently, Bertalan Mesko (Berci on Twitter) was asking his twitter followers whether they had a favorite Web 2.0 story. Berci needed examples for his yearly “Internet in Medicine course” at the university of Debrecen. Doctor Ves (drVes) and Berci discussed various examples of blogs that had g... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2011, 4:42 pm
I almost forgot to vote for the best medical blogs in the Seventh Annual Medical Weblog Awards Contest, organized by Medgadget. But, I voted just in time, and so can you if you haven’t done so. Please support your favorite blogs! Voting will close 23:59:59 this Sunday, February 13, 2011 (EST). You... Comment - Like
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Feb 13, 2011, 12:10 pm
A Dutch librarian asked me to join a blog carnival of Dutch Librarians. This carnival differs from medical blog carnivals (like the Grand Rounds and “Medical Information Matters“) in its approach. There is one specific topic which is discussed at individual blogs and summarized by the host in hi... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2011, 10:16 pm
The reliability of science is increasingly under fire. We all know that media often gives a distorted picture of scientific findings (i.e. Hot news: Curry, Curcumin, Cancer & cure). But there is also an ever growing number of scientific misreports or even fraud (see bmj editorial announcing retrac... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2010, 5:36 pm
Last year I participated in what is called a “blog rally” to promote Engage With Grace – a movement aimed at making sure all of us understand, communicate, and have honored our end-of-life wishes. This year I would like to participate again. The blog rally is timed to coincide with Thanks Givi... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 7:17 pm
I’m a blogger who usually needs quite some time to write blog posts. However, I just learned about a new tool that I need not describe in detail. Firstly, because Heidi Allen just described the tool in a blog post here. Secondly, because the tool is so intuitive and easy. I’m talking about Lanyr... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 4:15 pm
Twitter describes itself as “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2010, 11:30 am
In case you missed it: the new edition of Medical Information Matters (edition 2.10) – formerly MedLibs Round is up at the well-known blog “Search Principles” of the equally well-known Dean Giustini, a knowledgeable, helpful and friendly Canadian medical librarian, one of the first bloggers,... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2010, 1:16 pm
Note added 2010-11-12: Anyone who wishes to can now email info@organizedwisdom.com to let his/her profile as expert curator removed from the site of Organized Wisdom (see comments by Unity Stoakes, Co-founder OrganizedWisdom) ——————————————————————... Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2010, 10:45 am
Below is a presentation I gave at the “World of Science”. This is a 3-day course for graduate students that aims to provide them the fundamental knowledge and skills needed for scientific research, and to prepare them for their thesis at our hospital, the AMC. The 3-day program comprises a se... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2010, 6:53 pm
I would like to remind you that it is almost the first Saturday of the Month and thus submission time for Medical Information Matters, the former MedLibs round. Medical Information Matters is a monthly compilation of the “best blog post in the field of medical information”, hosted by a different... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2010, 2:53 pm
I have always had mixed feelings in case of large happenings like marches and ribbon activities and cancer months. September is the ovarian cancer month (and also a US Prostate Cancer Month and a childhood cancer month) and October the breast cancer month…. We have only 12 months in a year! Plea... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2010, 12:08 pm
I have the impression that OVIDSP listens more to librarians than the NLM, who considers the end users of databases like PubMed more important, mainly because there are more of them. On the other hand NLM communicates PubMed’s changes better (NLM Technical Bulletin) and has easier to find tutoria... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2010, 7:06 pm
In some upcoming posts I will address various problems related to the changing interfaces of bibliographic databases. We, librarians and end users, are overwhelmed by a flood of so-called upgrades, which often fail to bring the improvements that were promised….. or which go hand-in-hand with tempo... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2010, 5:58 pm
I found this hilarious South Park video about Facebook Friends on Jud’s Education Emporium. It was used to illustrate that “friending” doesn’t mean a lot, although in this video it does mean an awful lot to some real-life friends of Stan. In real life this happens too. See Paul’s “outpou... Comment - Like
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