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The Usefulness of Sonohysterography

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A recent study conducted at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia has found that sonohysterography (SHG) is a highly effective transvaginal [...]

11 March 2009 | medicine, science | No Comments

Top 10 Most Read Medscape Articles by Medical Students

Medscape is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network and they offer specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals integrated medical information and educational tools. They also have a portal for medical students called Medscape Med Students, which I highly recommend.
For the end of this year they published a list of top 10 most [...]

17 December 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments

Buy a video game console for your grandparents

The research paper which will appear this month in the journal Psychology & Aging suggest you should buy your grandparents a video game console, or a PC loaded with games.
This study found that adults in their 60s and 70s can improve a number of cognitive functions by playing a strategic video games. “When [...]

13 December 2008 | medicine, science | 2 Comments

Medical Bloggers Survey Resume

It has been ten days since our “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” article was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research. During this period we have received numerous supportive e-mails from various bloggers and researchers. Also, many bloggers have written about our research, posted our abstract or slideshow presentation on [...]

3 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers

I am very proud to announce that my colleagues Ileana Lulic, MD and Gordana Brumini, Phd from Rijeka University School of Medicine and myself have published a new scientific paper. Title of the paper is “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” and it was published in the Journal of Medical Internet [...]

23 September 2008 | internet, medicine, science | 4 Comments

Ten simple rules for…

Professor Philip E. Bourne has been writing a series of “Ten Rules” editorials in PLoS Computational Biology for almost three years now. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the mentioned open-access scientific journal, who came up with this idea after giving a presentation on getting published to a group of students. Since then a total of 9 [...]

6 June 2008 | science | No Comments