Archives for June 2008
Internet Addiction
From Wired Magazine: WTF!? Internet Addiction Nominated for Entry in the Manual of Mental Disorders. First, we all had mild Asperger’s. Now, Internet addiction disorder? Give a geek a break. In the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Jerald Block proposed that Web abuse be added to his field’s bible, the Diagnostic and […]
Peculiar medical research – round 2
Article titled “Lying to Each Other: When Internal Medicine Residents Use Deception With Their Colleagues” was published by Dr Micheal Green and others in the Archives of Internal Medicine. I decided to present it, despite the fact it was published exactly eight years ago, because the subject it explores is still very real, and the […]
280 Slides
A new tool for online creation of slide presentations is out. It is called 280 Slides and it is very easy and fun to use. You should definitely consider trying it the next time you have to present. I made a little presentation myself, just to show that you can design pretty nice looking slides […]
Native medical applications for iPhone
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is taking place this week in San Francisco. Today, as a part of it, we saw yet another legendary keynote from Steve Jobs. It was all about the new iPhone, which is now faster, richer with new features and more affordable. Substantial part of the keynote was dedicated to the developers […]
GoPubMed
Recently I wrote about PubReMiner, an online application designed to help you search PubMed. Now I present a similar and even more powerful application named GoPubMed. When you search PubMed the conventional way, via the Entrez system, two things happen. First your query is translated with identification of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and secondly this translated […]
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 […]
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