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The Usefulness of Sonohysterography

By-line: This article is contributed by Sarah Scrafford, who regularly writes on the topic of how to become a pharmacy technician. She invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address. A recent study conducted at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia has found that sonohysterography (SHG) is a highly effective […]

11 March 2009 | medicine, science | No Comments

Wii for surgeons

Q&A with Dr. Mark Smith and a news report regarding use of Nintendo Wii to train surgeons from News 8 Austin. Mark Smith, M.D., a gynecological surgeon at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, explains how the Nintendo Wii is helping train new surgeons. Q: Part of your job is to train residents learning to […]

6 August 2008 | design, medicine | No Comments

Top three free iPhone health apps

More and more health iPhone applications are available each day in the App Store. Most of them are for sale, but there are some which you can download for free. Here is my current top three of free health apps. 1. Epocrates Rx Includes the drug guide, formulary information and drug interaction checker. Also offers […]

4 August 2008 | design, internet, iphone, medicine | No Comments

Operation room manual

Today I published a recently finished medical manual on my website. I wrote it in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Hospital Rijeka. It is aimed at all health workers who are for the first time starting to working in an operating room and encountering aseptic work techniques. […]

1 August 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments

Neonatology vodcast

Couple of months ago my colleague Ileana Lulic, also a medical doctor from Croatia, and myself started to produce a vodcast in collaboration with Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Hospital Rijeka. Vodcast is essentially a video podcast, online delivery of video on demand content via RSS feeds. Our vodcast was conceived with […]

1 June 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments