I know it’s not the time for Medicine 2.0, our blog carnival on web 2.0 and medicine, but I’ve found so many interesting posts and articles that I have to share with you right now:

• Nature Precedings ( business|bytes|genes|molecules)

I am cautiously optimistic. There is still some form of cultural change required for the larger community to get involved in such projects, but with Nature and PLoS taking a leading role, there is hope. I do believe that for these efforts to be truly successful, Science needs to get involved as well.

• Twitter – applications for the health 2.0 world (Medical 2.0)

Creating Twitter webpage for every doctor in your hospital. Even small updates can have a great flow by twitter. Nurses can find you everywhere and anytime if you want to.

• WikiMindMap – Wiki through Mindmap (Zoi Sci)

WikiMindmap comes to your rescue by helping you create a auto-mindmap of the wiki topic of your choice. It searches any term on Wikipedia and automatically creates a structured and easy understandable overview of the Wikipedia page of that term.

• Second Order Thinking: The Move(ment) to Health 2.0 (Scott Shreeve)

I look forward to further contributions in the thinking, defining, and refining of the movement while continuing to learn from, highlight, and combine innovative technologies to “bring into being” the new health care reality.

• RSS for Health Sciences Professionals (Presentation) (David Rothman)

Presentation slides by the University of Michigan’s Patricia Anderson.

• Britannica Blog asks “Web 2.0: Threat or Menace?” (Ragesoss 2.02)

The Britannica Blog (“where ideas matter”) is holding a Web 2.0 Forum, built on Michael Gorman’s contention that the internet is in the process of rapidly destroying civilization.

• The Growing Clout Of Online Patient Groups (WSJ.com)

When researchers at Harvard University were looking for a gene mutation in a group of rare blood cancers, they turned to Joyce Niblack, who put the word out to an online patient mailing list she manages, spurring more than 300 members to send in mouth swabs and bone-marrow samples.

That’s all folks! Medicine 2.0 has hosts even for August, but I don’t have a host for the 24th of June. So if you feel interested, just let me know.