What’s on the web? (28 January 2009) January 28, 2009

• 2008 Medical Weblog Awards Sponsored by Epocrates: Meet the Winners! (Medgadget): Congratulations to all the participants and many thanks to the Medgadget Team for managing this prestigious competition again! Kerri Morrone took the well-deserved Best Patient’s Blog of 2008 award.

• Britannica Wants to Be More Like Wikipedia: Lets Users Contribute (Read Write Web): Who would like to dedicate time and effort to a project where your work can be totally ignored in seconds without explanation?

• Reduce Death After Surgery by 40% with Research Adapted into an iPhone App (PRlog.com):

Though there are an estimated 234 million operations performed annually worldwide, surgical complications are common and often preventable.  The WHO has developed the ‘Surgical Safety Checklist’, in an effort to help surgical teams confirm that critical safety steps are completed before an operation proceeds.

Prompted by a recent scholarly article that shows a reduction in post-surgical death by more than 40%, this critical research has been adapted into an ‘App’ or software application for the Apple iPhone.

• E-Therapy: Working It Out Online (Scientific American)

• How to read health news (NHS.uk)

• ResearchBlogging.org: Interview with Dave Munger (Next Generation Science)