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PeRSSonalized Medicine: 5 New Resources February 4, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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Based on your suggestions that we constantly receive on Twitter and via e-mail, we now added 5 new resources to PeRSSonalized Medicine, a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

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Please let us know which resources to add to the database. We hope PeRSSonalized Medicine will make your online work even more efficient.

Further reading:

Personal Genome Computing: Breakthroughs, Risks and Opportunities February 3, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Genome, Innovation, Personalized medicine, Technology, Video, Web 2.0.
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One more short post today. A video about personal genome computing: breakthroughs, risks and opportunities featured in the The Churchill Club which is Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum.

Silicon Valley changed the world as the driving force in the development of computers and the internet. Could we play a similar role in advancing a genome-based economy?”. Panelists:

•Linda Avey, Founder, 23andMe.
•David Medina, HP Chief Technologist, Worldwide Health & Life Sciences
•Karoly Nikolich., Dievini Hopp Biotech Holding, CEO of Amnestix
•Andras Pellionisz, founder, International Hologenomics Society and HolGenTech
•Dietrich Stephan, founder, Navigenics, founder of Amnestix

Genome Medicine: New Journal from Biomed Central February 3, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Genome, Medical journalism, Medicine, Personalized medicine, Pharmacogenomics.
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I added Genome Medicine Journal to the new free medical information tracking tool of Webicina, PeRSSonalized Medicine yesterday so it’s time to say a few words about it.

Genome Medicine is an online peer-reviewed journal which publishes open access research articles of outstanding quality in all areas of medicine studied from a genomic or post-genomic perspective. The journal will have a special focus on the latest technologies and findings that impact on the understanding and management of human health and disease.

In addition to publishing high-quality research, Genome Medicine serves the international research community as a forum for the discussion and critical review of information about all areas of medicine informed by genomic research.

Subjects include, but are not limited to:

  • Significant advances in the understanding of the genetics, genomics, and epigenetics of disease
  • Computational and systems approaches, including proteomics, metabolomics and transcriptomics, to the understanding and management of disease
  • Genomic epidemiology and public health genomics
  • The application of genomic and post-genomic technologies to clinical practice, with special emphasis on diagnostics and therapeutics
  • Personalized medicine
  • Ethical, social and legal issues relating to genomic medicine and personalized medicine

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This is the journal that provides content I feel totally close to my heart. So why you should follow it? It has an illustrious editorial board and some incredibly interesting articles such as:

Just to mention a few examples.

Here is the RSS feed of the latest articles.

Calling 911? February 3, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Medicine.
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After a long day at the clinic of internal medicine and the genetics lab, I couldn’t miss this article at Emergency Physicians Monthly:

Patients call the emergency department and ask the secretaries to call 911 for them.

The second time I know it wasn’t a joke because we told the lady to hang up and dial 911, then we heard the call go out on the radio a short time later.

When you call 911, the caller is identified by the telephone number. If the ED calls 911, the ambulance would technically get dispatched to the ED (don’t laugh, I’ve heard stories of upset patients in waiting rooms calling 911 for an ambulance transport to a different hospital).

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PeRSSonalized Medicine: What are your favourite resources? February 2, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, RSS, Web 2.0, Webicina.
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Yesterday, we launched the newest free tool, PeRSSonalized Medicine on Webicina.com that lets you follow the medical literature without having a clue what RSS is about :

Being up-to-date is crucial for medical professionals, but it takes time and effort. Sitting in a library with a few medical papers is not a proper solution any more. Learning to use an RSS reader is not that easy for those who don’t spend much time online.

PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place. You can create your own “medical journal” and as we are totally open to suggestions, let us add the journals, blogs and websites that you would like to follow.

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I’m so happy to say the first feedback was quite positive. Just take a look at the reaction on Twitter. And here are the frist blogs to mention PeRSSonalized Medicine:
Now please let us know your favourite resources (medical journals, blogs, communities, microblogging tools, anything) so we can add those to our database. The newest additions are:

BlogRize: The collective intelligence of communities February 2, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Scienceroll, Web 2.0.
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I’ve recently discovered Blogrize that was created by Jesse Spaulding. It ranks articles by the topics a blog covers, the links between blogs, user attention data, user story recommendations and interaction. See the FAQ page for more info.

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BlogRize is a blog community and blog aggregator that brings you today’s most interesting web content by harnessing the collective intelligence of communities of people who enjoy reading the same blogs.

  • Provide a superior experience for anyone who wants to check the web daily for interesting news, articles, & videos that relate to them, their friends, and their communities of interest.
  • Give authors and content producers a platform where they can quickly and efficiently build a readership and reputation based on the merits of their content and their contributions to the community.
  • Foster intelligent & useful discussions and debate between real people.
  • Build a reputation system so people can quickly identify authors with expertise, people they can trust, knowledge they can trust.

Feel free to join the Scienceroll community there and let’s see whether it can beat Friendfeed.com.

Doctrs.com: A new network for physicians February 2, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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Doctrs.com is the newest addition to my list of biomedical community sites (containing 34 items now). It’s an exclusive social net for physicians that was founded by Michael Kamleitner and Lukas Zinnagl in 2008, according to the FAQ page.

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Such a community has to fight two major problems:

1) The lack of participation: There are more and more communities online, but none of them could achieve serious participation from scientists and doctors from around the world. I’m curious to see how Doctrs.com will try to solve this problem.

2) How to make sure only physicians register: Users must provide credentials or use license number or use the method of Doctrs.com:

Doctrs is currently only accepting E-Mail adresses of various selected hospitals and clinics, mainly in German, Austria and Switzerland. If you feel your hospital or practice is missing then please do not hesitate to drop us an inquiry to integate your E-mail adress at support@doctrs.com

Currently we are only serving selected number of hospitals and clinics. Due to the amount of worldwide Universities, Clinics and private practices we are not able to include all of them. If yours is missing please do not hesitate to drop us an e-mail at support@doctrs.com and your place of work, respectively its e-mail adress will be granted access

Good luck, guys!

Gene Genie #43 at Pharmamotion February 2, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blog Carnival, Blogging, Gene Genie, genetics, Web 2.0.
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The  43rd edition is up at Pharmamotion. A great compilation of articles and blogposts about human genetics and personalized medicine. Thank you, Flavio Guzman, for hosting Gene Genie.

Gene Genie is the blog carnival of genes and gene-related diseases. Our plan is to cover the whole genome before 2082 (it means 14-15 genes every two weeks). We accept articles on the news of genomics and clinical genetics. The news and articles of personalized genetics are also included. Check out Gene Genie for more about this unique field of medicine.

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Many thanks to Ricardo Vidal for the logo!

Don’t forget to submit your articles via e-mail (berci.mesko at gmail.com).

Let me know if you would like to host an edition.

Here are all the issues of Gene genie:

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