Who is the real Google Guru? August 14, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Google, Video.add a comment
A nice video for Sunday from an old television show in which players tried to find out who the real Google founder was.
Genetic Music Project August 4, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in DNA, Fun, Music, Web 2.0.2 comments
Some months ago I wrote about Alexandra Pajak, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, who released an album of music based on the DNA of HIV. And now here is the Genetic Music Project, an open source genetic art project combining music and science where everyone is art and everyone can be an artist.
Since all genetic information can only come in the language of four nucleotides (A Adenosine C Cytosine G Guanine T Thymidine) it is fairly easily conveyed in musical form. Another way of thinking about it is that each and every one of us and all life on this planet is made of music.
From Lady Gaga and Facebook to MD Celebs and Twitter August 1, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Pharma, science, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
- A great post about how to get Beyond Bullet Points in Medical Education
- Although the British Medical Association has recently warned against patient Facebook requests, here is a story about how Facebook saved a boy’s life
Slate has a dramatic story of how a mother’s Facebook network helped spot – rapidly – Kawasaki Disease, a rare auto-immune disease that the family’s doctors had initially missed. Her social network contains some medically knowledgeable people. (Do you have any docs, nurses, etc in your Facebook circle?) Note that friends’ availability is sometimes far greater than a doctor’s office.
- Interviews about Pharmaceutical communication in a multi-regulatory world
But what’s crazy is that number of Facebook page likes is strongly correlated with the total number of citations a journal has received (r = 0.78, p = 0.001)!
- Phil Baumann’s 140 Healthcare uses for Twitter slideshow:
- And the best blog entry of the week award goes to: Social Media and Pharmaceutical Self-Promotion; A Bad Cocktail or Public Health Service?
We want a radical rethink of what pharmaceutical companies should be doing as part of their social media strategies.
It’s not enough to blast posts and promos to your facebook page and call it social media.
It’s not enough to stream press releases and stock prices to your Twitter accounts.
It’s not enough to build another patient support community and then stifle the “conversation” with moderation.
It’s not enough to continue the PR-broadcast mentality and call it “social media”
Like this:
E-patient Rap: Gimme My Damn Data July 30, 2011
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E-Patient Dave has recently given a presentation about the importance of online available data of e-patients and performed a short rap about this issue. And now he is remixed, watch it and enjoy!
Web MD Fail: Symptom Checker July 20, 2011
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The Web MD symptom checker produced some weird results. When you have to answer questions regarding your symptom and you happen to have trembling, it will show you this:
They certainly included kuru in the final disease list and that’s why cannibalism is also an option as this is associated with the spreading of kuru.
Rockstar Scientists in Lego: Hilarious! May 6, 2011
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Maia Weinstock thought it would be great to create the Lego forms of the most famous scientists, science bloggers, and science journalists who are also active online. The project is called Scitweeps because the scientists are identified by their Twitter feed. Amazing pictures and as a bonus, a Lego version of a TED talk:
Here is the synthetic biologist and father of the Human Genome Project, Craig Venter:
And the top science blogger, PZ Myers:
Flying to Saturn: Carolyn Porco in LEGO:
Like this:
Health 2.0 News: From Rap to Sequencing April 29, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Music, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.add a comment
I’d like to get a small group of volunteer experts together – healthcare professionals committed to science and common sense – and have them read and approve links before they are promoted on Twitter. I have created a new Twitter account called “HealthyRT” – the volunteer experts will have access to this account and can promote content that is medically sound.
When the science you learned in school and the science you read in the newspaper don’t quite match up, the Meet Science series is here to help, providing quick run-downs of oft-referenced concepts, controversies, and tools that aren’t always well-explained by the media.
As we work to get our fellow physicians to emerge from the shadows, the last thing we need is a social health horror story. This week a Rhode Island physician was formally reprimanded for breaching patient confidentiality on Facebook. You can get catch up with the core story on MSNBC or read KevinMD’s nice analysis.
The Social Network Parody (about Pubmed) April 12, 2011
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I guess you’ve seen The Social Network which presents how Facebook was really born.Well now here is the parody focusing on how Pubmed, the biomedical database, was born.
Origami and Manicure with the Da Vinci Robot April 6, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Robotics, Surgery, Video.add a comment
Medgadget featured a video in which Dr. James Porter of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle folds a paper airplane with the da Vinci medical robot and attempts to make it fly.
Here is another video in which Dr. James Porter again gives his daughter a manicure with the da Vinci surgical robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.
The 10 Types of Physican Bloggers April 4, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Fun, Medicine.2 comments
One of my favourite blogs just featured a nice picture that presents the 10 typical types of medical bloggers.
Here they are:
- Dr. Funny
- Dr. Mommy
- Dr. Boring
- Dr. Didactic
- Dr. Product Placement
- Dr. Resident
- Dr. No Longer A Doctor
- Dr. Political
- Dr. Miracle
- Dr. Whiny
Which type do you belong to?
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