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The Next 10 Years in Medicine: Forbes September 18, 2010

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Forbes magazine came up with a few lists describing what will happen in the next 10 years in different areas. Medicine is one of these:

We asked our staff and contributors to forecast some of the noteworthy events of the next 10 years, a vision of the coming decade sketched from real data, projections and facts whenever possible–though we’ve injected a dose of rigorous science fiction to fill the gaps.

  • 2012: Super-Tuberculosis
  • 2013: DNA Sequencing Pays
  • 2014: Big Pharma Implodes
  • 2015: first autism drug
  • 2016: first fatherless child using synthetic sperm
  • 2017: U.S. life expectancy declines for first time in a century. Doctors blame 55% obesity rate.
  • 2020: FDA approves autonomous robot surgery to remove tumors.

The world’s most influential doctors according to Twitter September 13, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.
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I got the honour to be included in the list of the top 5 doctors in medicine published by The Independent. The list was based on Twitterdoctors.net which uses the Klout algorithm for determining the influence of tweeting doctors.

TwitterDoctors.net updates hourly the influence of doctors tweeting based on their activity, RTs (retweets) and followers. The site began its list at the end of July and boasts “1287 doctors with more joining every day” from around the globe including Australia, Belgium, India, UK, Jamaica, Japan, Colombia and the USA.

On September 7, the top five most influential doctors are:

1. @DRoftheVaJayJay

2. @drdrew

3. @brontyman

4. @Berci

5. @hrana

It doesn’t mean that much, but it’s good to know people like the content I share day by day.

Twitter Doctors: The Most Influental Docs on Twitter July 20, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.
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Twitter Doctors is a new site that lists and ranks all the doctors who are active on Twitter based on number of followers, retweets, etc. Currently, my account (Twitter.com/Berci)  is in the top 5, I hope it stays there for a while.

If you are not included in the list, tweet about the website and follow @dawson to be included.

Top 10 Clinical Medicine Blogs with Scienceroll! April 1, 2010

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Thanks to Dr. Mike Cadogan, Scienceroll.com is included in the list of the top 10 clinical medicine blogs on blogs.com.

Amazingly comprehensive blog covering all aspects of medical education, medical technology, e-learning and virtual medicine. Through his blog, Dr Bertalan Meskó aims to arm all medical professionals with the e-tools required to meet and manage the next generation of e-patients.

Here is the top 10 list in alphabetical order:

33 charts
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
Clinical Cases and Images
Clinical Correlations
Dr Shock MD PhD
Life in the Fast Lane
Musings of a Distractible Mind
Science-Based Medicine
Scienceroll
other things amanzi

Top 10 SNPs on SNPedia.com January 10, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, List, Medicine, Web 2.0, Wiki.
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SNPedia is a wiki investigating human genetics, sharing information about the effects of variations in DNA, citing peer-reviewed scientific publications. The blog of SNPedia just published the list of the 10 most popular SNPs accessed on the site.

SNPedia now contains nearly 10,000 SNPs and to welcome 2010 we’d like to highlight at least 10. These SNPs have been selected based on an elusive and ultimately subjective combination of medical importance, statistical believability, and overall general interest. This isn’t objective science though, so feel free to comment about why your favorite SNPs should have made the list.

Here is the list with the medical conditions or drugs they are related to.

  1. rs4244285: SNP in the CYP2C19 gene related to the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel.
  2. rs4149056: Determining risk for statin-triggered myopathy.
  3. rs1799853, rs1057910 & rs8050894: These SNPs in the CYP2C9 & VKORC1 genes help determine the optimal dose of the anticoagulant drug warfarin.
  4. rs10757278: Risk for coronary artery disease and it’s consequences (like heart attacks).
  5. rs1537415: Risk for periodontitis.
  6. rs3892097: This SNP encodes the CYP2D6*4 allele determining poorer outcome among breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen
  7. rs1447295: Risk for prostate cancer.
  8. gs138, gs139, gs140: Represent the rapid, intermediate, and slow metabolizers for the detoxifying enzyme NAT2.
  9. rs17646946 & rs11803731: Hair curliness.
  10. rs2395029: A variety of conditions (like psoriasis, abacavir hypersensitivity) plus liver damage among patients taking the antibiotic flucloxacillin.

2009 in Numbers and Entries December 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, List, Medicine, Scienceroll, Web 2.0.
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2009 was a great year for me and also for Scienceroll. I graduated from medical school and started PhD in clinical genetics. The second and third semesters of my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university course were finished. I was included in the The Future Health 100 list. Scienceroll had almost 500 blog posts and 500,000 page views. But now please enjoy the last 365 days’ most popular blog entries of Scienceroll.

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Happy New Year! I hope to see you again in 2010! Scienceroll will come up with some exciting material in January.

Top 10 health innovations of 2009 December 17, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, List, Medicine.
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As we are getting closer to 2010, there will be more and more top 10 lists in the upcoming weeks. CNN just published the top 10 health innovations of 2009.

  1. Swine Flu Vaccine
  2. Electric Eye
  3. Lyric Hearing Aid
  4. Wooden Bones
  5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation therapy
  6. Anti-Viral Biomask
  7. Antimicrobial Paint
  8. Electronic Stethoscope
  9. JaipurKnee
  10. Warm Organ Perfusion Device

Also top 10 discoveries of the decade.

Just to remind you of what can happen in one year’s time, here is the list of medical breakthroughs of 2008:

  1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients
  2. Inflammation vs. Cholesterol
  3. Scarless Surgery
  4. Genomes for the Masses (only 4th place??)
  5. New Genes for Alzheimer’s
  6. A Five-in-One Vaccine
  7. Gene Screens for Breast Cancer
  8. Blood Test for Down Syndrome
  9. Seasick Patch for Cancer Patients
  10. Stem-Cell Trachea Transplant

Most Popular Posts of November, 2009 December 13, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in List, Scienceroll, Web 2.0.
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From month to month, I will create a list of the most visited entries of Scienceroll.com.

More Scientists on Twitter November 18, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Web 2.0.
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I’ve already published some useful lists that feature medical professionals and scientists who use Twitter actively. A few examples:

  • Constantly updated list of biomedical journals on Twitter

And now here is David Bradley’s list on SciScoop: 32 scientwists with 2000+ Twitter followers

If you know other users who focus on medicine or science but have never been covered in any of these lists, please let us know.

List of Hospitals in Social Media: Update November 17, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Hospital, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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Ed Bennett has been updating a huge list of US hospitals that are engaged in social media. They manage a blog, or have Twitter, Youtube or Facebook accounts. Now there are 441 hospitals in the list and it’s still growing.

  • 213 YouTube Channels
  • 241 Facebook pages
  • 323 Twitter Accounts
  • 55 Blogs

 

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