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Personalized Medical Search: Update

I’ve recently presented a personalized medical metasearch engine we’re working on and your feedback will determine how we develop it. Check out Scienceroll Search which is powered by...

Navigenics: On the market!

We’ve been all waiting for this. Navigenics is now officially on the market and launched its service. The main differencies between Navigenics and the other personalized genetic companies were...

Health News in Second Life: More and More Tools

In Second Life, the virtual world, there are so many tools in several aspects of medicine. Here I present just a few examples:Virtual Reality to Fight Real Paranoia (Medgadget)Medical Education...

Information Therapy and the Empowered Patient

One of my favourite physician bloggers, Dr Aniruddha Malpani, posted a more than interesting slideshow about information therapy and the empowered patients. I would encourage all the physicians to...

DNA tests: Indexed

The summary of the last few days in the genetic blogosphere:Science published an article about direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. They made a mistake by presenting heavily only one of...

Medicine 2.0 carnival at The Patient’s Doctor

The jubilee, 20th edition is up at The Patient’s Doctor! Check out the many posts and news about the world of medicine 2.0 and health 2.0. Thank you, Dr Aniruddha Malpani, for hosting Medicine...

Personalized Genetics: It’s getting interesting

There are so many things to write about and as it’s getting extremely harder to keep up with the recent literature, I just share these blogposts and news with you to keep you up-to-date about...

Francis Collins and George Church on the same show!

This Tuesday, there were some interesting guests on The Diane Rehm Show:Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute Beth Peshkin, senior genetics counselor,...

The real danger of web 2.0

Recently, I wrote a longer summary of the dangers of web 2.0 for medical professionals. And a week ago, I reported about a new medical case presentation in Second Life at the Ann Myers Medical...

What’s on the web? (3 April 2008)

Medical Student Carnival 3rd Edition 4-2-2008 (My MD Journey)A incredibly comprehensive list of medical sites on the web at MEDINFO.sk.New Monitoring System Approved by FDA- Potential for...