Blog Title: Scienceroll

A medical student's journey inside genetics and medicine

What?s on the web? (18 August 2008)

The conference schedule of the Medicine 2.0: Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine and Health is up. The medical bloggers’ panel and my oral presentation both will take place on the first day. The Journal of Visualized Experiments is indexed in Pubmed now! Spectacular medical animations narrated in several languages at CareFlash.com. Online medical blogging: don’t read more..

Web 2.0 and Medicine Course: First Part

As you may remember, I will run the first medicine 2.0 course from this September at the University of Debrecen. Now I’m asking you to add your ideas and suggestions regarding the subjects. This time, we should focus on the first two weeks: 1st week: What does web 2.0 mean? (the main concept and idea of web read more..

Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!

We organize medical exercises and meetings at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life. Now the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Here are some screenshots that can describe what the learning process looks like. After teleporting to their virtual hospital, at the reception, read more..

OutWit Hub: A Semantic Browser in Medicine?

OutWit Hub, currently in beta, might be a step towards a semantic browser. You can find more information here and the Firefox Add-on page here. The applications are countless from extracting photos of human anatomy in a snap, to building a database of medical contacts. If you need a list of hospitals with their specialties, you read more..

Metabolomics Webinar

There will be a promising webinar focusing on metabolomics organized by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News on the 28th of August. You can register here. Metabolomics: Analytics, Tools, and Applications (August 28, 2008; 1:00 pm EDT; 19:00 CEST) Metabolomics?the small molecule chemical footprint of biological processes?is poised to take its rightful place beside genomics and proteomics as read more..

Daily Lol: Matrix in Medical School

I found this hilarious video at Clinical Cases and Images:

CureTogether: Patients and Researchers

CureTogether, a new web 2.0 startup, plans to bring together patients and scientists to create an open-source health research system. An excerpt from the Kurzweil.net article: The first conditions being studied are migraine, endometriosis, and vulvodynia; each affect more than five million Americans. Patients will also be able to share ideas and provide their anonymous medical data read more..

Disaster Map

There is an interesting, interactive map of disasters and emergencies worldwide. You can also see and read more about recent epidemic hot points. It was created by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications; Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS); Budapest Hungary. You can order free AlertMail or event report. read more..

Scientific Events in Second Life?

What can you do if you would like to know what kind of scientific and health events you should attend in Second Life? Here are some useful links: Calendar of SL Health Events: Maintained by the SlHealthy Wiki Home of Second Nature (island of NPG): All the events organized on the island of Nature Publishing Group Scifoo lives read more..

Healthcare revolution begins

Jay Parkinson and his collegues now are totally ready to revolutionize healthcare as Hello Health is up and running. I’m excited about it and can’t wait to see how it goes and when it becomes a worldwide franchise. Further reading: Interview with Jay Parkinson, the web-savvy doctor Call Your Doctor Online: The Future of Medicine? Physician of the Year: A read more..

Finding Information: Factors that improve online experiences

On Idea.org, there is a recently published study focusing on factors that can improve online experiences. The authors (Sathish Menon and Michael Douma) tried to find out what kind of factors readers look for in blogposts and articles. Some key findings: Easy access to complete information is key to visitor enjoyment. Good visual design and up-to-date information are read more..

Medicine 2.0 Carnival at SharpBrains

The 30th edition is up at the SharpBrains blog! Check out all the posts and news about the world of medicine 2.0 and health 2.0. Thank you, Alvaro Fernandez, for hosting Medicine 2.0! Medicine 2.0 is a blog carnival about the impact of web 2.0 on medicine and healthcare. Medicine 2.0 editions so far: Edition #1: Scienceroll Edition #2: read more..

5 New Additions to the Health 2.0 Squad

I’ve recently come across 5 services that may be useful for those interested in health 2.0. Healthcare Magic: HealthcareMagic is the world’s first portal allowing a live interaction between doctors and patients over Internet and phone, allowing integrated comparison shopping for health related products and services. HealthcareMagic enables patients, families and friends to share their experiences read more..

What?s on the web? (10 August 2008)

Grand Rounds: Change of the Guard (Blogborygmi): Nick Genes has been maintaining Grand rounds, the weekly medical blog carnival, for a long time now. It became a blog carnival that can collect the best medical posts week by week. Kudos to Nick! Why you, young scientist, should have a web presence (What You?re Doing Is Rather Desperate) ABC read more..

Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field

Benjamin Hughes; Indra Joshi and Jonathan Wareham just published an article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research: Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0: Tensions and Controversies in the Field. They cited Scienceroll when defining medicine 2.0. An excerpt: The terms Medicine 2.0 and Health 2.0 were found to be very similar and subsume five major salient read more..

Labmeeting: It really makes science easier

I’ve written many posts about community sites created for scientists and medical professionals, but I do not really prefer any of them as they are quite similarly constructed. Labmeeting will be the first service I plan to use actively. Why? Upload research articles Automatically match them to bibliographic records for reference management Search the full text read more..

Simple Genetics: Wiki of genetic test reviews

This site has been on my list for a while. Simple GeneticsTM: genetic test reviews is an independent wiki-based resource dedicated to the provision of reviews and unbiased information about commonly available genetic tests, its clinical validity and utility. The project aims to improve the quality and accessibility of information regarding genetic tests and help to make read more..

Do you think medical education can be reformed? How?

This is a question I asked on the Medical Education Evolution community page. Here are some interesting answers from famous educators and medical professionals: Yes. Content + continuous holistic approach to whole medical education from the very first study day + teaching/learning methods + diverse and complex use of ICT as a tool + networking. To read more..

Interesting Genomic Tools

I’ve recently come across some great genomic tools that may be useful for your research. Circos: This is a tool from Martin Krzywinski who described this as: Circos is a Perl application for the generation of publication-quality, circularly composited renditions of genomic data and related annotations. Circos is particularly suited for visualizing alignments, conservation and intra read more..

Fighting cancer with video games: Conclusion

Do you remember my post about Hopelab and their video game constructed to help children fighting cancer? Now an article was published in Pediatrics about the outcomes and advantages of using such video games in treating patients. An excerpt from the study: In the study, participants who were given Re-Mission maintained higher levels of chemotherapy in read more..