MONDAY
February 2, 2009
Neuroeconomics: Digitally enhanced
The Economist: Science and technology
More on pre-natal testosterone levels.
Dr. Atual Gawande On Reality-Based Reform (Why Don’t We Open the VA To the Uninsured?)
Health Beat
Comments on
Gawande's New Yorker article.
Salmonella Meets Social Media: Health & Human Services (HHS) Dept Starts a Social Media Team
From
ConsumerGeneratedMedia.
Health Affairs Broadcast: Prevention Doesn't Save Money. Is Anyone Listening?
Disease Management Care Blog
Building a Better Baby: A New In Vitro Test
Overseen by the U.K.'s Human Fertilization and Embryo Authority.
Center for Genetics and Society.)
Stem Cell Transplant Reverses Early-stage Multiple Sclerosis
New use for haematopoietic transplantion.
West Coast couple offers $35K for egg(head) donor
Lika a college app: “21-year-old Chinese MIT student with A grade-point average, 1500 SAT score, several awards in high school and university”
(From the
Center for Genetics and Society.)
Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care
Janet Rae-Dupree in the Sunday New York Times cites Holt on nurse practitioners, Christensen on decentralization and Reinhardt on Kaiser's integrated system. An obligatory nod to health IT ends the piece.
TUESDAY
February 3, 2009
Due to a server glitch, today is a "Best Of Health Memes" reposting of a previous edition.
Combining Literature and Medicine
Well
"Narrative medicine" is changing the way young doctors train and care for patients.
Will Knols and Blogs Upend the Cozy World of Medical Publishing?
Wachter's World
The Risks of Web 2.0
“We’re More Aware of People’s Time”: Seeing the impact of an integrated personal health record at Kaiser Permanente Georgia
Ted Eytan, MD
Why pro-anorexia websites are spreading to Facebook
KevinMD.com - Medical Weblog
(see also hNBIC's
Dark Side of the Internet post)
What is Not Taught About "Leadership in Healthcare"
Health Care Renewal
"...anything to do with the care of actual patients"
Dr. Val Guest Post: Straight Jackets Issued To All Hospital Patients Over Age 65?
Health Care Law Blog
Advice for the “Seemingly Healthy”: Know Your Chances (Part I)
Health Beat
Health statistics and the press
WEDNESDAY
February 4, 2009
Healthy Kidney Removed Through Donor's Vagina By Hopkins Transplant Surgeons
IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today
NOTES: natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery. (PR)
Neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it'
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news
(PR)
Coriell Goes Live!!!
The Gene Sherpa: Personalized Medicine and You
Free DNA testing
with some limitations.
Implant Makes Cells Kill Cancer
Technology Review Feed - Biomedicine Top Stories
Polymers in immunotherapy.
Epigenetics: Mysterious ways
The Economist: Science and technology
Maybe we're not so hard-coded after all.
Efficacy of Antidepressants
World of Psychology
Pharma-funded researchers dispute the recent analyses.
Disrupting rush to the medical home model
ZDNet Healthcare
Christensen "applies his concepts to the health care market, and in the process casually dismisses medicine’s latest and greatest business model, the medical home."
THURSDAY
February 5, 2009
J&J’s Stoffels Says ‘Open Innovation’ is the R&D Answer
WSJ.com: Health Blog
“All simple diseases have been solved.”
Peptide-Guided Hollow Gold Spheres Gather Inside Tumors, Where Light Heats Them To Kill
Medical Devices / Diagnostics News From Medical News Today
Nanomedicine in mouse studies.
Blacks, Asians With Terminal Cancer Use End-Of-Life Services Less Frequently Than Other Patients, Study Finds
Public Health News From Medical News Today
Cultural differences over EOL.
Who Is Behind The Medicines Information On The Internet?
IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today
Analysis from Down Under about offshoring, regulation and global health sites, from
the Australian Prescriber.
Clinic lets parents choose baby's complexion
More cosmetic genomics, from the
Center for Genetics and Society.