MONDAY
Insurers Embrace Online Physician Visits, But Doctor Participation Slow To Catch On - iHealthBeat
Ted Eytan, MD
The destruction of the NHS begins
NHS Blog Doctor
A U.K. doctor's take on patients (willingly) paying extra for critical care.
Do Healthcare Organizations Truly Want Electronic Health Records To Succeed?
Health Care Renewal
Passive aggressive opposition
The Rise of the Personal Health Record
Health Care Law Blog
The legal impacts of a disruptive innovation
The Growing Field of Regenerative Medicine
Future Current
Video and transcript of William Haseltine on reg med.
Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Systems: Do Different Funding Models Lead to Different Results?
eHealth News EU
A study finds consumers in the U.K., U.S., France and Spain are similar -- but check the last chart.
The New Infidelity: Love, Sex and the Changing Landscape of Infidelity
Well
“They’ve got the physical health to express their sexuality into old age,” said a researcher.
Consumer-Generated Clinical Trials? Research Minus Science = Gossip
Better Health
The Risks of Web 2.0
TUESDAY
March 3, 2009
Senator Tom Harkin: “Disappointed” that NCCAM hasn’t “validated” more CAM
Science-Based Medicine
Politics v. Science.
Should we pay patients to stay healthy - and punish them if they don't?
The ACP Advocate Blog by Bob Doherty
Where Those Cardiology Guidelines Come From, Part I
The Covert Rationing Blog
Another case of Eminence over Evidence.
Public order: The kindness of crowds
The Economist: Science and technology
CCTV: a new kind of social science microscope.
Novel Data Sources for Quality Improvement
The Health Care Blog
Mining data from beyond traditional sources.
Guest Article: Why does clinical interoperability matter?
The Healthcare IT Guy
More on interoperability.
Steroids and the Lost Data of Self-Experiment
The Quantified Self
Life enhancement. "The data tends to live offline and off of hard disks." Creepy and eye-opening.
How Does a Doc Really Use An Electronic Medical Record?
WSJ.com: Health Blog
Nice video vérité, but excellent comment thread.
WEDNESDAY
March 4, 2009
Despite New Research on Reprogrammed Stem Cell Technique, We Still Need Embryonic Cells
Science Progress
Commentary: Fear and Loathing in mHealth
mobihealthnews
And three best practices offered for iPhone healthcare developers:
Why care about regional variations in health costs?
Health Populi
"it's in physician decision making where big impacts can be achieved."
"Buried Data," a "Smoke-and-Mirrors Job" and a "Positive Spin" on a "Cursed Study"
Health Care Renewal
Clinical Practice Guidelines Draw Fire
GoozNews
Analysis of this week's Cardiology Guidelines topic.
One Lousy Doctor Can Spoil a Good Day
EverythingHealth
"This is one reason the "rate your doctor" websites are catching on!"
Biased minds make better inferences.
Deric Bownds' MindBlog
From a new journal: "Topics in Cognitive Science".
Tumors in a (quack) human stem cell therapy
denialism blog
"The therapies offered to stem cell tourists are frank quackery."
Flip a coin Diagnostics ? Worse ? Better ?
BIOpinionated
Skeptical about DNA-direct's test based on methylation of the vimentin gene for colorectal cancer.
In hard times, more U.S. women try to sell their eggs
Reuters: Health News
Global trend comes to the U.S.
Tracking flu through online search queries.
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Some ethical dimensions of Google Flu Trends. "Could it be that lay people actually do a better job discerning when they have flu-like symptoms than they are given credit for?"
THURSDAY
March 5, 2009
The Ethics of Junk Science
Neuroskeptic
"The implicit message of this kind of junk science writing is that all kinds of complex and difficult scientific questions are in fact really simple."
Whither Personalized Medicine? Warfarin Study May Help with the Answer
Science Progress
NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network.
Tom Harkin’s War on Science (or, “meet the new boss…”)
Science-Based Medicine
"He comes right out and bemoans the fact that science hasn’t upheld his quasi-religious medical beliefs."
Brain Differences Found Between Believers In God And Non-believers
ScienceDaily: Neuroscience News
(PR)
TR10: Biological Machines
Technology Review Feed - Biomedicine Top Stories
Michel Maharbiz's novel interfaces between machines and living systems could give rise to a new generation of cyborg devices.
Social networks: Primates on Facebook
The Economist: Science and technology
"Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148."
Over 200 [genome wide association] studies! What is BS? What is Real?
The Gene Sherpa: Personalized Medicine and You
The Voodoo of Peer Review
The Neurocritic
Dissecting the blogospheric uproar over Vul et al's "Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience".
March 2, 2009
A New York snow storm has closed the office, so today is a "Best Of Health Memes" reposting of a previous edition.