Best of Medical Blogs - weekly review and blog carnival
The “Best of Medical Blogs - weekly review and blog carnival” is a weekly summary of the best posts from medical blogs. Please email your suggestions for inclusion to clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best of Medical Blogs (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.
The reversal of recommendation on perioperative beta blockade: 27% increase in mortality instead of decrease
From Notes from Dr. RW: Guideline writers began narrowing their recommendations for perioperative beta blockade back in 2009, since which time the only remaining class I recommendation regarding perioperative beta blockers is...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - August 6, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Best of Medical Blogs Source Type: blogs
Top medicine articles for June-July 2013
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles in medicine for June-July 2013:
Does Cigarette Smoking Make You Ugly and Old? Am. J. Epidemiol. Association of smoking and facial wrinkling may convince young persons not to begin smoking & older smokers to quit http://buff.ly/16g6NJe
"I COUGH" mnemonic: Reducing Postoperative Pulmonary Complications http://buff.ly/1e7ln6J
Perioperative beta blockers linked to lower 30-day mortality in patients with 2 or more Revised Cardiac Risk Index http://buff.ly/14PlJQq
"Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is the new enemy within. We make it in our bowels" http://buff.ly/ZiM7KA
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 31, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Health News of the Day Source Type: blogs
Best of Medical Blogs - weekly review and blog carnival
The “Best of Medical Blogs - weekly review and blog carnival” is a weekly summary of the best posts from medical blogs. Please email your suggestions for inclusion to clinicalcases@gmail.com. Best of Medical Blogs (BMB) is published every Tuesday, just like the old Grand Rounds.
Every 10 years scientific evidence causes a reversal of established medical practice in 40% of reported studies http://buff.ly/16g6VIU
Doctors and the Means of Production | The Health Care Blog http://buff.ly/18XRCTa
Maybe we should build upon the model of doctor-ownership and turn over public hospitals to their workers. All of the...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 30, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Best of Medical Blogs Source Type: blogs
Mick Jagger celebrates his 70th birthday
Here is the money quote at 1 min 54 sec : http://youtu.be/ATtTqdTEFa8?t=1m54s
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 27, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Music Longevity Video Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
Using “microlives” to communicate how your habits may kill you
A daily loss or gain of 30 minutes can be termed a microlife.
The loss of a single microlife can be associated with:
- smoking two cigarettes
- taking two extra alcoholic drinks
- eating a portion of red meat
- being 5 kg overweight
- watching 2 hours of television a day
Gains are associated with:
- taking a statin daily (1 microlife)
- taking just one alcoholic drink a day (1 microlife)
- 20 minutes of moderate exercise daily (2 microlives)
- a diet including fresh fruit and vegetables daily (4 microlives)
Demographic associations can also be expressed in these units:
- being female rather than male (4 microlives ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 25, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Exercise Lifestyle BMJ Source Type: blogs
WSJ insights on wine blogs - and blogging in general
What makes bloggers keep on writing?
Most of the bloggers write for "personal satisfaction" since the possibility of making money is quite small - WSJ.
What makes bloggers quit?
There are 1,450 wine blogs but only 18% have been blogging for more than 6 years. A lack of profit potential isn't necessarily the biggest blogger obstacle; time is in even shorter supply.
How do you know if a blogger is any good?
What makes a blogger credible? "Reputation and awards. Design and writing style". Most of all, a blog has to "be about something"
Define a good blogger: Impassioned amateur with genuine curiosity and interesting p...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 24, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: WSJ Blogging Source Type: blogs
Yoga for Gardeners
Celebrity gardener P Allen Smith shares what he has learned from a yoga teacher who suggests 3 specific yoga poses (asanas) for gardeners:
From the YouTube comments: "I can see how this will really help you get those tomato plants set out."
Here are some more conventional exercises for gardeners from the video blogger and California gardener "CaliKim29":
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Garden Exercise Source Type: blogs
RNA-only genes: ancient infections hide in human genome and get themselves passed from generation to generation
From the Economist:
Not so long ago, received wisdom was that most of the human genome—99% of it—was “junk”. If this junk had a role, it was just to space out the remaining 1%, the genes in which instructions about how to make proteins are encoded.
That, it now seems, was far from the truth. The decade since the completion of the Human Genome Project has shown that lots of the junk must indeed have a function. Almost two-thirds of human DNA, rather than just 1% of it, is being copied into molecules of RNA. As a consequence, rather than there being just 23,000 genes, there may be millions of them.
Human chromoso...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 10, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4-6 weeks:
An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists: In academia, there is often a stigma attached to online activities. http://buff.ly/17tGkKj
Twitter helps busy academics keep up with new research, and prepare teaching materials for graduate students. An Introduction to Social Media for Scientists: Online Visibility Helps Track and Improve Scientific Metrics. Researcher: Tweeting and blogging about papers leads to spikes in the number of article downloads http://buff.ly/10y1heu
Giving a TED presentation h...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 8, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: #HCSM Source Type: blogs
Video Pre-Op Guide to Bariatric Surgery from Cleveland Clinic
A 13-minute video from the official Cleveland Clinic channel on YouTube:
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - July 1, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Obesity Perioperative Cleveland Clinic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Can hot peppers fight cancer? CBS video
Super hot peppers can make you sweat and tear up, but CBS News reports how they also may fight cancer:
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 25, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Diet Source Type: blogs
12 tips for using Twitter as a learning tool in medical education - PubMed article
The suggested tips are organized into the following categories:
- mechanics of using Twitter
- suggestions and evidence for incorporating Twitter into many medical education contexts
- promoting research into the use of Twitter in medical education
However, you will need paid (or institutional) access to read the actual 12 tips for using Twitter as a learning tool in medical education, published at the Informa website:
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0142159X.2012.746448
References:
Twelve tips for using Twitter as a learning tool in medical education. Forgie SE, Duff JP, Ross S. Med Teach. 2012 Dec 21.
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 24, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Twitter Source Type: blogs
Synesthesia is the neurological trait that combines two or more senses: What color is Tuesday?
How does one experience synesthesia -- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes (4% of the population) may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled senses and why we may all have just a touch of synesthesia. Lesson by Richard E. Cytowic, animation by TED-Ed:
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Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 23, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: Psychology Neurology TED Talks Source Type: blogs
Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 4-5 weeks:
Twitter and Facebook: Potentially inappropriate attitudes towards professionalism were found among pharmacy students http://buff.ly/136KLJZ
Harnessing the cloud of patient experience: using social media to detect poor quality healthcare http://buff.ly/136KRkO
Social media and you: what every physician needs to know - J Med Pract Manage. http://buff.ly/ZFKvvw
How to Get RSS Feeds for Twitter http://bit.ly/Yp4VHq
Effectiveness of Mobile-Health Technologies to Improve Health Care Service: Not much benfi...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 22, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Tags: #HCSM Source Type: blogs
5 Tips to Stay Up-to-Date with Medical Literature
There is an old saying: "How do you eat in elephant? In small bites." The same rule probably applies to staying current with the ever expanding avalanche of medical literature. You can try the following approach:
1. RSS Feeds for Journals.
Subscribe to the RSS feeds of the "Big Five" medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, Lancet and Annals) plus 2-3 subpecialty journals in your field of interest. Any of the many RSS readers would do. I use RSS Owl. PeRSSonalized Medicine by Webicina.com was one of the first services to arrange the medical journal feeds in a visually appealing way and make RSS consumption user-friendly. ...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - June 21, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Source Type: blogs
