P C R : Publish, Cite Cyagen and get a Reward of $100 or more !?
Thursday I got an odd mail from Cyagen. Cyagen offered me $100 or more in reward for citing their animal model services in an article. Even more surprising the reward was dependent on the impact factor of the journal I was publishing in. Cyagen gives the following example: If you published a paper in Science (IF = 30) […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - August 15, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Clinical Practice by Bertalan Mesk ó [Book Review]
How to review a book on Medical Social Media written by an author, who has learned you many Social Media skills himself? Thanks to people like Bertalan Meskó, the author of the book concerned, I am not a novice in the field of Medical Social Media. But wouldn’t it be great if all newcomers in […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - September 13, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Books Health 2.0 Web 2.0 Tools Bertalan Meskó Book Review Facebook Google Medicine PubMed Social Media twitter Source Type: blogs
Social Media in Clinical Practice by Bertalan Meskó [Book Review]
How to review a book on Medical Social Media written by an author, who has learned you many Social Media skills himself? Thanks to people like Bertalan Meskó, the author of the book concerned, I am not a novice in the field of Medical Social Media. But wouldn’t it be great if all newcomers in […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - September 13, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Books Health 2.0 Web 2.0 Tools Bertalan Meskó Book Review Facebook Google Medicine PubMed Social Media twitter Source Type: blogs
Friday Foolery #55 Entrance to the Maternity Ward
This Picture speaks for itself, I suppose Source: Facebook page of George Takei (link to picture) Related articles Leave it to Takei! (juliannrich.wordpress.com) George Takei’s Facebook Adventure Now Includes An Apologizing Ghostwriter (webpronews.com) Journalist apologizes to George Takei for revealing that he contributes Facebook items (jimromenesko.com) Friday Foolery #54 The Best 404 Message ever? (laikaspoetnik.wordpress.com) Friday […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 26, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Friday Foolery George Takei Humor Humour lol maternity ward pushing Source Type: blogs
Between the Lines. Finding the Truth in Medical Literature [Book Review]
In the 1970s a study was conducted among 60 physicians and physicians-in-training. They had to solve a simple problem: “If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1/1000 has a false positive rate of 5 %, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease, assuming that you know nothing about the person’s […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 19, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Books Critical Appraisal Evidence Based Medicine Critical reading Health Peer review Scientific paper Study Designs Source Type: blogs
Medpedia, the Medical Wikipedia, is Dead. And we Missed its Funeral …
In a post about Wikipedia in 2009 I suggested that initiatives like Ganfyd or Medpedia, might be a solution to Wikipedia’s accuracy and credibility problems, because only health experts are allowed to edit or contribute to the content of these knowledge bases. MedPedia is a more sophisticated platform than Ganfyd, which looks more like a simple […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 12, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Consumers and Patients Health 2.0 Wiki Medical Information Medical Wiki Medpedia User Generated Content Web 2.0 Wikipedia Source Type: blogs
Medpedia, the Medical Wikipedia, is Dead. And we Missed its Funeral…
In a post about Wikipedia in 2009 I suggested that initiatives like Ganfyd or Medpedia, might be a solution to Wikipedia’s accuracy and credibility problems, because only health experts are allowed to edit or contribute to the content of these knowledge bases. MedPedia is a more sophisticated platform than Ganfyd, which looks more like a simple […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 12, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Consumers and Patients Health 2.0 Wiki Medical Information Medical Wiki Medpedia User Generated Content Web 2.0 Wikipedia Source Type: blogs
No, Google Scholar Shouldn ’ t be Used Alone for Systematic Review Searching
Several papers have addressed the usefulness of Google Scholar as a source for systematic review searching. Unfortunately the quality of those papers is often well below the mark. In 2010 I already [1] (in the words of Isla Kuhn [2]) “robustly rebutted” the Anders’ paper “PubMed versus Google Scholar for Retrieving Evidence” [3] at this blog. But […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 9, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Google Scholar PubMed/MEDLINE Researchblogs Searching Systematic Review Search Engines Source Type: blogs
No, Google Scholar Shouldn’t be Used Alone for Systematic Review Searching
Several papers have addressed the usefulness of Google Scholar as a source for systematic review searching. Unfortunately the quality of those papers is often well below the mark. In 2010 I already [1] (in the words of Isla Kuhn [2]) “robustly rebutted” the Anders’ paper “PubMed versus Google Scholar for Retrieving Evidence” [3] at this blog. But […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - July 9, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Google Scholar PubMed/MEDLINE Researchblogs Searching Systematic Review Search Engines Source Type: blogs
Diane-35: Geen Reden tot Paniek!
Dear english-speaking readers of this blog. This post is about the anti-acne drug Diane-35 that (with other 3rd and 4th generation combined oral contraceptives (COCs)) has been linked to the deaths of several women in Canada, France and the Netherlands. Since there is a lot of media attention (and panic) in the Netherlands, the remainder of this […] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - March 12, 2013 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Dutch Gynecology & Obstetrics Harm & AE Pharmaceutical Industry Researchblogs Acne vulgaris anticonceptiemiddel Bayer Canada Combined oral contraceptive pill Cyproterone Diane Diane-35 European Medicines Agency Food and Drug Ad Source Type: blogs
