Bernard L. Ginsborg (1925 – 2018). A tribute.
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If you are not a pharmacologist or physiologist, you may never have heard of Bernard Ginsborg. I first met him in 1960. He was a huge influence on me and a great friend. I’m publishing this here because the Physiological Society has published only a brief obituary.
Bernard with his wife, Andy (Andrina).
You can download the following documents.
Biography written by one of his daughters, Jane Ginsborg.
Bernard’s scientific work, written by Donald H. Jenkinson (who knew him from his time in Bernard Katz’s Department of Biophysics).
A tribute by Randall House, who collaborated with Berna...
Source: DC's goodscience - November 2, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
We challenge you to reuse Additional Files (a.k.a. Supplementary Information)
Almost eight years ago, BMC made a bold move: data in articles and supplementary information would from then on be available with a CCZero license/waiver. SpringerOpen followed with a less stringent policy and later Springer Nature started a collaboration with Figshare to archive data there.
Journal of Cheminformatics is one of the journals that make Additional Files available via Figshare. In the past year, this additional content has been viewed more than ten thousand times and resulted in more than 1700 downloads. These numbers are promising. After all, we value data in our publications and want others to use it. That r...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - November 1, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Egon Willighagen Tags: Open Access Publishing cheminformatics chemistry journal of cheminformatics Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: This one would hit the reject pile
I recognize that there are compelling current issues to discuss, and I will do so. But I ' m committed to this project, which is not in fact entirely irrelevant. Again, Genesis 31 is very long. Even taking it in two pieces it makes for a long blog post. And it ' s very boring. The point of it is elusive, it ' s repetitive, and it ' s factual basis is murky. But let ' s get it over with.22 On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.23 Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.24 Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 28, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Prostate cancer screening campaigns are giving men the finger
Fifty years ago, in a golden moment of television comedy shows, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In program regularly featured “The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate” award. Wikipedia says it “recognized actual dubious achievements by public individuals or institutions.” Do a Google search. You’ll quickly see how popular this award became.
Yes, I’m dating myself by going back 50 years. But mine is the generation that often becomes obsessed with being given “the finger” by doctors for digital rectal exams (DRE) looking for prostate cancer.
And it is in that context that we propose to revive The Flying Fickle Fi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 22, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/gary-schwitzer" rel="tag" > Gary Schwitzer < /a > Tags: Conditions Mainstream media Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Make Hackathons Fair Again
By FRED TROTTER
On Oct 19, I will begin to MC the health equity hackathon in Austin TX, which will focus on addressing healthcare disparity issues. Specifically, we will be using healthcare data to try and make an impact on those problems. Our planning team has spent months thinking about how to run a hackathon fairly, especially after the release of a report that harshly criticized how hackathons are typically run.
A Wired article written earlier this year trumpets a study called “Hackathons As Co-optation Ritual: Socializing Workers and Institutionalizing Innovation in the ‘New’ Economy,” which criticizes the cor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hack-a-thon Tech hackathon health equity Healthcare Source Type: blogs
A Tribute to Sandra Dawson
Sandra Dawson passed away on October 2, 2018. You may not recognize the name, but hundreds of thousands of people have been touched by her efforts on behalf of mental health and suicide, most notably behind the @unsuicide handle on Twitter.
With nearly 25,000 Twitter followers and over 26,000 tweets in the past 10 years, she highlighted resources and help for countless numbers of people in the depths of depression. She also ran the unsuicide wiki, which offered those resources in a more static environment. Sandra was 51.
Here’s what the Neurocritic had to say of Sandra’s passing:
Sandra was taken from this ear...
Source: World of Psychology - October 17, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Suicide Depression sandra dawson Source Type: blogs
Improving Info on Women ’s Health: National Network of Medical Librarians Wants Your Help
Are you interested in improving health information for and about women on Wikipedia? Your research skills can help make Wikipedia a better, evidence-based resource for people looking for information on women’s health. Join the National Network of Libraries of Medicine on November 7 as medical librarians add citations to existing Wikipedia articles on women’s health using… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - September 26, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
The Biggest Trend You ’ve Probably Never Heard Of: A Status Report on 138 Healthcare ICOs
Discussion and Commentary
The first observation we’ll note is that there has been a substantial amount of healthcare ICO activity.
However, we would label the overall performance of the healthcare ICOs as “disappointing”. Only 5 reported positive returns since the date of their listing and 2 in 2018 to-date.
The overall ICO market has been declining since January 2018. Monthly funds raised by ICOs are down, and funding has shifted towards a few mega projects (like EOS and Telegram), big private sales, and smart contract platforms.
During the bull market of 2017, healthcare ICOs greatly benefited from burgeoning pri...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Cryptocurrency Economics Finance decentralization Funding Healthcare ICO initial coin offering network effects Startup token token offering venture capital Source Type: blogs
The Mystery of the Ownership of the Trinity School of Medicine
Trinity School of Medicine Vice President Boasts that It Is " Not the Same " As Most Offshore Medical SchoolsApost promoting the Trinity School of Medicine just appeared on the KevinMD blog. It was entitled " Addressing the ' ugly truth ' about Caribbean medical schools: Why they ’re not all the same. " Its purpose seemed to be to persuade the reader in particular that theTrinity School of Medicine, (located conveniently in St Vincent and the Grenadines, " high on a hillside in the Ratho Mill district of Kingstown, the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, " conveniently near the Young Island Resort and " Living the...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 20, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: accountablility boards of trustees medical schools offshore medical schools Source Type: blogs
Poole ’s New Book on Highways
The Reason Foundation’s Bob Poole has published a new book, Rethinking America ’s Highways: A 21st Century Vision for Better Infrastructure.The book examines the structure of U.S. highway ownership and financing and describes why major reforms are needed. Bob has a deep understanding of both the economics and engineering of highways.Bob puts U.S. highways in international context. He describes, for example, how Europe has more experience with private highways than we do. The photo below is the Millau Viaduct in southern France. Wiki says it is “ranked as one of the great engineering achievements of all time.”...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
A thorough thrashing
Sorry for lack of posts, yesterday was advising day - I have six undergraduate advisees and that took all day -- and today was my first class. I don ' t remember if I have mentioned that I am teaching a lecture course with 140 students and 14 TAs. Anywayyyyy, I ' m coming up for air and will be more reliable going forward.Meanwhile,here ' s a Wiki with something like 2,000 pages trashing libertarianism. It ' s obviously a huge labor of love. The list of quotations on the front page is worth it all alone. Here ' s a good one:So much for the idea that so-called libertarians are uncompromising champions of freedom. In truth, ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 5, 2018 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Abscopal Effect
In the waning years of my career as a Nuclear Radiologist, I have become somewhat more jaded than I was as a younger doc. When you see cancer and other diseases fifty times a day, sometimes getting better, sometimes getting worse, that ' s bound to happen. Of course, I ' m far prefer reporting improvement, but relapses are also part of this job. The oncologists wander into the reading room every few minutes, or so it seems, anyway, to look at their patients ' scans (the gantry is generally still warm). If the news is bad, I will tell them in all honesty that I admire the strength it will take to deliver the bad news. On th...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 19, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
5 Questions Couples Should Ask Before a Relationship (According to Experts)
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Relationships can be hard sometimes. Imagine spending the rest of your life in a dull, motionless relationship with someone you can't stand. Not cool, is it?
When you`re dating, there are lots of reason to take someone home. He`s slick, she`s hot, or you just want to fill the void made by someone else.
Regardless of the reasons, if you date the wrong person you`ll regret it, and it ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marwan Jamal Tags: communication featured happiness jealousy relationships healthy relationships relationship quiz self improvement Source Type: blogs
Why Hillarycare failed …and what we need to learn from that failure
By MATTHEW HOLT
In July 2005 George W Bush had relatively recently won a Presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote (something that will likely never happen again) & the Republicans controlled all three branches of Government. Those of us liberals at the bottom of a dark trench were wondering if and how we’d get to health reform. So in another reprint to celebrate THCB’s 15th birthday, here was my then take on what went wrong in 1994 and what would happen next–Matthew Holt
There are lots of versions about what killed the 1993-4 health care reform effort. Hillary C...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt HillaryCare Source Type: blogs
