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A comment piece on the motives behind the latest government white paper. What are the real motives for these moves and how is patient safety being affected? read more »
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MDPIXX is a recently launched portal dedicated to medical media interchange between physicians. You have to be invited to join the community and share your medical images and cases and only registered physicians can invite you. An excerpt from their mission statement:

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As I’m at home again, let’s get back to medical blogging. I’ve recently come across a radiology specific search engine which has some great features. You don’t have to use multiple different search engines for specific tasks, because RadiologySearch.net combines it all: read more »
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Gene Map Becomes a Luxury Item (The New York Times): But it shouldn’t be…

On a cold day in January, Dan Stoicescu, a millionaire living in Switzerland, became the second person in the world to buy the full sequence of his own genetic code.

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Scientist Turns Microscope on Herself (Wired):

One of the most fascinating talks at the TED conference so far was given by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, who gave a riveting account of a stroke she experienced in 1996.

The Bigger Story Behind the 3 Parent Embryo- Human read more »
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The First Edition of the Medical Student Carnival (My Med Journey): It has a great future, believe me!


Facebook and medicine (Monash Medical Student): Jeffrey posted some shocking images.


World Science Festival 2008: Once a year, the world’s leading scientist read more »
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Ariana Page Russell is an artist and has dermatographia which is a skin condition described by Mayo Clinic.com:
Dermatographia is a condition in which lightly scratching your skin causes raised, red lines where you’ve scratched. It’s not serious, but it can be uncomfortable. In der read more »
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There are plenty of social networking sites created by and for medical professionals, but here is a real social network that is focused mainly on the hobbies and recreation of physicians and medical students.

DoctorsHangout.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service fo read more »
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Karina S. Descartin at The Story of Healing blog has already written some essays about the role of media in medicine and she has always been interested in the opportunities web 2.0 can offer to medical professionals. Recently, she asked me to answer some of her questions. As these questions allowed read more »
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