Archives for 2007

Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services

October 14, 2007 | by

Medicine 2.0I’m hosting this weeks edition of Medicine 2.0, the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to web 2.0 and medicine.

I’ve published Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services over at the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. I’m working a project there involving web 2.0 and health, fitness and medicine, and I thought it would be a great resource to supplement the other articles being developed. I’ll fill you in on the details of the project soon.

The past two weeks were rich with medicine 2.0-related articles and there are almost 40 blog posts included in this weeks edition. I intentionally kept my comments short so that you can focus on the content of each article. I’ve organized the articles into a number of categories, including:

  • Medicine 2.0, Informatics and Personal Health Records
  • Web 2.0 Tools: Blogs, Video and More
  • Health 2.0
  • Social Health Networking
  • Medical Science, Biotech and Healthcare

I hope you enjoy Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services. The next edition of Medicine 2.0 will be hosted at The Health Wisdom Blog on Sunday, October 28th, 2007.

Of Mice, Men and the Nobel Prize for Medicine

October 8, 2007 | by

nobel medal in medicineThe 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning. The prize was awarded to three men for a series of discoveries regarding embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals that led to the creation of a technique for manipulating mouse genes called gene targeting. Today, the technology is being applied to virtually all areas of biomedicine.

The three men, Mario R. Capecchi, age 70, at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Sir Martin J. Evans, age 66, at Cardiff University in Wales and Oliver Smithies, age 82, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, will share the 1.54 million prize.

Overweight Kids and TV: An Advertising Epidemic

October 4, 2007 | by

On Saturday afternoon, September 29th, 2007, the cable television channel Nickelodeon showed nothing for three hours to celebrate “Worldwide Day of Play”, encouraging children to get off the couch and be active. The “Worldwide Day of Play” is part of Nickelodeon’s “Let’s Just Play” campaign, in partner with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to encourage kids to participate in active, healthy and playful lifestyles. The goal of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation is to create a new generation of healthy Americans by addressing one of the nation’s leading public health threats — childhood obesity.

So it should be simple, right? Don’t let kids spend so much time in front of the television … get them to be more active and they won’t be overweight. Or is there more to it? Let’s explore some of the science.

Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program

October 1, 2007 | by

iguardiGuard is one of the first web-based services that allows you to get free personalized safety alerts and updates about your medications. The company claims that [1]:

… patients can feel safer because they will be sent the drug safety information they need, when they need it.

After enrollment, patients who regularly take medications can choose to receive patient-specific updates regarding the safety of their medications. Participants in iGuard will receive these updates whenever new information is learned about their medicines, allowing them to make the most informed decisions about their healthcare.

Health Highlights – September 30th, 2007

September 30, 2007 | by

Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. For a complete list of recommeded sources, see our links page.

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