Links for 2007-01-31

• Experts Divided Over President Bush's Health Care Proposals - Kaisernetwork.org
• NPR : Xeni Tech (Podcast)
  Reporting from the intersection of culture and technology, NPR 'Day to Day' contributor and BoingBoing blogger Xeni Jardin covers wireless networks in Tibet, military technology in Iraq, zero-gravity floating tutorials -- and everything in between.
• The Harvard Business Review List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
• Moya Moya Disease
  Moyamoya disease is a rare, progressive cerebrovascular disorder caused by blocked arteries at the base of the brain in an area called the basal ganglia. The name "moyamoya" means "puff of smoke" in Japanese...
  
• High Dynamic Range (HDR) Tutorial
• Amazon.com: Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
• One in Eight Adults in New York City has Diabetes - New York Times

Links for 2007-01-30

• Overclocked by Cory Doctorow. Download for Free.
  "These files are under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Mix 'em up. Send them to your friends. Get creative. Tell me about it. Make cool junk."
• Hilarious Journal Articles #76: Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat
  "For this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, 16 married women were subjected to the threat of electric shock while holding their husband's hand, the hand of an anonymous male experimenter, or no hand at all."
• IDIOT TOYS: Tech reviews for the bored
• Technological Singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Accelerando Technical Companion - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
  "Lobster stomatogastric ganglion (STG): This is a well-studied network of neurons found in the lobster which controls the rhythmic contractions of stomach muscles and intra-stomach teeth."

Links for 2007-01-29

• Boing Boing: Sweden to be first country with official embassy in Second Life
• intueri» Danger to Others. (Antisocial Personality Disorder)
• Open Culture: University Podcast Collection
• Open Culture: The Podcast Portal - Open Culture Fills Your Ipod
• Reuters/Second Life » Second Life Sketches: A Night On The Grid (Warren Ellis)
• bubbl.us - brainstorming with style (mindmapping)
  Outstanding free online mindmapping application.

Links for 2007-01-28

• Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: Medical Wikis May Change the Way We Study Medicine
• Scientific American.com: Tag, You're It: Scientists Describe Collaborative Tagging Sites like Del.icio.us -- Italian researchers determine underlying statistical structure of social bookmarking sites
• The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com

Links for 2007-01-24

• Ironic Sans: Every ad in Times Square
• NEJM -- Wound Healing with Electric Potential
  The efficient and effective repair of damaged tissue is fundamental to human survival. Wound repair has therefore challenged generations of health care providers, and various strategies have been used to accelerate and perfect the healing process.
• Patient Fixes Lithotripsy Machine to Treat His Kidney Stones
  Mocevic asked to borrow a set of tools and then stripped down and repaired the Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy machine at the hospital in Kasindol.
• Matching Donors | Organ Donor, Organ Transplant, Organ Donor Services

Flickr: Halo

Halo, originally uploaded by vonvonvon.

Never Teach a Cardiologist How to Do Anything

Via a cardiologist friend (not quite seriously):

By the way, did I ever mention to never teach a single cardiologist how to perform any kind of dialysis? Because if just one of us knows, all of us will learn, and then we will start doing it.

Ask any radiologist about nuclear stress tests, MRI, CT, ultrasound or diagnostic catheterization.

Jennifer Strange Died from Water Intoxication (Hyponatremia) After Drinking Two Gallons of Water. How Low Did Her Serum Sodium Go?

More on the tragedy here. Some quick calculations. Assuming she weighed 63.5 kg (140 lbs), with a 50% body water percentage, her total body water was 31.75 L.

According to this article, she drank 2 gallons (7.5 liters) over approximately two hours, and we'll assume her kidneys eliminated 1000 ml of that -- figuring her max urine output was 500 ml per hour, and a full bladder holds at most about 1000 ml -- which means her total body water increased by about 6.5 liters in two hours (assuming that she absorbed all the water she ingested). If her serum sodium was initially normal at 140 mEq/L, after the contest she would have a serum sodium of [140 X (31.75 / 38.25)] = 116 mEq/L.

Serious symptoms usually occurs when the serum sodium is less than 120 mEq/L. Dropping your sodium from 140 to 116 could definitely lead to brain swelling and death.

Flickr: The Yew Tunnel

The Yew Tunnel., originally uploaded by annicariad.

Links for 2007-01-20

• NYC Hospitals | Map of Hospital Closings
• The Seattle Times: Will rare redheads be extinct by 2100?
  The reason, according to scientists at the independent institute in England, which studies all sorts of hair problems, is that just 4 percent of the world's population carries the red-hair gene.
• When Being a Verb is Not Enough: Google Wants to be Your Internet
• Pfizer's Pfinances. In the Pipeline.
  Pfizer's making a big announcement next Monday: but what are they announcing?

Links for 2007-01-19

• Medical Photographic Library -- Wellcome Trust
• The Blog That Ate Manhattan: What's Inside? [ICD Marketing]
  "Patients will start calling and coming in to their cardiologists asking if an ICD is right for them."
• Cool Hunting: Sleepwalkers
  Sleepwalkers is a nighttime installation comprised of continuous sequences of film scenes projected onto facades that transform West 53rd and 54th streets into a vast outdoor multiplex.
• Expert Ties Ex-Player's Suicide to Brain Damage - New York Times
• "Hi, I'm Art Buchwald, And I Just Died": NYT Debuts Video Obituaries | The Huffington Post

Flickr: Yodoagawa river, Osaka

Yodoagawa river, Osaka, originally uploaded by The Other Martin Tenbones.

Links for 2007-01-17

• High Complexity Medical Decision-Making -- EMuniversity
• Sermo - Social Network for Doctors Gets Funded - Mashable
• Website [Sermo] seeks doctors' take on drugs, and firms protest - The Boston Globe
  A Cambridge company that pays doctors to post medical observations on its website, including reports of drug side effects, has quickly incurred the wrath of pharmaceutical makers.
• 24-Hour Newspaper People - New York Times
  "Having a blog makes me approachable, reader-friendly and engaged. Perhaps too engaged."
• Howard Hughes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• NASA - STEREO's First View of the Sun
  Loops of highly charged particles burst from the sun's surface in this image, taken on Dec. 4, 2006.
• Packetgarden.com -- Grow a world from network traffic
• starbucks center of gravity - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
  a world problem finally solved: a geographical map visualization of all the Starbucks coffee shops in Manhattan, dramatically culminating in the 'Starbucks Center of Gravity in Manhattan'
• Sparkline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Google Operating System: Contemplate Your Internet Traffic
• Overclocked by Cory Doctorow » Download for Free Under a Creative Commons License
  "Five substantial stories plus one short-short, all previously published, all computer-related and bulging with knowing SF references…"
• BBC NEWS | Tsunami victims 'selling kidneys'
• How to Change the World: LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover
• Graphic of Art of Innovation Speech (http://guykawasaki.typepad.com/Innovationgraphic.jpg)
• Wikiseek - Search Wikipedia and its external links
• stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site
• Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

Link for 2007-01-16

• Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist

Links for 2007-01-15

• Eschara: A Scar is a Story
• A life-or-death situation: Family poisoned by mushrooms first to receive experimental treatment - By Jondi Gumz - Sentinel staff writer - January 14, 2007
  "Using Google Scholar, a search engine of scholarly literature, he found a promising avenue of treatment: Extract from milk thistle, a nuisance weed for farmers and used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine."
• Autopsy Finds Signs of Water Intoxication in Radio Contestant's Death

Links for 2007-01-14

• Target Pharmacy $4 Program List of Drugs
• Wal-Mart Announces Accelerated Rollout Of $4 Generic Prescription Program In 14 States
• Ten more CSS tricks you may not know

Links for 2007-01-13

• Boing Boing: Robert Anton Wilson (RIP)
• This Week in Science Interview (Featuring William Gibson)
• A First Glance at Gov. Schwarzenegger's Health Plan « The Sentinel Effect
• Google Gadget Award Winners 2006
• medinnovationblog: Twelve Health Care Predictions for 2007
• Piccolini. Everything Urbane For You and Your Little Ones
• Most Viewed Health Articles of 2006 - The New York Times
• Second Life Sketches: Digital Shorelines by Warren Ellis
  "Second Life has no goals, unless you count the continuing attempt to avoid the erotic depredations of hideously overendowed anthropomorphic rabbits…"

Links for 2007-01-12

• Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse
  Here are excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968.
• Best of CES awards - Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas 2007 - CNET.com

Flickr: Coney Island

Coney Island, originally uploaded by gregbrophy.

Flickr: 27wks

27wks, originally uploaded by CinDLin.

Mindmap of "Getting Things Done" by David Allen

The GTD Mindmap / Flowchart has been updated. The new version is here.

Links for 2007-01-11

• New England Journal of Medicine Audio Summary for January 11, 2007
  Featured are articles on sunitinib versus interferon alfa in metastatic renal-cell carcinoma, sorafenib in advanced clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma, response to antiretroviral therapy after one peripartum dose of nevirapine...
• PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives | Your Digital Life, Anywhere™

Links for 2007-01-10

• Writers Find New Fiction Source in Economic Genre -- NPR
• How much does electricity cost? What is a kilowatt-hour?
• Bloggers' Grand Rounds: The evolution of medicine's netroots ... American Medical News
• Manhattan Smells Like Mercaptan - New York Times Blog
• Apple - iPhone

Mindmap of the Workup of Hypertension (Primary and Secondary)

For more lifehacks for healthcare, innovations, and best practices, see The Efficient MD.

(This post is for informational purposes only. Please see the disclaimer.)

Links for 2007-01-09

• Conference Information: Connecting Americans to their Healthcare: Empowered Consumers, Personal Health Records and Emerging Technologies
  "As medical data become increasingly computerized, people will have greater opportunities to view and share their personal health data."
• iRobot - Create
  Programmable Roomba.
• TOP 300 Freeware Programs (WinAddons.com)
• Keynote Speech: Connecting Americans to Their Health Care: Empowered Consumers, Personal Health Records and Emerging Technologies
  By Adam Bosworth, Vice President, Google Inc.

Links for 2007-01-08

• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat - New York Times
  "With growing sophistication, they are taking advantage of programs that secretly install themselves on thousands or even millions of personal computers, band these computers together into an unwitting army of zombies..."
  
• Incandescence, Yes. Fluorescence, We'll See. - New York Times
  "You equate fluorescent light with your boss, license renewal, indigestion and divorce. Not beautiful sunsets, blush wine, fireside s'mores, and candlelit dinner dates. An 'incandescent' evening."
• The Doctor Is In (Dr. Herbert Pardes, President of New York Presbyterian Medical Center - New York Times
  "Dr. Pardes, a well-regarded psychiatrist and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, says he wants NewYork-Presbyterian to become a model for top-tier medical care."
• Parents of disabled children ask doctors for 'Ashley treatment' | Guardian Unlimited
  "Doctors in Seattle who treated the severely disabled girl Ashley with surgery and hormones to keep her at the size of a six-year-old child have received requests from parents of other disabled children to repeat the treatment."
• Scientist: NASA found life on Mars - and killed it - CNN.com
  "Given the cold dry conditions of Mars, life could have evolved on Mars with the key internal fluid consisting of a mix of water and hydrogen peroxide, said Schulze-Makuch."
• 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos -- WebWorker Daily
• The Seattle Times: Local News: $10,000 reward posted to find who stole kidney from display

Flickr: Petra, Jordan

Petra, Jordan, originally uploaded by Yaatra.

Link for 2007-01-07

• Health Guidelines Suggested for Models - New York Times

Links for 2007-01-06

• MAKE: Blog: The Secret life of Machines - videos
• David's Random Stuff: Medical Reference Services Quarterly Podcasting Articles
• University of Virginia Health System Health Sciences Podcast
  Podcasts are an exciting addition to the Lecture Series this year. Think of podcasts as an audio version of a magazine subscription.

Warren Ellis Reports for Reuters on Second Life

From Second Life Sketches: Two Worlds - Fame and Infamy:

It’s the biggest digital art installation in the world, the size of eight Manhattan Islands, but there are never more than 20,000 people there at the same time. It’s an instant messaging system, a software-coding environment, a design platform for 3-D architecture, an online community, and, conceivably, the germ of the next generation of computer operating systems. It’s called Second Life.

Links for 2007-01-05

• Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in People With Diabetes Mellitus: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association -- Buse et al. 115 (1): 114 -- Circulation
• Lawrence Lessig - On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code - Google Video
• Amazon.com: Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present: Cory Doctorow
• Clinical Cases and Images - Blog: Echocardiograms and Cases on YouTube
• Lilly Settles With 18,000 Over Zyprexa - New York Times
  Eli Lilly agreed yesterday to pay up to $500 million to settle 18,000 lawsuits from people who claimed they had developed diabetes or other diseases after taking Zyprexa, Lilly's drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
• Interview with Burton Rose of UpToDate
  Burton D. Rose, MD, is founder and editor-in-chief of UpToDate.

Links for 2007-01-04

• Getting Things Done Roundup - Lifehacker
• Techdirt: $60 Gets You A New Medical Record And Free Foot Amputation
  One 57-year-old Florida woman found that after her identity was stolen, the information was used to pay for a costly foot amputation.
• Airline Employees Say They Saw UFO
  "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said.
• Eye of Science: Microscopic Photos
• New England Journal of Medicine Audio Summary for January 4, 2007
  Featured are articles on a five-gene signature and survival in non–small-cell lung cancer, multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium associated with pet rodents...

Links for 2007-01-03

• 2006 top facts ... American Medical News
  Here is a look back at the year just past, as reflected in our own selection of the most interesting or noteworthy fact from each issue.
• In Atlanta, Medical Sleuths of Last Resort (CDC) - New York Times
• True Gotham: Neighborhoods: The Upper West Side

Kidney Stolen from 'Bodies' Exhibition

Via the Seattle PI:

Seattle police are investigating the theft of a kidney from "Bodies ... The Exhibition" -- the collection of preserved human corpses on display...

Mindmap of Treatment of High Potassium (Hyperkalemia) and Protein in the Urine (Proteinuria)

I've been experimenting with using MindManager as an educational tool. (The Wikipedia article on mindmaps is here.) This is a map I drew today for the nephrology fellows (click on the image for full resolution).

For more lifehacks for healthcare, innovations, and best practices, see The Efficient MD.

(This post is for informational purposes only. Please see the disclaimer.)

Links for 2007-01-02

• The weirdest science stories of 2006 - MSNBC.com
• Clinical Cases and Images - AskDrWiki -- A Collaborative Medical Encyclopedia
• NPR : Arabic Moves to the Head of the Language Classes
  The federal government is increasing funding for teaching foreign languages in school, particularly those considered critical for national security. [Features Steven Berbeco, a friend.]
• New Scientist's most popular stories of 2006
  These were the ones you clicked on the most – from "Earth without people", to stunning shots of Mars and the most impressive of sexual ornaments.
• Imaging pinpoints brain regions that 'see the future'
  Human memory, the ability to recall vivid mental images of past experiences, has been studied extensively for more than a hundred years. But until recently, there's been surprisingly little research into cognitive processes underlying...
  

Trend Blend 2007 Map

Via The Future Exploration Blog: Trend map for 2007 and beyond:

Given it’s festive season now, it’s probably time for a bit of fun. Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have collaborated in producing a map of major trends for 2007 and beyond, across ten segments: society culture, government politics, work business, media communications, science technology, food drink, medicine well-being, financial services, retail leisure, and transport automotive.

Mindmap of Natural Planning Model for Projects (from "Getting Things Done")

Links for 2007-01-01

• Hilarious Journal Articles #75: Deal in the womb: Fetal opiates, parent-offspring conflict, and the future of midwifery
  This paper argues that parent-offspring conflict is mediated by placental β-endorphins in placental mammals, i.e., foetuses make their mothers endorphin-dependent then manipulate them to increase nutrient allocation to the placenta.
• Getting Things Done: MindManager Presentation
  In this fast paced, information rich hour, David Allen creates a mindmap of the core elements of GTD best practices to increase your productivity.
• Down testing advised in all pregnancies | Chicago Tribune
  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists this week begins recommending that every pregnant woman, regardless of age, be offered a choice of tests for Down syndrome.
• Clinical Cases and Images: My 'Best' Blog Posts of 2006
  I am not sure if these are really the "best" posts on this blog for 2006 but I sometimes find them useful for my "Web 2.0 in Medicine" presentations and decided to collect them in one place:
• Top 10 Issues in Hospital Medicine in 2006
  Notes from Dr. RW has compiled a list of the Top 10 Issues in Hospital Medicine in 2006.
• Health Care Problem? (Single Payer System) - New York Times
• For Better Health Care, Work Across Lines - New York Times
  [Some important errors, like confusing "nurses" and "nurse practitioners," but an interesting read.]
• Saddam's Execution Video Makes it to Google Video, YouTube, Revver - Mashable
  It's a sign of the times that cameraphone footage of Saddam Hussein's execution - including the aftermath as he hangs from the noose - has made its way to video sharing sites.
• Heise Security - Looking in the crystal ball: 2007 in retrospect
  2007 was the year of the super bots: Never before has malicious software been equipped with so many functions that help it to hide from antivirus software and to resist removal.
• The Daily Gadget Blog
• Snagit 8 Screen Capture Software
• Flickr: New Year's Eve

New Year: Sydney

Happy new Year, originally uploaded by GeneraLNinja.