Links for 2007-03-27

• Nurse Linkup - online nursing community
• yourminis.com - health 2.0

Links for 2007-03-26

• NEJM beta: Audio Article
  A recording of the full text of "Intermittent Claudication."

iPods help docs improve stethoscope skill

Via EurekAlert:

During a single 90-minute session, 149 general internists listened 400 times to five common heart murmurs including aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation and innocent systolic murmur. Previous studies have found the average rate of correct heart sound identification in physicians is 40 percent. After the session, the average improved to 80 percent.

http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/1-26-06/normal.mp3

http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/1-26-06/murmur.mp3

http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/1-26-06/lesson.mp3

Links for 2007-03-25

• Woman found guilty of antifreeze murder - CNN.com
  In neither case, apparently, did they have the obvious metabolic acidosis characteristic of ethylene glycol intoxication. (?)

Links for 2007-03-22

• Google Says: "Everybody gets an EMR!" - Medgadget
• Doctors' Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View - New York Times
• Practice Fusion
  Providing free electronic medical records systems supported by Google ads.

Links for 2007-03-20

• Bruce Sterling's SXSW Rant

Flickr: Buenos Días / Good Morning

Buenos días / Good Morning, originally uploaded by MMXXI.

Links for 2007-03-10

• TEDTalks (audio, video) -- Technology, Entertainment, Design
  "Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses."

YouTube: Sneezing Panda

Links for 2007-03-08

• GruntDoc: MedBlogs Grand Rounds 3:24

Tekturna Approved by FDA

Via the New York Times:

The Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis said Tuesday that it had received United States approval for the hypertension drug Tekturna, a potential blockbuster that is the first new type of blood pressure medicine in more than a decade. Approval from the Food and Drug Administration makes the United States the first country to allow it to be sold. The drug is expected to reach American pharmacies later this month, the company said. Given in tablets, it acts by inhibiting renin, an enzyme secreted primarily by the kidneys that raises blood pressure.

Links for 2007-03-05

• Flickr: "Decay"
  "We found 125,397 photos matching decay."
• LibriVox » The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  Free audio download of the origin of species.
• Clinical Cases and Images: Free Procedure Guides for Pocket PC/Windows Mobile and Palm

Flickr: Lunar Eclipse

IMG_2934_pp, originally uploaded by maxcube.

Links for 2007-03-04

• NEJM -- Vancomycin-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia
  
• New York On Tap - Virtual skyline blog add on

Links for 2007-03-03

• Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule --- United States, October 2006--September 2007
• Adobe to take Photoshop online | CNET News.com
  Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.

Visualization of "Map of Science"

Via information aesthetics:

a beautiful highly sophisticated "Map of Science", constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) into 776 different scientific paradigms (red circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. links (curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every other: thus the layout derives directly from the data. larger paradigms have more papers. labels list common words unique to each paradigm.

Flickr: Blue and Rust

Blue and Rust, originally uploaded by Auntie P.

Chronic Kidney Disease Present in 16.8% of U.S. Population

Via the CDC:

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious condition associated with premature mortality, decreased quality of life, and increased health-care expenditures. Untreated CKD can result in end-stage renal disease and necessitate dialysis or kidney transplantation. Risk factors for CKD include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity (1--3). To estimate the prevalence of CKD in the United States (overall and by health risk factors and other characteristics), CDC analyzed the most recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that 16.8% of the U.S. population aged years had CKD, according to 1999--2004 NHANES data, compared with 14.5% from the 1988--1994 NHANES (i.e., NHANES III), an increase of 15.9% based on crude estimates of prevalence* (4). Persons with diabetes or cardiovascular disease had a greater prevalence of CKD than persons without those conditions. The results underscore the need to continue surveillance for CKD and its risk factors in the United States and to implement new strategies to reduce the number of persons with this condition.

Flickr: Tagged "Decay"

Walk this way..., originally uploaded by ec808x.

Links for 2007-02-29

• Cory Doctorow's Talk on Privacy at Duke -- "From Myspace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge"
  Excellent. Entertaining. Worth a listen.