Tech Medicine Links for 10.28.9

Hello Health. Jay Parkinson Spoke at the Pop!Tech conference this year. Here's the video:


Jay Parkinson at Pop!Tech from Jay Parkinson on Vimeo.


Google Books. Google settles a lawsuit with the publishing companies over Google Book Search, which I've written about previously (Google Book Search and Medical Education). Via the New York Times:

Under the settlement, which is subject to court approval, the money
will be used to set up a book registry, resolve existing claims by
authors and publishers and cover legal fees. Copyright holders will
also be able to register their works and receive payment for book sales
and use by individuals and for subscriptions by libraries. Revenue from
those programs will be split between Google, the publishers and the
authors.

Translation: the ebook industry is primed to explode.

The cough. Caught on film, from the NYT:





UpToDate. Clinical Cases and Images discusses a study in which PubMed was compared with UpToDate.

A complete answer was found in 53% questions sent to PubMed or
UpToDate. A partial or full answer was obtained in 83% of UpToDate
searches and 63% of PubMed searches (p less than 0.001)...

It looks like UpToDate is gradually becoming "the universal textbook of medicine." Do you
remember the last time you opened Harrison's to consult about a clinical topic? Was that in 1997 or 2001?

Darwin Would Have Loved Botox. In Discovery Magazine, via BoingBoing:

I don’t mean that he would have been first in line at the doctor’s office
to get a needle jabbed into his famously furrowed brow. I mean that
Darwin would have loved to use Botox as a scientific tool—to eavesdrop
on the intimate conversation between the face and brain.