Healthline Blogs
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Vaprisol (Conivaptan) -- a Treatment for Hyponatremia (Low Blood Sodium)
Vaprisol is a newly released drug treatment for low sodium in the blood (also called "hyponatremia").First, some background. Hyponatremia is a medical condition that can have many possible causes. For various reasons, the body retains too much wat...
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Searching for Health Information Online (Part 1)
Unexpectedly, I was recently quoted in this year's Google Annual Report (page 3) on searching the medical literature. The quote was based on an interview I gave to the Google Scholar Blog where I mused about the ease of finding health information ...
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5th Annual Healthcare M&A and Corporate Development Conference
On September 24th, I'll be appearing on a panel at the 5th Annual Healthcare M&A and Corporate Development Conference. The panel topic is "Healthcare 2.0: Technology & Healthcare Services of the Future." I'll be speaking on online communit...
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Eavesdrop on Doctors and Medical Students on Twitter
Here's a feed containing the conversations of all known doctors and medical students who use Twitter: http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorsontwitter. (If that doesn't work, you can try the original feed from Yahoo Pipes instead.)Technical details, f...
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Diabetes Management Via Cell Phone
Seeing CrunchGear get excited about HealthPia's upcoming offering of their Diabetes Phone seemed premature. It's a great idea, consisting of an integrated glucometer that checks a diabetic's blood sugar, uploads it to an online data center, and o...
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Test Detects 12 Types of Respiratory Viruses
Talk about a "shotgun workup" -- this is a test which simultaneously looks for presence of 12 viruses that infect the human respiratory tract.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the xTAG Respiratory Viral Panel, which with a si...
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24 Hours of Flickr on 05.05.2007 to Benefit Doctors without Borders
From Flickr: It's coming! 24 Hours of Flickr: A global Flickr community eventWhat happens around the world in one day? In a word – life. Here on Flickr, our members are sharing the world that they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, te...
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Come Grab a Cuppa Joe with Kim of Emergiblog at Grand Rounds
Once a week, health bloggers from around the world contribute to Grand Rounds, a roundup of the best that the blogosphere has to offer in regards to health and medicine. This week, Kim from Emergiblog has continued on her tear (recently hosting 2...
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Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
What's this blog all about?My goal in Tech Medicine will be to explore the intersection of medicine, new technologies, and the Internet. This is a purposefully broad topic. Several times weekly I will post focused reviews of issues interesting to ...
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Tech Medicine Links for 7.20.8
Image via WikipediaFreeMD. A virtual emergency room physician. From the website:Hi, I’m Dr. Stephen Schueler, an emergency room physician, and your virtual doctor. Type a symptom or condition into the box and a menu will appear. If you select a t...
