Healthline Blogs
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Grand Rounds is Up
Grand Rounds, this week's best posts of the medical blogosphere, is up at Chronic Dose. Thanks for including my post on Medical Uses of the iPhone.
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Monthly Introduction to Tech Medicine
Image from WikipediaWhat'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 is...
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Does hop flavonol glycoside from beer really alleviate allergy & hay fever symptoms?
Sapporo Breweries Ltd., and Sapporo Beverages Co., Ltd. today announced that they:have proven that Sapporo beer is effective in mitigating hay fever symptoms. Hop flavonol glycoside extracted from the beer prevents histamine, an allergy-inducing s...
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Grand Rounds Volume 3 Number 1 Happy Anniversary
Grand Rounds 3.1 Happy AnniversaryWelcome to the second anniversary of the weekly roundup of the best blog writing among health and medical writers. We’ve come a long way since Nick Genes started this weekly review as a forum of physicians writin...
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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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The Unlikely Saga of a Medical Checklist
Checklist are hardly what you'd consider high-tech medicine. Yet in certain situations, they might be more effective than the newest drugs or devices.In the New Yorker, Atul Gawande describes a study designed by Dr Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins...
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Dealing with Information Overload
Information overload is an occupational hazard of practicing medicine, especially if you spend time online. There's too much potentially useful stuff out there for one person to process effectively: journals, news sites, RSS feeds, wikis, blogs, w...
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Roche Diagnostics CoaguChek PT Test Strips Nationwide Recall
Roche Diagnostics CoaguChek PT test strips have been recalled due to the potential of reporting falsely elevated protime (INR) test results, which indicate a patient's blood is thinner than it actually is. If actions were taken to decrease the do...
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Children's Health First Aid Kits
A friend of mine recently asked what I'd put in my children's first aid kit. Here's what I have (or want to have in it).• 2 weeks of any prescription medication, including an epipen junior if allergic to the the point of being anaphylactic (a sev...
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Healthline's Been Nominated for a Webby!
Image via WikipediaHealthline.com has been nominated for a Webby award in the "health" category!To vote for Healthline for the "People's Voice Award," simplyLog on to http://peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com/.Register to vote (or log in if you are a re...
