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Save Fred the bunny in this Flash surgery game:

Warning: Has lots of audio- adjust speakers to courteous volume level for your environment.

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Google VP Adam Bosworth blogs again on the topic of health information.
Among other things, he mentions that Google users seeking health information don’t seem to care about which sites have been “labelled” by the NLM or HON.
At Google, we have tried, as I said in an earlier post, to enlist the help of the health […]

Ali Baba is pretty neat.

Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts.
Perhaps the best way to explain what it does is with an example:
A patient with […]

(Be sure to check out the List of Medical Wikis)
I got an email a couple of weeks ago from Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Zachary Lewis. Zach was writing an article about medical Wikis (specifically about Ask Dr. Wiki) and wanted an interview.
The article came out today, and isn’t bad as a whole.

The first line, […]

FABLE = “Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction”
Why FABLE?
FABLE currently tags only genes and proteins and only normalizes human genes. This allows us to design a customized tool that is tailored specifically for this task, rather than a generalized tool such as PubMed that provides broad search capabilities with less specificity.
FABLE mines the biomedical literature […]

My friend Saul (not his real name) is a pretty capable computer user on both Windows and Macs, but not a fan of television or pop culture.
Saul recently decided to try out Mozy, an online backup service that I’ve used and liked. He noticed something weird in the EULA, though, and decided […]

Decided to keep a running list of medical Wikis that you can check out here.
Thanks to Bertalan for pointing out a few I hadn’t seen!

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From Bertalan Meskó’s ScienceRoll:
Ken Civello [of Ask Dr. Wiki] asked me whether a medical wiki created by experts could be more reliable than Wikipedia’s medical articles. Well, I don’t think so. Yes, of course, it’d be more reliable, but it’s not the point. Wikipedia’s medical entries are created and maintained by about a hundred editors […]

Sweet!
Frankie Dolan has also added a Tag Cloud built from the tags MedWorm reads from Medical Blogs.
As with Libworm’s Tag Cloud, there are five ways to view this data: Small Cloud, Storm Cloud, Popularity List and Alphabetical List.

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Two VERY cool enhancements at MedWorm, sister site of LibWorm.
First, MedWorm now indexes feeds from categorized medical blogs.

Second, the MedWorm search interface now lets you limit your search to just a subset of the feeds MedWorm indexes.

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Via LISnews, I was intrigued to learn about a petition circulating the globe for books to be published on 100% recycled paper.
I think it’s great that authors want a more environmentally responsible book industry, but perhaps they’re barking up the wrong (dead) tree when it comes to paper.
No, I’m not referring to e-books[1], I’m taking […]

I somehow missed this a few weeks ago:

I admit to having special fondness for slide #19.
This gets me thinking about how I’d present the ideas of Web/Library 2.0 to medical librarians. I think my structure and focus would be quite different. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’ll have to map […]

An updated version of ToxSeek is now available. ToxSeek is an NLM metasearch engine and clustering tool that enables the simultaneous searching of many different toxicology and environmental health information databases and Web sites.
ToxSeek enhancements include:
a new spell checker with English and medical dictionaries
the automatic inclusion of medical subject headings (MeSH) in the […]

Rachel Singer Gordon has started a meme suggesting that bibliobloggers list 5 blogs they read that aren’t library-related.
1. Running a Hospital
The President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Paul Levy posts about various aspects of hospital management.
2. Kevin, M.D.
I think that this blog is to medical bloggers what the Librarian in […]

You might remember this post about an OS X application for managing PDFs using metadata from PubMed- the application is called iPapers.
Ars Technica recently reviewed an application for OS X with some awfully similar features called Papers

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From the Papers site:
Introducing Papers…
Do you have dozens of PDF files from your favorite […]

A lot of bibliobloggers have been posting about ReleMed, but wanted to avoid doing so until I felt I understood it. ReleMed came up on MEDLIB-L recently and a good question was asked:
I tried it just now and I like that it shows a little bar graph of each articles' relevance, but […]

From the press release:

IPSWICH, Mass. & GUILFORD, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), the world’s premier database aggregator, and Newstex, the Content On Demand™ company, today announced an alliance to deliver Newstex Content On Demand™ and Newstex Blogs On Demand™ via nearly 100 EBSCO databases to customers worldwide. As part of the distribution agreement, full-text […]

Can Google make you a better doctor?
Tech Talk
Mar 2, 2007
By: Robert Lowes
Medical Economics
Includes interesting commentary on the BMJ article on “Googling for a Diagnosis” from last November.
(Previously mentioned here, here, here and here)
“The cases in the BMJ article deal with diagnoses so rare that most physicians will never make them in their lifetime,” Armstrong says. […]

I keep forgetting to mention that I get to spend this weekend (Friday-Sunday) 1/2 block off Central Park East because my lovely, clever spouse is speaking at the Historical Society.
If any NYC-based libraryfolk have suggestions about must-visit library-related destinations, please let me know? I get to NYC all too rarely and want to take […]

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Radiopaedia’s Aims:
The aim of Radiopaedia.org is to develop an online text where information is up to date and relevant to the needs of radiology staff, both registrars and consultants. In addition, the wiki format will allow discussion of topics and resolution of areas of confusion. There […]