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(This is the last post of 2007.  I’m not addicted to blogging.  I mean it.  I can stop any time I want!)
MedlinePlus has a new page on Health Literacy with links to lots of good stuff.

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THIS is absolutely the last thing I’ll post in 2007. I’m not kidding around here.
I just now discovered that Rachel nominated this blog in the Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Weblog category of the 2007 Medical Weblog Awards.

I don’t stand a snowball’s chance, but that was awfully nice of her.
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(Okay, okay…THIS will be my last post of 2007)
So, among the things I get to do at MLA 2008 is present with Patricia Anderson (whose stuff online is simply wonderful but whom I’ve never met and won’t meet until just before we present) about the application of “Web 2.0″ technologies and “social software” in medical […]

Okay …THIS is the last post of 2007.

NameThatDisease.com will rank you based on a quiz about well-known diseases. Some of the clues may just be trivia…but I still thought it was fun- and I scored “Hawkeye Pierce.” (Woohoo!)

Given that, I can’t imagine that a physician would score lower than Doogie Howser.
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Last post of 2007. Really.
A survey was undertaken in 2007 in the US by the MLA Social Networking Software Task Force investigating use of collaborative/social networking tools and services. Results from the original survey of MLA members are reported at the Task Force on Social Networking Software blog.
Libraries Using Evidence - eblip.net.au […]

It seems to me that every time I say that I’m going to take a break from (or reduce the frequency of) my blogging, I make myself a liar shortly thereafter. This time I’ll choose my words more carefully:
I have a lot to do between now and January 2nd and need to focus on […]

A YouTube user going by the handle of “TVLibrarian” is collecting and posting short clips of librarians and libraries from popular television programs. Neat!
I love this one:

Although I’ve never heard of of a public library volunteer being called a “docent”…
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The librarians at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio have recently rolled out a new blog called Staying Well. Connected.
This blog is a project of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library. Its purpose is to foster the exchange of community health information in South Texas and US-Mexico border communities.

Why […]

In reference to the medical library search engine, Martha Hardy wrote:
Hi David-
Thanks for putting together this useful custom search engine. Is it available as a Google gadget? It would be handy to add this to an iGoogle page.
Martha
Here y’go, Martha. Just click on this Add to Google thingee:

Want to add it to […]

Previously mentioned here, The Visible Body is now available for you to try. Free after registration.

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Michelle Nguyen over at HippocraTech posted about a couple of places online to search for info about clinical trials: ClinicalTrials.gov and CenterWatch. Below are a few additional online resources.

I wrote a little about Healia’s PubMed/MEDLINE interface, but didn’t write up Healia’s interface for searching ClinicalTrials.gov. The filters Healia offers could be handy, but […]

It’s at the University of Saskatchewan Medical Education Blog.

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Becky Jerome points to this fun video in which The Brain teaches us about the anatomy of the brain through song.

Confession: I own Animaniacs soundtracks and DVDs. I love the music and I thought the Wheel of Morality was a riot.

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Yay!
I get to go to the MLA 2008 Annual Meeting and I’m awfully excited about it.
More details later, but right now I’m looking for advice from you. I’d especially looking for thoughts from those who plan to attend, but I’d also love to hear from physicians and other health care professionals.
I’m going to be […]

This article points us to RadiologyInfo.org, a consumer-oriented site for information about radiology.
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J Am Coll Radiol. 2007 Nov;4(11):809-15.
RadiologyInfo: reaching out to touch patients.
Ellenbogen PH, Tashjian JH.
[PubMed]
RadiologyInfo is a public information Web site created and maintained as an unprecedented joint collaborative effort of the Radiological Society of North America and the American College of Radiology. Conceived […]

Medical Librarian Julie Smith points to this video about the Cochrane Collaboration.

Cool!
These Cochrane Podcasts are new to me, too. You can subscribe to them with this link: http://cochrane.org/podcasts/brasil/rss/plenary_all_sessions.rss

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My friend Dan Mohr pointed out that there are a whole bunch of “year’s best” lists collected here.
I was particularly excited to see the lists of best DVDs and best films which will no doubt influence my Netflix queue- and many libraryfolk will be excited to see the huge collection of best books lists.

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I’m NOT obsessed with television just because I wrote about House MD, the writers strike, and now Scrubs. I’m not. Really.
…Oh, shut up and give me the remote.
The TV show Scrubs mentioned tonight both online rating of physicians and patients who rely on health information from Wikipedia.
Dr. Cox: So you’re declining chemo because […]

I haven’t decided yet if this third party PubMed tool will prove to be of any practical use to me, but I had fun playing with it.
In the screen capture below, you can see where I asked the tool to count up all the records in PubMed containing the string “internet” and compare the counts […]

A few days ago I made a Google Custom Search Engine for searching the Web sites of medical libraries.
Connie Schardt pointed out that it could be useful for finding handouts, tutorials and other teaching materials. Here are some ideas on how this might be done.

Say you’re looking for PowerPoint presentations about Evidence based medicine. […]