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If you’re looking for an excellent introduction to Nature’s social bookmarking service for scientists, check out Melissa Rethlefsen’s review in the April 2008 JMLA. [HTML] [PDF]

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J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Apr;5(4):593-7.
Quality of CT colonography-related web sites for consumers.
Sheran J, Dachman AH.
Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
PURPOSE: Patients often request to undergo computed tomographic colonography (CTC) from radiologists or referring physicians on the basis of their personal examination of information on the Web. Therefore, the authors […]

Wikis in HIM education:
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2008 Jan 30;5:1. (Free full text: HTML | PDF)
Using wiki in an online record documentation systems course.
Harris ST, Zeng X.
College of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, USA.
We report a case study using a wiki tool, Confluence, including a brief history, current status, and […]

Med Teach. 2008;30(1):10-16.
‘Net Generation’ medical students: technological experiences of pre-clinical and clinical students.
Kennedy G, Gray K, Tse J.
University of Melbourne, Australia.
Background: While institutions have been keen to integrate information and communication technologies into medical education, little is known about the technological experiences of the current cohort of so-called ‘Net Generation’ students. Aims: This study investigated […]

MScanner: a classifier for retrieving Medline citations
Graham L Poulter, Daniel L Rubin, Russ B Altman and Cathal Seoighe
BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:108doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-108
Published: 19 February 2008
Free full text: [PDF]
Article is about a third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tool that I have not been able to make work, MScanner.
[Other posts about third-party PubMed/MEDLINE tools]

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More about online consumer cancer information
Cancer Invest. 2008 Mar;26(2):202-7.
Internet health resources and the cancer patient.
Huang GJ, Penson DF.
Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA.
The last decade has witnessed an explosion of online information regarding cancer and healthcare. Accompanying this has been a large body of research […]

On the internet and patient education:
Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2008 Jan;12(1):55-63.
The internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?
Anderson AS, Klemm P.
James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.
The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex […]

Geekiest Article Title in PubMed to Date!
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2008 Feb;34(1):237-41.
R34d1ng w0rd5 w1th numb3r5.
Perea M, Duñabeitia JA, Carreiras M.
Departamento de Metodologia, Facultad de Psicologia.
Letter identities and number identities are usually thought to imply different cortical mechanisms. Specifically, the left fusiform gyrus responds more to letters than to digits (T. A. Polk et […]

I didn’t seek to have a theme for this installment of WGiRL, it just happened.

Geez, what an odd choice of metaphor for the title. I mean, if one kept one’s arrow in one’s quiver in the first place…
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Sex Transm Dis. 2008 Feb;35(2):117-8.
Internet partner notification: another arrow in the quiver.
Hogben M, Kachur R.
Division of STD […]

Big day for me. My Electronic Resources Review of BioWizard was published in the JMLA.
BioWizard
David L. Rothman
J Med Libr Assoc. 2008 January; 96(1): 74. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.96.1.74.
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Of course, I just realized that BioWizard has significantly changed its interface since I wrote the review. Dangit.

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Items that have recently caught my attention:
Of particular note for nephrologists and those who support them.

Adv Chronic Kidney Dis. 2008 Jan;15(1):73-82.
The internet as a tool for the renal community.
Buettner K, Fadem SZ .
American Association of Kidney Patients, Tampa, FL, USA.
The Internet has impacted health care. With the introduction of the personal health record (PHR), patients […]

(What do y’all think of this as a regular feature on this blog?)

I’ll Google That.
AORN J. 2007 Dec;86(6):933-5
Authors: Hamlin L
PMID: 18068397
I haven’t read the whole article yet1, but the European Medical Libraries blog has some excerpts:
“There is no doubt that information and communication are the very essence and heart of Google; however, unlike the majority […]

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 […]