General Healthcare News
I have posted about MDPIXX before. The company has recently changed their name to MEDTING to better reflect their desire to host and share content for collaboration. Their platform and tools allow users the opportunity to have...
Through a pathology listserv someone posted some comments to a story that appeared recently in The New Yorker entitled "A Cloud of Smoke". The story brings attention to the death of James Zadroga, New York City Homicide...
A recent publication by a group of investigators at Northwestern University led by Dr. Karl Bilimoria (not Kyle as has been reported) in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week has been getting some notice by the popular press...
Last week I spoke on a medical bloggers panel at the Medicine 2.0 Congress held in Toronto. The meeting was held at the MaRS Centre downtown near the University of Toronto campus and the University Health Network hospital sites. The MaRS...
About 4 months, I mentioned a story on Mayo Clinic establishing a group on Facebook. Since then, over 1,800 people have become "fans" and posted 48 "wall posts". While I thought this was forward thinking for my...
The Los Angeles Times (8/1, Kaplan) reports that researchers from Harvard University and Columbia University "have created the first personalized stem cells for patients with" amyotrophic lateral...
