Elsevier, a leading publisher of over 400 medical and scientific journals serving more than 30 million scientists, students and health and information professionals worldwide, has initiated a beta test program called Patient Research. The program gives patients, family members and caregivers access to medical articles to help them understand their health issues.
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting Launches Official Icons
October 29, 2007 | by
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting (BPR3) announced today the launch of its’ official icons. BPR3 was created because several academic bloggers in different fields recognized the need to distinguish serious writing on peer-reviewed research from blog posts discussing more informal topics. According the the BRP3 website:
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting strives to identify serious academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research by developing an icon and an aggregation site where others can look to find the best academic blogging on the Net.
Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services
October 14, 2007 | by
I’m hosting this weeks edition of Medicine 2.0, the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to web 2.0 and medicine.
I’ve published Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services over at the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. I’m working a project there involving web 2.0 and health, fitness and medicine, and I thought it would be a great resource to supplement the other articles being developed. I’ll fill you in on the details of the project soon.
The past two weeks were rich with medicine 2.0-related articles and there are almost 40 blog posts included in this weeks edition. I intentionally kept my comments short so that you can focus on the content of each article. I’ve organized the articles into a number of categories, including:
- Medicine 2.0, Informatics and Personal Health Records
- Web 2.0 Tools: Blogs, Video and More
- Health 2.0
- Social Health Networking
- Medical Science, Biotech and Healthcare
I hope you enjoy Medicine 2.0 #10 – Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services. The next edition of Medicine 2.0 will be hosted at The Health Wisdom Blog on Sunday, October 28th, 2007.
Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program
October 1, 2007 | by
iGuard is one of the first web-based services that allows you to get free personalized safety alerts and updates about your medications. The company claims that [1]:
… patients can feel safer because they will be sent the drug safety information they need, when they need it.
After enrollment, patients who regularly take medications can choose to receive patient-specific updates regarding the safety of their medications. Participants in iGuard will receive these updates whenever new information is learned about their medicines, allowing them to make the most informed decisions about their healthcare.
Mitosis and Meiosis
August 14, 2007 | by
Mitosis is the biological process involving chromosomal duplication and nuclear division. Mitosis is usually followed by cytokinesis, whereby the watery environment inside a cell, known as the cytoplasm, and cell membrane divide. Two identical cells are generated, each having the same number of chromosomes as the parental cell. Somatic cells (meaning any cell that is not a germline cell) undergo mitosis while germ cells (cells destined to become sperm or eggs) divide by a related process called meiosis.
