Category Archives: medicine

topics medical in nature

Healthywomen.org

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

Healthywomen.org is owned by the National Women’s Health Resource Center, Inc., (NWHRC). The NWHRC is a nonprofit 501c(3) organization that serves as the national clearinghouse for women’s health information. All content contained within is original content, reviewed and approved for … Continue reading →

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mutter museum

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Marie Kennedy

Dave and I finally checked out the Mutter Museum, in Philadelphia.  It’s a museum inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which is housed in a terrifically old and beautiful building.  The museum is full of medical specimens and implements.  … Continue reading →

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the launch of PubDrug

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Marie Kennedy

Last week I mentioned that Stewart Brower had proposed an open access pharmacy tool that would replace the usual suspects at point-of-care. Well, he did it! PubDrug is up and running at http://www.smbrower.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page. Be sure to check it out and … Continue reading →

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Doctors turn to Google for tricky cases

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Marie Kennedy

Snip from this news article in the Guardian: The doctors concluded that: “In difficult diagnostic cases, it is often useful. Web-based search engines such as Google are becoming the latest tools in clinical medicine, and doctors in training need to … Continue reading →

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NLM’s Historical Anatomies

Posted on November 10, 2006 by Marie Kennedy

A really great collection of scanned images from historical atlases on anatomy may be viewed at NLM’s site. My favorite atlas is Adriaan van Spiegel and Giulio Casseri’s De humani corporis fabrica libri decem, where the figures are dissected and … Continue reading →

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put a little seratonin in me

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Marie Kennedy

i saw the “paxilback” video (parody of justin timberlake’s “sexyback”) a couple weeks back and just watched it again; still hilarious. lyric snip: i’m bringing paxil back. generic brands just don’t know how to act. i popped a couple with … Continue reading →

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