MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'berci'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:55:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4592435&cid=t_233426_105_f&fid=36987&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FIvorKovicMd%2F%7E3%2Fbzt0MpEViao%2F My dear colleague dr. Bertalan Mesko, better known as Berci, who just happens to be one of the best medical bloggers out there, has recently published his own smartphone app. You see, apart from running a super successful blog called ScienceRoll, Berci is the founder and managing director of Webicina, a site that has been helping physicians enter the web 2.0 era and empowering patients to find medically reliable content online. Webicina curates online medical resources in social media for free in over 15 languages in over 80 medical specialties and conditions, and is now also available on the phone near you. Webicina mobile application makes it easier to access these selected resources on smartphones and also includes a Health 2.0 Quiz which was designed to help empowered patients and medi... Ivor Kovic, M.D. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4592435 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:50:53 +0100 4592435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495206&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fapp-tracking-the-flu%2F2011.02.18 As a part of the TheraFlu campaign, Novartis has developed free Android, Blackberry and iPhone applications for tracking flu outbreaks in the U.S. These days it’s become inevitable to develop free apps on all platforms in order to promote your product. From Novartis: Keep up-to-date on the most active cold and flu reports around the country. The WheresFlu™ app follows sickness incidence levels from week to week and keeps track of the current top 5 affected cities in the nation. The WheresFlu™ app will find your current location and provide you with results for that area. Or you can enter a ZIP code to get information for that area. If you’re wondering how it actually works and how it differs from Google Flu Trends, here it is: WheresFlu™ measures weekly activity for cold ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495206 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:00:39 +0100 4495206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4411524&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fteleporting-the-dna-of-hiv%2F2011.01.28 Luc Montagnier received the 2008 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but now he’s come up with a more-than-strange theory. He thinks DNA can teleport from one tube to another via electromagnetic signals. Is this the so-called “Nobel disease?” French virologist Luc Montagnier stunned his colleagues at a prestigious international conference when he presented a new method for detecting viral infections that bore close parallels to the basic tenets of homeopathy. Although fellow Nobel prize winners — who view homeopathy as quackery — were left openly shaking their heads, Montagnier’s comments were rapidly embraced by homeopaths eager for greater credibility. Montagnier told the conference last week that solutions containing the DNA o... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4411524 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:35 +0100 4411524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4360976&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-a-song-can-get-you-high%2F2011.01.18 According to a new study in Nature Neuroscience, there are songs that can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving by endogenous dopamine release in the striatum: If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued. These results further speak to why music can be effectively used in rituals, marketing or film to manipulate hedonic states. Our findings provide neurochemical evidence that intense emotional responses to music involve ancient reward circuitry and serve as a starting point for more detailed investigations of the biological substrates that underlie abstract forms of pleasure. According to study author Robert Zatorre, one of those songs is “Adagio For Strings” by DJ Tie... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4360976 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:00:55 +0100 4360976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4318332&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fbad-science-and-the-gift-of-medical-skepticism%2F2011.01.06 Discover magazine had an article about Dr. Ben Goldacre, a British physician who writes for The Guardian, is the author of the new book “Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks,” and is considered a gift to skepticism. His column is also called “Bad Science,” and he recently gave a short and interesting talk about non-evidence-based medicine at the Pop!Tech conference held in Camden, Maine. Enjoy! Ben Goldacre Talks Bad Science from PopTech on Vimeo. *This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4318332 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:00:52 +0100 4318332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302858&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fglobal-health-communication-the-top-10-in-2010%2F2011.01.01 From Blog 4 Global Health — an “interactive blog from the Global Health Council’s Policy, Research and Advocacy team” — here’s The Top 10 in 2010 Global Health Communication. An excerpt: If global health communication was characterized by anything in 2010, it was the rise of Twitter and other social media among non-profit organizations as a way of bypassing increasingly irrelevant traditional media and taking their messages directly to their target groups. From the Global Health Council, we saw more and more of our members — large and small — embracing new media like blogging, micro-blogging and social networks like Facebook. At the year’s last meeting of our Global Health Communicators Working Group in November, I asked for a show of hands of those w... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302858 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 20:00:28 +0100 4302858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4285199&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscienceroll.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fhealthmash_iphone_app_screen_shot2.png HealthMash, WebLib’s next-generation semantic health search engine, will release an iPhone application in January. It utilizes proprietary natural language processing and semantic technology tools and resources in order to find highly relevant, reliable, and recent health information from the most trusted sources and facilitate user exploration and discovery. *This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4285199 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:00:26 +0100 4285199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265741&cid=t_233426_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-is-telebaby%2F2010.12.16 There are more and more premature babies, and the situation for their parents is dramatic. They would love to be with their newborn 24 hours a day, but in most cases they obviously can’t. At the Dutch UMC Ultrecht, they’ve launched a project under the name Telebaby, in which cameras were installed at the incubators and parents can watch their child live 24 hours a day — even through a mobile device. The system is password protected, of course, so only the parents can access the specific video channels. Isn’t it great? A very human but not that expensive idea — a really Dutch approach. *This blog post was originally published at ScienceRoll* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265741 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:22 +0100 4265741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2305999&cid=t_233426_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fall-presentations-of-zorg-20.html | Get your Presentation Pack The Zorg 2.0 (Health2.0) Event in Nijmegen was a great success. The range of talks and perspectives was very broad, but also gave a number of specific good examples of good practice in Health2.0 projects. Have a look at the presentations and you will see how to make healtcare more transparant and make the best use of web 2.0 tools to enhance communication and interaction between patient and healtcare professionals. Arrange the care around the patients and not around the doctors. Train your staff to deal with, to engage and emerge in this vision of healthcare. Choose your applications wisely to get, use, adapt or even create your own best applied use of it in your organization. It is not about the tools, but about the whole process and workflow around hea... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2305999 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:29:00 +0100 2305999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1162032&cid=t_233426_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fksdescartin.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F18%2F8-am-stop-for-medicine-20-blog-carnival%2F First off, I’d like to thank Berci Mesko of Scienceroll for inviting me to host the 17th Edition of Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival. His work on organizing information and translating it to all of us as a fun read in his blog is remarkable. I am personally learning a lot and getting personally updated on the new “stuff” because of this. Next, thanks to Jeoffrey Leow of Monash Medical Student for hosting the 16th Edition. For those who have submitted over the weeks, thanks and see you all this Sunday the 20th. I will be putting up this week’s final Carnival post at 8 a.m. Central Time (Houston, Texas). I am still open for submissions till the 19th, Saturday at 8 a.m. Central Time. You may use this submission form. All the best! (Source: the story of healing) the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1162032 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:11:12 +0100 1162032