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 'clusters'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:42 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831527&cid=t_104662_136_f&fid=36162&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myelomablog.com%2F2010%2F08%2F06%2Fincidence-of-myeloma-by-country%2F Paula just added an interesting post here: http://feresaknit.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/whys-africa-not-red/ Our toxic environments have a lot to do with why we got myeloma. (see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090813142148.htm) From the maps linked in Paula’s blog, you can see that the industrialized countries have more MM in their populations. There’s some information to be found on myeloma cancer clusters by googling: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=meyloma+cancer+clusters&aq=f&aqi=m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=ea2cd8eab02d18af I’ve been really lazy about posting these days.  There’s a lot going on. (Source: beth's myeloma blog) beth's myeloma blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831527 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:51:18 +0100 3831527 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3048174&cid=t_104662_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F12%2F01%2Floneliness-may-be-contagious%2F A year ago, nearly exactly to the date, researcher Nicholas Christakis and colleagues released a study demonstrating how our moods might be contagious within our social network (sorry, this research pertains primarily to traditional social networks; it’s not known whether it’s generalizable to online social networks). Specifically, Christakis found that happiness is a little contagious within our small group of friends and family. That old study found that “when a person becomes happy, a friend living close by has a 25 percent higher chance of becoming happy themselves. A spouse experiences an 8 percent increased chance and for next-door neighbors, it’s 34 percent.” In other words, happiness can be a little contagious. Today, we discover the logical extension... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3048174 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:01:59 +0100 3048174 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1057556&cid=t_104662_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Falzheimers-association-brain-tour.html Understanding Alzheimer's is made easy for everyday people who don't have medical backgrounds by the Brain Tour at the Alzheimer's Association. A series of illustrations that a layperson can understand show the difference between looking at a healthy brain and a brain with Alzheimer's. Illustration #8 shows a brain without nerve cell loss or tissue loss next to the brain with changes from Alzheimer's. A picture of healthy brain cells under a microscope is shown in illustration #10, compared with a picture of damaged, Alzheimer's brain cells. The abnormal clusters that build up between the cells is easy to see in the Alzheimer's brain. The tangled strands in the photo of the Alzheimer's brain are easy for a layperson to see, especially compared with the healthy brain in the microscopic pict... The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1057556 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:11:00 +0100 1057556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486215&cid=t_104662_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F03%2F05%2Fvirtual_bioinformatics_clusters_with_ec2 Compute Cluster: DSC00179 © Jordan Thevenow-Harrison / CC I few months ago I was trying to track down information about Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, pay-as-you-go virtual clustering service. At the time Declan Butler had emailed me asking about the feasibility of running bioinformatics applications on EC2. My investigation of EC2 for bioinformatics applications turned up very little at the time, today however Andrew Perry has posted an analysis on the feasibility of EC2 for running mpiBLAST. If you're into bioinformatics clusters (of course) then go read it right away, if you've considered a cluster and balked at the expense then this may be a solution. The down side is, Amazon's limited-beta for EC2 is now full. Hey Amazon, Bioinformatics is a growing market, might pay to help And... nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486215 Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:53:17 +0100 486215