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 'databases'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:00:23 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5077774&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2Fbxp2uKNbBzI%2F URL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/10/APA Overview and Workshop This workshop provides an overview of APA (American Psychological Association) style and where to find help with different APA resources. It provides an annotated list of links to all of our APA materials and an APA overview. It is an excellent place to start to learn about APA format. For: Anyone, Students, Students, TeachersTopics: Academia, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Life, Mental Health, OCR Level-A Psychology, Social Psychology, Teaching Psychology, Academia, WritingFeatures: Articles, File Sharing, Information, Links, Resources, e-learning, Articles, Databases, Dictionary, Information, Multimedia, Training, e-learningAPA Overview... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5077774 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:06 +0100 5077774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036281&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F6atk8blu67A%2F URL: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/287/The aim of this ‘download’ is to present the basics of mental disorders. The target population is medical students, but general public readers may also find it useful. The mental disorders form a huge, mysterious and problematic body of knowledge. For: Anyone, Consumers, Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Anger, Anxiety, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Depression, Emotional Health, Insomnia, Life, Lifestyle, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Quality of Life, Self-help, Solution Focused, Stress, Abnormal, Behaviour Management, Forensic, General Psychology, Mental Health, PsychiatryFeatures: Collaborative News, Information, Clinical Tools, Databases, Information, e-learning, ebook The aim of this ‘download&#... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036281 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:00:37 +0100 5036281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984501&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FbjbrRmU_AUk%2F URL: http://psychology.vanguard.edu/amoebaweb/Outstanding resource maintained by Douglas Degelman, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California. Features over 2000 categorized links to quality psychology content. For: Anyone, Researchers, StudentsTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Anxiety, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Depression, Eating Disorders, General Psychology, Mental HealthFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Links Outstanding resource maintained by Douglas Degelman, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California. Features over 2000 categorized links to quality psychology content. Also, lists monthly featured websites, psychologically related, of cours... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984501 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:00:13 +0100 4984501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4744840&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FEbcqXrugPxg%2F URL: http://www.minddisorders.com/The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains medical articles on mental disorders and conditions. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically. For: AnyoneTopics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Common Factors, Diagnosis, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Health Psychology, History of Psychology, Mental Health, OCR Level-A Psychology, Pediatric Depression, Psychodynamic, Social PsychologyFeatures: Articles, Databases, Glossary, e-learning The Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders contains medical articles on mental disorders and conditions. Over 150 mental disorders are organized alphabetically. Here are examples of topics of articles on our website: Learning Disorders Magnetic resonance imaging Manic episode Multisyst... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4744840 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:00:19 +0100 4744840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734450&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Flists-of-urls-are-so-1990s%2F Subtitle: “Why some projects are not worth your valuable time and skills.” Let’s wrap up this exploration of how to extract URLs associated with NAR Database articles. I’m tempted to start with the summary: don’t bother – just Google it. If you want that, skip to the end. First: forget PubMed. This query: "Nucleic Acids Res"[JOUR] "Database issue"[ISS] is all well and good except that between 1998 and 2004, the NAR Database Issue was not named “Database issue”; it just has a volume number, like the other issues. If you insist on trying to extract URLs from PubMed abstracts, be prepared for frustration. They include every valid variant imaginable (with/without a leading “http://”) and many invalid variants (b... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734450 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:08:18 +0100 4734450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4719932&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FvA8fH867OTY%2F Search by alphabetic or category listings of a myriad of test titles. You will find included in Buros’s Institute of Mental Measurements free information on 3,500 commercially available assessments. For: Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Tool Development, Psycho-education, PsychometricsFeatures: Assessment Instruments, Databases, Information, e-learningSearch by alphabetic or category listings of a myriad of test titles.  You will find included in Buros’s Institute of Mental Measurements free information on 3,500 commercially available assessments. Over 2,500 of these same assessments have been critically reviewed by the Buros Institute.  The reviews can be purchased for 15 $ a review. (Sourc... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4719932 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:00:56 +0100 4719932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642548&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F27%2Fradiation-emergency-medical-management-remm-a-great-nlm-resource-for-physicians%2F NLM’s PubMed is so well know that you almost forget NLM has a lot of other excellent resources. Of course there is NIH/NLM’s MedLine Plus, a health web site for consumers. And there is TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork, managed by TEHIP, SIS and NLM) which is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642548 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:06:52 +0100 4642548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615192&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FK2_jnK1fizk%2F URL: http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/The Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) was established in 1965 at The University of Akron to promote research in the history of psychology by collecting, cataloguing, and preserving the historical record of psychology. The central feature of the AHAP is the manuscript collection, which includes the papers of over 740 psychologists. The growth of the repository exceeded projections, both in the rate at which materials were donated and in their diversity. This expansion led in 1976 to the establishment of the Child Development Film Archives, a unit that cares for both research footage and instructional films. This expansion was followed, in 1980, by a decision to supplement the numerous unsolicited gifts of books by devoting space to the pu... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615192 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:00:29 +0100 4615192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560352&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F08%2Fdoes-interpersonal-psychotherapy-work-for-depression%2F Psychotherapy. You know, I spend a lot of time talking about it here, and it’s no wonder — it’s an effective treatment modality that too many people simply aren’t even considering. Much less using. Psychotherapy research is less likely to be biased than other types of treatment research, too, because researchers tend not to be treatment providers nor have any direct (or even indirect) financial incentives in the outcomes of their research. Sure, there remains the “publication bias” that affects all research, but generally speaking, I tend to trust psychotherapy research data more than I do most psychiatric medication research. So I was interested to read a recent meta-analysis on a specific form of psychotherapy called interpersonal psychotherapy for th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560352 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:10:08 +0100 4560352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4473053&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F14%2Fgetting-stuff-into-mongodb%2F One of the aspects I like most about MongoDB is the “store first, ask questions later” approach. No need to worry about table design, column types or constant migrations as design changes. Provided that your data are in some kind of hash-like structure, you just drop them in. Ruby is particularly useful for this task, since it has many gems which can parse common formats into a hash. Here are 3 quick examples with relevance to bioinformatics. 1. JSON JSON is a good fit for MongoDB; when you view a document (represented internally as BSON), the structure looks just the same as the original JSON. I use json/pure as in this example, which grabs expression data for a gene from the Gene Expression Atlas API: require 'open-uri' require 'json/pure' require 'mongo' db = Mongo::Conn... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4473053 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:52:41 +0100 4473053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405961&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F27%2Fapis-have-let-me-down-part-12-arrayexpress%2F The API – Application Programming Interface – is, in principle, a wonderful thing. You make a request to a server using a URL and back come lovely, structured data, ready to parse and analyse. We’ve begun to demand that all online data sources offer an API and lament the fact that so few online biological databases do so. Better though, to have no API at all than one which is poorly implemented and leads to frustration? I’m beginning to think so, after recent experiences on both a work project and one of my “fun side projects”. Let’s start with the work project, an attempt to mine a subset of the ArrayExpress microarray database. 1. Introduction ArrayExpress is an online database of microarray experiments, organised by both gene (the expression at... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405961 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:04:11 +0100 4405961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4314051&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FbhS9m1k0LMc%2F URL: http://www.mdlinx.com/psychiatry/MDLinx connects health care professionals and patients to tomorrow’s medical research article knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and health care industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and medical research solutions. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Psychiatry, VariedFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, Information, Journaling, Journals, Links, e-learning MDLinx connects health care professionals and patients to tomorrow’s medical research article knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and health care industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and medical research solutions. Established in March of 1999 in Washington, D... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4314051 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:00:45 +0100 4314051 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4139404&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F05%2Fwhat-the-world-needs-is-lists-of-entrez-database-fields%2F You know the problem. You want to qualify your NCBI/Entrez database search term using a field. For example: “autism[TIAB]“, to search PubMed for the word autism in either Title or Abstract. Problem – you can’t find a list of fields specific to that database. Now you can. Follow the links in this public Dropbox file, to see a CSV file containing name, full name and description of the fields for each Entrez database. Code to generate the files is listed below. This may or may not be the first in an occasional, irregular “what the world needs” series. #!/usr/bin/ruby require 'rubygems' require 'bio' require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' Bio::NCBI.default_email = "me@me.com" ncbi = Bio::NCBI::REST.new ncbi.einfo.each do |db| puts "Processin... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4139404 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:31:55 +0100 4139404 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4122011&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F30%2Ffindings-increasingly-novel-scientists-say%2F …was the tongue-in-cheek title of an image that I posted to Twitpic this week. It shows the usage of the word “novel” in PubMed article titles over time. As someone correctly pointed out at FriendFeed, it needs to be corrected for total publications per year. It was inspired by a couple of items that caught my attention. First, a question at BioStar with the self-explanatory title Locations of plots of quantities of publicly available biological data. Second, an item at FriendFeed musing on the (over?) use of the word “insight” in scientific publications. I’m sure that quite recently, I’ve read a letter to a journal which analysed the use of phrases such as “novel insights” in articles over time, but it’s currently eluding my sear... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4122011 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:41:17 +0100 4122011 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082026&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F19%2Fsearch-ovid-embase-and-get-medline-for-free-without-knowing-it%2F I have the impression that OVIDSP listens more to librarians than the NLM, who considers the end users of databases like PubMed more important, mainly because there are more of them. On the other hand NLM communicates PubMed’s changes better (NLM Technical Bulletin) and has easier to find tutorials & FAQs, namely at the PubMed homepage. [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082026 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:08:02 +0100 4082026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4073978&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F15%2Fmedical-information-matters-2-8-is-up%2F The new edition of Medical Information Matters (formerly Medlibs round) is up at Danielhooker.com. The main theme is “Programs in libraries or medical education”. Besides two posts from this blog (A Filter for Finding Animal Studies in PubMed” and more on the topic: An Educator by Chance) the following topics are included: a new MeSH (inclusion under [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4073978 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:00:05 +0100 4073978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3934506&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FLIhdw9qwDVw%2F URL: http://www.medicaltourismmag.com/The Medical Tourism Association ™ is the first international non-profit association made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical travel facilitators, insurance companies, and other affiliated companies and members with the common goal of promoting the highest level of quality of healthcare to patients in a global environment. For: Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Addiction, Drug Promotion, Healthcare Information Technology, Medicine, Medico-Legal, Pharmacotherapy, Substance AbuseFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Careers, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Group Management, Information, Interviews, Networking, NewsletterThe Medical Tourism Association ™ is the first international non-profit association mad... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3934506 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:00:02 +0100 3934506 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3833534&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F08%2Fmongodb-post-discussion-thoughts%2F It’s good to talk. In my previous post, I aired a few issues concerning MongoDB database design. There’s nothing like including a buzzword (“NoSQL”) in your blog posts to bring out comments from the readers. My thoughts are much clearer, thanks in part to the discussion – here are the key points: It’s OK to be relational When you read about storing JSON in MongoDB (or similar databases), it’s easy to form the impression that the “correct” approach is always to embed documents and that if you use relational associations, you have somehow “failed”. This is not true. If you feel that your design and subsequent operations benefit from relational association between collections, go for it. That’s why MongoDB provides the op... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3833534 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:21:18 +0100 3833534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3823076&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F05%2Fthe-nosql-approach-struggling-to-see-the-benefits%2F Document-oriented data modeling is still young. The fact is, many more applications will need to be built on the document model before we can say anything definitive about best practices. – MongoDB Data Modeling and Rails ISMB 2009 feed, entries by dateThis quote from the MongoDB website sums up, for me, the key problem in moving to a document-oriented, schema-free database: design. It’s easy to end up with a solution which resembles a relational database to the extent that you begin to wonder – if you should not just use a relational database. I’d like to illustrate by example. I’m currently working on a Rails application to archive entries from a FriendFeed feed in a MongoDB database and display some statistics about the feed, using Highcharts. I’ve ... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3823076 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:34:40 +0100 3823076 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761418&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrY1b7ALK7m4%2F By Jim HarperVia Adam Serwer, New York governor David A. Paterson is expected to sign a bill today doing away with data collection on people the police stop and question, but who have done nothing wrong. The Transportation Security Adminstration’s “SPOT” program—recently the subject of a scathing Government Accountability Office critique—does similar data collection about innocent people. From late May 2004 through August 2008, “behavior detection officers” referred 152,000 travelers to secondary inspection at airports. Of those, TSA agents referred 14,000 people to law enforcement, which resulted in approximately 1,100 arrests. None had links to terrorism or any threat to aviation. The data TSA collects “when observed behaviors exceed certai... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761418 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:14:49 +0100 3761418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3753878&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F2W3j8LLNhz0%2F URL: http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/default.htmThe Treatment Advocacy Center is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. The Treatment Advocacy Center promotes laws, policies, and practices for the delivery of psychiatric care and supports the development of innovative treatments for and research into the causes of severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. For: Anyone, Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Medico-Legal, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Treatment PlanningFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, Group Management, Information, Links, Networking The Treatment Advocacy Center is a national nonprofit organization dedicate... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3753878 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:00:32 +0100 3753878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3750098&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FJ-aRD8iOAg8%2F URL: http://www.coolnurse.com/This site is a guide to assist in making intelligent, informed decisions. Teens are often quite afraid and nervous when it comes to asking questions about their bodies, and their sexuality. Cool Nurse is helpful without being condescending or authoritative. Very good, interesting site, especially for teens! For: Anyone, Consumers, StudentsTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Eating Disorders, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Life, Self-help, Sexual Assault, YouthFeatures: Community and Social Networking, Databases, Information, Links, e-learning Cool Nurse was created to help today’s teen and young adult achieve and maintain a high level of health, fitness and well-being. Teenagers need to know the latest ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3750098 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:16 +0100 3750098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746809&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FfJCurh43bp0%2F URL: http://www.drugdigest.org/wps/portal/ddigestA noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site” that includes a useful feature called “Check Interactions,” in which you can list the medications (including psychotropic), over-the-counter remedies, herbs, and dietary supplements to see how they can interact with one another. For: AnyoneTopics: Clinical Psychology, Drug Promotion, Medicine, Pharmacological treatmentsFeatures: Articles, Clinical Tools, Databases, Dictionary, Drug Information, Information, Links, Research A noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site” that includes a useful feature called “Check Interactions,” in which you can list the medications (including psychotropic), ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746809 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:00:06 +0100 3746809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726634&cid=t_104217_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Finvisible-web-private-we.html Everyone knows that Google and the other search engines between them crawl, spider, and slurp up the whole internet, right? Wrong! The millions of websites that are obviously available on the internet are readily searchable, Google Bing, Yahoo, and their ilk have seen to that, we can usually find documents, pages, digital images, videos, music, and public scientific datasets at low cost, rapidly and accurately. But, that’s just the surface, there are countless resources that are simply inaccessible to search engine bots, not least emails, FTP sites, IRC, and IM. Then there is the Invisible Web, something about which I first wrote way back in the mid-1990s. The Invisible Web is the term used to describe the contents of publicly accessible databases that are revealed on a per-user basi... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726634 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:00:54 +0100 3726634 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3691022&cid=t_104217_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2FMmHPW-7YeJU%2F There are several databases that include orthology prediction for fungi. These all have pros and cons. Some are more comprehensive and have many more species. Some are curated orthologies and paralogy which should be pretty stable. Some are automated and groupings and ortholog group IDs change at each iteration. A phylogenetic approach from a Saccharomyces perspective is at PhylomeDB. Fungal Orthogroups is based on Synergy algorithm from I. Wapinski formerly of the Regev group at the Broad Institutue. Yeast gene order browser (YGOB) for Saccharomyces spp and CGOB for Candida spp. OrthoMCL database based on whole genomes, not a ton of fungi but useful starting set. Ensembl Genomes provides ortholog prediction as part of the Compara pipeline though there is a limited phylogenetic diversity ... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3691022 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:13:09 +0100 3691022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3690895&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FUTzycSrIkfQ%2F URL: http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec15.html?WT.z_section=Psychiatric%20%20DisordersMerck has created The Merck Manuals, a series of health care books for medical professionals and consumers. As a service to the community, the content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Academia, General PsychologyFeatures: Clinical Tools, Databases, Glossary, Information, Symptoms Guides, e-learning, ebook Merck has created The Merck Manuals, a series of health care books for medical professionals and consumers. As a service to the community, the content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. The Onli... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3690895 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:26:49 +0100 3690895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652470&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FWjjBHQZSfig%2F URL: http://www.workplaceviolence911.com/wpv911.jspThe Institute serves as a center for research, consulting, training, and communication. Its mission is to educate employers, unions and employees about the growing threat of violence in the workplace and how to effectively deal with it. Being prepared is your best defense. For: AnyoneTopics: Anger, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Clinical Psychology, Coaching, Depression, Emotional Health, Forensic, General Psychology, General Science, Life, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Personality disorders, Risk Assessment, Solution Focused, TraumaFeatures: Articles, Clinical Tools, DVDs and Videos, Databases, Information, Links, Multimedia, Networking, Research Tools, Training, e-learningThe Institute serves as a center for research, con... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652470 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:02:16 +0100 3652470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3644720&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F08%2Fpubmed-versus-google-scholar-for-retrieving-evidence%2F A while ago a resident in dermatology told me she got many hits out of PubMed, but zero results out of TRIP. It appeared she had used the same search for both databases: alopecea areata and diphenciprone (a drug with a lot of synonyms). Searching TRIP for alopecea (in the title) only, we found a Cochrane [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3644720 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:45:09 +0100 3644720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3567943&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FYmBrQTxSCc0%2F URL: http://www.dsm5.org/pages/default.aspxPublication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 will mark one the most anticipated events in the mental health field. As part of the development process, the preliminary draft revisions to the current diagnostic criteria for psychiatric diagnoses are now available for public review. For: Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Academia, Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Tool Development, Common Factors, Diagnosis, General Psychology, General ScienceFeatures: Assessment Instruments, Clinical Tools, Databases, Information, Research, Research Tools, Resources Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013 will ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3567943 Sat, 15 May 2010 17:00:44 +0100 3567943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3546895&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2Fhz9x6QSfukk%2F URL: https://www.giveanhour.org/skins/gah/home.aspx?mode=userGive an Hour™ is a nonprofit 501(c)(3), founded in September 2005 by Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a psychologist in the Washington, D.C., area. The organization’s mission is to develop national networks of volunteers capable of responding to both acute and chronic conditions that arise within our society. For: Anyone, Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Behaviour Management, Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, General Science, Health and Social Services, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Military, Online ConsultationFeatures: Collaborative News, Community and Social Networking, Databases, Information, Links, Networking, Online Counselling Give an Hour™ is a nonprofit 501(c)(3), founde... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3546895 Sat, 08 May 2010 17:00:24 +0100 3546895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538333&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F06%2Fmongodb-and-ubuntu-10-04%2F Fans of MongoDB and Ubuntu, rejoice. Installation just got easier, with the appearance of mongodb in the Ubuntu repositories. However – the latest version in lucid is 1.2.2, whereas you want the very latest, 1.4.2. All the instructions are here. As usual, it’s just a case of adding a line to your sources list, importing a GPG key and then: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mongodb-stable Configuration lives in /etc/mongodb.conf, databases live in /var/lib/mongodb, logging goes to /var/log/mongodb/*.log. Filed under: computing, linux Tagged: 10.04, databases, lucid, mongodb, ubuntu (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538333 Thu, 06 May 2010 05:38:40 +0100 3538333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487105&cid=t_104217_107_f&fid=35026&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheTreeOfLife%2F%7E3%2F4IB6StTr6_0%2Fyuck-rrna-databases-restrictions-on.html Well, this is annoying. I started to look at the sharing policies for data from various ribosomal RNA databases. And boy was I surprised. One database, the RDP, run out of Michigan State University has a page with information about their policies. The page says the following: By downloading data ("Data") from the Ribosomal Database Project ("RDP"), you agree as follows:Data are copyrighted by the Michigan State University Board of Trustees. You may use the Data for your own non-commercial research purposes, and may make derivatives from the Data for your own non-commercial research purposes. All other rights are reserved by Michigan State University. You may not sell the Data or any derivatives you prepare from the Data, nor may you provide the Data or derivatives you prepare to... The Tree of Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487105 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:46:56 +0100 3487105 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487128&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F0lYQjVkDkj4%2F URL: http://www.selfhelpmagazine.com/index.phpArticles, cartoons, blogs, mediation center, community discussion groups - since 1994. As licensed professionals, we bring information to your home or office, tailored to your needs through tele-seminars, eBooks and podcasts (MP3), and more. Drop in and tell us what you need. For: Consumers, Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Anger, Anxiety, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Developmental, Diagnosis, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, General Psychology, Health and Social Services, Life, Lifestyle, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Personality disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Quality of Life, Schizophrenia, Self-harm and suicide, Social Psychology, Substance ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487128 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:00:15 +0100 3487128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3457866&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FbiFWXAhG1P8%2F URL: http://www.ahpweb.org/index.htmlThe mission of AHP is to enhance the quality of human experience and to advance the evolution of human consciousness. We fulfill our mission by sponsoring, alone and with strategic partners, educational events and projects, publications, and a global Web presence. For: AnyoneTopics: Academia, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Cognitive, Emotional Health, Life, LifestyleFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Conferences, Databases, Information, Journals, Links, Research, Resources, Societal or Organizational Membership The mission of AHP is to enhance the quality of human experience and to advance the evolution of human consciousness. We fulfill our mission by sponsoring, alone and with strategic partners, educational events and projects, publicatio... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3457866 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:00:06 +0100 3457866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3456720&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FIGndz9-9Mp4%2F URL: http://users.erols.com/ksciacca/This site is designed to provide information and resources for service providers, consumers, and family members who are seeking assistance and/or education in this field. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Addiction, Anxiety, Aspergers, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, Chronic Disease, Clinical Psychology, Depression, Diagnosis, General Psychology, Mental Health, Personality disorders, Psychotherapy, Varied DisordersFeatures: Articles, Books, Chat Rooms, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Conferences, Databases, Glossary, Information, Links, Resources This site is designed to provide information and resources for service providers, consumers, and family members who are seeking assistance and/or education in this field. The ultimate... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3456720 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:00:58 +0100 3456720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3432932&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FpwXAYfn_IJk%2F URL: http://www.glitse.com/Free resources and information for GLBT communities. For: Anyone, Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Clinical Decision Making, Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Psychiatry, Psychology and the Media, Psychotherapy, Quality of Life, RelationshipsFeatures: Advertising, Databases, Information, Links, Resources, Societal or Organizational Membership, Therapist DirectoryFree resources and information for GLBT communities. GLITSE works to educate the public in order to fight the fear and hatred that are often the results of ignorance and misinformation. We offer a wealth of resources to help. Through support, education and advocacy GLITSE promotes the health and well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their fa... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3432932 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:13:12 +0100 3432932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3386911&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FqcvW5tRG_zg%2F URL: http://www.asdreams.org/The International Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Its purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information. For: Anyone, Clinicians, ResearchersTopics: Behaviour Management, Emotional Health, General Psychology, General Science, Insomnia, Life, LifestyleFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Assessment Instruments, CE Activities, Clinical Tools, Collaborative... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3386911 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:24:34 +0100 3386911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385311&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Fan-evidence-pyramid-that-facilitates-the-finding-of-evidence%2F Earlier I described that there are so many search- and EBM-pyramids that it is confusing. I described  3 categories of pyramids: Search Pyramids Pyramids of EBM-sources Pyramids of EBM-levels (levels of evidence) In my courses where I train doctors and medical students how to find evidence quickly, I use a pyramid that is a mixture of 1. and 2. [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385311 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:27:17 +0100 3385311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3327028&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2Fatluf_Ejd5Q%2F URL: http://www.something-fishy.org/Dedicated to raising awareness and providing support to people with Eating Disorders, and their loved-ones… since 1995. For: AnyoneTopics: Addiction, Eating Disorders, General Psychology, Health Promotion, Health Psychology, Life, LifestyleFeatures: Articles, Case Studies, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Conferences, Databases, Forums, Glossary, Information, Interviews, Links, Research, Therapist Directory, e-learning Dedicated to raising awareness and providing support to people with Eating Disorders, and their loved-ones… since 1995.  A pro-recovery site with help for those who suffer from Eating Disorders, with treatment centers, treatment locators, and support from those who have been there already, and are going through it... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3327028 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:33 +0100 3327028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3291975&cid=t_104217_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F_ZpmUxmMoI4%2F Next week a collection of international scientists with stakes in seeing fungal genome databases evolve and rise to meet the tide of genome data being produced and analyzed from fungi will be meeting in DC.  I am hopeful we’ll come up with some strategies and principles that can guide how this data can be more effectively managed and provided to researchers.  This includes web-based resources, tools, and simply adhering to a standardized formats for genome annotations (like GFF3), automated methods for gene ontology associations on newly annotated genomes, and integration of what I expect to be the major amount of data in the years to come: individual lab produced  genomic, ChIP, resequencing, and RNA-sequencing results. This means the integration (and sharing) of individual labs ... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3291975 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:14:18 +0100 3291975 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239620&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FWHPNnG7kCJI%2F URL: http://www.easy-dream-interpretation.com/index.htmlThis site will show you how to remember, record and analyze your dreams easily and effortlessly. It will also teach you how to use your own resources and not rely on dream dictionaries or other people to analyze your dreams for you. For: AnyoneTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, General Psychology, Mental HealthFeatures: Articles, Case Studies, Clinical Tools, Databases, Dictionary, File Sharing, Information, Journaling, Links, Mood Tracking, Personal Records Management This site will show you how to remember, record and analyze your dreams easily and effortlessly. It will also teach you how to use your own resources and not rely on dream dictionaries or other people to analyze your dreams for you. Dream analysis is best do... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239620 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:52 +0100 3239620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3216642&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FsOyaJ1tSuzY%2F URL: http://www.behavioralhealthce.com/This Behavioral Health online CE web site focuses on the biopsychosocial aspects of health and illness. For: CliniciansTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Behaviour Management, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Lifestyle, Medico-Legal, Mental Health, Psychology and TechnologyFeatures: Articles, CE Activities, Databases, Information, Links, Online Research, Training, e-learning This Behavioral Health online CE web site focuses on the biopsychosocial aspects of health and illness.  Although it provides CE courses, the unique feature is that all of the course can be read for free.  The site was developed not only for CE but also as an educational service to all health care professionals and the general publi... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3216642 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:00:31 +0100 3216642 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3208448&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FIJTao-__1mE%2F URL: http://www.dystalk.com/dysTalk provides information to parents regarding learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and ADHD. For: ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Attachment, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Health and Social Services, Life, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Self-help, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, YouthFeatures: Articles, Databases, Forums, Glossary, Information, Links, e-learningdysTalk provides information to parents regarding learning difficulties including dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and ADHD. So, what is dysTalk? Launched in September 2008, dysTalk is an information-sharing social enterprise devised by Will Orr-Ewing and Josh Pull. Our five-word mantra for the project is “helping your child learn better.” It&#821... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3208448 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:00:17 +0100 3208448 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3163976&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F12%2Fa-new-twist-on-the-identifier-mapping-problem%2F Yesterday, Deepak wrote about BridgeDB, a software package to deal with the “identifier mapping problem”. Put simply, biologists can name a biological entity in any way that they like, leading to multiple names for the same object. Easily solved, you might think, by choosing one identifier and sticking to it, but that’s apparently way too much of a challenge. However, there are times when this situation is forced upon us. Consider this code snippet, which uses the Bioconductor package GEOquery via the RSRuby library to retrieve a sample from the GEO database: require "rubygems" require "rsruby" if ENV['R_HOME'].nil? ENV['R_HOME'] = "/usr/lib/R" end r = RSRuby.instance r.library("GEOquery") sample = r.getGEO("GSM434143"... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3163976 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:57:02 +0100 3163976 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3156509&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FWflDhCvAlgo%2F URL: http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.htmlThis hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call “the psychology of cyberspace” - or simply “cyberpsychology.” For: AnyoneTopics: Academia, Educational PsychologyFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Links, Online Research, e-learning, ebook This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call “the psychology of cyberspace&#8... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3156509 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:00:52 +0100 3156509 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3133640&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FHjM_LTHsXmY%2F URL: http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed., 2010) and the APA Style web site (http://www.apastyle.org/) provide a comprehensive reference guide to writing using APA style, organization, and content. For: StudentsTopics: WritingFeatures: Databases, Information, Resources The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed., 2010) and the APA Style web site (http://www.apastyle.org/) provide a comprehensive reference guide to writing using APA style, organization, and content. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3133640 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:34 +0100 3133640 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089345&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F_bnNaVYIFXE%2F URL: http://www.edap.org/The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent eating disorders and provide treatment referrals to those suffering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder and those concerned with body image and weight issues. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Abnormal, Addiction, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Eating Disorders, General Psychology, General Science, Life, Lifestyle, Self-harm and suicide, Self-help, Varied Disorders, Varied TreatmentsFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Clinical Tools, Collaborative News, Databases, Glossary, Information, Links, Research, e-learning The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest not-for-profit organization in the U... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089345 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:00:48 +0100 3089345 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3084828&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FGfKr10nnfy4%2F URL: http://longtermcareliving.com/LongTermCareLiving.com provides consumers with needed information nursing homes, assisted living/residential care, and other types of long term care. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Anxiety, Child and Adolescent, Depression, Emotional Health, Life, Quality of Life, Quality of Life Assessment, VariedFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, Glossary, Information, Links, Patient Handouts, e-learning LongTermCareLiving.com provides consumers with needed information nursing homes, assisted living/residential care, and other types of long term care. Learn how to: Find and select a nursing home or assisted living facility; Prepare yourself and your family for the transition to long term care ; Write an advance directive, making sure your wishes are ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3084828 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:00:38 +0100 3084828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3083080&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FeV7DQlG6nVo%2F URL: http://www.childadvocate.net/childmentalhealth/Addresses mental disorders, behavioral disorders, child abuse, trauma, among other things. For: ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Anxiety, Attachment, Autism, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Depression, Educational Psychology, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, General Psychology, General Science, Life, Mental Health, Pediatric Depression, Self-harm and suicide, Sexual Assault, Stress, Substance Abuse, YouthFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Links, e-learning Addresses mental disorders, behavioral disorders, child abuse, trauma, among other things.  Gives lots of information about child mental health news. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3083080 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:52 +0100 3083080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3059756&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FJVap_jl306E%2F URL: http://www.asdreams.org/The International Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, General ScienceFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Author Lists, Books, Case Studies, Collaborative News, Conferences, Databases, Information, Links, Research, e-learningThe International Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Our purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3059756 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:00:17 +0100 3059756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3048289&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F02%2Fhas-our-quest-for-completeness-made-things-too-complicated%2F In my opinion, yes. Let me elaborate. My current job is very much focused on “data integration”. What this means is that we have a large amount of diverse data from different “-omics” experiments: microarrays, protein mass spectrometry, DNA sequencing – really, whatever you like, but it’s all aimed at answering the same question. Namely: which of these biological entities (transcripts, proteins, metabolites) are markers for various human disease states? Somehow, we have to pull all of these data into a common framework so that it can be analysed using statistics. The problem: whilst a lot of effort has gone into designing schema and ontologies that describe the individual data types, less effort has been applied to the question: what do all these things... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3048289 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:38:06 +0100 3048289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3017085&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FH91H0M_wdA8%2F URL: http://www.bazelon.org/For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation’s leading legal advocate for people with mental disabilities. Our precedent-setting litigation has outlawed institutional abuse and won protections against arbitrary confinement. In the courts and in Congress, our advocacy has opened up public schools, workplaces, housing and other opportunities for people with mental disabilities to participate in community life. For: ConsumersTopics: Medico-Legal, Mental Health, Mental Health PromotionFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Links, e-learning For three decades, the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has been the nation’s leading legal advocate for people with m... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3017085 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:00:41 +0100 3017085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3012434&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F3c4FJvVSC9I%2F URL: http://www.well.com/user/woa/Welcome to the Web of Addictions. The Web of Addictions is dedicated to providing accurate information about alcohol and other drug addictions. The Web of Addictions was developed for several reasons. We are concerned about the pro drug use messages in some Web sites and in some use groups.We are concerned about the appalling extent of misinformation about abused drugs on the internet, particularly on some usenet newsgroups. Finally, we wanted to provide a resource for teachers, students and others who needed factual information about abused drugs. For: AnyoneTopics: Addiction, Health Promotion, MedicineFeatures: Articles, Databases, Drug Information, Information, Links, e-learning Welcome to the Web of Addictions. The Web of Addictions is dedicated to... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3012434 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:28 +0100 3012434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995703&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F16%2Finternational-journal-of-health-technology-assessment-in-health-care-2009-vol-25-no-4%2F This article assesses the role of MEDLINE and EMBASE in identifying economic evaluations. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Contingent Valuation, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Embase, Medline, Technology Assessment (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995703 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:08:22 +0100 2995703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2974014&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FFYDQBBoEj8I%2F URL: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/index.htmlThe Kinsey Institute at Indiana University promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Addiction, Lifestyle, Sexual AssaultFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Clinical Tools, Databases, Information, Links, Research The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2974014 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:06 +0100 2974014 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2963158&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FZfmzPW7D7s8%2F URL: http://www.dyslexia.com/Why is Dyslexia a gift? For: ConsumersTopics: Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Coaching, Educational Psychology, Pediatric Depression, Teaching, YouthFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Clinical Tools, Collaborative News, Databases, File Sharing, Forums, Information, Links, e-learning Why is Dyslexia a gift? Dyslexic people are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers. We are intuitive and highly creative, and excel at hands-on learning. Because we think in pictures, it is sometimes hard for us to understand letters, numbers, symbols, and written words. We can learn to read, write and study efficiently when we use methods geared to our unique learning style. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2963158 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:28:31 +0100 2963158 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958913&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FRFuLqBhF0w0%2F URL: http://posbase.uib.no/posbase/index.phpThis is a prototype system containing presentations from experimental psychology. We hope that it can guide both students and teachers in gaining a deeper understanding within the field of psychology. For: Students, TeachersTopics: Academia, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Common Factors, Educational Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychology and TechnologyFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Links, Multimedia, PresentationsThis is a prototype system containing presentations from experimental psychology. We hope that it can guide both students and teachers in gaining a deeper understanding within the field of psychology. (S... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958913 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:13 +0100 2958913 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2954555&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FYXgh7YHwMxk%2F URL: http://www.stanleymilgram.com/The purpose of this website is to be a source of accurate information about the life and work of one of the most outstanding social scientists of our time, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram. For: StudentsTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Behaviour Management, Clinical Decision Making, General Psychology, Psychology and the MediaFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Books, Databases, Information, Links, Research, e-learningThe purpose of this website is to be a source of accurate information about the life and work of one of the most outstanding social scientists of our time, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram. His untimely death at the age of 51 on December 20, 1984, ended a life of scientific inventiveness and controversy. But his research and writings c... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2954555 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:27 +0100 2954555 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2948295&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F31%2Fthe-new-pubmed-trick-or-treat%2F After a long days work, when looking at the screen, there it was: PubMed’s new interface, so it seemed, But one blink – and it had gone… To come back the following dawn. The change itself was long announced, we could play with the new “Advanced”. Still I postponed and procrastinated, Pointless: the new PubMed couldn’t wait any [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2948295 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:15:11 +0100 2948295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927365&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FSPALoixh6sU%2F URL: http://www.ocfoundation.org/The OCD Foundation has news, articles, and links dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, Obsessive Compulsive DisorderFeatures: Author Lists, Databases, Information, Links, Therapist DirectoryThe OCD Foundation has news, articles, and links dealing with obsessive compulsive disorder. The Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation (OCF) is an international not-for-profit organization composed of people with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and related disorders, their families, friends, professionals and other concerned individuals. Founded by a group of individuals with OCD in 1986, the mission of the OCF is to educate the public and professional communities about OCD and related disorde... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927365 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:00:31 +0100 2927365 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2886495&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FVODmMZRcvaE%2F URL: http://www.adultchildren.org/Adult Children of Alcoholics is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. We meet with each other in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present (”The Problem”). We take positive action. By practicing the Twelve Steps, focusing on “The Solution”, and accepting a loving Higher Power of our understanding, we find freedom from the past and a way to improve our lives today. For: AnyoneTopics: Addiction, Anger, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Depression, Emotional Health, Lifestyle, Substance AbuseFeatures: Articles, Databases, Drug Info... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2886495 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:15:08 +0100 2886495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2846424&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FWPGRnM5gDsc%2F URL: http://www.psycline.org/PSYCLINE is owned and managed by psychologist Dr. Armin Günther, University of Augsburg, Germany. The website started in 1995 under its former name Links to Psychological Journals and has won a high reputation as one of the (if not as the) most comprehensive and up-to-date index of psychology and social science journals on the web. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, General Psychology, Health Psychology, Mental Health, Psychology and Technology, Teaching, WritingFeatures: Author Lists, Books, Databases, Information, JournalsPSYCLINE is owned and managed by psychologist Dr. Armin Günther, University of Augsburg, Germany. The website started in 1995 under its former... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2846424 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:00:37 +0100 2846424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820281&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FdqEbKVKpVTU%2F URL: http://www.childhelp.org/Not surprisingly, the perspectives of the children served by Childhelp are varied. Some have known nothing but abuse and neglect, believing they were alone and that no one cared. Others lived in happy homes with caring, loving families, only to be hurt by someone outside the home, usually someone they already knew and trusted. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Depression, Educational Psychology, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Fatherhood, General Psychology, General Science, Health Promotion, Health Psychology, Health and Social Services, Life, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Parenting, Pediatric Depression, Self-harm and suicide, Self-help, Sexual... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820281 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:00:34 +0100 2820281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2789045&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FFFjAaY3Mnkg%2F URL: http://www.paruresis.org/The International Paruresis Association (IPA) was founded in 1996 to raise public awareness about paruresis, provide support, and give out the latest information. Most of IPA’s members and leadership are treatment professionals, people suffering from paruresis or recovering from it, and their loved ones. Membership is open to anyone touched by paruresis as well as those with an interest in supporting others with paruresis, advocating for their rights, and advancing scientific knowledge about the disorder. For: ConsumersTopics: Anxiety, Behaviour Management, Clinical Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, Health Promotion, Self-helpFeatures: Articles, Case Studies, Databases, Forums, Information, Links, e-learningThis site is provided as a reso... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2789045 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:00:17 +0100 2789045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2741426&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FSYUSouYcfuo%2F URL: http://www.sleepnet.com/ Sleepnet.com has updated its homepage trying to consolidate all the information available by disorder to make it easier to find the information you are looking for. The size of the site keeps growing and with over 250,000 pages it needs a total reorganization. Hope this helps and I will keep working to make the site’s navigation easier. Hope all is well with everyone. For: Anyone, StudentsTopics: Academia, Behaviour Management, Depression, General Psychology, General Science, Health Promotion, Health Psychology, Health and Social Services, Insomnia, Life, LifestyleFeatures: Articles, Clinical Tools, Databases, Forums, Information, Links, e-learning Sleepnet.com has updated its homepage trying to consolidate all the information available by ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2741426 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:00:22 +0100 2741426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2737788&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F9duVS08juIE%2F URL: http://www.ndvh.org/The Hotline serves as the only domestic violence hotline in the nation with access to more than 5,000 shelters and domestic violence programs across the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Advocates receive approximately 21,000 calls each month. The Hotline is toll-free, confidential and anonymous. It operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in more than 170 different languages through interpreter services, with a TTY line available for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Anger, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Cognitive, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Fatherhood, Life, Lifestyle, Parenting, Personality, Self-harm and suicide, Self-help, Sexual AssaultFeatures: Articles, Databases, I... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2737788 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:58:33 +0100 2737788 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2702353&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F0ajFifmiIM4%2F URL: http://www.alivepast5.com/Child safety with baby safety tips and child safety tips to help parents prevent accidental death. For: AnyoneTopics: Attachment, Child and Adolescent, Fatherhood, Life, Lifestyle, Parenting, YouthFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, Information, Links, e-learning Child safety with baby safety tips and child safety tips to help parents prevent accidental death. Alive Past 5’s child safety tips and baby safety tips were developed through vast research on preventable baby and child accidental deaths over years to discover the root causes of these horrific tragedies and formulate parenting tips on prevention. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2702353 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:00:40 +0100 2702353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2699655&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F0NB0iL4XioA%2F URL: http://www.cyberangels.org/CyberAngels are comprised mainly of law enforcement officers, information technology specialists, educators, parents, librarians, technical writers, and legal professionals volunteers, all whom happily give up free time to ensure that your Internet experiences are safe. CyberAngels teams are specially trained to help victims trace and identify the perpetrators of online crime so that they may be prosecuted. For: AnyoneTopics: Lifestyle, Psychology and TechnologyFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Clinical Tools, Databases, File Sharing, Information, Links, e-learning CyberAngels are comprised mainly of law enforcement officers, information technology specialists, educators, parents, librarians, technical writers, and legal professionals volunteers, all whom... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2699655 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:00:25 +0100 2699655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2630054&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpHXPcnkCiBc%2F The proposed PASS ID Act is a national ID just like REAL ID, and it threatens privacy just as much. Some argue that a national ID under PASS ID should be palatable, though, because it reduces costs to states. But savings to states under PASS ID are not at all clear. Let’s take a look at the costs of creating a U.S. national ID. The REAL ID Act, passed in May 2005, required states to begin implementing a national ID system within three years. In regulations it proposed in March 2007, the Department of Homeland Security extended that draconian deadline. States would have five years, starting in May 2008, to move all driver’s license and ID card holders into REAL ID-compliant cards. The Department of Homeland Security estimated the costs for this project at $17.2 billion dollars (net ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2630054 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:46:38 +0100 2630054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610894&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPY-43SDN4t0%2F The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing yesterday on the REAL ID Act and the REAL ID revival bill, known as PASS ID. I attended and want to share with you some highlights. Good News! Little good came from the hearing, as it was primarily focused on how to get the states and people to accept a national ID. But there is some good news. First, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared REAL ID dead (much as I did in my testimony two-plus years ago). “DOA” is how she referred to it. She also said that no state will be in compliance with REAL ID by the current December 31, 2009 deadline. This is important because a lot of people think that states doing anything about the security of drivers’ licenses and ID cards ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610894 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:50:38 +0100 2610894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2580188&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FG0mO0zd61pU%2F I’ve written about PASS ID here a couple of times before - first on whether or not it’s a national ID and, second, on the politics of this REAL ID revival bill. Now I’ll take a look at whether it fixes the privacy issues with REAL ID. Privacy is complicated. Buckle up. The day the bill was introduced, the Center for Democracy and Technology issued a press release giving it a privacy stamp of approval. “The PASS ID Act addresses most of the major privacy and security concerns with REAL ID,” said Ari Schwartz, Vice-President of CDT. The release cited four ways that PASS ID was an improvement over the bill it’s modeled on, REAL ID. Interstate Data Sharing? First, CDT said, PASS ID “[r]emoves the requirement that states ‘provide electronic access... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2580188 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:50:21 +0100 2580188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2572895&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F05%2Fuptodate-versus-dynamed%2F Guest author: Shamsha Damani (@shamsha) ; Submission for the July Medlib’s Round Doctors and other healthcare providers are busy folks. They often don’t have time to go through all the primary literature, find the best evidence, critique it and apply it to their patients in real-time. This is where point-of-care resources shine and make life a bit [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2572895 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:36:57 +0100 2572895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2570328&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F05%2Fuptodate-versus-dynamed%2F Guest author: Shamsha Damani (@shamsha) ; Submission for the July Medlib’s Round Doctors and other healthcare providers are busy folks. They often don’t have time to go through all the primary literature, find the best evidence, critique it and apply it to their patients in real-time. This is where point-of-care resources shine and make life a bit [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2570328 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:36:57 +0100 2570328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2561334&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FKI6in_8FrrU%2F URL: http://www.tardivedyskinesia.com/Tardive dyskinesia is a condition typically caused by certain psychoactive drugs such as anti-depressants, or “dopamine antagonists” (drugs that block dopamine receptors, used to treat disorders of the nervous or circulatory system). For: ConsumersTopics: Medicine, Medico-LegalFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Databases, Drug Information, Information, Links Tardive dyskinesia is a condition typically caused by certain psychoactive drugs such as anti-depressants, or “dopamine antagonists” (drugs that block dopamine receptors, used to treat disorders of the nervous or circulatory system). When a patient has been taking certain prescription drugs over a long period of time, often at high dosages, involuntary, repetitive tic-like... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2561334 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:00:48 +0100 2561334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473188&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FWj0KoQJ1i6c%2F Here’s an idea that should be killed in the crib: scanning automobiles for up-to-date insurance. Says Gizmodo (via ars technica and the Chicago Sun-Times): The system is anticipated to raise yearly earnings “well in excess” of $100 million (possibly even double that figure or more), with InsureNet taking a modest 30% for their services. Of course, all of this cash would be contingent on uninsured drivers actually paying their fines. There will be thousands more reasons like this put forward for mass public surveillance. The answer should almost always be no because of the accumulations of data about law-abiding citizens such programs would collect in government (and government-contractor) databases. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473188 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:19:27 +0100 2473188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473567&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FohGOzsTJxPs%2F URL: http://www.thebody.com/With over 600 topic areas, search the database of articles, facts, links to organizations, artistic expression, spirituality, activism, and international facts about HIV and AIDS. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Chronic Disease, Depression, Health and Social ServicesFeatures: Articles, Case Studies, Clinical Tools, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Glossary, Information, Links, Question and Answer Service, Research With over 600 topic areas, search the database of articles, facts, links to organizations, artistic expression, spirituality, activism, and international facts about HIV and AIDS. The Body connects you with others: (1) Get leading experts’ views on the range of subjects and ask questions using “Ask the Experts” f... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473567 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:37 +0100 2473567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469606&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FoYuW2zV_Nmw%2F URL: http://www.afsp.org/With ways of dealing with suicide loss for survivors, and for ways of trying to help those thinking of suicide, the AFSP also has research grants and educational items at its disposal. For: AnyoneTopics: Depression, Health and Social Services, Lifestyle, Self-harm and suicideFeatures: Articles, Clinical Tools, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Information From Robert Gebbia, AFSP Executive Director:  The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a 501(c)(3) organization, has been at the forefront of a wide range of suicide prevention initiatives in 2009 — each designed to reduce loss of life from suicide. We are investing in groundbreaking research, new educational campaigns, innovative demonstration programs and critical policy work... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469606 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:26:24 +0100 2469606 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464091&cid=t_104217_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnLsOla36C9Q%2F In the same bill that Congress limited the use of whole-body imaging or “strip-search machines” at airports (text of the amendment here), it required the Transportation Security Administration to study using facial and iris recognition to identify people in line for airport security checkpoints (Sec. 242 of House-passed version here). So glimpses at de-identified bodies are a privacy outrage while massive biometric databases and records of people’s travels are good to go? Not necessarily. Average people (and members of Congress) understand better what a look at the body is, but they don’t understand as well what biometric tracking and databasing of our movements means. So they’re quick to object to the former and lagging on the latter. Those of us who understa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464091 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:48:59 +0100 2464091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452702&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FeBXZITRCkq8%2F URL: http://www.befrienders.org/index.aspBefrienders listen to people who are lonely, despairing or considering suicide. They don’t judge them, don’t tell them what to do. They listen. That may not sound much - but it can make the difference between life and death. People who feel suicidal are often so focused on a particular problem or pain that they find it difficult to see a way forward. Talking openly to a befriender, in a safe and confidential environment, can help. By listening to a suicidal person, a befriender helps them to listen to themselves. For: AnyoneTopics: Addiction, Anger, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, Counselling, Depression, Emotional Health, Self-harm and suicideFeatures: Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, Group Management, Information, Links Befr... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452702 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:00:41 +0100 2452702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441686&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FTvIuZrtfbvM%2F URL: http://www.teenmentalhealth.org/Teenmentalhealth.org is dedicated to helping improve the mental health of youth by the effective translation and transfer of scientific knowledge. For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Anger, Aspergers, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Depression, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Life, Lifestyle, YouthFeatures: Articles, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Information, Multimedia, e-learning Teenmentalhealth.org is dedicated to helping improve the mental health of youth by the effective translation and transfer of scientific knowledge. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441686 Fri, 22 May 2009 13:58:33 +0100 2441686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2389869&cid=t_104217_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2Fo_flqEzvEbU%2Fpersonal_genomics_and_rat_pois.php Warfarin, a commonly used anti-clotting drug, sold under the brand name of Coumadin, has a been a poster child for the promise of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine. The excitement has come from the idea that knowing a patient's genotype, in this case for the VKORC1 and CYP2C9 genes, would allow physicians to tailor the dose of the drug and get patients the correct dose more quickly. And it seems obvious that a test that would allow doctors to predict your ability to metabolize warfarin, would be a great thing, right? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World) Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2389869 Tue, 05 May 2009 18:32:15 +0100 2389869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376214&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FbMlLNZqGGXI%2F URL: http://psychiatricdrugs.org/Prescription information including use, side-effects and interaction information. For: Consumers, StudentsTopics: Drug PromotionFeatures: Databases, Information Prescription information including use, side-effects and interaction information. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376214 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:00:41 +0100 2376214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2305855&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F05%2Fhow-evidence-based-is-uptodate-really%2F KevinMD or Kevin Pho is one of the top physician bloggers. He writes many posts per day, often provocatively commenting on breaking medical news or other blogposts. A few weeks ago Kevin wrote a post on comparative effectiveness research [5] (tweet below), which is “(funded) research to evaluate and compare clinical outcomes, effectiveness, risk, and benefits [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2305855 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:50:43 +0100 2305855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348530&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F0TfJ-lBr6hM%2F URL: http://www.encephalitis.info/Made famous by the awe-inspiring Dr. Oliver Sacks, encephalitis lethargica is one of many disorders in the group of encephalitis. From the movie Awakenings, which was one of the most popular medical influenced movies of all time, encephalitis is called “the sleeping sickness.” For: Consumers, Consumers, Anyone, Consumers, ResearchersTopics: Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Parenting, Personality disorders, Youth, Abnormal, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Eating Disorders, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Fitness, Depression, Eating Disorders, Fitness, Life, Lifestyle, Abnormal, Chronic Disease, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, Neur... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348530 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:00:25 +0100 2348530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348531&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2Fvi5asgHO_Sk%2F URL: http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/Do you want to stop gambling? Gamblers Anonymous (GA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from a gambling problem. For: Consumers, Consumers, Anyone, Consumers, Researchers, ConsumersTopics: Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Parenting, Personality disorders, Youth, Abnormal, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Eating Disorders, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Fitness, Depression, Eating Disorders, Fitness, Life, Lifestyle, Abnormal, Chronic Disease, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health, Neurophilosophy, Neuroscience, Addict... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348531 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:00:18 +0100 2348531 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2267574&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2FkdrLlHQU7Ng%2F Image via Wikipedia I’m proud to present this initiative to keep old-school programmers in the cusp of Bio* development. After long discussions and controversy, I decided that it would be extremely important to stop neglecting a good portion of developers around the world that are still trying to catch-up with new, but yet completely unreliable, software and technology. So far, I haven’t contacted anyone regarding this project, but I guess people will be thrilled to learn about it and I expect massive signup to become a developer (first come, first served basis). The main goals and “project culture” (similar to a company culture, but in project, got it?) are: - develop a number of OCX and DirectX and VB classes and VB modules that can be used by anyone in the bi... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2267574 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:53:59 +0100 2267574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210461&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FiLXcMukyTlQ%2F URL: http://www.bddcentral.com/BDDCentral is the most comprehensive online presence related to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). For: Consumers, StudentsTopics: Abnormal, Anger, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, General Psychology, Health and Social Services, Life, Lifestyle, Personality disordersFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Databases, Forums BDDCentral is the most comprehensive online presence related to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). This site is maintained by BDD survivors, and also receives contributions from the world’s leading BDD experts. The mission of BDDCentral is to offer a safe and supportive place to communicate and learn, educate the public through outreach programs, and offer updated resources (such as an up-to-date treatment provider directory and recommended literatur... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210461 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:01:36 +0100 2210461 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2200522&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F543349017%2F URL: http://allpsych.com/Virtual Psychology Classroom. For: AnyoneTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Clinical Psychology, Depression, History of Psychology, Psycho-education, Psychodynamic, Psychology and TechnologyFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Collaborative News, Databases, File Sharing, Forums, e-learningVirtual Psychology Classroom with over 2000 pages of information. Includes three complete psychology texts (General, Personality, and Statistics), a detailed psychology timeline, biographies, a 500+ word psychology dictionary, information on mental disorders, career and educational information, online research, psychology journal, an active psychology student forum, and more. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2200522 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:22 +0100 2200522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2200523&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F542582142%2F URL: http://www.childadvocate.net/childmentalhealth/Addresses mental disorders, behavioral disorders, child abuse, trauma, disaster and advocacy issues. For: Anyone, Anyone, Consumers, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Bipolar, Clinical Psychology, Depression, History of Psychology, Psycho-education, Psychodynamic, Psychology and Technology, ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Anger, Anxiety, Aspergers, Attachment, Autism, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, Child and Adolescent, Depression, Eating Disorders, Family Therapy, Health and Social Services, Life, Nutrition, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parenting, Pediatric Depression, Relationships, YouthFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Collaborative News, Databases, File Sharing, Forums, e-learning... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2200523 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:00:27 +0100 2200523 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207653&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F13%2Fmedlibs-round-first-edition%2F Welcome to the first edition of MedLib’s Round, a blog carnival of the “best blog posts in the field of medical librarianship”. Starting a new blog carnival is often difficult. You have to recruit bloggers, who want to participate by submitting blogposts and/or hosting future editions. (see this older post on Scienceroll - Thanks @hleman). I [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207653 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:00:37 +0100 2207653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2160252&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=34461&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigicmb.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fnew-pubmed-search-interface-novoseek.html Very recently a new New PubMed/Medline Search Interface was launched: NOVO/SEEK novo|seek is a search engine for biomedical literature in Medline that will help you to: Retrieve meaningful documents related to your search.Narrow your search to find the relevant scientific articles.Identify the most relevant biomedial concepts to your query.It is amazing! If offers a clear concept analysis with visual relevance indicators per concept! But not Mesh?I have to have a closer look soon, after I did read David Rothmans post about it, which is not visible at the moment Related articles by ZemantaTop Health Search Engines of 2008 [Highlight HEALTH] (highlighthealth.com)Launch new search engine PurpleSearch (digicmb.blogspot.com)PubMed sends out a few new blooms: simplified web links ... DigiCMB blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2160252 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:58:00 +0100 2160252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2156439&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F531148174%2F URL: http://www.humanillnesses.com/The Encyclopedia of Human Illnesses and Behavioral Health contains detailed articles about a variety of conditions and treatment advice. Very informative! For: Anyone, Consumers, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Abnormal, Behaviour Management, Chronic Disease, Depression, Diagnosis, Emotional Health, Mental HealthFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, e-learningThe Encyclopedia of Human Illnesses and Behavioral Health contains detailed articles about a variety of conditions and treatment advice. Very informative! (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2156439 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:42:01 +0100 2156439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2152917&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F529859271%2F The Skeptic’s Dictionary by Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D. lists many interesting issues and why or why they are not real and/or plausable. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Teaching, VariedFeatures: Articles, Databases, Information, Research, e-learningThe Skeptic’s Dictionary by Robert T. Carroll, Ph.D. lists many interesting issues and why or why they are not real and/or plausable. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2152917 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:00:49 +0100 2152917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2128899&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F520999639%2F URL: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlThis site acts as a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Autism, Family Therapy, Fatherhood, YouthFeatures: Articles, Author Lists, Databases, ForumsThis site acts as a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. Their community includes informational resources on specific diagnoses, communication conne... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2128899 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:00:45 +0100 2128899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207662&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F22%2Fsearch-filters-1-an-introduction%2F I’ll be writing a lot about search filters in the near future. Before I do, I think it would be useful to give an introduction. First I want to stress that this series will not deal with Google, Twitter etc. search filters. Although I might write about such filters on another occasion, this series is about [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207662 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:19:16 +0100 2207662 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2110611&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F514155796%2F URL: http://psyris.com/Psyris includes links to psychology information, psychology articles, and a referral directory, connecting the public with providers. For: Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Counselling, Psychotherapy, VariedFeatures: Articles, CE Activities, Careers, Case Studies, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Links, Referrals, Therapist Directory Psyris includes links to psychology information, psychology articles, and a referral directory, connecting the public with providers. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2110611 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:18:11 +0100 2110611 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2092556&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F507326231%2F URL: http://psyccareers.apa.org/The American Psychological Association’s career searching website. For: AnyoneTopics: General Psychology, General Science, Teaching, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Advertising, Careers, Databases The American Psychological Association’s career searching website.  This website allows for a person who is interested in the field of psychology to check for employment that involves psychology. Included are ways to write a good CV, ways to dress for the job interview, and future professional development. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2092556 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:22:49 +0100 2092556 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2083922&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F06%2Fnlh-basic-search-videos%2F Basic Searching National Library for Health in a Minute Flash Video 1 Min Quicktime Video 1 Min Avi Video 1 Min RSS and News Search in a Minute Flash Video 1 Min Quicktime Video 1 Min Avi Video 1 Min Find Your Local Health Library in Under a Minute Flash Video 53s Quicktime Video 53s Avi Video 53s Posted in Access from Home, Access from Work, Access in the Library, Databases, E-Books, E-Journals, Electronic Resources, Multimedia Link, National Library for Health, RSS Feeds, Search Engines, Searching, Study Skills       (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2083922 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:11:55 +0100 2083922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2055841&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F490690404%2F URL: http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/dreamessay.phpOver at Psych Central Answers, I have people all the time asking, “What does my dream mean?” For: Anyone, ConsumersTopics: Abnormal, Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, General Science, LifeFeatures: Articles, Case Studies, Databases, Journaling, Online Research, Research, Search Engine, e-learning Over at Psych Central Answers, I have people all the time asking, “What does my dream mean?” In this site, dreams are listed and discussed.  The idea behind this site is that a certain event the day before may help “trigger” something in a person that causes the dream to come about. By using this data base of dream answers, it is hoped that other readers will finally learn what their dreams mean. (So... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2055841 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:54:23 +0100 2055841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1984827&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F463308646%2F URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/psychology/Intute: Psychology provides access to psychology resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized using the APA PsycINFO coding scheme. For: Clinicians, Consumers, Researchers, StudentsTopics: VariedFeatures: Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Links, Portals, Resources, Search Engine Intute: Psychology provides access to psychology resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized using the APA PsycINFO coding scheme. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1984827 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:34:44 +0100 1984827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1920943&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F436028721%2F URL: http://www.phinished.org/index.phpPhinisheD is the place on the web to find friendly advice and support as you struggle with your dissertation or thesis, and afterwards as you navigate the stormy seas of academia. For: StudentsTopics: Academia, Clinical Psychology, Counselling, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, General Science, Health Psychology, Health and Social Services, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, Varied, Varied Disorders, YouthFeatures: Articles, Databases, Forums, Information, Links PhinisheD is the place on the web to find friendly advice and support as you struggle with your dissertation or thesis, and afterwards as you navigate the stormy seas of academia. If this is your first visit and you’re curious about the... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1920943 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:13:13 +0100 1920943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1883278&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F17%2Fthe-three-phases-of-mysql-usage%2F As Mike keeps reminding me, getting your data into database tables is A Good Thing. Like many people, my database of choice is MySQL - largely because it was the first one that I tried and it works for me. However, I’m far from being an expert MySQL user. In fact, I’ve identified 3 stages in my use of MySQL over the years; see if you recognise yourself in any of them. The single table database Early in your MySQL career, you discover either “LOAD DATA INFILE” or the command-line tool “mysqlimport”. You realise that this is a quick and easy way to get all of those delimited text files straight into a database. Off you go, merrily importing everything on your hard drive into tables. At some stage, you begin to wonder whether listing the same identifier (... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1883278 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:55:33 +0100 1883278 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1870679&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F416966963%2F URL: http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.htmlPsychological Research on the Net is a fantastic meta-list of online psychology experiments. For: Students, Clinicians, Consumers, ResearchersTopics: Psychiatry, ADHD, Abnormal, Academia, Addiction, Anxiety, Behaviour Management, Bipolar, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Counselling, Diagnosis, Eating Disorders, Educational Psychology, Emotional Health, General Psychology, General Science, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Varied, Varied DisordersFeatures: Articles, Resources, Training, Tutorials, Articles, Collaborative News, Databases, InformationPsychological Research on the Net is a fantastic meta-list of online psychology experiments. Mos... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1870679 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:00:10 +0100 1870679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1809745&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F397415563%2F URL: http://www.skinpick.com/SkinPick.Com is an online Dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking) center, offering comprehensive info about the disorder, as well as an active community. For: AnyoneTopics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, General Psychology, Medico-Legal, Self-helpFeatures: Chat Rooms, Databases, Forums, Links, Research, e-learningSkinPick.Com is an online Dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking) center, offering comprehensive info about the disorder, as well as an active community (forum). They have recently launched online couseling service for Dermatillomania patients. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1809745 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:00:55 +0100 1809745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1770459&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F385155429%2F URL: http://www.mendeley.com/It’s a desktop software for Windows, Mac & Linux that lets you manage & share research papers. For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Academia, Research Methods, Teaching, WritingFeatures: Articles, Community and Social Networking, Databases, File Sharing, Information, Personal Records Management, Research, Research Tools, ResourcesIt’s a desktop software for Windows, Mac & Linux  that lets you manage & share research papers. It also a website which aggregates research trends based on the users’ paper collections and connects you to like-minded academics - akin to a “Last.fm for research”. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1770459 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:00:19 +0100 1770459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750004&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F01%2Ftravax%2F The Fade Library has funded the PCTs subscription to Travax which is an interactive online database providing up to the minute travel health information for health care professionals. TRAVAX is maintained and continually updated by the Travel Health Division of Health Protection Scotland (HPS). It is provided as a NHS resource for health care professionals who advise patients about avoiding illness when travelling abroad.  Details of the PCTs password can be found on the Trust intranet with a simple search for Travax in the search box. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750004 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:13:08 +0100 1750004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1535793&cid=t_104217_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F316198949%2Fbiologists_vs_the_age_of_infor.php It's pretty common these days to pick up an issue of Science or Nature and see people ranting about GenBank (1). Many of the rants are triggered, at least in part, by a wide-spread misunderstanding of what GenBank is and how it works. Perhaps this can be solved through education, but I don't think that's likely. People from the NCBI can explain over and over again that some of the sequence databases in GenBank are meant to be an archival resource (2), and define the term "archive," but that's not going to help. Confusion about database content and oversight is widespread in this community with good reason. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World) Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1535793 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:51:56 +0100 1535793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526279&cid=t_104217_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F314591621%2Fwhere_are_the_curators_and_why.php In a recent post, I wrote about an article that I read in Science magazine on the genetics of learning. One of things about the article that surprised me quite a bit was a mistake the authors made in placing the polymorphism in the wrong gene. I wrote about that yesterday. The other thing that surprised me was something that I found at the NCBI. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World) Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526279 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:19:30 +0100 1526279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1546726&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35004&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioinformaticszen.com%2F2008%2F05%2Forganised-bioinformatics-experiments%2F One of the things I’ve found in two years of doing bioinformatics, is that directories quickly fill up with files, usually data, scripts, and results. Working out the contents of each file is difficult as the only identifier is the name, which with lots of similarly named files, is confusing. Using lots of scripts gets more complicated when there are dependencies. For example scripts need the data from one file, or are dependent on an intermediate set of results from the output of another script. These dependencies mean that when a set of results needs updating, usually many times when producing a manuscript, scripts need to be re-run in the correct order. The requirement of manually re-running scripts in a specific order is cumbersome, and easily generates errors. A previous post I wro... Bioinformatics Zen blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1546726 Sat, 24 May 2008 18:43:04 +0100 1546726 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439536&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F289324530%2F (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439536 Tue, 13 May 2008 09:52:27 +0100 1439536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1375148&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fnew-databases.html The SHR Library has access to two new databases provided by the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership. The first new database is Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI for short). This database has listings of a wide variety of medical measurement instruments. HaPI helps clinicians avoid duplication and "reinventing the wheel."The other new database is Natural Standard. It supplies information on complementary and alternative therapies.Both of the new databases are available on the SHR library Database page.http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/mNAX (Source: SHR Medical Library) SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1375148 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:37:00 +0100 1375148 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1332442&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F28%2Fscienceroll-search%2F Unhappy with PubMed or the other biomedical search engines? Bertalan has created ScienceRoll Search, described in his blog post. I just gave it a quick run and it looks rather impressive. Give it a go and let him know what you think. (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1332442 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:29:32 +0100 1332442 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1327434&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F26%2Fsearch-20-tipping-you-the-red-spot-2-evidence-based-reviews%2F Today’s post based on the excellent material from the NLH Search 2.0 SHA Representatives group. When to use them? Whenever you need ready done quality synthesised reviews of the best available evidence. The Content Bandolier - advice about particular treatments for health professionals and consumers based on primary and secondary research. Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews - systematic reviews and protocols for future reviews. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - abstracts of systematic reviews published in places other than the Cochrane Library Database of Systematic Reviews. NHS Economic Evaluation Database - structured economic evaluations of health care interventions. Health Technology Assessment Database - focussing on prevention and rehabilitation, vacc... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1327434 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:34:41 +0100 1327434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1324963&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F25%2Fsearch-20-tipping-you-the-red-spot-1-overview-of-search-20%2F OK it’s 7 days to go to the implementation of Search 2.0 the new route to literature searching in the NHS from the National Library for Health. So we thought we dust off the guides from the NLH Search 2.0 SHA Representatives group (this post is from Resource Guide 1: Overview), adapt the guides where we felt we needed to and give you seven days worth of tip off of the goodness to come. Never fear though, if things aren’t as smooth as we hope, the Dialog databases haven’t gone anywhere for the moment (as for the red spot search logo we don’t know the reasons behind it either but any excuse to get in a few minutes practice for this year’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Clearly red is the new black!) Searching the National Library for Health Currently ther... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1324963 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:26 +0100 1324963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1320513&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F255734174%2Fstructured-abstract-experiment-at-febs.html The journal "FEBS letters" is starting a publishing experiment on structured abstracts. As described in the editorial the experiment is aimed at:"integrating each manuscript with a structured summary precisely reporting, with database identifiers and predefined controlled vocabularies, the protein interactions reported in the manuscript."The experiment will be a collaboration between FEBS letters and the interaction database MINT, it has started in the beginning of this year and it will last 6 months. It will try to evaluate the necessary tools and the authors's "degree of interest (and competence) to invest" in this annotation process. It will be very interesting to see the results of this experiment to see if authors are willing to do this extra bit of work and how much this might facili... Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1320513 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:42:00 +0100 1320513 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1294282&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F11%2Fopensigle-useful-for-finding-grey-literature%2F We get asked about places to search for grey literature and haven’t yet blogged about the OpenSIGLE - System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe which provides open access to SIGLE bibliographical references of reports and other grey literature (GL) produced in Europe. OpenSIGLE combines the ressources of major European information and document supply centres who have joined together in an association known as EAGLE : European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation.  It’s worth noting that the British Library resigned from EAGLE in 2003. Each centre is responsible for collecting grey literature produced in its own country and for providing details of it (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1294282 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:26:46 +0100 1294282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289259&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F09%2Fnew-fade-website%2F The end of the week has seen us finally get the new Fade Library Website up and running. We’ve had the highs and lows of installing MySQL and PHP. The swear box has earned a few bob. Kudos to Paul at IIS Admin Blog for the clear guidance. Anyway slip over to the site and let us know what you think. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289259 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:01:48 +0100 1289259 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1263390&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F242366079%2F URL: http://www.psychlotron.org.uk/index.htmlRSS: http://www.psychlotron.org.uk/rss/psychlotronupdates.rss Downloadable teaching resources for AS and A2 level courses in the UK, including regular psychology podcasts. For: TeachersTopics: OCR Level-A Psychology, Teaching, Teaching PsychologyFeatures: Databases, Podcasts, Resources (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1263390 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:44:37 +0100 1263390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1247798&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F21%2Fnational-child-measurement-programme-ncmp-200607%2F Established in 2005, the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) weighs and measures children in reception (aged 4 to 5 years) and year 6 (aged 10 to 11 years) to assess overweight and obese levels. In 2006/2007, 876,416 primary school children were measured (80 per cent of those eligible). Almost one in four five-year olds and one in three 11-year olds is overweight or obese, according to the national child measurement programme. Rates of obesity are worst in the North East, West Midlands and London, the NHS Information Centre’s NCMP NCMP 2006/07 bulletin report said. NCMP 2006/07 online database NCMP 2006/07 data tables (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1247798 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:50:04 +0100 1247798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1240183&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F237208943%2F URL: http://www.clickpsych.com/ Useful links for A Level Psychology, and all psychologists for that matter! For: Teachers, Consumers, StudentsTopics: OCR Level-A Psychology, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, Emotional Health, Nutrition, Physical Health, Relationships, Self-help, Stress, Teaching, Teaching Psychology, VariedFeatures: Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Mobile & SMS, Databases, Links, Portals (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1240183 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:19:50 +0100 1240183 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1225266&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F233653086%2F URL: http://psyris.com/ Psyris includes links to psychology information, psychology articles, and a referral directory, connecting the public with providers. For: Clinicians, ConsumersTopics: Counselling, Psychotherapy, VariedFeatures: Articles, CE Activities, Careers, Case Studies, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Links, Referral, Therapist Directory (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1225266 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:56:34 +0100 1225266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1225267&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F233650898%2F URL: http://www.imantri.com/index.php iMantri is an online peer-to-peer community for seeking and offering mentoring and coaching. Tap into the wisdom of your peers and share your gifts with others. For: Clinicians, Consumers, AnyoneTopics: Counselling, Psychotherapy, Varied, Coaching, MentoringFeatures: Articles, CE Activities, Careers, Case Studies, Commentary and Blogs, Databases, Links, Referral, Therapist Directory, Community and Social Networking, Databases, Networking, Referral (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1225267 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:36:41 +0100 1225267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1213232&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F230681567%2F Directory of psychology-related sites that utilize RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to broadcast their content. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1213232 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:56:23 +0100 1213232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1207231&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F05%2Fvote-for-pedro%2F From the Center for Evidence Based Physiotherapy based at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Sydney, as a database it provides the model for yesterdays OT Seeker.  The aim of PEDro is to make the bibliographic details and abstracts of randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy readily available. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1207231 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:56:06 +0100 1207231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1204613&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F04%2Fot-seeker%2F is a database of systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy and was developed by OTs at the University of Queensland and University of Western Sydney. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1204613 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:17:41 +0100 1204613 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192815&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2F226803564%2F Last week I registered to use a large online database. So far, so good, I started checking out what I was able to do, how to get data, the whole nine yards. Until I checked the main page with the list of entries. I noticed that Firefox wasn’t showing the vertical scroll-bar so, evidently, I wasn’t able to scroll down and up the page to check for entries. Problems like this happen when the scroll-bar is attached to a div instead of being set for the whole page. As a diligent user I dug for the web admin email address and sent a short message with the possible error, including a couple of screenshots, one from “buggy” Firefox and another from Konqueror (which displayed the page with no problem). I also mentioned that Firefox under Linux and Windows had problems showi... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192815 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:34:39 +0100 1192815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1130908&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F05%2Fmorecambe-and-wise-barker-and-corbett-batman-and-robin-and-other-dodgy-duet-references%2F The Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs) has been established in the UK as a resource to help prioritise research by identifying uncertainties that cannot currently be answered by referring to reliable up-to-date systematic reviews of existing research evidence. DUETs draws on three main sources to identify uncertainties about the effects of treatments: patients’, carers’ and clinicians’ questions about the effects of treatments research recommendations in reports of systematic reviews and clinical guidelines ongoing research, both systematic reviews in preparation and new ‘primary’ studies Top tip: On the home page, for an idea of the content, click on BROWSE on the left hand side, you will see a list of Topic areas covered. ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1130908 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:45:41 +0100 1130908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1091279&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F13%2Fcks-is-not-just-for-christmas-but-you-never-thought-it-was%2F The following Prodigy guidance have been reviewed and converted to the Clincal Khowledge Summaries (CKS) format Asthma Conjunctivitis — infective Gingivitis and periodontitis Herpes simplex — oral MI—secondary prevention If you’re not familiar with Clinical Knowledge Summaries, they are concise summaries on the management of 500 commonly encountered scenarios in primary and first-contact care, based on the latest evidence on common acute and chronic diseases and disease prevention. CKS can be accessed from the National Library for Health via your Athens password (register here if you work in the NHS in the North West). If you need any training in using this or any other electronic resources and you work for Liverpool PCT, contact us using the form below. [contact-form] (Sourc... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1091279 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:47:13 +0100 1091279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1040192&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fch-ch-ch-changes-ovid-gets-new-look.html OVID has a new interface, this means that Medline, PsycINFO, HealthStar will look and work differently. The SHR Library will be making the switch sometime in early January. In preparation for this change the library is offering drop in training sessions to demo the new features. The sessions are running November 20th, November 22nd, November 27th, November 29th, December 4th, December 6th, December 11th and December 13th from 3:30pm to 4:15pm. No registration or sign up is required and watch for more sessions in the new year. Too busy to come to a session? Check out the online demo from Ovid (requires Flash). http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/mNAX (Source: SHR Medical Library) SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1040192 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:33:00 +0100 1040192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1009506&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F11%2Fjournal-info-database.html A database has been set up by the University of Lund in Sweden for researchers to find information on journals. The purpose of the database "...is to provide an aid for the researcher in the selection of journal for publication. The publication market has continuously grown more and more complex. It is important to weigh in facts like scope and quality, but more recently also information about reader availability and library cost. The Lund University Libraries have made an attempt to merge all their items into one tool, giving the researcher the power to make informed choices." - Database FAQsThe database includes many Medical journals, but also journals in a wide variety of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It covers approximately 18,000 journals from a number of database... SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1009506 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:37:00 +0100 1009506 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=811245&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Finternet-health-information.html This article about their latest efforts comes from the New York Times and discusses new initiatives that both companies are taking to attempt to streamline searching and to make health records available on the Internet. There is also an interesting posting on the Clinical Cases blog about the new programs.There are several predecessors to the Health Search Engine attempt, and, in fact, there are many different search engines available. You may want to take a look at Healthline, WebMD, and Medstory.Healia is a fairly new health search engine directed primarily at consumer health information.Health on the Net is a non-profit organization that certifies organization and their websites for ethical behaviour. MedHunt from the HON Foundation is a search engine that will not only search the Inter... SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=811245 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:04:00 +0100 811245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=793936&cid=t_104217_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F143240721%2F NOTE: I have had some real trouble getting the images to display properly on this post. I will try and rectify the situation as soon as possible. Readers involved with research are most likely aware of PubMed, a free resource that allows you to search “millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences”. PubMed is very powerful and has a range of powerful search and notification features to make life easier for those who browse research regularly. Just recently however, I have become interested in a website/search engine called Gopubmed, a site that harnesses PubMed databases but arranges and guides your search in some nifty ways. Gopubmed is built by Transinsight... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=793936 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:21:52 +0100 793936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1035020&cid=t_104217_105_f&fid=36673&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2097.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fusing-web-to-access-medical-databases.html S omething important for a wide use of the internet and the web as a productivity tool in medicine is the fact that we have to work hard in changing the way people think. This is a really difficult task. If we take in consideration the fact that few people talk and apply the concepts of Web 2.0 to their daily routine in medicine. This is just a consequence of belonging to a system that is based on the ignorance of us. Maybe I am wrong, but I realize that when lot of people use the internet, they think that there is only one way to do something. Most of the people do not realize that internet is a universe of infinite possibilities. Most of the people do not realize that with all the world connected, the chances to find someone who has the same interest of us is really high. To demonstrate ... Web 2.0 and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1035020 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:11:00 +0100 1035020 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=624696&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Ftripping.html The TRIP database (Turning Research into Practice) searches a wide variety of sources, including DARE and the Cochrane Library, for the best evidence. The idea behind TRIP is to create a database where medical evidence can be found in one place, using one search engine.A recent article in the Journal of the Medical Library Association took a look at how the TRIP database is used to find evidence. The authors came to two main conclusions 1) searchers often don't take advantage of all the features available to them through a database to make better searches and 2) the database (like almost all databases) could probably be clearer and easier to use. The complete article is available from PubMed central here.We've just added a link to the TRIP database from our own database page, so try it out... SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=624696 Fri, 04 May 2007 20:07:00 +0100 624696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=624702&cid=t_104217_86_f&fid=35599&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshrlibrary.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fnew-databases.html The SHR Library has added new databases, full of tasy information morsels. Go to the SHR Library Database Page (for intranet users only) to access these resources.Consumer health:Health Source -- Consumer EditionThis database is a rich collection of consumer health informationHealth & Wellness Resource CentreThis database is focused on consumer health information, providing instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials.General/Business:Canadian Periodical Index -- CPI.QAn index of Canadian Magazines and Newspapers, including the Globe and MailBusiness Index ASAPAn index of management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices.Other:Health Reference Centre Academic http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/mNAX (Source: SHR Medical Library) SHR Medical Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=624702 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:34:00 +0100 624702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=505367&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbeltrao.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fgoogle-base-api-while-we-are-waiting.html Google Base APIWhile we are waiting for freebase to give us a chance to preview their service we can go ahead and try something that probably is very similar in spirit to freebase. Google Base has been up a long time but only recently have they opened it up for automatic access (see Google Base API). There are some restrictions but in the end we can think of it as a free online database that we can use remotely.How easy is it to use ? If you like Java, C# or PHP you are in luck because they have client libraries to help you get started.I also found this Google Base code in CPAN and decided to give this a try. After reading some of the information in the API website and having a look at the code it comes down to 3 main tasks: 1)authentication; 2)insert/delete/update; 3)queryHaving installed... Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=505367 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:19:00 +0100 505367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485239&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbeltrao.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fbind-bought-by-thomson-scientific-via.html BIND bought by Thomson Scientific(via email and Open Access News) Thomson Scientific has acquired Unleashed Informatics the owner of, among other resources, the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND). In the email announcing the transaction it is claimed that the information will remain freely available:"We will continue to provide you with open access to BOND — there will beno change to the way you obtain and use the information you currentlyhave available — and we will work to ensure that the database remains knowledgeable, up-to-date and within the current high editorial standards."Hopefully this will mean a better chance of survival for the database. BIND was created in 1998 under the Blueprint initiative, lead by Chris Hogue in Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. It is one ... Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485239 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:51:00 +0100 485239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485465&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35015&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnftb.net%2F%3Fp%3D80 Konrad was the first this morning to hint at release of Venters effort of providing  environmental sequencing samples from the world oceans. The data is backed by several papers in PLoS Biology and the new camera database. Other bloggers have followed and the main stream media will pick it up soon. What to add on a busy day like today? The results might not breathtaking but that was as true for the release of the release of the human genome project back in 2000. Sequencing the human genome was a necessity - but the environmental samples provide a complete new picture of our planet, even if our initial view is warped and noisy and our ways of understanding the data is limited. (Source: Notes from the biomass) Notes from the biomass blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485465 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:15:58 +0100 485465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485468&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35015&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnftb.net%2F%3Fp%3D77 The newly founded company Metaweb recently announced Freebase, an effort to organize the world’s information by creating meaningful connections between the different data sources. The data base will be released under a Creative Commons by-attribution license. The major difference to Google Base from what little I can see at this point is that the company actively takes place in integrating the different data and creating a meaningful way to navigate rather than search it. Freebase already incorporates Wikipedia and other smaller projects and should allow future content to be connected to this resource in a controlled manner. However, as the database is early alpha and only open by invitation, it’s premature to discuss the use on hard scientific data. There’s more on the m... Notes from the biomass blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485468 Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:18:44 +0100 485468 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485472&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35015&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnftb.net%2F%3Fp%3D72 Singling out my favorite amongst the 174 biological information resources in the current database issue of Nucleic Acids Research is easily achieved: String, a protein-protein interaction database primarily developed in the group of Peer Bork at the EMBL was updated to version 7, introducing many small and a few major improvements and should finally be covered here. Unlike the major repositories of protein-protein interactions such as Biogrid, Intact or DIP, String does not classically collect data. It relies on the available experimental sources from high-throughput experiments, expression studies, literature mining as well as in silico-predictions and evaluates the different methods to highlight reliable interactions. Therefore, you get an evaluated, concise picture of the interactions ... Notes from the biomass blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485472 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:37:35 +0100 485472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486013&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35018&url=http%3A%2F%2Femelamud.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F11%2Ffast-load-of-csv-type-files-into.html Here is a simple and very fast procedure for loading data into postgres database. The neat thing about this procedure, is that it uses postgres psql command line directly without need for DBI interface. All you have to do is type "psql myscript.sql", and it will* drop old table structure * create new table structure * uncompress file * filter out comment lines * parse out columns seperated by tabs * arrange them in correct order * print them out seperated by tabs * load data into table * creates indexes * and cleans up after itself! Here for example I am going to import gene2go datafile from NCBI gene database. I make an sql file like this and run psql database gene2go.sql. drop table gene_go; create table gene_go ( genome_ac int, locus_ac int, go_id varchar(255), evidence... Eugene Melamud's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486013 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:20:00 +0100 486013 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486010&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35018&url=http%3A%2F%2Femelamud.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F11%2Frestarting-posgtres-server-after-disk.html Today I bravely faced a first serious recovery error with my Postgres 7.4.1 database server. I was running a large import over night and when I came back in the morning, I found my server fatally wounded after it ran out of disk space. I shut it down, freed up some space, and tried to start it again. But no luck! The server log produced the following error: LOG: checkpoint record is at 7B/66F5EFC LOG: redo record is at 7B/1080C; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown FALSE LOG: next transaction ID: 53015044; next OID: 440756341 LOG: database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress LOG: redo starts at 7B/1080C PANIC: could not access status of transaction 53119788 DETAIL: could not read from file "/usr/local/postgres/data/pg_clog/0032" at offset 172032: Su... Eugene Melamud's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486010 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 01:16:00 +0100 486010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486004&cid=t_104217_132_f&fid=35018&url=http%3A%2F%2Femelamud.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F11%2Fbackup-script-for-postgres-database.html This is a simple script to create and archive for each database in the postgres server. The script first gets the list of databases from the server and runs pg_dump for each database. #!/bin/bash PSQL=/usr/local/postgres/bin/psql DUMP=/usr/local/postgres/bin/pg_dump PREFIX=`date +%j` BACKUP_DIR=/dbbackup/picasso-postgres Databases=`$PSQL -hnode0 -Upostgres -tq -d template1 -c "select datname from pg_database"` renice 20 $$ #Databases='test'; #forget above.. dump only this database echo Backup started ... for db in `echo $Databases` do echo "time: `date +%H%M%S` - Backup of $db in progress ..." $DUMP -hnode0 -Upostgres -D $db /$BACKUP_DIR/$PREFIX.$db gzip /$BACKUP_DIR/$PREFIX.$db echo "time: `date +%H%M%S` - Backup of $db finnished ..."#check if file exists if [ ! -s $BACKUP_DIR/... Eugene Melamud's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486004 Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:31:00 +0100 486004