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 'encyclopedia'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050535&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0FczLaTHxGI%2F At the Encyclopedia Britannica blog, I take on the argument made, for instance, by President Obama in his Friday news conference: We should not be asking sacrifices from middle-class folks who are working hard every day, from the most vulnerable in our society — we should not be asking them to make sacrifices if we’re not asking the most fortunate in our society to make some sacrifices as well. I call that a fundamentally flawed argument: The main thing our government does these days, despite the lack of any constitutional authority for it, is tax some people and transfer money to other people. …But there is no moral equivalence in the two sides of the transfer system. On the one hand, the government takes money by force from people who have earned it. On the other hand, it g... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050535 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:59:23 +0100 5050535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4615098&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fjapanese-download-medical-app-in-record-numbers%2F2011.03.20 With the tragic events that have recently unfolded in Japan, there is a large segment of the population who require medical attention, certainly in excess of what Japan’s health care system is used to supplying. Many of them have turned to the medical app, “Medical Encyclopedia for Home Use” — an application that offers basic first aid advice for treating medical injuries.  The developers of the app have made it free of charge due to the recent catastrophic events. The application is currently the number one downloaded free app in the Japan iTunes store, reflecting the tremendous need for continued healthcare treatment in the aftermath of the earthquake and subsequent events. The iPhone has done extremely well in Japan, with millions of Japanese users.  In the future, as smart p... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4615098 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:00:12 +0100 4615098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4377572&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-is-secondary-prevention%2F2011.01.20 A November letter to the editor in American Family Physician chastises that publication for misusing the term “secondary prevention,” even using it in the title of an article that was actually about tertiary prevention. I am guilty of the same sin. I had been influenced by simplistic explanations that distinguished only two kinds of prevention: Primary and secondary. I thought primary prevention was for those who didn’t yet have a disease, and secondary prevention was for those who already had the disease, to prevent recurrence or exacerbation. For example, vaccinations would be primary prevention and treatment of risk factors to prevent a second myocardial infarct would be secondary prevention. No, there are three kinds of prevention: Primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary prevent... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4377572 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:00:52 +0100 4377572 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071343&cid=t_129732_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FBPXgrcfQvGY%2F Just a quick note to announce a new Silver Sponsor of the SharpBrains Summit, and link to a couple stimulating online conversations. The Institute For the Future is an independent, nonprofit strategic research group with more than 40 years of forecasting experience. The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We provide our members with insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and social dilemmas. Our research spans a broad territory of deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology, the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is located in Palo Alto, California. I have been collaborating informally with IFTF projects for a few years, a... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071343 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:16:08 +0100 3071343 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894487&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeQAoROzALrs%2F The New York Times tries to spin the work of Nobel laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson as not anti-regulation: Neither Ms. Ostrom nor Mr. Williamson has argued against regulation. Quite the contrary, their work found that people in business adopt for themselves numerous forms of regulation and rules of behavior — called “governance” in economic jargon — doing so independently of government or without being told to do so by corporate bosses. But none of us “anti-regulation” folks are against “rules of behavior that people in business adopt for themselves independently of government.” The world is full of rules, from wearing clothes in the office to customary trade practices to the rules for managing common-pool resources that Ostrom studied. Anyone ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894487 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:38:58 +0100 2894487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1674829&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F08%2F01%2Fcorrection-regarding-the-medpedia-coming-soon-to-a-screen-near-you-post%2F Hey, everyone. Seems I made a typo the other day when writing about the newest online medical encyclopedia ‘Medpedia’. Seems I added in an ‘ i ‘ where an ‘ i ‘ shouldn’t be. Now, normally this wouldn’t such a big deal but it turns out adding an ‘i’ to medpedia = medipedia which takes you to a whole different site. A medical site, maybe, but definitely not the website that we wanted to direct you to. So I’ve gone back and corrected the typo and put in the correct URL as well. It is http://www.medpedia.com. That’s the one to watch!!! Thanks T.Scott, medical librarian, for point out the error my ways… Tags: health information, medical information, medpedia, online medical encyclopediaShare This (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1674829 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:42:22 +0100 1674829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1668428&cid=t_129732_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D3811 Medpedia is a new project about to be launched by the end of the year. It is billed as a free online collaborative medical encyclopaedia for use by the general public. Unlike Wikipedia, as the content has to be kept professional, editors and creators have to have an MD or a PhD. The associated medical schools and colleges are an impressive list, including Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and University of Michigan Medical School. You can check out a Preview of Medpedia I think this is promising and hope this site is a success. It won’t be the first medical or health Wiki though - check out this list by David Rothman a Coming soon: Medpedia (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources) Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1668428 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1668428 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=741465&cid=t_129732_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F134786866%2F Just random thoughts A truly interactive molecular graphics interface for advanced molecular dynamics simulations that an expert user can use. This interface should allow the user to manipulate objects, bring in sections of a trajectory, monitor progress, do real time “time series”, and be good to look at A search engine where I type in a gene and protein name and get back all the known public information on that gene protein via an interface that allows me to drill down and ask follow up questions The Encyclopedia of Life come to life Multitouch interfaces to carry out molecular modeling Multiscale simulation software that allows one to hook up a molecular system, e.g. a drug, with a bulk system, e.g. a cell, and evaluate the effects Technorati Tags: Molecular Dynamics, Visu... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=741465 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:32:44 +0100 741465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716643&cid=t_129732_133_f&fid=35125&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautismcrisis.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Flearning-in-autism.html Dawson, M., Mottron, L., & Gernsbacher, M. A. (in press). Learning in autism. In J. H. Byrne (Series Ed.) & H. Roediger (Vol. Ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference: Cognitive psychology. New York: Elsevier.This book chapter, mostly written circa the fall of 2006, was accepted for publication recently. It's more like an encyclopedia entry, where there are four volumes to the (very ambitious, and expensive) encyclopedia, encompassing some 159 articles and more than 3,000 pages. So far as I know, this encyclopedia is scheduled to be published in early 2008. It should also be published online, making individual articles available. Our piece of the encyclopedia was limited to ~6,000 words, which wasn't nearly enough, particularly given that we had to write for a general readershi... The Autism Crisis blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716643 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:56:00 +0100 716643 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=604532&cid=t_129732_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F115519242%2F This morning an email popped up, entitled “A good day for the world: The Encylopedia of Life is born”. The email was from TED. It was an email announcing the launch of E. O. Wilson’s Encyclopedia of Life. I first learned about it from Wilson’s TED Talk. What is it? From the press release we get the following Over the next 10 years, the Encyclopedia of Life will create Internet pages for all 1.8 million species currently named. It will expedite the classification of the millions of species yet to be discovered and catalogued as well. The pages, housed at http://www.eol.org, will provide written information and, when available, photographs, video, sound, location maps, and other multimedia information on each species. Built on the scientific integrity of thousands of ... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=604532 Thu, 10 May 2007 05:06:09 +0100 604532