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 'format'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:22:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3743555&cid=t_149061_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F07%2F11%2Fwhy-suicide-an-interview-with-eric-marcus%2F Today I have the pleasure of interviewing New York Times bestselling author Eric Marcus on the important topic of suicide. Eric is the author of several books, including “Is It A Choice?, Making Gay History,” and “Together Forever.” He is also co-author of “Breaking the Surface,” the #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis. For more information, please visit: www.ericmarcus.com and www.whysuicidebook.com. Question: Why did you write “Why Suicide?” Eric: When I started work on the original edition of “Why Suicide?” in 1987, I knew that I wanted to write the kind of book that I wish had been available to my mother when my father killed himself in 1970 so she would have known what to say a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3743555 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:29:28 +0100 3743555 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3701675&cid=t_149061_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnavigating-the-new-york-publishing-world-to-help-patients%2F2010.06.26 The book publishing world, largely based in New York City, is in trouble. The fragmentation of the market by electronics large and small has chopped former readers into so many pieces. How can a publisher make a blockbuster buck anymore? The answer may come in translations of Swedish fiction from a newly-found novelist, now dead, to non-fiction ghostwritten for a face everyone knows from the evening news. In a whirlwind face-to-face series of meeting with publishers on a very recent sunny Tuesday in Manhattan, I got a glimpse of their angst and did my best to convince them that a book – yes, even all sorts of electronic versions and in-the-palm-of-your-hand “apps” – could make them boatloads of money and do the right thing for America’s healthcare consumer (just maybe s... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3701675 Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:00:54 +0100 3701675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2927589&cid=t_149061_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F10%2F25%2Funderstanding-the-differences-between-science-and-humanities-papers%2F In order to help students better understand the differences between writing a paper for an English or humanities class and writing a paper for a science course, I have finished up a series of articles in the Academic Writing section on Suite 101. The series takes a look at the differences between science and humanities papers read “Science and Humanities Papers the Differences.” It also offers students help on writing scientific papers in “How to Write a Scientific Research Paper” as well as explaining the different required sections in “Identifying Parts of a Scientific Research Paper.” Finally the different types of styles used in formatting science and humanities papers are reviewed in  MLA, APA or URM? Different Research Paper Styles. All of the art... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2927589 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:12:43 +0100 2927589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865686&cid=t_149061_101_f&fid=38969&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheemtspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2F06%2Fthe-soap-reporting-break-through%2F The objective portion of the report is the time when you state your case and tell everyone the stuff you found during your assessment. It’s time to become the CSI investigator and talk about your investigation and you findings. This will tend to be almost entirely objective information, however, don’t be scared to throw in the occasional subjective tidbit if it helps to paint your picture. “She thinks this bruise may be old.” or “His ankles are always a bit swollen but not this much.” If a subjective addition adds to the picture, include it. When telling my objective story I tend to start with the level of consciousness and skin signs then move strait into a head to toe report of pertinent findings. Remember that pertinent information can be positive fi... The EMT Spot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865686 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:43:13 +0100 2865686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2323802&cid=t_149061_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2Fe_ojrLOMNJQ%2F Image via Wikipedia I decided to test Mendeley again (Yes, I have some kind of a masochist behaviour for software), and as the last time I tried, I can say I’m not impressed. I tested on a directory containing mixed bag of PDFs, books, book chapters, articles and misc stuff. Most of the time the data was extracted but I ended with a wrong reference or garbage information about the file. Not mentoning that it took almost one full hour to analyse a little bit more than 500 files. I think I need to buy an eight-core machine now. The CPU peaked at 25-30% (one full core for it) on Vista, and the memory got up to 300 Mbs. Not impressed, maybe one day. (Source: Blind.Scientist) Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2323802 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:21:27 +0100 2323802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2202584&cid=t_149061_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F02%2F19%2Freminder-of-basic-computer-skills%2F Two skills that many online instructor’s figure their students have coming into the course are knowing how to copy and paste information and also knowing how to save documents in different formats like .rtf or .pdf files. The new version of Microsoft creates documents as a .docx format, which is only readable if the person has the latest version of Microsoft (or has the program to convert files). Another issue with Microsoft documents even just .docs it that they are more likely to transmit viruses. The concern about transmitting computer viruses is the main reason that many instructors require that documents submitted as attachments (which will be opened by the instructor) are submitted as .rtf, .txt or .pdf files. I found a couple of great online Video resources on YouTube with rem... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2202584 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:34:40 +0100 2202584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2207655&cid=t_149061_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F08%2Fhow-to-make-ebm-easy-to-swallow-bmj-pico%2F Guest author: Shamsha Damani (@shamsha) As a medical librarian, I try to instill the importance of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) to all my users. They agree that EBM is important, and yet, still resort to shortcuts (like using Google, asking colleagues, etc). And you know what, I don’t blame them. Given the amount of medical literature [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2207655 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:08:55 +0100 2207655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1852528&cid=t_149061_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblindscientist.genedrift.org%2F2008%2F08%2F25%2Fmendeley-a-very-short-review%2F Image by ! *S4N7Y* ! via Flickr I promised myself that I wouldnever use Mendeley, but I am not very good in keeping promises to myself and I decided to install it, after I got a comment from the co-founder (??) of the software/company. It seems that it is based on Qt, and a good point (maybe the only one) is that the program is cross-platform. I decided to give it a go and import around 700 PDFs that I have in one directory (I’m using it on Vista). It has been almost an hour already and the import hasn’t ended, and it is using one core of my AMD CPU. Process Lasso already lowered its priority 10 times, because it is taking too much cycles. For read a PDF file? Yep, uninstalling it soon. And not recommending it at all. I will keep using Citeulike, Zotero and the like. (Source: B... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1852528 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:17:38 +0100 1852528