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• John’s Hopkins FAQs: The meaning of neuroinflammatory findings in autism

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 130
  In their recent series on autism the Chicago Tribune exposed how a Johns Hopkins team’s findings of neuroinflammation have been misused to justify unproven autism treatments . The Tribune included very short piece, Researchers warn against misusing report . The piece includes a link with some very valuable ...
  12 hours ago

• Is biomedicine making the body invisible and immaterial — and uncollectable?

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 421
  Is it really the case that almost all museum exhibitions dealing with medical themes these days are displaying DNA-images and colourful neuroscanning pictures? Well, at least this is what the organisers of a meeting in Dresden next April seem to be suggesting. I think they are exaggerating a bit :-). But that said, ...
  2 days ago

• Sentinelle Medical launches Aegis Breast 3.0 Visualization

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  Sentinelle Medical has launched a suite of new application of their existing Aegis medical imaging software platform, targeting to work with their special Vanguard (TM) breast coils for breast visualization. Michael Vendrell, MD, also of First Hill Diagnostic Imaging, has guided the Aegis team in developing ...
  2 days ago

• Medtronic & Vital Images partner to create 3D Recon

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  Medtronic and Vital Images have partnered to offer a new technology of 3D reconstructions of CT Images of abdominal and thoracic aorta for preoperative planning for treatment of aneurysms. 3D Recon is a new service from Medtronic that converts two-dimensional computed tomography (CT) axial images to ...
  3 days ago

• Curatorial and artistic techniques in investigating and presenting (biomedical) bodies

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 421
  We are of course not the only museum that struggles with how to juggle art, science, materiality and medicine in our exhibitions. Next Friday, 4 December, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge is organising a most interesting afternoon symposium titled ‘Assembling Bodies: Art, ...
  3 days ago

• Autism treatment: Science hijacked to support alternative therapies

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 130
  Such is the title of the latest article in the Chicago Tribune by Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan. The article is subtitled: Researchers’ fears about misuse of their work come true . Go now and read i t. I’ll pull some examples here, but read the article. Send it to your friends. When a writer ...
  1 week ago

• Could car brake pads cause lung problems?

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 437
  We normally associate car brakes with saving lives – but now it seems they could also be causing us some harm. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology have found that heavy braking, such as in an emergency stop, can release particles that have been shown to harm ...
  1 week ago

• Tobacco harm reduction - no smoke without fire

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  Smoking kills millions of people every year and yet the medical community seems pathologically opposed to any measure to tackle the issue other than through the promotion of total abstinence. Carl Phillips suggests in his paper in the Harm Reduction Journal this month that smoking for just one month is more ...
  1 week ago

• Tobacco harm reduction – no smoke without fire

  
  Northern Doctor's Antidote — Authority: 92
  Smoking kills millions of people every year and yet the medical community seems pathologically opposed to any measure to tackle the issue other than through the promotion of total abstinence.  Carl Phillips suggests in  his paper in the  Harm Reduction Journal this month that smoking for just one month is more ...
  1 week ago

• Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 421
  An  online-version  of Adam’s, Camilla’s and my essay ”Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums” is now available on the website of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science . Here’s the abstract of the paper: The acquisition and ...
  1 week ago

• Biomedical visualisation and society

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 421
  Curators in medical museums that plan to get involved with the powerful practices of contemporary biomedical visualization (we all do, don’t we?) might learn something from the announced ‘Biomedical Visualisations and Society’ seminar and workshop series at the University of Warwick Medical School next ...
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• What is original research?

  
  BioMed Central — Authority: 462
  All BioMed Centrals journals strive to ensure the integrity of the scientific record and, as members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), have procedures in place to help prevent covert duplicate (redundant) publication. Non-transparent duplication within the citable literature is academically unethical ...
  2 weeks ago

• LA BioMed To Launch Study Of Testosterone In Older Men

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) has announced that it will participate in a large national study of the effectiveness of testosterone as a treatment [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Parents in lawsuit over Thoughtful House treatement

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 130
  Father takes ex-wife to court over son’s autism treatment is the title of a recent story on Statesman.com. The subtitle: Mother says intravenous treatment at Thoughtful House is unproven and too dangerous.. Yes, it’s about chelation. The kid has been undergoing chelation (suppository), but the father wants to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iowa Docs To Soon Use New BodyViz 3D Scans

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  Up in Iowa, doctors at Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center are getting the new BodyViz 3D Visualization software to view CT and MRI scans of patients in full 3D interactive glory on their laptops.  KCCI Des Moines has an interview with the software developer, Eliot Winer, and some of the doctors. He showed ...
  2 weeks ago

• LG’s 20.7inch AMOLED Display for Medicine

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  LG Showcased several new AMOLED display panels at the IMID2009 and FPD International 2009 shows, including an impressively large 20.7inch display targeted at medical uses. At FPD International 2009, LG Display showcased a 20.7-inch medical AMOLED panel for the first time. The panel features QSVGA (2560 x 2048) 5M ...
  2 weeks ago

• 10 Open Source Projects Changing Medicine

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  With health care reform being all the rage, Open Source projects are becoming popular topics as alternatives to the incredibly expensive and complex software suites in use today.  Smarter Technology has a great list of 10 open-source projects targeted at health and medicine, including a few great data visualization ...
  2 weeks ago

• Open Access Memberships: Are Libraries Paying Too Much?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 547
  Columbia University drops BioMed Central membership after it discovers it was paying way too much.
  3 weeks ago

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inappropriate clothing prevents children from playing outside

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that inadequate or inappropriate clothing might restrict kids’ physical activity in child care centres.A research team, led by Dr Kristen Copeland from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, undertook a qualitative study of 53 child-care providers from 34 ...
  3 weeks ago

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