Using consecutive Rapid Participatory Appraisal studies to assess, facilitate and evaluate health and social change in community settings

 Just published in BMC Public Health, an Open Access online journal:
Brown CS, Lloyd S, Murray SA. Using consecutive Rapid Participatory Appraisal studies to assess, facilitate and evaluate health and social change in community settings. BMC Public Health 2006; 6:68.BACKGROUND: To investigate how a relatively socio-economically deprived community's needs have changed over time, assess which recommendations [...]

Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention

From the May 2006 issue of Headache: [full text by subscription]
Patwardhan MB, Samsa GP, Lipton RB, Matchar DB. Changing physician knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about migraine: evaluation of a new educational intervention. Headache 2006; 46(5):732-741.
Objective: Use a presurvey of primary care providers (PCPs) enrolled in a continuing medical education (CME) program on headache management to [...]

NCBI’s Bookshelf: full-text books free online

In collaboration with authors and publishers, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is adapting biomedical books for the web. The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept into the textbox above and selecting <Go>. Books are also linked to terms in PubMed abstracts: when [...]

Simulation and virtual reality in medical education and therapy: a protocol

This article was just published in Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society. (How's that for a title?) The December 2005 issue is free and it contains some pretty interesting articles, such as Factors Influencing Adolescents Engagement in Risky Internet Behavior and Relationships among Internet Attitudes, [...]

History and overview of theories and methods of chiropractic

These two articles were published in a recent issue of Clinical Orhtopaedics & Related Research:
DeVocht JW. History and overview of theories and methods of chiropractic: a counterpoint. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2006;444:243-249.
Abstract: Spinal manipulation has been used for its therapeutic effects for at least 2500 years. Chiropractic as we know it today began a century [...]

Financial conflict of interest disclosure and voting patterns at Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee meetings

Thanks to Bob Morrow for sending along this reference from the current issue of JAMA.
Lurie P, Almeida CM, Stine N, Stine AR, Wolfe SM. Financial conflict of interest disclosure and voting patterns at Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee meetings. JAMA 2006;295:1921-1928.
 
CONTEXT: In January 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a [...]

Friday Fun: Listen to Neil Young’s Living With War, for free

[See also Friday Fun: The Archives]  Neil Young's new album Living With War is available for free from his Living with War blog, starting today. The album will be available available in stores early May.
You can listen to it online  or host the music on your own site.  Here is Neil's Web site.
I can hardly wait [...]

Getting it right: being smarter about clinical trials

Kramer BS, Wilentz J, Alexander D, Burklow J, Friedman LM, Hodes R, Kirschstein R, Patterson A, Rodgers G, Straus SE. Getting it right: being smarter about clinical trials [A major NIH meeting led to recommendations for conducting better clinical trials]. PLoS Med 2006;3:e144.
 
 Excerpt: Concerns about adverse events, including deaths, in recent large clinical trials, both [...]

Spam Zombies from Outer Space

This paper by John Aycock and Nathan Friess of the Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, will be presented next week at the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research conference in Hamburg, Germany.
Spam Zombies from Outer Space
Abstract: How can better email worms be created? How can spyware claim more victims? How can better [...]

Friday Fun: Montage-a-google

 

This site is addictive and fun … You can search for Google images and make a montage, then <Print Screen> and save your masterpiece in PowerPoint or Paint or whatever photo application you use. It’s pretty random, but it’s really funny.
From the site: Montage-a-google (scroll down and click <Launch Project>) is a simple Web-based app that [...]