Doctors, drugs and disclosure

  These two articles were just published in JAMA and the Journal of Clinical Oncology [subscription required]:
Ross JS, Lackner JE, Lurie P, Gross CP, Wolfe S, Krumholz HM. Pharmaceutical company payments to physicians: early experiences with disclosure laws in Vermont and Minnesota. JAMA 2007; 297(11):1216-1223.
CONTEXT: Recent legislation in 5 states and the District of Columbia mandated [...]

Learning book technology and what dogs do best

    Here are some little videos for your amusement. They all made me laugh out loud and they are not sexist, racist or political, so they are good Friday Fun candidates.
The first is a hilarious video called Training for a New Technology–”The Book”.  Here is a copy, on a blog entitled The Bamboo Project.
   The [...]

Physicians and drug representatives: Exploring the dynamics of the relationship

   Here is an intriguing article from the February 2007 issue the Journal of General Internal Medicine:
Chimonas S, Brennan TA, Rothman DJ. Physicians and drug representatives: exploring the dynamics of the relationship. J Gen Intern Med 2007; 22(2):184-190.    Related Articles
BACKGROUND: Interactions between physicians and drug representatives are common, even though research shows that physicians [...]

Drug Information Databases: an analysis

  If you use online drug information databases, or are in the market for one, you might find this article useful. It was just published online in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. I have looked up the URLs for the tools analyzed and you can link to them through the abstract below.
Clauson KA, Marsh [...]

Free internal medicine case-based education through the World Wide Web

 Here is a very useful resource from the February 2007 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings [subscription required]:
Pappas G, Falagas ME. Free internal medicine case-based education through the World Wide Web: how, where, and with what? Mayo Clin Proc 2007; 82(2):203-207.
OBJECTIVE: To identify and evaluate electronic internal medicine educational sources and develop a list of [...]

Folksonomies and Mashups?

  Here is an article that makes me want to go off the grid and live in a log cabin, with only a canoe and a bicycle for transportation. (But I have printed it and will dutifully read it.) The article was published recently in  the Health Information and Libraries Journal [subscription required]:
Kamel Boulos MN, Wheeler [...]

Whatsthatbook.com

  Is there a book you once read and would like to read again, but you just can’t remember the author or title?  Well, a former Google Answers researcher named Juggler will try to find the answer for you. You can register for free with Whatsthatbook.com and ask a question about that elusive book.
I have submitted a [...]