Not another howto… but whetherto!
Liked this: “Not another 8 ways” post from “Levite Chronicles” While reading another HOW-TO book he reflects that he would rather need WHETHER-TO books/guides. “How do I decide whether to take those...
View ArticlePubMed: Past, Present And Future, PART I
I.The Past: Extremely simple, yet incredibly difficult For Part II (discussion ATM, Advanced Search beta: see here). Searching PubMed has never been easy, not for the advanced searcher nor the...
View ArticlePubMed: Past, Present And Future, PART II
The Present: PubMed is going for the mass. This is a continuation of Part I (click here to read) … Well, it seems that some of these enhancements are in the process of being implemented, considering...
View ArticlePubMed: Past, Present and Future PART III
The Future: ???? This is a continuation of Part I and II Part I (click here) describes that PubMed contains many different tools, some of which are quite difficult in use and/or hidden, i.e. Single...
View ArticleRandy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
********************************************************************** For people just looking for video’s, powerpoints or transcripts of Randy’s presentation(s), the most important links are these:...
View ArticleLaika’s Little Party
It’s time for some reflections on this blog and for a little party. Why? This blog has just reached the magic milestone of 10.000 counts (I’m still waiting for Wowter to claim his price). [party +...
View ArticleEvolution and Medicine. Cancer and adaptive immune responses as evolutions...
I had almost finished my submission for the Grand Round when I took a look at the site of the host, Moneduloides*, to find that this edition had “the interface of evolution and medicine” as a theme....
View ArticleThe Web 2.0-EBM Medicine split. [1] Introduction into a short series.
Since the three years I’m working as a medical information specialist, I’ve embraced the concept of evidence based medicine or EBM. As a searcher I spend hours if not days to find as much relevant...
View ArticleWhat I learned in 2008 (about Web 2.0)
Grand Round is a weekly collection of the best writing in the medical blogosphere. The coming Grand Rounds (February 3rd, 2009), hosted by Not Totally Rad has the following theme: February is the first...
View ArticleMartin Bril: the Author, his Death and his Cancer
Martin Bril is dead. No “news“, it happened a month ago: April 22. Martin Bril was a well known Dutch writer, poet and columnist – and the man who invented “skirt day”. He loved live -and love- in all...
View ArticleComplementary Medicine & Pharmacists
I don’t know if the situation is the same in other countries, but in the Netherlands we can only get prescribed medications in pharmacies. Drugstores are only allowed to sell over-the counter (OTC)...
View ArticleSilly Sunday #42 Open Access Week around the Globe
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its 5th year, “is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what...
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