AllergyNotes links to a case description in the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology of something never reported before (according to the authors, at least): a sexually transmitted allergic reaction to Brazil nuts.
Allergic reactions due kisses have been reported in the media and medical literature before.
This is a map view of the Cleveland Clinic campus with user-created photos from Panoramio -- a company acquired by Google a few months ago. You have to select the Panoramio layer from the front page of Google Maps in order to see the photos. This is similar to the Wikipedia, National Geographic and other layers which have been available in Google Earth for a while. There is no doubt the photos add significantly more information to the map, it almost feels like being there.
A Panoramio user even uploaded a photo of the Cleveland Clinic "information skyway": a series of 40 large TV screens which show photo exhibits with the goal of educating the thousands of people who walk across the skyway every day.
Welcome new readers and those of you who followed me from my former haunt. My name is Veronica and I will be your host at this blog. What will I do here? Whatever I damn please. But mostly I'll blog about feminism, raising a feminist, and books. I love books! But sadly grad school ruined my ability to read without skimming and thus not fully investing myself into a fiction book. That said, I still love fiction.
It has been only 7 months since the beginning of the year but there are already 3 new "diagnoses" published in the professional and mainstream media:
Prostatempathy is the reported tendency for male physicians of a certain age to order prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening more than what deemed appropriate. The term was first used in a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Wiiitis is acute tendonitis due to playing too much with the new Nintendo video game console called Wii.
Blogger in Draft is the test version of the popular blogging platform by Google which I also use to power many of our educational web sites. The Blogger team just introduced 2 new features: Podcasting Enclosures and Polls:
"Starting today, we’re automatically adding enclosure information for Blogger video uploads, so your blog with video has instantly become a video podcast. Your readers can watch your videos on your blog with the Flash player, or they can subscribe to your videos with their favorite podcatcher."
The Blogger team sense of humor is admirable:
"We’re not 100% versed in podcasting ourselves (thoseguysleft), so this is an area where we’re really listening to you for advice."
Those guys are Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman who started the original Blogger and added such great features as audioblogging which we used extensively to discuss EKGs, X-rays and clinical management. Ev and Biz (shorter names are easier to remember) created the podcasting web site Odeo which did not really take off and was sold some time ago. Unfortunately, our audio files have been unavailable for several months although the new Odeo owners are reportedly working to fix the problem. The latest (and wildly popular) project by "those guys" is Twitter which Joshua Schwimmer of Kidney Notes uses for microblogging -- just scroll down his sidebar to see the Twitter widget.
In conclusion, the video upload and podcasting make an already good blogging platform by Google even better. I would recommend it as a starting point to any aspiring blogger/medical educator.
AllergyNotes links to a case description in the Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology of something never reported before (according to the authors, at least): a sexually transmitted allergic reaction to Brazil nuts.
