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Using Google to Hunt for MRSA and “mersa”
Most people turn to Google to search for news on Justin Bieber, baseball scores, and who got kicked off Top Chef last night. But users of the search engine also turn to Google for medical advice, typing in symptoms and conditions as a sort of pre-screening tool before making the call to the doctor’s office. […]
Linkage 5/20: Predicting Cardiac Arrest & Scolding McDonalds
A Magic 8-Ball for Cardiac Arrest Cardiac arrest is one of the most common ways that people die, and hospitals need to be constantly vigilant about the threat of heart stoppage in their patients. So physicians have long sought to develop a way of predicting who is most at risk for cardiac arrest when checked […]
Linkage 4/8: Exciting Bumps, Shutdown Ripples
In physics, there’s nothing better than an unexpected result. Wednesday, Fermilab scientists unveiled the graph at left and caused figurative rioting in the streets of the physics community, confirming months of rumors about an exciting new result from the suburban Chicago facility (You can watch video of the presentation here). It’s a big score in […]
The 2010-11 Influenza Season Preview
Until last year, the advent of the new influenza season was a pretty routine event on the health care calendar. Around October, people would be urged to receive vaccinations against the viral strains expected to plague North America in the coming months, with young children and older adults encouraged more strongly to get their annual […]
Linkage: “Swine Flu” Special
With the weather cooling and the kids back in school, the media coverage of the H1N1 flu – last spring’s “swine flu” – is building back to a fever pitch, if you’ll pardon the pun. As expected, colleges immediately found themselves dealing with campus outbreaks, and elementary and high schools have also already seen flu […]
Who Gets Dibs on H1N1 Vaccines?
Much of the latest news on the H1N1 virus, colloquially known as swine flu, indicates that the next flu season has the potential to be unusually rough. In some ways the last flu season never really ended; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 20 states are still seeing widespread or regional flu […]
