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Posted in List, Top 10, health, review, search, searchengine on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar has just been voted the ‘clear number one‘ by Medical librarian and author - Hope Leman (writing for AltSearchEngines.com) in her Top 10 Health Search Engines of 2008.
My list is based on ‘rapid resolution’ at the bedside (or at least pretty close to it!). Needing to find answers to clinical questions, guidelines, images to demonstrate signs [...]
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, search, searchengine, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Mednar is a one-stop federated search engine designed for professional medical researchers to quickly access information from a multitude of credible sources. Researchers can take advantage of Mednar’s many tools to narrow their searches, drill down into topics and discover new information sources.
Mednar is here and it is good. Check it out medical librarians, public library staff, [...]
Posted in Health Reports, education, elearning, emergency medicine, evidence based medicine, radiology, technology on Dec 30th, 2008
Yottalook is free radiology-centric web search engine and was designed to provide the practicing radiologists with the most important and relevant information at the time of patient care. The search engine is based on natural query analysis, semantic ontology and ranking algorithms powered by iVirtuoso. The thesaurus of medical terminologies is supported by the Radiology Society of North [...]
Posted in education, evidence based medicine, health, lifestyle, review on Dec 18th, 2008
An Australian doctor says he has created the world’s healthiest wine, which cleans your blood vessels and reduces the risk of heart attack as you drink it. Dr Philip Norrie, a Sydney GP and former wine-maker has produced a wine with 100 times the amount of resveratrol, the antioxidant credited with giving wine its health giving [...]
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women [...]
Posted in education, elearning, emergency medicine, evidence based medicine, health, search, searchengine on Nov 1st, 2008
There is a Brobdingnagian amount of health information on the web - becoming more gargantuan every day. So how does one stay informed and on top of ones game in this pixelated world that never sleeps. Textbooks are great for reviewing well-recognized facts and journals great for reviewing research developments (if a tad slow in [...]
Posted in bookmarking, search, social, timesaver on Oct 23rd, 2008
Collation viewers and aggregators are two-a-penny and I have already reviewed many. I wanted to draw your attention to Alltop.com as an excellent alternative to iGoogle, Pageflakes, Simply Headlines and the like.
Posted in Health Reports on Oct 6th, 2008
ClearSense Beta aims to make health data analytics accessible to everyone. The service analyzes the health information of users and creates personalized health reports.
Health information can be confusing, complex and overwhelming. ClearSense tries to help the user understand their own health information and proactively manage your well-being.
Really enjoyed used this site and examining the power [...]
There is a plethora of information pertaining to healthy products, the nutritional values of foods and ‘value-added’ goodness on the web. However nothing really cuts the melon like the alpha demonstration of nutritional analysis from Fealth.com
Fealth have created a magic ‘Nutrition Engine’ which provides the nutritional composition of a wide variety of foods and also [...]
Posted in health, search, searchengine on Sep 24th, 2008
Professional search engines are leaning towards increasing sophistication to provide access to diagnostically accurate, peer reviewed and validated information physicians.
The race is on to find the most efficient way for health professionals to search for clinical images, textbook/journal articles or answers to key clinical questions. Traditionally this search has been labor intensive and frustrating unless [...]
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