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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 [...]
Posted in Administration, access block, education, evidence based medicine, waiting times on Nov 24th, 2008
A large six and a half year population study has just been published in the MJA. Frequent attenders at emergency departments: a linked-data population study of adult patients. The study looked at all the adults attending the nine emergency departments in Perth, Western Australia with a view to better understanding the type of patients who frequently attend ED’s [...]
Posted in health, search, searchengine on Sep 25th, 2008
GoPubMed.org is an amazing piece of search architecture. It is a knowledge-based search engine for biomedical texts based on GO (gene ontology) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) developed in 2004. GoPubMed retrieves PubMed abstracts for your search query and sorts relevant information into the categories of ‘What, Who, Where or When’.
The ‘What’ category collates [...]
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