A new study investigates how the observer’s perception of a patient’s character influences their assessment of the patient’s pain.
A Harvard Business Review paper has implications for the medical community, and the C3N initiative points the way.
F1000 extends ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ recommendations to a wider audience.
Among scientists who have experimented on themselves, Barry Marshall’s story is, literally, stomach-turning. His Nobel-winning paper is evaluated on F1000.
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. Diana Eastman wears her bones on her back: Now that’s what I call an anatomical model. It’s done with body paint I believe, and is not a tattoo. But if you want the hardcore tattoo anatomy, be sure to check out Street Anatomy. Be sure to check…
A colleague in our editorial department forwarded an article from The Telegraph on to me this morning as it poses an interesting question: are we wasting money on alternative therapies? Apparently, the British spend around £2 billion a year on unproved alternative therapies, and 100% of cancer patients have used ‘alternative’ therapies. Examples in the…
Dystrophin is the largest known human gene, covering about 2.4 million basepairs. The gene has 79 exons, which when spliced together yield a relatively modest relatively modest 425 kDa protein–still huge, but perhaps less than one might expect given its genomic sequence. It connects the actin-based cytoskeleton of muscle fibres, through the cell membrane, to…
“Pandemrix” The word might not mean anything to you now, but if I were to tell you it was a drug–or a vaccination–you’d probably guess right away what it was for. Pandemrix is an adjuvanted anti-flu vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline, targetted against the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. And it has a great name. Another great name is…
Can a human perform as well as a machine? Usually the question is posed the other way round, and depressingly frequently answered with “much better.” But a curious study in Anesthesiology suggests that with a bit of training, anesthesiologists are just as capable of interpreting the output, in real time, of machines that keep an…
Over at The Scientist we’ve got a Culture Friday piece on the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. On Monday I bumped into Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, and asked what, for him, would make a successful exhibition. It’s already successful… science is exciting
