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  Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 15 2008 Doctors love pills: so do the public, and the media, and of course so do pill companies. When one pill dies, another must take its place. Are you feeling tired? Demotivated? I bet you are. But there is... Posted Mar 14 2008, 07:05 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: doctors, love, guardian, pills

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  Pep, zing, oomph, ker-ching. CoQ10. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Saturday March 15 2008 Doctors love pills: so do the public, and the media, and of course so do pill companies. When one pill dies, another must take its place. Are you feeling tired? Demotivated? I bet you are. But there is... Posted Mar 14 2008, 07:05 PM by Bad Science Feeds Filed under: doctors, love, guardian, pills

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  The New England Journal of Medicine Gives Direct-to-Consumer Genome Scans Thumbs Down The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is telling doctors what they should advise their patients when it comes to genome scans. And the advice is basically - Don’t Do It! Here are the concerns about genome scans as raised by the NEJM article... Posted Jan 10 2008, 11:09 AM by Eye on DNA Feeds Filed under: doctors, new england, medicine, journal of medicine, new england journal of medicine, new england journal, england journal of medicine, nejm article

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  WHIT: Adam Bosworth on Google’s encounter with healthcare Google set out to allow people who are sick to pool their health data and share knowledge. It immediately ran in to the huge problems of healthIT in America. People can’t access their own full data. What data they can bring to Google isn’t... Posted Dec 11 2007, 12:28 PM by Center for Internet and Digital Medicine Feeds Filed under: doctors, google, health data, share knowledge

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  Patient engagement through gaming After his talk to WHIT 3.0, I got to speak with John Abele. He mentioned that he’s focusing his time now on the use of gaming to train doctors. I wonder if gaming is a tool that doctors themselves can use to engagements. Imagine if upon diagnosis... Posted Dec 10 2007, 06:06 AM by Center for Internet and Digital Medicine Feeds Filed under: doctors, whit, engagements, john abele, game, diagnosis

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  Man sheds green sweat Ananova is reporting a case of a Chinese man with green sweat. No word on its validity yet. Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat. Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle... Posted Dec 05 2007, 09:24 AM by SciencePunk Feeds Filed under: doctors, amp, china, validity, sweat, chinese man