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Advocating for Global Health through Evidence, Insight and Action by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Student Voices: Advocating for Global Health through Evidence, Insight and Action Steven J. Hoffman, Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Fellow ... Read on »
What's new at Open Medicine? August 2010 by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy RESEARCH Cardiovascular risk factors in ethnic populations within Canada: results from national cross-sectional surveys. Richard Liu, Lawrence So, Sailesh Mohan, Nadia ... Read on »
Female doctors & students from "Across the World Unite" by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Kristin DeGirolamo and Pamela Verma reporting "Globalization is not only out there, it is both here and there”. These remarks from keynote Speaker , Graduate Institut ... Read on »
Open Medicine supports 'The Vienna Declaration' by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy supports , an official declaration of AIDS 2010, currently underway in Vienna. The statement supports the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policy, w ... Read on »
End of life 'quality' index by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Quality of Death: Ranking end-of-life care across the world 2010 The Economist Intelligence Unit   Available online PDF [39p.] at:  “…………..“Quality of ... Read on »
Men's Health - Canadian Consumer Information Portal by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy See also and (also ) The purpose of these pathfinders is to point consumers and health professionals to leading men’s health initiatives (and digital sources of inf ... Read on »
Can we build a digital 'community of practice' in medicine? by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "...CoPs are groups of people who come together to share and learn from one another - either face-to-face or virtually - are held together by a common interest in a ... Read on »
Scientific peer review provides .5 billion dollar public subsidy to commercial publishers by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In 2009, of an international 'peer review' survey of authors and reviewers was published (see ). As many of you know, is central to biomedical publishing and scientific ... Read on »
Here comes Apple's iPhone IV (soon!) by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy See also , and In June 2010, Apple announced its next major upgrade to the iPhone platform calling it the "." The iPhone 4 features an all-new design: two cameras, o ... Read on »
U.S. NLM and MLA presentations for medical community by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The following ’s presentations are from the recent . They range in length from 14 to 27 minutes, provide overviews and updates on NLM databases and services, PubMed, Medl ... Read on »
Open Medicine June 2010 - eBulletin by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I. ANALYSIS & COMMENT: Governance of conflicts of interest in postmarketing surveillance research and the Canadian Drug Safety and Effectiveness Network. Lorraine E Fe ... Read on »
Open data is part of the open access movement by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy See also , and Open data in government and health is a relatively new concept that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. Linked to (and other open movem ... Read on »
Open Medicine - May 18, 2010 E-Bulletin by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I. Systematic Review (SR) ~Efficacy of self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus managed without insulin: a systematic review and meta-ana ... Read on »
World Health Statistics 2010 by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy World Health Statistics 2010 “……contains WHO's annual compilation of data from its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of progress towards the health-related Mi ... Read on »
McDougall, collateral damage and conflict of interest by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy "...discussion of conflict of interest is not new to [Open Medicine]. One variation on the theme concerned the appointment of a pharmaceutical industry executive to the g ... Read on »
Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts. by J Mikkonen & D Raphael Foreword by Hon. Monique Bégin (Former Minister of National Health & Welfare of Canada) Publis ... Read on »
PubMed Central Turns Ten - Dr. David Lipman by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy , a session hosted by Columbia University Libraries () on March 23, 2010, given by David Lipman, NCBI Director: What’s next for PubMed Central? David Lipman, Dire ... Read on »
TRIP Database & TRIP Answers by Anita and Stephen .. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy See also PubMed - MEDLINE and SumSearch The is a freely-available metasearch tool used to find medical evidence. Although international, it presents considerab ... Read on »