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I found this widget which shows most downloaded mp3 songs from Amazon website.

I found this interesting forum topic about search engine optimising for Pligg, which I think will be useful in optimising my medical news and Obama news websites.

The newly discovered gene called calcium homeostasis modulator 1 (CALHM1), protein produced from the gene acts as Calcium channel. Research evidence shows that different variants of the gene also influence the levels of amyloid-ß peptides. The risk gene leads to a partial loss of function, which means that less calcium gets into the cell and it weakens the signals normally regulated by calcium. The researchers determined that one of these signals controls the levels of amyloid peptides, the building blocks of the characteristic senile plaques.

Researchers at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Albert Einstein College of Medicine found, a variant of CALHM1 is found more frequently in people with Alzheimer’s disease than in those without. They estimate that a single copy of that variant, which results in a proline-to-leucine amino acid substitution (designated as p86L because it occurs at codon 86), increases one’s chance of getting late-onset Alzheimer’s disease by 1.44-fold.

Other genitic risk factors identified for late-onset Alzheimer’s is Apo-E4. Just one copy of this gene variant triples the risk of the disease.

This is shoulder examination presentation which I prepared for SHO teaching at Warrington hospital.

Cuban scientists said on Tuesday the first vaccine to extend lives of lung cancer patients has been approved by Cuban authorities for use and is available in the island’s hospitals.

The drug, CimaVax EGF, has been shown to increase survival rates on average four to five months and much longer in some patients, they said in a news conference at Cuba’s Center of Molecular Immunology.

This weeks Grandround theme is Iphone, so I am planning to write some thing related to Iphone and medical feild. I am writing about health care applications currently available to be used in Iphone

Here is the list

Medical Libraries on Iphone

• Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Library Mobile site

Pubmed search for mobiles including Iphone

• From Pubmed official website
• Pudget (still in alpha)

Medical news, articles, books and journals on Iphone

• Netters anatomy by Modality Learning

Using outstanding anatomical illustrations from Netter’s hugely popular Atlas of Human Anatomy (4th Edition), Netter’s Anatomy allows you to carry the bestselling reference for human anatomy on your iPhone or iPod touch. Navigate through images with the flick of a finger, pinch to zoom, and tap to test your knowledge of muscles, bones, vessels, viscera and the joints. Use study mode to explore images at your own pace and quiz mode to test yourself on what you know.

• Skyscape on Iphone:  Now you can use all skyscape products in Iphone.

Skyscape, Inc. is the leading provider of interactive, intelligent health solutions for mobile and desktop devices. With a focus on the medical practice and health conscious consumer, Skyscape has established itself as a trusted source of medical and health information. Today, with its patented smARTlink™ technology, Skyscape provides fully integrated access to over 300 medical and consumer health references.

• EBSCO’s Dynamed on Iphone
  

DynaMed is available as a web application from your iPhone. In order to access DynaMed from your iPhone, you will first need to obtain a DynaMed serial number and use it to register with Skyscape.

• Unbound Medicine Iphone applications

Unbound MEDLINE
Get access to more than 17 million medical journal articles anytime, anywhere. Plus, Unbound’s unique Best Evidence search defines search parameters to retrieve evidence-based journal articles for you.

Unbound References
Your favorite medical references are now built for iPhone access. See how you can answer clinical questions quickly and effectively with Unbound’s popular products.

• Chondriac

Medical and Health News application for Iphone

 

• Medical Eponyms for Iphone by Andrew Yee

Drug search and Info applications on Iphone

• Epocrates on Iphone

You can currently access free online drug reference Epocrates on the iPhone or iPod touch by visiting m.epocrates.com/iphone which contain updated reference includes information on more than 3,300 brand name and generic drugs

Image applications for Iphone

• HeartIT Iphone PACS application

Heart Imaging Technologies (HeartIT) announced today that medical images can be viewed on Apple’s new iPhone. Physicians can simply click on a web link sent via email by one of their colleagues, enter their password, and, for example, instantly view movies of a patient’s beating heart halfway around the world. They can even put their colleagues on speakerphone and carry on a medical consultation while simultaneously browsing through the imaging results.

• MIMVista on Iphone

The MIM iPhone Application is a new multi-modality imaging application for the Apple^® iPhone^TM and iPod^® touch. This innovative software allows a referring physician or patient to view medical images remotely, without being tied to an imaging workstation.

• High Definition 3D medical images on iPhone - Technology by Ziosoft

Electronic Medical records and patient management software on Iphone

• Life Record EMR on Iphone

Life Record In Your Office, On Your Desk, In Your Car, And On Your iPhone Life Record is a web enabled application. That means it works under any platform. If you’re a Mac user, plug it in and go. More on the techie side and use Linux? We have you covered. Viruses are your game? Then load it on your Microsoft Windows based system. Do you do a lot of surgeries and need access to your patients no matter where you are? Then use your iPhone and pull up a full Medical record, make updates and even write prescriptions with the touch of your finger. From your office, the beach, golf course or a restaurant, Life Record is ready when you are.

• Styletap cross platform for Iphone and Itouch: When it is out you will be able to use all the palm applications on Iphone, but it is still in exerimental phase.

Notice on their website: This is an EXPERIMENTAL version – it is NOT a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an official version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.

• MacPractice on Iphone: MacPractice patient management software is now has iphone interfase.

• ClearHealth On Iphone: It is still an alpha release. More info from their website below.

This native iPhone application allows a provider to connect to your clearhealth installation and view schedules, select/search patients, and view lab results. This is an ALPHA quality release and there are several known issues detailed below. We would love to have feedback on the general structure of the application, installation deployment problems, feature requests, etc. Please report these in the forum or on this thread.

Patient Management Applications

• AirStrip OB™ medical application for the new Apple iPhone 3G.
• iChart - personal digital medical assistant for iPhone 3G

Patient care and life style applications

• Pedometre 2

This is an experimental iPhone application to measure steps as you walk. Install it manually by downloading this and installing all the bits into the proper folders on the iPhone (complicated) or by installing AppTapp, installing the Community Sources package, and then selecting Pedometer (easy and preferred way).

• Sugar track

Ipod software for keeping track of blood sugar levels for diabetics
Features: - Enter/Edit/Delete blood glucose - List Views: Today, Week, Month, All - Reports: Average, Min, Max of blood glucose level and insulin dose

• A.D.A.M. - medical software application on Iphone
• Medfile online medical records on iPhone 3g
• PointsCalc iPone application software for dieters

Other software that would be Useful for Doctors

• Iphone document viewer - Wild eyes

Wroughton Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol.

The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex mathematical number — the first ten digits of pi — and even astrophysicists admit they find it “mind-boggling”.

The circular pattern was created in a barley field near Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, earlier this month.

With normal installation of Pligg whenever you click tag, results you get are oldest articles at first. Which is not one would be expecting when they click. This is been very problematic at my websites medical news and obama news. So I tried to find a way to sort the problem. I did thourough search at Pligg forums and found following solution by savant.

Solution is

open ../libs/search.php

Find PHP code
asort($sortarray);

replace it with PHP code
arsort($sortarray);