Videos
- This is a link to video by Dr. Mark Hutchinson showing how to perform McMurray’s test to detect meniscal patholory from youtube.
For more information about knee examination please visit the link
Archive for November, 2009
McMurray’s test
Sunday, November 29th, 2009List of medical wikis
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Skyscape applications on Android phones
Monday, November 16th, 2009Skyscape which provides platform for various hand held devices like iPhone and Blacberry is currently offering its application platform in phones using Android operating system.
Link from Skyscape website
Skyscape is pleased to provide hundreds of trusted medical resources for the Android (Google) devices. This includes G2, G3, G4, MyTouch, DROID, and other smartphones which use the Android (Google) operating system.
We are offering you three valuable free resources – RxDrugs, Outlines in Clinical Medicine (OCM), and the Archimedes set of medical calculators with the Android Reader. The MedAlert service is also part of this installation, and you can easily add free MedStream channels (such as MedWatch and CDC Spotlights).
Your free products can be downloaded with Skyscape’s Android Reader by visiting www.skyscape.com/reader using your phone’s browser.
Altogether, Skyscape provides a state-of-the-art experience in installing and using the most trusted medical resources on these new and exciting Android smartphones.
List of medical applications available in skyscape platform can be found in my post about skyscape medical applications for iphone.
also see my post about blackberry skyscape applications and iphone skyscape applications.
for more Android medical applications please visit the link.
New Breast Cancer Screening (mammogram) guidelines in USA
Monday, November 16th, 2009New mammogram guidelines are released in USA which specify that there is no need to screen women in their 40s. Guidelines also suggest screening once every two years in between ages 50 to 74.
News from Reuters
Sweeping new U.S. breast cancer guidelines released on Monday recommend against routine mammograms for women in their 40s, and suggest women 50 to 74 only get a mammogram every other year.
The new guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an influential panel of independent experts, would sharply curtail the number of breast mammograms done in the United States, sparing women the worry of false alarms and the cost and trouble of extra tests.
But U.S. cancer experts say the altered schedule may mean more women will die from breast cancer.
Significant amounts of H2O (water) on moon
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I have previously written about Indian’s chandrayaan mission found water in moon. Recently NASA’s lunar crater mission found significant amounts of water that might help with moon bases.
More informations as per NASA website
The team took the known near infrared spectral signatures of water and other materials and compared them to the spectra collected by the LCROSS near infrared spectrometer of the impact.“We were only able to match the spectra from LCROSS data when we inserted the spectra for water,” said Colaprete. “No other reasonable combination of other compounds that we tried matched the observations. The possibility of contamination from the Centaur also was ruled out.”
Additional confirmation came from an emission in the ultraviolet spectrum that was attributed to hydroxyl, one product from the break-up of water by sunlight. When atoms and molecules are excited, they release energy at specific wavelengths that are detected by the spectrometers. A similar process is used in neon signs. When electrified, a specific gas will produce a distinct color. The ultraviolet visible spectrometer detected hydroxyl signatures just after impact that are consistent with a water vapor cloud in sunlight.
The Chandra x-ray observatory
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Very informative video about chandra x ray observatory and about x-ray vision in space.
First iPhone virus
Monday, November 9th, 2009New news about first virus affecting iPhone mostly jailbroken or cracked phones.
The virus, which so far appears to be confined to Australia, changes the users wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and displays the message Ikee is never gonna give you up.
Only those users who have cracked, or jailbroken, their phones and not changed their passwords from the default “alpine” can be affected.
Security firm Sophos said that once in place, the worm attempts to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself on them.
Sahith Penna
Monday, November 9th, 2009Sahith Penna – Born on 9/11/9 at 11.52
List of medical procedure guides for iPhone
Friday, November 6th, 2009This post will contain the list of applications for iPhone which help with learning medical procedures.
- Procedures consult: Internal medicine – General by Modality inc (iTunes link)
- Procedures consult: Internal medicine – Musculoskeletal by Modality inc (iTunes link)
- Procedures: Subclavian Line by MeisterMed - (iTunes link)
- Procedues: Lumbar puncture by MeisterMed – (iTunes Link)
For more iphone medical apps please visit link.
2005 infant mortality rates
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Article in Centers for Disease control and prevention comparing reporting how infant mortality rate is reported in various countries and why USA ranks 30th.
Some key information from the papers
Data from the United States’ Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set and the European Perinatal Health Report
- Infant mortality rates for preterm (less than 37 weeks of gestation) infants are lower in the United States than in most European countries; however, infant mortality rates for infants born at 37 weeks of gestation or more are higher in the United States than in most European countries.
- One in 8 births in the United States were born preterm, compared with 1 in 18 births in Ireland and Finland.
- If the United States had Sweden’s distribution of births by gestational age, nearly 8,000 infant deaths would be averted each year and the U.S. infant mortality rate would be one-third lower.
- The main cause of the United States’ high infant mortality rate when compared with Europe is the very high percentage of preterm births in the United States.
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