I thought I should collect and share all the things I’ve learnt or found about Twitter as this is one of my favourite web 2.0 services these days. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows us to send 140 character-long messages to our followers. There is a huge health 2.0 community out there. Follow me and let’s keep in touch.

First, a few posts I’ve dedicated to this subject:

Twitter Directory: Find Professionals Easily
Health Tweeple to Follow
10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
Tips and Tricks:

Daneel Ariantho wrote about it on his blog. Linden Lab is working on something really unique.

But if you want to know what Second Life would be like in reality, check this out:

Second Life, the virtual world and medical education:

Top 10: Virtual Medical Sites in Second Life!
How and Why to use Second Life for Education?
Scientific Events in Second Life?

23andMe in Second Life: LIVE
Nature’s role in e-Science: Second Life conference LIVE
Famous Scientific Bloggers in Second Life: LIVE
SciFoo lives

Kerri Morrone is a world-famous diabetic blogger who is a great encouragement to diabetic patients all over the world. Recently, she has made a video for my Medicine 2.0 credit course and now she posted a video for the World Diabetes Day.

Don’t miss her interview with Dr. Val.

Two days ago, I posted a great video focusing on the major problems of healthcare systems. Then Brendan left a comment for us and introduced the Stay Smart, Stay Healthy website, the creator of the video.
Stay Smart Stay Healthy is a Humana new-media venture designed to deliver guidance, and to support awareness and understanding of the healthcare industry. Our goal is simple: to educate consumers on the healthcare system by removing the usual complexities and replacing them with an informative and engaging

In the modern era of the history of rehabilitation, we have Nintendo Wii:

Nintendo Wii Fit:

Second Life, Virtual Ability:

And now Gesturetek:

Here is a recent presentation of the Google Tech Talks series. The speaker is Dr. Andras Pellionisz (also from JunkDNA.com) and the topic:
Is “Big IT” ready for the avalanche of data, to be obtained and processed e.g. while the patient is still on the operating table, to be diagnosed, and how the genomics glitch, that caused a benign or malign tumor, could be compensated for?
Algorithmic approaches are needed to better understand genome regulation, even for the simple reason to deploy most effective dat

This is the 6th week of my Medicine 2.0 university credit course and this week’s topic will be medicine in Second Life. But now I posted a few thoughts focusing on last week’s slideshows on the blog of the course.
The example with which I described how deeply patients are interested in the tools of web 2.0 was the video Kerri Morrone posted for us. Thank you, Kerri, students liked and understood the message.

Chavonne Jones at Human Genetics Disorders attended the National Society of Genetic Counselors 2008 Conference and now published some interviews.
Two examples:
Kristen West with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Genetics talks about genetic services offered at UA

Joi Morris speaks about FORCE, a national organization that provides support for women and families with inherited breast ans ovarian cancer.

You can follow the Youtube channel of Chavonne here.

A great video from morethanmedication.ca:

Only 4 days left before my final neurology exam, but now I will share some posts with you in record time…

Logging On for a Second (or Third) Opinion (The New York Times)

Medhelp: The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions.

The Future Is A Foreign Country (Nascent): A v

You know well how important it is to know the rules of cardiopulmonary resuscitation properly. Now the University of Illinois medical school suggested to use the rhytm (103 beats per minute) of Stayin Alive, the famous song of Bee Gees.
“Properly performed CPR can triple survival rates for cardiac arrest, but many people hesitate to jump in because they don’t feel confident about maintaining the proper rhythm,” Matlock says in a news release. “Our research subjects felt that listening to “Stayin�

I told you I’m a fan of Patricia F. Anderson. She just published another great slideshow:
Twitter is a microblogging tool that is increasingly being used in area relevant to public health. Some of these include disaster management and response, health behavior change, and health information outreach. In addition, it is also being used by professionals and organizations for routine communications. This presentation will provide an overview and introduction to Twitter and its real and potential roles in pub

Gene Genie is the blog carnival of clinical genetics and personalized medicine. Enjoy the numerous posts and articles focusing on these interesting fields of medicine. We dedicate this carnival edition to genetic testing, SNP watch and DNA.

Many thanks to Ricardo Vidal for the logo!
Genetic Testing:
Grace Ibay at Genetics & Health analysed whether genetic testing would motivate us to healthier life.
Edward Farmer at DecodeYou posted about deCODE BreastCancer™, a genetic test to screen for risk of the mo

I’ve been a subscriber of the ScienCentral channel in Youtube for a while and there are really great videos about important topics such as genealogy (Blaine will certainly like it).

Genes don’t just tell whom you’re related to or why you look a certain way; now, they can also tell you where you came from. Researchers have created a genetic map of Europe, and they hope to expand it globally, as this ScienCentral News video explains.

Woman spots baby’s eye cancer online (MSNBC)

It wasn’t easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom warning that her baby might have a deadly form of eye cancer (retinoblastoma).

2008 NSF Scientific Visualization Awards Announced (Medgadget)

Stripped Science: A scientific comic blog from Viktor S. Poór who I met yesterday at the Researchers’ Night in Budapest.

Ping pong ball used in surgery (CNN)

The Superstruct Game: the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. (PI

The Independent Urologist just came up with some great tips about how to protect your online reputation. I thought I should add my suggestions to the useful list:

Blog and blog often.

Be patient. I had 15 readers a day in December, 2006. Now I have 1-1500 visitors a day. It takes time and effort (I wrote almost 1000 posts in 2 years).

Have your own website, even if you are part of a group.

Create a LinkedIn profile and manage your blog properly (e.g. construct a nice about me page).

Link your blog and

Here is a great slideshow I just came across:

And another one Joshua Schwimmer shared with us:

No comment:

Ok, just a short note. Their name is The Laryngospasms and have an own website where you can download other songs as well like the Fractured Femur.

(I found it on Gruntdoc who found on Kevin, MD who found it on EverythingHealth)

Some months ago, I was asked to take a survey focusing on the habits of medical bloggers. The research was conducted by Ivor Kovic et al. and they published the results in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).
We approached 197 medical bloggers of English-language medical blogs which provided direct contact information, with posts published within the past month. The survey included 37 items designed to evaluate data about Internet and blogging habits, blog characteristics, blogging motivations,

I just found an interesting article at the PHG Foundation about a new potential treatment for cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition affecting the exocrine (mucus) glands of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines. It is caused by a mutation in the CFTR gene. The product of that gene is a a chloride ion channel that plays role in creating digestive juices and mucus. If there is no normal copy of the gene, the person will be affected by CF.
The new drug VX-770 was developed by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation