September 2010
106 posts
Sep 30th
MacArthur Foundation Winners →
Including Dave Simon, creator of The Wire.
Sep 30th
The Future Well: Health as urban design. http://bit.ly/cCLdrd
Sep 30th
The Future Well: A Kit Kat a day keeps the doctor away? http://bit.ly/ddIhNG
Sep 29th
RenalFellowNetwork: Do hibernating bears urinate? http://bit.ly/9i897p
Sep 29th
This is a news website article about a scientific... →
Sep 29th
Stuxnet Worm Is Remarkable for Its Lack of... →
Sep 28th
Uremic Frost: Amgen Voluntarily Recalls Epogen and Procrit Due to Glass Flakes http://bit.ly/aapCvT
Sep 28th
HDCN: Soil used by urban gardeners may be contaminated with lead. http://bit.ly/cfI8HE
Sep 28th
The Stanford 25 →
Sep 28th
“ON SEPTEMBER 28, AT 4PM in the afternoon, I will be putting on a show entitled...”
– GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS JOHN HODGMAN
Sep 27th
Digital Overload: Your Brain On Gadgets →
Sep 27th
Multitasking is a lie - your brain needs a break. →
Sep 27th
“Teaching manners is a delicate business; medical students are naturally...”
– Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin
Sep 27th
Uremic Frost: Magnesium May Decrease Risk of Developing Diabetes http://bit.ly/axE4GP
Sep 26th
The Future Well: We’re still getting fatter, who will save us? http://bit.ly/93IoZX
Sep 26th
HDCN: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement associated with markedly improved survival. http://bit.ly/aZioto
Sep 25th
Stephen Colbert Testifies in Congress, in... →
Stephen Colbert testified in a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on immigrant farm workers this morning (video here, not embeddable). The hearing got off to an awkward start when Democratic Rep….
Sep 25th
iPhone as Wheelchair Control Hub →
Dynamic Controls out of Christchurch, New Zealand has developed a system by which wheelchair users can control their iPhone using the chair’s own joystick. Additionally, the iPhone can…
Sep 25th
Beta release from Hunch labs: The Hunch... →
We’ve just released a beta feature to make it easier for you to add things you like to Hunch as you browse: The Hunch ‘Bookmarklet’. First, you add the Bookmarklet as a bookmark to your browser:
Sep 25th
RenalFellowNetwork: Post obstructive diuresis http://bit.ly/cAkkj9
Sep 24th
Sep 24th
Photographs Of the Super Duper Harvestest Moon →
Yesterday was the once-approximately-every-19 years occurrence of a “Super Harvest Moon” or “Harvestest Moon”. Here are some photographs that our readers took of the moon…
Sep 24th
RenalFellowNetwork: Something fishy? http://bit.ly/bIIzO6
Sep 24th
HDCN: Off-topic: Vertical wind turbines and schools of fish. http://bit.ly/9MdZAZ
Sep 24th
HDCN: European Medicines Agency recommends that Avandia (rosiglitazone) be banned from the European market. http://bbc.in/coivjf
Sep 24th
HDCN: FDA warns of kidney failure and other side effects from aromatase inhibitors in dietary supplements. http://bit.ly/c2WfYU
Sep 23rd
The Fading Art Of The Physical Exam →
Sep 23rd
The Stuxnet Worm →
It’s impressive: The Stuxnet worm is a “groundbreaking” piece of malware so devious in its use of unpatched vulnerabilities, so sophisticated in its multipronged approach, that the security…
Sep 22nd
Sep 22nd
RenalFellowNetwork: Epo: The honeymoon is not over http://bit.ly/do02Fp
Sep 22nd
Uremic Frost: DASH Diet May Reduce Stone Risk http://bit.ly/9ffYS6
Sep 21st
RenalFellowNetwork: My head feels like it’s about to explode http://bit.ly/9RhVQf
Sep 21st
Uremic Frost: The Kidney Diet: How to Eat in Order to Protect Your Kidneys and Avoid Dialysis http://bit.ly/byA7II
Sep 21st
HDCN: Adenovirus 36 infection linked to obesity in children. http://bit.ly/anksPc
Sep 21st
pwned experiments →
“We feature owned, pwned, and failed science.”
Sep 21st
Computers as Invisible as the Air →
Sep 18th
HDCN: MMWR reports transmission of a soil amoeba causing encephalitis via a transplanted organ. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Sep 18th
NCBI ROFL: Dogs catch human yawns. →
“This study is the first to demonstrate that human yawns are possibly contagious to domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Twenty-nine dogs observed a human yawning or making control mouth…
Sep 17th
Sep 17th
My wife dreamed she was forced to sit through Inception again and woke up angry.
Sep 16th
A Google Health update →
Google Health launched a bit over two years ago, and since then we’ve been listening to our users, analyzing feedback and conducting research. We’ve learned a lot from you! You’ve confirmed that…
Sep 16th
Sep 16th
RenalFellowNetwork: Doc, I am very sensitized! (part 2) http://bit.ly/dqFL5L
Sep 15th
HDCN: Key health law provisions to begin September 23rd. http://bit.ly/9yIH8j
Sep 15th
PBF: Altitude sickness and the role of acetazolamide http://bit.ly/9DU8bC
Sep 15th
HDCN: Read food labels and lose weight. http://bit.ly/d5ssIf
Sep 15th
Making a game of getting healthy →
Health Month is a game designed to help you improve your health. There are about 50 different kinds of rules. Half of them are rules about what to avoid - things like alcohol, white flour,…
Sep 15th
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Sep 14th
383 notes
RenalFellowNetwork: Secondary forms of hypertension http://bit.ly/d14CVE
Sep 13th