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Ruckus Nation: a challenge for children
I’m so amazed by Hopelab‘s projects as they always try to find creative ways to raise awareness on health and to promote prevention. Hopelab is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the...
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Genetic Testing: BlogMix and a funny video
I’ve been totally busy because of my summer practice at the department of pediatrics. I’ve seen many cases when genetic tests are needed (a strange haemophilia-related case, hereditary spherocytosis,...
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Genetically Naked?
There has been a serious discussion about the personal genome (a person’s genetic code) in the last few weeks. The beginning of the 21st century is famous for the success of the Human Genome Project,...
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Personalized Medicine: being up-to-date
I’m in the middle of several projects now, so I just wanted to share a bunch of links with you about the recent improvements and news of personalized medicine. If you read these posts/articles/papers,...
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Creative medicine-related ads
Friday fun with medicine-related advertisements. I hope Vanessa will like these as well. Enjoy it! Toyota campaign Source Against second hand smoking Against HIV The source of the images is Print Ads....
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Please Donate: My dream is to have my genome sequenced!
I know I’m not a Craig Venter, Misha Angrist or anybody else in the list of the 10 subjects of the Personal Genome Project (PGP) whose genomes will be sequenced and published, but as I plan to pledge...
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VisualDxHealth: Visual health care tools and widgets
I’ve recently come across a site that features several medical widgets created mostly for patients. This is a method how to try to educate laypeople about their own health. VisualDxHealth: is created...
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Personalized Medicine: Major steps on the way
You know well, I try to keep you up-do-date about all the improvements and discussions of personalized medicine/genetics. It’s not so easy as I expected as there are more and more articles written on...
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iGuard: Live Webcast Now
The webcast of Patient-Driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program is going live now. It features Dr. Judith Jones and Dr. Hugo Stephenson who explain how simple it can now be for anyone to better assess the...
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The Power of Sarcasm in Medical Education
I believe you can spread the word of the importance of prevention more efficiently if you use the power of sarcasm. It’s not enough to say “Don’t smoke!”, you know it well. Let’s try saying “Smoke and...
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Support Me to Have My Genome Sequenced!
I’ve already written a post about it, but this time Attila told me about an even more useful service, Justgiving.com, where I try to promote my mission more efficiently. I know I’m not a Craig Venter,...
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Ruckus Nation: An Online Idea Competition to Get Kids Moving
I’ve told you how much I admire Hopelab, a non-profit organization, for several times. After the Re-Mission game which helps children fighting cancer, here is their new project, Ruckus Nation. This...
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The Mother of the Year
We need to educate laypeople about their own health. It’s the responsibility of medical professionals to educate those who don’t know too much about their own health. Here is a good example: (Hat tip:...
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Personalized Genetics: Coffee, Cancer and a Pharmacogenomic Therapy
Even if I should study emergency medicine now, I would like to share interesting and useful links with you. Here are the most important articles, announcements of personalized genetics from the last...
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23andMe: The Re-Review
A week ago, I wrote a review about the three major companies focusing on personalized genetics. That time, I couldn’t include all the required information in the section of 23andMe. Now, here is the...
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Personalized Genetics: It has officially begun!
Do you think it’s enough to share some links about personalized genetics with you once a week? Of course, not! The live webcast of 23andMe finished some minutes ago which means I should write some...
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Knome: The Review
As today is the day when Knome launches the first commercial whole-genome sequencing and analysis service for individuals, I thought it’s time to write the review about them. If you want to read the...
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Personalized Genetics: Dangers
When I decided some months ago to try to keep you up-to-date in the field of personalized genetics, I only could include 2-3 articles in an edition. Now it takes at least a half an hour to reduce the...
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Grand Rounds 4.22: The Future of Medicine
It’s a great pleasure for me to host Grand Rounds again after almost a year. The idea of Nick Genes shines more than ever so I hope I can show you plenty of useful and valuable submissions from the...
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H1N1 vs Tuberculosis
My friend, Francisco Grajales III shared this great video with me. Hans Rosling has something very important to say about H1N1: 13 days H1N1 Tuberculosis (TB) Death 31 63 066 News 253 442 6 501 Check...
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