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There is an interesting article in this month’s Atlantic Monthly regarding the “flexible” nature of medical statistics and the way that researchers (often unknowingly) massage statistical analyses to support favored hypotheses. The article is essentially a layman’s overview of the work of John P. A. Ioannidis, whose paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” [...]
The Virtual Autopsy Table (developed by Norrköping Visualization Centre and the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization in Sweden) makes use of high resolution CT And MRI. The images are rendered and processed into 3D models which can be manipulated using a the table’s multi-touch interface. From the website: The technique used in this [...]
A group of researchers at UC Berkeley has developed a portable, mobile phone-based light microscopy system (PLoS) for rapid computer-assisted analysis of clinical specimens in parts of the world where quality lab equipment or trained personnel are not available.
The New York Times featured a short piece about autopsies yesterday. The article takes a somewhat skeptical tone in places: We looked at each other, my surviving sister and I, and said no. It wouldn’t bring her back. We had had enough. We wanted to get on with funeral plans. Another reason, I realized later, [...]
The following document and presentation were recently delivered by pathologist Alan Proia at a meeting of ophthalmologists who wished to better understand how a pathologist arrives at a particular diagnosis. The presentation is centered around an interesting paper from the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine by Brazilian pathologists Pena and Andrade-Filho, and includes specific [...]
The World Health Organization has raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to phase 4 phase 5 for swine influenza, meaning that sustained person-to-person spread has been confirmed. Here is a map to follow suspected and confirmed cases of infection with the swine influenza A (H1N1) virus.
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