Abott Lab removed the sentence "increased risk of cancer" as mentioned for their arthritis drug Adalimumab (brand name Humira) on Wikipedia. Two minutes later, someone with the username Gscshoyru, whose Wikipedia profile describes him as a “recent changes patroller,” added the information back to the entry.Jeffrey Light, who runs the one-man nonprofit Patients not Patents used Wikipedia Scanner to see what the drug industry had been up to on Wikipedia. He made a press release on this subject, you can download this press release from the article on HealthBlog from the Wall Street Journal.Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal .....read more »

50 to 60 % of patients with a depressive disorder fail to respond to their first antidepressant. These rates increase in clinical practice setting to 65 to 85%. Estimates of TRD prevalence varies greatly depending on treatment setting. The lowest TRD prevalence is in primary care and progressevily higher rates occur in outpatient psychiatric settings, inpatients settings and academic tertiairy setting.Compared to non-TRD, TRD patients have been reported to have significantly higher outpatient medical costs, and to be approximately twice as likely to be hospitalized, either medically or psychiatrically From: Nemeroff CB. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007;68 Suppl 8:17-25.Prevalence and management .....read more »

Your genes probably predict response to ECT more accurate then any clinical variable. Genes, enzymes and neurotransmittersGenes are located on DNA in the nucleus of the cells in your body. You usually have two genes on each arm of a chromosome ( one from dad and one from mum). If the two genes are identical it's called that they are homozygote, if they are different it is heterozygote. Genes are read by other cell nucleus material (RNA) which starts a sequence to produce proteins. The most important proteins being enzymes. Enzymes are needed for the metabolism of neurotransmitters among others. .....read more »

Most scientist know PubMed. It is a powerfull search engine for scientific literature. It is a bit dull, not so very geeky. In comes Gopubmed. It has the power of PubMed and then some more. It has some nice graphic as well as usability improvements compared to the original PubMed. The results page is divided into two sections. On the right hand side the latest 1000 PubMed citations that match your search term. But the fun is on the top of the right side:If you click the “show statistics for these 1000 articles” you get the citations summarized on the .....read more »

Trusted.MD is conducting a new survey about medblogs. If you're a health care blogger do the surveyWHY WE NEED YOUR HELP We can't continue to get a better understanding of the healthcare blogosphere without your help. We need as many healthcare bloggers (those devoting at least 30% of their blogging time to healthcare) to take the survey so that we can make valid conclusions about the size and shape of this growing part of the global blogging community. Related posts:Healthcare and Internet in The Netherlands Grand Rounds 5.47 is up: Cost Containment In Healthcare Social Networking and Blogging: Psychosocial and .....read more »

In the recent past I was interested in search engines. You have different kind of search engines, the most famous being Google. Google is a traditional search engine.A meta-search engine is a search engine that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and returns the results from each one. Meta search enables users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Since it is hard to catalogue the entire web, the idea is that by searching multiple search engines you are able to search more of the web in less time and do it .....read more »

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Only 1 in 10 medical clinical professors are women in the United Kingdom (UK). No female professor was employed in 6 medical schools. The newer medical schools had a better gender balance than some of the more established schools.For the lower ranks in medical academia these numbers are somewhat higher but still much lower than for men.In FTEs lecturers in 2005: 36% were women, senior lecturers and readers: 25% were women. In 2005 there were a total of 3365 clinical academics, of whom 21% were women. There was a wide range in the number of professors per speciality; the majority .....read more »

" If you can't take good care of yourself, how can you take care off your patients?", this is what I tell my residents at least once during their training. 60 to 80 working hours a week is not taking good care of yourself nor your patients.You can't perform well with this schedule, you can't be patient, you will make mistakes, especially when working long hours at a stretch. Pilots know that and doctors should as well. Tutors should be role models for residents and teach them that they are responsible for their own performance. They should discourage the macho .....read more »

As a clinician I always wondered why some abused patients had more trouble recovering from their psychiatric illness than others. This article about the gene environment interaction in Psychiatry clarifies some of the variations in outcome. This article explains in relatively accessible written prose some of the experiments that have influenced our thinking about gene and environment interactions in relation to psychiatry. It is written by David D. Olds, M.D. Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons New York.He teaches clinical psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Columbia University and is an editor of the journal Neuro-Psychoanalysis. He has written often on the .....read more »