British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough presents his views on Charles Darwin, natural selection, and how the Bible has put the natural world in peril in an exclusive interview for Nature Video. Creationists against evolutionistsRelated posts: Charles Darwin And The Tree Of Life Nature By Numbers Psychiatry and movies: David Helfgott, Genius reborn ..read more »

In this recent study most of the third year medical students (91,2%) were exposed to any drug marketing type, and 56.8% of students were exposed to all classes of marketing methods. This made the medical students less sensitive to the negative effects of and having positive opinions about interactions with pharmaceutical companies. Want to know more about the strategies used by pharmaceutical company representatives? Read: A Drug Rep Tells All on The Carlat Psychiatry Blog. Disadvantages of interactions with pharmaceutical drug companies and physicians: It can corrupt professional values, e.g. new drugs are earlier used when extensively marketed before drug safety .....read more »

Major depression is a very heterogeneous diagnosis. Subtypes of depression such as melancholic, psychotic or atypical depression may differ not only in etiology and clinical picture, but also in clinical response to medical treatments. Do we need another subtype of depression, what do you think, let me know? The last decades the working mechanisms of antidepressants haven't changed very much, hence the name "me too drugs". Moreover, current antidepressants are based on serendipitous discoveries rather than on bench-to-bedside, targeted drug discovery although clinically efficient antidepressant drugs do exist, the situation is in many cases far from ideal. Existing antidepressants have many .....read more »

Look, who is on her T-Shirt? Made with PhotoFunia. You can select from more than twenty effects. Effect is using face detection technology. Which one do you like, show meRelated posts: More Photo Fun The Iconic Photo of the Berlin Wall More Photo Fun ..read more »

from Springwise.com Dr Shock has an old fashioned avatar, a photograph, on his blog and twitter. What does that tell you, an old fashioned guy? How do bloggers and such, choose to present themselves through an avatar? This was studied in a blogging, dating or gaming environment. For the most part, avatars in blogging were created to accurately reflect their owners’ physical appearance, lifestyle and preferences. By contrast, participants in the dating and gaming treatments accentuated certain aspects of their avatar to reflect the tone and perceived expectations of the context. Participants in the dating condition as opposed to those in .....read more »

The new grand round is up at Not Totally Rad, shedding invisible light on medical imaging. This edition coincides almost exactly with my first anniversary as a blogger. Therefore, as a loose theme for this week, I've suggested an anniversary theme, and have asked contributors to write about something cool or imporant that they have learned in the past year. Read on to find out what has recently crawled out of the tasty brains in the medical blogosphere... Related posts: Grand Round at Getting Closer To My Self Grand Rounds 5:1 – In Your Own Words SurgeXperience, Grand Round at Buckeye Surgeon ..read more »

Two of three humans never get cancer. Even the majority of heavy smokers remain cancer free. Is this a matter of chance, or are there cancer-resistant genotypes? Genetics play an important role in cancer. Not seldom the same types of cancer runs in families. Genetics tries to identify which features are inherited, and work out the details of how these features are passed from generation to generation. Genetic information is carried by a long molecule called DNA which is copied and inherited across generations.Traits are carried in DNA as instructions for constructing and operating an organism. These instructions are contained in .....read more »

If your like me, always trying new things online you end up with a lot of information streams. I have some 5 e-mail addresses, a couple of websites, wikis, several calendars and address books I have to keep in sync, many e-mail clients (apple mail, thunderbird) and this blog. When I came across this book: Google Apps, Deciphered, I started to learn about living in The Cloud and it's benefits. Cloud Computing refers to Internet-centric software and services that are outsourced to someone else and in this case to Google. Everything is on the servers of google and you can .....read more »

So your a physician but not web savvy, never heard of RSS and never want to, not a geek, nerd and still want to stay up to date with health 2.0 or medicine 2.0. Well here is PeRSSonalized Medicine Being up-to-date is crucial for medical professionals, but it takes time and effort. Sitting in a library with a few medical papers is not a proper solution any more. Learning to use an RSS reader is not that easy for those who don't spend much time online. PeRSSonalized Medicine is a free tool that lets you select your favourite resources and read .....read more »

In a recent post on Singularity Hub they have collected the most recent and their favorite robots and robot videos of the last year or so. Above is a very realistic one. They have collected 16 videos on robots, amazing. Many from Japan, I wonder? Here a slick one Related posts on this blog: Emotibots, a robot to keep people happy Emotional robot, a robot with empathy?Related posts: Amazing Videos About Robots Two remarkable music videos: Babies and Robots Emotibots, a robot with feelings, to keep people happy ..read more »