Neuromarketing the Neurology of Facebook
Facebook brain activation – visual cortex (photo by Marc Van Rymenant) First, we had the fictitious Neurology of Twitter study, sponsored by The Neurocritic. Now it appears there’s been an actual (unpublished) fMRI study of viewing Facebook pages, conducted by Netway, a neuromarketing firm. A global premiere: travel in the mind of Facebook users In [...]
March Madness and Health Reform: The Policy Brackets are Announced
March Madness is officially upon us and the Disease Management Care Blog is very excited – and not because it gets to simultaneously wear bright organge and root for a certain group of Wildcats from just north of Philadephia. It′s also because the end of the beginning for health reform has an uncanny resemblance to [...]
Our patients are sicker
What more do we need to know? The British Medical Journal published a study showing that Peter Pronovost’s program to reduce central line infections in Michigan saved lives. A new study finds that a safety checklist program developed by a Johns Hopkins doctor has reduced patient deaths in Michigan hospitals by 10 percent, in addition [...]
Residency Work Hours on WIHI
New Models for Residency Work HoursThursday, January 27, 2011, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time Guests: Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH, Director, Sleep and Patient Safety Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital David B. Sweet, MD, FACP, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Summa Health System James F. Whiting, MD, Surgical Director, Maine Transplant Program and [...]
A Successor to Medical Hypotheses
The late, great Medical Hypotheses will get a successor, the just-launched Hypotheses in the Life Sciences. (Great logo, too.) The Scientist covers the story. Science says: Bains [the new editor of HyLS] says he found a welcome home at the University of Buckingham, the United Kingdom’s only private university, where Charlton is a visiting professor. [...]
