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Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Medical Blogging

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Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Grand Rounds blog car­ni­val, the week­ly edi­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere. This week, twen­ty four blog­gers share data, insights, ques­tions, reflec­tions and more. Enjoy! [Read more…] about Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Med­ical Blogging

Grand Rounds: 22 Health and Medicine Questions and Answers

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Wel­come to Grand Rounds, the week­ly col­lec­tion of best health and med­ical blog posts. This week we invite you to enjoy a broad range of insights, tips, and first-hand sto­ries, pre­sent­ed as a Q&A con­ver­sa­tion with blog­gers will­ing to answer, below, a total of 22 good questions.

On Health and Medicine

  1. What can one-word pre­scrip­tions deliver
  2. How does food pro­cess­ing change food´s nutri­tion­al value
  3. Can diet Increas­es Risk of ADHD
  4. Is alco­holism an illness
  5. What´s bet­ter: steady dete­ri­o­ra­tion over 10 years, or sym­p­­tom-free life for 9 years fol­lowed by rapid dete­ri­o­ra­tion in year 10

On Patient Life

  1. As we talk about wellness…what about devel­op­ing self-compassion
  2. Can patients with chron­ic pain still live a full life
  3. What is the patient-doc­tor eti­quette for using Face­book and Twitter
  4. Should patients in an ide­al world con­tract direct­ly with their doctors
  5. What are patient advo­cates focus­ing on these days

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Health and neuroscience blogs

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Two excel­lent blog car­ni­vals-enjoy these superb edi­tions, and dis­cov­er many new qual­i­ty blogs along the way:

-Encephalon Goes to Paris (Hilton) [Of Two Minds]: best of bi-month­ly neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog posts 

-This Is, Like, Total­ly Rad Grand Rounds on April 1st, Okay?: best of week­ly health and med­i­cine posts 

Update 1: good Car­ni­val of Human Resources

Update 2: Tan­gled Bank, with great sci­ence posts 

Test The Nation IQ Test

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The Cana­di­an Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion just con­tact­ed us to alert us of what looks like a fun con­cept: they are doing a major PR push to dri­ve as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble to do an online IQ test in their site, and they will com­pare aver­ages accross cities, pro­fes­sions Tat­too Artists, Mil­lion­aires, Fit­ness Instruc­tors, Sur­geons, May­ors, Talk Jocks and Celebrities)…

The test will be post­ed online on March 18 at 3pm EST and broad­cast to Cana­da at 8pm.

You can learn more here.