Grand Rounds 5:12 — Healthcare Reform Q&A

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 9, 2008 |

“If Dr. Rob can inter­view San­ta, why can’t I inter­view a select group of health & med­ical blog­gers? They will have some good ideas to share”. So did Pres­i­­dent-elect Oba­ma came to real­ize a few days ago. After his peo­ple kind­ly con­tact­ed our peo­ple, we felt com­pelled to grant him open access to our col­lec­tive wisdom.…

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MetaCarnival: A Carnival of Blog Carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 23, 2008 |

If you are a blog­ger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good num­ber of excel­lent blog car­ni­vals focused on spe­cif­ic themes. If you are inter­est­ed in med­i­cine, you know what car­ni­val to vis­it. Edu­ca­tion, the same. Biol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, nurs­ing, birds, aging, philosophy…a vari­ety of top­ics are very well cov­ered in the…

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Update: The Challenges of Gerontology

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 14, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. First, I am pleased to report that have been invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate in a new ini­tia­tive by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum.…

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Medicine 2.0: the impact of web 2.0 on healthcare?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 10, 2008

Wel­come to the 30th edi­tion of Med­i­cine 2.0, the blog car­ni­val devot­ed to arti­cles that ana­lyze the cur­rent and poten­tial impact of web 2.0 tech­nolo­gies on med­i­cine and health­care. “Med­i­cine 2.0” 101 The first ques­tion is, of course, “What exact­ly is Med­i­cine 2.0?”. The sec­ond, “Who cares?”. The third, “Why?” Anthro­pol­o­gists are here to help. Who…

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Science and Medicine blog carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 20, 2008

A cou­ple of excel­lent col­lec­tions of blog posts: ‑The Tan­gled Bank: all things sci­ence, with a very clear pre­sen­ta­tion. ‑Med­i­cine 2.0: inter­sec­tion of Health and Web 2.0, host­ed by Berta­lan Mesko, its creator.

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Trading psychology and Trader Performance

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 30, 2007 |

Pro­fes­sor, trad­er and author Brett Steen­barg­er, one of the main experts on Trad­ing psy­chol­o­gy and Trad­er Per­for­mance (see our inter­view with him here), just announced he will speak at a Free Inter­ac­tive Webi­nar on Trad­er Per­for­mance “Dur­ing the Webi­nar, I will sum­ma­rize and elab­o­rate basic ideas from my book and also intro­duce new ideas developed…

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