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 the rest of this entry »

Just a quick note to announce that next Tues­day, Novem­ber 15th, SharpBrains.com will be host­ing two great resources:

1– Grand Rounds Blog Car­ni­val: the weekly col­lec­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere (see great lat­est edi­tion Here). If you want to con­tribute your own blog post, please do so via this Con­tact Us form.
2– Live Q&A Ses­sion with Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, coau­thor of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness (recently selected as one of the Best Books on Brain Fit­ness by AARP). Ses­sion will take place at 11am Pacific Time/ 2pm East­ern Time, and will be mod­er­ated by Harry Moody, Direc­tor of Aca­d­e­mic Affairs at AARP. To learn more click Here.

Please make sure to visit us Tuesday!

A new edi­tion of Sci­en­tia Pro Pub­lica, the biweekly blog car­ni­val that “show­cases the finest sci­ence, med­ical and envi­ron­ment writ­ing pub­lished in the blo­gos­phere”, is avail­able now, hosted at The Guardian’s new sci­ence blog network.

To enjoy, click Here.

If you write a blog about sci­ence, med­i­cine or the envi­ron­ment and would like to share your writ­ing or pho­tog­ra­phy with a large and appre­cia­tive audi­ence, you are invited to use this auto­mated sub­mis­sion form. We will be host­ing the next edi­tion, on Sep­tem­ber 27th, here at SharpBrains.com.

Quick heads up: the lat­est edi­tion of Encephalon brain & mind blog car­ni­val is Here, nicely hosted by Neuroskeptic.

New edi­tion of Encephalon, the selec­tion of recent blog posts on brain & mind top­ics, this time hosted by Mike at Ion­ian Enchant­ment. Enjoy Encephalon’s #75 edi­tion!

The Neu­roan­thro­pol­ogy blog team has just pub­lished one of the most com­plete and high-quality edi­tions of Encephalon brain & mind blog car­ni­val in months. Enjoy!:
Encephalon #71: Big Night

“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. With­out fur­ther ado, below you have Grand Rounds 5:12 — a Q&A ses­sion led by the incom­ing Pres­i­dent on how to reform (for the bet­ter, we hope) healthcare.

On Health Insurance

Q:  How does the blo­gos­phere per­ceive the prob­lem of hav­ing a sig­nif­i­cant group of peo­ple uninsured?

Health Insur­ance Col­orado: a grow­ing eco­nomic bur­den, which may lead to emer­gency rooms turn­ing peo­ple away if they are unable to pro­vide proof of health insurance.

Dr Rich: well, a recent arti­cle in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion showed how over­crowd­ing in Amer­i­can emer­gency rooms is NOT due to the unin­sured. Rather, it is due to insured Amer­i­cans who can­not get in to see their pri­mary care physi­cians. We may need improved care both for the insured and unin­sured groups.

Insure­Blog: I’d sec­ond that. Lack of health insur­ance is a major prob­lem but is it really our Biggest Problem?

It’s All about Attitude

Q: You may have heard my cam­paign mantra, “Yes We Can”. Can I count on your support?

ButY­ouDont­Look­Sick: Yes. If Leslie Hunt can talk so openly about her chronic ill­ness (Lupus) yet ful­fill her Amer­i­can Idol dreams, we can ful­fill our dreams too.

Notes of an Anes­the­sioboist: you are talk­ing to the group of pro­fes­sion­als will­ing to self-experiment with our own body for the ben­e­fit of sci­ence and our patients.

Med­views: My wife, son, and I signed up to work as med­ical vol­un­teers for your upcom­ing inauguration.

Emergi­Blog: I am on board too. But, please, remem­ber that car­ing is the essence of nurs­ing. And that is why my patients will always be my patients and never my  clients.

Neu­roan­thro­pol­ogy: Mr. President-elect, it seems to me that, despite all our good inten­tions, bal­anc­ing the bud­get and mul­ti­ple com­pet­ing pri­or­i­ties will be a chal­lenge. May I sug­gest you start prac­tic­ing some capoeira for equi­lib­rium training?

Shrink Rap: Happy to help. Now, we will need to pro­tect some time for qual­ity sleep time.

Train­ing

Q: I am encour­aged by your words. How can my team and I bet­ter sup­port you in your daily activities?

Aequa­nim­i­tas: we need more role mod­els for us to “learn to think, observe, and com­pare” and that the patient is our “first, last, and only teacher”.

Mud­phud­der: Couldn’t agree more. We need Read the rest of this entry »

A great new edi­tion is out. Enjoy!:
Encephalon #60

I will be host­ing the Decem­ber 9th edi­tion of Grand Rounds blog car­ni­val. Please email me your excel­lent health & med­i­cine posts, indi­cat­ing Grand Rounds in the sub­ject line:

afer­nan­dez at sharp­brains dot com

Thank you!

If you want to read a wide cross-section of some of the best blog arti­cles pub­lished in Novem­ber, you may enjoy the mas­ter­ful edi­tion of MetaCar­ni­val just pub­lished by Kim, includ­ing clas­sic sci­ence papers, aspects of the med­ical and sci­en­tific life, neu­ro­science, anthro­pol­ogy, and more. Enjoy!:

MetaCar­ni­val: Vol­ume One, Num­ber 2

The next edi­tion will be hosted by Berta­lan at Sci­enceRoll on Decem­ber 29th.