Clinical Case: Antibiotics for Periodontal Disease (Gingivitis)

Berci Mesko celebrates the one year anniversary of his medical blog ScienceRoll.com . He started with zero visitors one year ago to reach more than 1,000 page views per day. He is generous enough to list me among his mentors but in reality I learned far more from him than the other way around. For example, I have never used my SecondLife account and Berci seems to be the medical blogger who knows most about it . I am happy to be one of his 266 FeedBurner subscribers. Currently, this blog stil... more

MarketWatch describes different additives found in Thanksgiving turkeys sold on the market: sodium phosphates, modified food starch, monosodium glutamate, butylated hydroxyanisol and butylated hydroxytoluene... The alternative is A Vegan Thanksgiving offered by a Healthcare CIO: "Protein: Tofurky - a tofu and grain-based roast available from Turtle Island Foods . I do not typically eat meat substitutes since I enjoy the inherent food qualities of tofu, tempeh and seitan, but a Tofurk... more

Google Blogoscoped writes about human predictability: "Google Trends shows an interesting search popularity graph for the queries “turkeyâ€� (as in turkey, the food) and “diet.â€� Searches for the traditional turkey meal peak on Thanksgiving followed by a smaller peak on Christmas. The New Year Day’s resolutions bring a surge in queries for "diet" every year, over and over again: There is an interesting correlation between depression and rain: Searches for " allerg... more

The Kindle is an electronic book reader launched by Amazon.com which uses an E Ink display and downloads content over the free Amazon Whispernet, which uses the Sprint EVDO network. The Kindle weighs 10.3 oz (292 g) and its battery lasts two days with wireless on, one week with wireless off, and charges in two hours. A computer is not required (source: Wikipedia ). Read David Pogue’ review in the New York Times. Mike Torres describes it well: "So far, I’m re... more