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when young to live well, when old to die well
By bluerasberry on 2021-06-03
Someone asked for my thoughts on this early draft of “Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic” at the preprint repository bioRxiv. I look at lots of such papers and often have the same thoughts about them, so I thought I would share my views here to list how I think about medical research on […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia | Tagged sickness
By bluerasberry on 2015-11-10
At the 2015 WikiConference I met Diana Straussman, chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation. We had a conversation which I would describe as having two focus points – civility and non-medical information in Wikipedia health articles. As an example in our conversation, she told me that she had a student participating in […]
Posted in education, health, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, WikiProject Medicine
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-29
On Wednesday 28 October I attended a half-day of a two-day conference on “expanded access” at the New York Academy of Science. Johnson & Johnson sponsored the event and I felt that what I saw was guided by their pharma influence. “Expanded access” is a term referring to a pharma company’s provision of an experimental […]
Posted in clinical research, health, New York City, research, rights | Tagged clinical research, safety
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-26
My housemate Pat had her knee replaced on Monday 12 October. I have been surprised about her recovery. She told me that she had pain since her 20s when she had an injury playing rugby. She had an ACL replacement in response to that injury, and some disability since then. For the past 15 years […]
Posted in health, New York City, service industry | Tagged medicine, Pat Slaven
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-22
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization which compiles the results of medical research and publishes summaries of the collected findings. Cochrane is widely trusted because they are able to take a long-term view to their reporting, which leads to their publications being conservative, broad, and acknowledging of all major perspectives. Additionally they do […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, Open access, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Cochrane, Wikipedian-in-residence
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
I attended Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health from Thursday 25 June – Sunday 28 June. It was educational, pleasant, and insightful for me. The most striking characteristic of this conference to me was the frequent talk of entrepreneurship and market forces. In most of the conferences which I attend there is a lot of community […]
Posted in Colorado, Consumer Reports, education, health, presentation | Tagged conference, journalism
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-24
Right now I am on a plane from New York to Colorado going to the Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health, which is a medical spin off of the Aspen Institute conference. A team of us from Consumer Reports are coordinated to present and promote some Consumer Reports projects, including education about unnecessary health care and […]
Posted in Colorado, health | Tagged Aspen Institute, Consumer Reports, medicine
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-22
On June 20 I went to a conference in New York called The Seed. It is organized by a consortium of activists and nonprofit organizations who promote the vegan lifestyle, and this annual conference is a special event to complement a monthly vegan market and meetup which they group also hosts. At their events they […]
Posted in animal, health, New York City, non-profit | Tagged conference, food, PETA
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-07
Today I gave three Wikipedia presentations in Manhattan. I ought to be spending all of my time out of the office and at universities per the terms of my grant to do outreach to students, but as of yet I have not managed enough invitations to be on campus all of the time. Dorothy has […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, Wikipedia, work | Tagged hospital, PBS, WebMD
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-05
The New York Times just published “Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery“. The article talks about activity trackers and Apple’s software suite for reporting health information to Apple devices. It links to the story of a patient named Steven Keating who benefited from having his own health records. Keating’s “The Healing Power of Your […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights | Tagged activity tracking, privacy