Inside INdiana Business (press release) AIT's Evans gave $48M to start Marian med schoolIndianapolis Business JournalMichael Evans, the CEO of Indianapolis-based AIT Laboratories, donated $48 million to help construct the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, prompting the school to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Mobile App Keeps Medical School Applicants Updated – Health Data Management
Mobile App Keeps Medical School Applicants UpdatedHealth Data ManagementThe University of Michigan Medical School has launched a mobile application for prospective students to check their admission status and be alerted to updates. The medical school last year received 5266 applications, … Continue reading
The Annals of Internal Medicine Qualifies for Fail Blog.
As most readers of the blog know, I am mostly an Infectious Disease doc. I spend my day diagnosing and treating infections and infectious complications. It is, as I have said before, a simple job. Me find bug, me kill … Continue reading
When a “scientific study” is neither
There is quite a bit of art to the practice of medicine: knowing how to get and to give information to a patient, how to create a sense of worry without creating a feeling of panic, how to use the … Continue reading
Legislative Alchemy I: Naturopathy
Via the magic of “legislative alchemy,” state legislatures transform implausible and unproven diagnostic methods and treatments into perfectly legal health care practices.[1] Without the benefit of legislative alchemy, chiropractors, naturopaths, homeopaths, acupuncturists and other assorted putative healers would be vulnerable … Continue reading
Homeopathy and Plausibility
The fundamental concept of science-based medicine (SBM) is that medical practice should be based upon the best available science. This may seem obvious, but there are many important details to its application, such as the relationship between clinical and basic … Continue reading
Testing a Chinese Herbal Flu Remedy
During the early days of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, the popular herbal formula maxingshigan–yinqiaosan was used widely by TCM practitioners to reduce symptoms. (It’s hard to pronounce and spell, so I’ll refer to it as M-Y.) A new … Continue reading
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s muddled draft policy on “non-allopathic” medicine
Detroit is my hometown, and three and a half years ago, after nearly twenty years away wandering between residency, graduate school, fellowship, and my first academic job, I found myself back in Detroit minted as surgical faculty at Wayne State … Continue reading
Global Expansion: PoP into Asia – Japan
By the end of the year, SoftLayer’s global network will include points of presence (PoPs) and data centers throughout Europe and Asia. As George explained in Globalization and Hosting: The World Wide Web is Flat, the goal is to bring … Continue reading
The Beauty of IPMI
Nowadays, it would be extremely difficult to find a household that does not store some form of media – whether it be movies, music, photos or documents – on their home computer. Understanding that, I can say with confidence that … Continue reading
Virtual-Q: Tech Partner Spotlight
Welcome to the next installment in our blog series highlighting the companies in SoftLayer’s new Technology Partners Marketplace. These Partners have built their businesses on the SoftLayer Platform, and we’re excited for them to tell their stories. New Partners will … Continue reading
SOAP API Application Development 101
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is built on server-to-server remote procedure calls over HTTP. The data is formatted as XML; this means secure, well formatted data will be sent and received from SoftLayer’s API. This may take a little more … Continue reading
Changing the (YouTube) Channel
As one of the newest members to the SoftLayer family, let me make something clear: One of the biggest changes in SoftLayer’s social media presence is directly a result of me. Okay … well I might not have directly initiated … Continue reading
The death of the 10th planet
A remembrance of 5 years ago, today, excerpted from How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming As an astronomer, I have long had a professional aversion to waking up before dawn, preferring instead to see sunrises not … Continue reading
Free the dwarf planets!
Most people will probably think of tomorrow as the 5 year anniversary of the demotion of former-planet Pluto. That seems fair; the Pluto demotion got all of the news, caused all of the fights, and promoted all of the discussion. … Continue reading
Teenager Jobs sought spiritual tranquillity in India – Times of India
Telegraph.co.uk Teenager Jobs sought spiritual tranquillity in IndiaTimes of IndiaAfter working at Atari Inc, an electronic arcade recreation firm as a video game developer in 1974, Jobs took a break and backpacked around the Indian subcontinent in search of spiritual … Continue reading
Reaping the Rewards 0f Risk-Taking – New York Times
Reaping the Rewards 0f Risk-TakingNew York TimesMr. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after a semester and trekked around India in search of spiritual enlightenment, before returning to Silicon Valley to found Apple with his friend, Stephen Wozniak, an engineering … Continue reading
The night of spiritual bliss – The Nation, Pakistan
The night of spiritual blissThe Nation, PakistanOne moment of enlightenment under Allah's light is better than thousands of months or years of animal life, and such a moment converts the night of darkness into a period of spiritual glory. When … Continue reading
Book Excerpt: Writing Down Your Soul
Janet Connor on why questions are the Mars Explorers of your psyche.
Feature Film Review: Our Idiot Brother
A delightfully funny film about a modern-day holy fool who brings chaos into the lives of his three sisters while opening their hearts at the same time.