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Fellow Bostonian David Williams hosts this week's Grand Rounds at his Health Business Blog. He says it's his fifth time doing the honors . . . . Who knew Nick Genes was old enough to have kept this going for...

Grand Rounds 4.33 is now up and running over at Suture For A Living. (apologies for the late posting of this today). There is no theme this week. But in addition to the great posts, there are some great pics! Thanks to Dr. Ramona for including my post this week:Dr Anonymous asks a simple, yet, controversial question: If someone has used marijuana - even if used for medical reasons - should this prohibit him or her from being considered to be on a transplant list? Hospitals throughout this great nation struggle with this question every day.If you don't know what Grand Rounds is, it is a weekly compilation of the best posts from the medical blogosphere that moves to different sites each week. And, who doesn't like reading about medicine and science? Next week, Grand Rounds moves to the site

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Results of games…round 12: Radjabov 0 Navara 1    Gashimov 1 Grischuk 0 Kamsky 0 Svidler 1 Carlsen 1 Adams 0 Cheparinov 1/2 Karjakin 1/2 Inarkiev 1/2 Wang 1/2 Mamedyarov 1 Bacrot 0       Chess in Baku, Azerbaijan, Round 12… follow the “live” link on the side bar of the blog. Click on the chess games-images for a larger view. On this image you can see Carlsen [...]

Puma and No Mas have collaborated on several shoes as written up by my fellow posters in the past few months. The newest result of the Puma/No Mas marriage is a pair of First Rounds with a Seattle theme. “The Lottery” theme from a past collaboration remains with these First Rounds including a reference to [...]

Image: chess.com Pairings for round 9-13 at the bottom of this post. Results for round 8: All games were draws, except Inarkiev and Navara and Sergey against Mamedyarov…Inarkiev 1 Navara 0; Mamedyarov 1 Sergey 0 Slide down to see the results for round 7. All the games played so far in this tournament, can also be found on THIS LINK [...]

Grand Rounds 4.31 is now up and running over at Dr. Val and the Voice of Reason. She has grouped the post by feeling, which I don't think has ever been done before. And, she added a little cute tagging system to point out the especially good posts of the week.I admit that I have been a slug and not writing as much and contributing to Grand Rounds. I feel badly about that. But, I'm feeling a little resurgence, so maybe the posts will start flying again. Thanks to Dr. Val for including my post this week:Dr. A from Doctor Anonymous wonders if peace and contentment come from accepting one's lot in life. His post is called, "With Age Comes Happiness?"If you don't know what Grand Rounds is, it is a weekly compilation of the best posts from the medical blogosphere that moves to different sites ea

Fewer venture capital firms raised larger rounds of funding in the first quarter compared with the same time frame in 2006 and 2007, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson financial reported Monday.A total of 57 firms raised $6.26 billion compared with 83 funds and $6.21 billion in 2007 and 75 funds and $6.59 billion in 2006.Mark Heesen, the NVCA president and a keynote speaker later this week at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s annual venture conference, said the need for capital is helping drive up the overall size of funds.“The interest by venture capitalists in capital intensive industries such as life sciences and clean technologies will likely drive fund sizes upward for the foreseeable future,” Heesen said.

NISMO Team Director Iijima said, “Thank you for your support. Two consecutive wins from the start, pole-to-win, it all may sound easy, but the weight was heavy and it was a rough race on the tires too.”Read more...

Manga Review Finally Neji known about the truth story of his father dead. Neji’s father died to protect his brother, not a member of the Hyuga Head family. Neji felt much better to see that it was not the Head family’s fault that his father had died. The next match is between Gaara and Sasuke, but [...]

Manga Review Naruto wake up late, Naruto rushes to the battle arena where the Chuunin matches will be held, He meets up with Hinata who gives him a little confidence and also Konohamaru who makes short cuts that takes even more time. Naruto worries he couldn’t do his promise to Hinata,because Neji [...]

Joel Casamayor vs Michael Katsidis Fight Video ROUNDS 8,9,10 Great KO. Great Left hook. Casamayor puts Katsidis on ice. And I don't mean that now-defunct wack club in Las Vegas called Club Ice either. Actually, I never went, but I am sure it was wack. Joel Casamayor vs Michael Katsidis Fight Video ROUNDS 8,9,10 The Rest is Up to You... Michael Porfirio Mason AKA The Peoples Champ The

Welcome to Grand Rounds - sort of. For those of you who do not know, the real host this week is the one and only Grunt Doc. But, if didn't know already, he could not handle the entire GR himself. It's hard to explain. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then start with the Grunt Doc blog this week and you'll eventually end up here. For those of you who are up to speed and are bounced here from the Medgadget blog, I encourage you to watch my video post above. Here is a presentation of a few links that I have been allowed to present: Kerri Morrone blogs about Diabetes Alert Day. ERNursery goes off on JCAHO, er, The Joint Commission (TJC) on the wonderful area of hospital medication reconciliation. Neurmed explains how expensive placebos work better. The How To Cope with Pain

Before Ashley was playing hustle and flow ho with government officials, and even before she was an almost millionaire,  Ashley Dupree was my bachelor party wet dream. I’m not married and I have never been married. So I have never had a bachelor party. But if I did have a bachelor party, and if my [...]

Small and big wigs of Tollywood are now making rounds in Income Tax office followed by a few raids in recent times. So far the faces of Akkineni Nagarjuna, Pawan Kalyan, megastar's son Ram Charan, Mohan Babu, Sumanth, Tarun, Maharshi, Chinna and Ashwini Datt are seen in Aayakar Bhavan.It is interesting to know that Ram Charan too paid the Income Tax expecting an IT raid.Many in the Tollywood are planning to pay the income tax quickly before the IT raids on their houses. Nagarjuna paid hugest sum of all and he earned a lot through Real Estate in the present financial year.Hot sexy babe Ileana is also filing her tax in Hyderabad itself as per sources. She is busy with her auditors now. Courtesy:greatandhra

Puma and No Mas teamed up to release the 2nd installation of the PUMA X No Mas First Rounds, but this time with the theme of the Boston Celtics with their unfortunate luck with the NBA lottery and the tragic loss of the late Reggie Lewis. Highlights include black on black leather with embroidered lottery [...]

Grand Rounds 4.21 is now up and running over at HealthBlawg: David Harlow's Health Care Law Blog. If you can believe it, this is a health care lawyer and consultant handling GR this week. But, not to worry, this Valentine's Day edition is well done.In fact, it is so well done, that I have a post in this week's Grand Rounds, and I didn't even know it. On Sunday afternoon, I wrote the post called "Love Hormone," and I thought that it would be a great edition to GR. But, when I looked at the deadline, I read that I missed it. So, being a past GR host, I remember how annoyed I was when people tried to e-mail me something past the deadline.But, this morning, I was checking my stats and found that I was getting referrals from this week's GR site. When I clicked over there, I was pleasantly surpr

A former Miss India winner, Tanushree Dutta represented India at the Miss Universe competition at Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador where she finished 9th. The photos are from the swimsuit round of the Miss Universe event. A very hot bong babe indeed.

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All you true baseball fans out there reading this blog have to give me some credit for tossing these three topics together into a colossal linkbait mash-up of epic proportions and although these three topics I’m about to tie together seem unrelated, read on fearless baseball fans because today’s post is chock full of [...]

The feral cat colony at JFK Airport is the cause of a real a cat fight - between authorities and cat people. A group of about 60 cat lovers gathered at the Manhattan headquarters of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey today to denounce the rounding up of feral cats that live in a colony deep in the secured cargo areas of Kennedy International Airport. The roundup began last week. Port Authority officials said that scores of felines — some of them descended from cats that had been walked out of cargo holds or abandoned by their owners — were congregating around a parking lot next to an unused Delta Air Lines building. The roundup has generated a fierce debate. Cat rescue groups and animal rights advocates organized today’s rally. They said that an animal control strategy known as trap, neuter and release (T.N.R.) would be far more humane and effective than trapping and hunting the cats and taking the cats away. […] In a statement, Pasquale DiFulco, a Port Authori

INDIANAPOLIS (TICKER) — Starting in 2009, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament will have 16 sites for the first two rounds, the NCAA announced Friday. The tournament had eight sites the previous two years. It did have a 16-site format in 2004, when it set an attendance record. The decision was made after a 10-person committee reviewed the operational and logistics concern with the switch. The committee will solicit bids and select the eight additional sites for both 2009 and 2010. more…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA women’s tournament will have 16 sites instead of eight for its first two rounds starting in 2009. The tournament last used the 16-site format in 2004, when it set an attendance record. The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee announced its decision Friday. “As a coaching community we need to support the move to 16 pre-determined sites,” Charli Turner Thorne of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association board said in a statement. “We anticipate more…

Round one: User friendly -Adsense makes it easy to choose between ad size ad categories and color They give a huge help center to help you improve your earning If you type Adsense tips on Google you will find many articles to help you too -Adbrite makes it easy too: you choose between ad size and colors. You can set up your price. You can have interstitial ads and inline ads. Support is great too, nothing to say up to now however during the past year they ad many technical problems… Round two: Ad quality -Adsense simply scans your text and looks for keywords then generate link to those keywords. (Great system) -Adbrite is base on an ad marketplace so everyone can buy your ad space even if you talk about car a plane company can choose you. However sometimes advertiser are not so great. You can always refuse an advertiser if you don’t like what he promotes. Round three: payout rate. -Adsense payout it is at 100$ so until you don’t have a huge traffic, it can be hard

I wrote a my blog called Fabulous and over 50.I was doing some pretty heavy duty bitching about being over fifty and how much it really sucked.But I would like to take this time to acknowledge that there is a flip side to getting older and it it is not always a bad thing. This is because I am finding that there are many simple pleasures that come from the small stuff life has to offer. I could never really appreciate these things up until this time of my life.This being in in stark contrast to the the intense excitement and constant stimulation which was required when I was younger (like just a couple of years ago.)For example, up until this past year, I never had a plant that lived longer then a few months. I have recently come to discover, plants and flowers will grow and multiply if you give them water along with tender loving care!Since this revelation, I have slowly come to appreciate the beauty of growing my own small garden.This beautiful garden also gives Pinky(my faithful

At midnight just over a week ago, the seventh and final edition of the children’s wildly popular Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, was officially released. To commemorate the occasion, each section of this week’s PGR begins with a quotation or some dialogue from the story. A total of 25 blog articles are included in this edition, each one just as magical as the next, and I hope you enjoy reading them all as much as I did. I intentionally kept my comments short so that you can focus on the content of each article. So, without further delay, I present to you Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.8. Health and Science Harry Potter: Yes. Professor Severus Snape: Yes, sir. Harry Potter: There’s no need to call me ’sir’, Professor. Breath Spa for Kids Shinga leads this edition of PGR with two articles on the MMR vaccine. As the parent of a 2 year-old, I can appreciate the confusion and anxiety surrounding this controversial topic.

Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of Pediatric Grand Rounds, volume 2 edition 8, on Sunday, July 29th. As host, I invite you to send your submissions. What is Pediatric Grand Rounds? Pediatric Grand Rounds (PGR) is a bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children. PGR is a way for bloggers - parents, doctors, teachers, nurses - anyone interested in pediatric health issues to interact and share their thoughts, feeling, stories and articles. Past editions can be found at the Pediatric Grand Rounds Archive. Please note that your blog doesn’t have to be about pediatric health issues as long at the article you submit is relevant. As a parent, do you have a story about child illness, injury or preventive care? Have you written an article regarding a news story related to the health of children? As a health professional, do you have an experience dealing with pediatric health? I strongly encourage submissions from bloggers who have neve

(Domino) After first introducing Four Tet on the album Dialogue, it was with the stunning follow-up Pause that Kieran Hebden really turned discerning electronic music heads all the way on. A lovely amalgamation of gentle hip-hop beats, obscure folk influences and music-making software found on the net, the album elicited endless accolades and even generated cheeky new genre tags like "folktronic." The resulting trajectory sent Hebden everywhere from tours with Radiohead and Madlib to remixes for the likes of Aphex Twin and Beth Orton (who’s recruited him to produce her next album). Somewhere in all of that sonic madness he found time to conjure up Rounds, which simultaneously builds and deconstructs the strides made with Pause, resulting in an even more organic blend of quiet but muscular compositions. Opening with the woozily beautiful warm-up "Hands," the album sounds like it was composed by a man in love, especially considering song titles like "She Moves Me" (an Asian-influenced

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Pediatric Grand Rounds (Volume 2, Issue 6), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Breath Spa for Kids. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned: “Walter of Highlight Health reports more common in utero exposures: Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psychological Problems in Children. Researchers found that children whose mothers had been exposed to tobacco smoke either by smoking or exposure to second-hand smoke when they were pregnant had more symptoms of ADHD and conduct disorder than children whose mothers did not experience smoke exposure.” Article of the Week Orac reports on testimony by Stephen Bustin, a British scientist and world expert on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), from the Autism Omnibus trial. Technically not a trial at all but rather an “Autism Omnibus Proceeding”, the judges are not judges but “Special Masters”; the plaintiff, some 4,800 families who have filed claims f

Pediatric Grand Rounds (Volume 2, Issue 5), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Med Journal Watch. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the “Hot topics” section: “Neurofibromatosis, a rare tumor in children, is another such case. Walter at Highlight Health reviews a conference that just has been held about the subject. The sad story is that the funds for research against this disease have been heavily cut. If you want this to be changed, feel free to click the donation link at the bottom of Neurofibromatosis and The Children’s Tumor Foundation.” Article of the Week Nancy L. Brown at Healthline reports on a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics that tested the ability of modifiable and nonmodifiable factors to prospectively predict healthcare use by male adolescents. The study found three modifiable factors that prospectively influence healthcare use among male adolescents in the U

Round 1 1. Chicago 2. Philadelphia 3. Phoenix 4. Los Angeles 5. Washington 6. Edmonton 7. Columbus 8. Boston 9. St. Louis 10. Florida 11. Carolina 12. Montreal 13. Toronto 14. Colorado 15. Edmonton (from NYI) 16. Anaheim (from T.B.) 17. NY Rangers 18. Calgary 19. Minnesota 20. Pittsburgh 21. Phoenix (from DAL) 22. Montreal (from S.J.) 23. Philadelphia (from NSH) 24. St. Louis (from ATL) 25.

A Memorial Day Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 36) is up at From Medskool. Colin has done a great job organizing 50 of the best posts the medical blogosphere has to offer this week in eight categories including “Dealing with Disease”, “The Clinical”, “Health Policy”, “Tales & Rants of Medical Students”, “Tales & Rants Of Professionals” and “Wellness & Public Health”. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the Health Policy section: “Highlight Health does a recap of the blogosphere’s response to the disappearance of so many of its own. Walter includes some proposals for how to improve the ethics of medical blogging.” It’s time for your dose of the week’s best medical blogging, so head on over for some great reading. Grand Rounds, the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been published every week since September 2004. You can find the Grand Rounds archives

Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 32) is up at ImpactEDnurse. Ian challenged everyone to submit a post they were particularly proud of. Each link is followed by a brief preface by its author. Head on over for some excellent reading! Highlight HEALTH was among the authors listed: Highlight Health: The best way to stay healthy and avoid getting sick. “This is one of my earlier articles (I’ve been writing Highlight HEALTH since late December 2006). I was just starting to get in my “groove” writing the types of articles I wanted to publish (i.e. informative, heavily referenced). This was one of those articles that just took on a life of its own and blossomed into quite an interesting post. Handwashing … so simple, yet so important for good health.” Grand Rounds, the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been published every week since September 2004. You can find the Grand Rounds archives on Blogborygmi. blog carnival, grand rounds, handw

Pediatric Grand Rounds (Volume 2, Issue 3), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Ami Chopine. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the “Dealing with Illness” section: “Walter of Highlight HEALTH gives us some advice regarding how to use the internet to become an empowered patient and advocate when you or your child has a complex illness.” Article of the week Shinga graciously contributed eleven pediatric links from the blogosphere. As such, I thought I would honor her contribution to PGR by highlighting a delightful article she wrote recently about Reducing Hayfever Symptoms. With a nod to neologist Steven Colbert, Shinga recommends the Buff, original multifunctional headwear that can be used to cover your head or as a filter over your nose and mouth. Take that! pollen and airborne irritants. Thanks to a recent paper suggesting that randomized clinical trials and conventional evidence should be repl

Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 32) is up at Shrink Rap: BYOB (Bring Your Own Brain). Dinah, ClinkShrink and Roy have also put together a podcast of this week’s GR. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the Internet section: “Walter from Highlight Health provides us a list of Healthcare Self-Mangement Suggestions for e-Patients.” Grand Rounds, the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been published every week since September 2004. You can find the Grand Rounds archives on Blogborygmi. blog carnival, grand rounds

A “stellar” Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 31) is up at Med Valley High. Liana wrote a great GR of highlights of the medical blogging universe using a space odessy theme. Articles of the week Berci over at Scienceroll presents Genetics and Web 2.0: The Presentation. The result of 4 months work, Berci presents the importance and role of Web 2.0 in the future of medicine, the first of a series of presentations. I’ve highlighted other articles from Berci when I wrote about Web 3.0 and Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine. Scienceroll is becoming a definitive resource for medical Web 2.0 information. Tony Chen presents a Consumer’s Guide to the Top Healthcare 2.0 Websites. Tony lists a number of different websites that allow you to interact with others about healthcare-related topics. Grand Rounds, the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been published every week since September 2004. You can find the Grand Rounds archives on

A popular blog decided to call Cartel to task for their marketing ploy -- which has worked. I can't think of another time when I would have reason or inclination to write multiple Cartel stories. Cartel responded. And man, this stuff is good.

Pediatric Grand Rounds (PGR) Volume 2, Edition 1: The Year In Review has been posted over at Unintelligent Design. Clark Bartram, the father of PGR, choose the posts he thought were the “cream of the crop” from the past 12 months worth of PGR editions. It’s a Best of the Best PGR, so make time for some great reading and head on over. Pediatric Grand Rounds, the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been published since April 2006. You can find the past editions at the Pediatric Grand Rounds Archive. blog carnival, pediatric grand rounds

Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 30), the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been posted at Fat Doctor. Highlight HEALTH was mentioned under Policy Matters: Walter at Highlight Health reviews efforts to establish trust and credibility on medical blogs. They might as well pull the plug on my blog right now if that’s the standard, but I can see where he comes from. Article of the week David at Health Business Blog offers some tips on how patients in the “evolving pharma landscape” can make better use of both doctors and pharmacists and how to save some money. “We can also learn a lot from free resources including drugs.com and Drug Digest. If you can get your hands on professional literature such as The Medical Letter on Drugs & Therapeutics I encourage you to do so. You’ll find unbiased information that’s not so hard for a layperson to comprehend.” His article makes the same point I made in an article about pharmacy e

Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 29), the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been posted at Dr Dork. There were roughly four times the number of submissions for the designated size of this week’s edition. Only 30 selections made the cut - Highlight HEALTH was mentioned in the Medicine in the Media section: Walter at HighlightHealth examines an inflammatory television “investigation” of pharmaceutical dispensing errors. Articles of the week ChronicBabe suggests 10 ways to make more time for yourself when you’re sick. The article and her tips on time management are an excellent read. Orac evaluates the Early detection of cancer, arguing that we shouldn’t detect disease at ever lower thresholds nor treat cancer at ever earlier time points. His discussion of this surprisingly complicated question is thought-provoking as always. Remember, choosing a healthy lifestyle can not only maintain your health, but reduce your risks for deve

Pediatric Grand Rounds (Volume 1, Issue 26), the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to the health of children, has been posted at Dr. Flea Blog. This edition’s articles are presented quite originally in context of the anatomy of a Flea. Highlight HEALTH has been mentioned in the Antennae section: Let us point our [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit HighlightHEALTH.com for full links, other content and more! ]]

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Grand Rounds (Volume 3, Issue 28), the weekly blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere, has been posted at Urostream. Highlight HEALTH has been mentioned in the Money and Health section: Highlight Health delivers us an inconvenient financial truth about healthcare costs being dangerous for US financial stability. It is sobering article that tries [...]

Bernard Dunne successfully defended his European title against challenger Yersin Jailauov in front of a sold-out Point on Sunday night. The win was the 23rd straight win of the Neilstown man's professional career.

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Alot of things will be happening on my blog over the next week. My precious friend Ipanema has bestowed an honor on me. I don't think I deserve it, but I am very honored non the less. I can't tell you about it though, until I officially post it. I have to figure out which 5 of my blog friends I will chose to receive this honor. Then she also gave me a second honor and I will also follow up on

First of all, I did not like it that the Hollywood rounds consisted of only one episode. Second of all, I am not really gung ho over anyone yet. I really liked Sundance’s original audition but last night he sounded awful. That was a disappointment. There are only a couple of girls I’m pulling for right now. One is the 2nd half of the “Best Friends”, Antonella. I was so glad her little diva friend was cut and not her. She seems to really have her head on straight. I am also liking Gina Glockson (the rocker chick). She made it to Hollywood last year but messed up her song and her room was cut. As for the other guys I really like Brandon Rogers but they didn’t show him singing last night. Chris Sligh is another one I’m pulling for (chubby funny guy with the fro). I read AI spoilers and I already know who the top 24 is.  A lot of them we haven’t even seen yet.

Gentle Readers, My piece over at the Lost Genre Guild Blog, Roots in Frozen Generation, has been quite a hit so far. If the intersection of abortion and racism and/or how I handled those two issues in the short story referenced in the piece’s title interests you, go check it out. Love in Christ, Andrea Graham

Grand Rounds 3.19 is now up and running at the blog called Envisioning 2.0. The theme is consumer driven health care. Because I was so busy last week, I didn't have an opportunity to submit anything. If you don't know what Grand Rounds is, it is a weekly compilation of the best posts from the medical blogosphere that moves to different sites each week. And, who doesn't like reading about medicine and science? Next week, GR moves to Tales from the Emergency Room.

Grand Rounds 3.18 is now up and running at Signout. Dr. Signout is a first-year resident (ie - intern) in an internal medicine residency in the US. She moved her blog recently to the scienceblogs family. Thanks to Dr. Signout for including my submission this week... For Dr. Anonymous, uterus transplants provoke many questions, but few answers.If you don't know what Grand Rounds is, it is a weekly compilation of the best posts from the medical blogosphere that moves to different sites each week. And, who doesn't like reading about medicine and science? I have no idea how Dr. Signout managed to put together GR and be an intern. I know it was crazy for me when I hosted. Nonethless, great job! Next week, Grand Rounds moves to Envisioning 2.0. Addendum: Hmmmmm... I tried to leave a comment of congrats over there and it told me I was "forbidden" to leave a comment. That's interesting. Maybe someone over there at scienceblogs just doesn't like me. Anyway, congrats on GR, Dr. Signout.

Grand Rounds 3.17 is up and running at Kerri's site called Six Until Me. She has a theme this week and it's called "Emotions in Healthcare." And, she has put together in a very creative poem encompassing her theme. Thanks to Kerri for including my submission. If you don't know what Grand Rounds is, it is a weekly compilation of the best posts from the medical blogosphere that moves to different sites each week. And, who doesn't like reading about medicine and science? A very interesting and well done edition of GR this week. Great job Kerri! Next week, Grand Rounds moves to the blog called Signout.

Dr. John Lapuma has Grand Rounds 3.16 this week. He calls his theme "food as medicine." An interesting batch of posts this week. I tried to leave a comment over there and you have to be "logged in" to leave a comment. Oh well. If you have no idea what Grand Rounds is, it is a collection of posts collected every week from the medical blogosphere. Next week, GR moves to Kerri's blog called Six Until Me....

Doctor Rob over at Musings of a Distractible Mind has Grand Rounds 3.15 now up and running. A rather explosive theme this week - literally. A creative mix of pictures and music intermixed among this weeks postings. If you've never heard of Grand Rounds before, it's a weekly collection of the best posts that the medical blogsosphere has to offer. Are you interested in medical topics? Well, who isn't? I encourage you to head on over to Dr. Rob's site and check it out. It's Grand Rounds!

I'm going to be working a lot this week. So, I want to apologize up front if I have a sparsity of posts over the next few days. The docs in our group take turns working the holidays throughout the year, and this is my year for the Xmas/New Year's stretch. Also, I've gotten lots of spam comments the last few days. So, I'll be moderating comments until I think the spam has slowed down. Sorry. And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming... Grand Rounds 3.14 has went home for the holidays. If you have never heard of Grand Rounds before, it is a group of medically related posts brought together in one place every Tuesday. The final Grand Rounds of 2006 is up an running at Blogborygmi. Thanks to THE MAN, Nick Genes, for including my submit under the "levity" section. Dr. Anonymous is upset about me being named Time magazine's Person of the Year (and here I was, thinking you were the choice). He proposes something else -- something that can be part of us, and yet, is d

Grand Rounds 3.13 is now up and running over at Nurse Ratched's Place. I love the title and theme this week: It's Christmas Grand Rounds, Charlie Brown! Thanks to Mother Jones RN for including my submit this week: And speaking of eating Christmas goodies over the holidays, Dr. Anonymous writes about websites that take us into the world of anorexia and bulimia, and gives us his opinion about an aritcle that was written about these websites.Grand Rounds goes home next week to Blogborygmi (say that fast three times). What a Christmas present that is, Charlie Brown! Dr. Nick Genes, the founder of Grand Rounds, will be taking the reigns for the December 26th edition. For now, enjoy the best the medical blogosphere has to offer this week. It's Grand Rounds!

Grand Rounds 3.12 is now up and running over at Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments. GR is up early this week. Thanks to the bloggers over there for including my submission this week. I really appreciate it. A recent AAP report on advertising and children drew our ire. It also drew the ire of Doctor Anonymous, and he discussed his reactions in a great post that led to some healthy comment discussion.On a quick glance, I counted 36 links (unless you count My Three Shrinks as three separate posts instead of one). Well done. However, I couldn't leave a kudos comment over there because the verification characters wouldn't come up on my firefox. Oh well, Kudos to AAaDT for their work this week. Look out! Next week, GR journeys to Nurse Ratched's Place. But meanwhile, enjoy the best the medical blogosphere has to offer - It's Grand Rounds!

Grand Rounds 3.11 is now up and running at The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News. The host is Emily Devoto. No theme this week. Thirty-seven links are divided into nine categories. Here's my contribution: Dr. Anonymous briefs on this week's new research findings on chemo-brain - now there's evidence of a neurologic basis for the phenomenon; with luck, the findings could spur further research to understand and address the problem.Thanks Emily for including my submit this week. Next week, Grand Rounds moves to Anxiety, Addiction, and Depression Treatments. Experience the best the medical blogosphere has to offer this week. It's Grand Rounds!

Grand Rounds 3.10 is up and running at Notes from Dr. RW. It is self-described this week as a "running commentary, stream-of-consciousness style, to provide some structure to this incredibly diverse collection of links and perhaps liven things up a bit. I'll sneak a few opinions in here and there, but you'll know them when you see them." Thanks to Dr. RW for including my submit this week:Ectopia what??? Ectopia cordis---a rare developmental anomaly in which the heart is situated outside the chest. Dr. Anonymous writes about a recent case.For those of you sitemeter watchers out there (I am definitely one of them), it'll be interesting to check out the Dr. RW sitemeter as it goes through the day today.Next week, Grand Rounds moves to The Antidote: Counterspin for Health Care and Health News. That's funny. Does that mean that Grand Rounds is a poison? Tune in next week to find out. Enjoy Grand Rounds!

The final race of the 2006 season ! NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, ROUND 7 AT BIRA ! The Thailand National Championship round 7 will be the last race for this exiting kart season. Originally planned for the Seacon Circuit in Bangkok, this event has now been moved to Bira as conditions at Seacon has become “too bumpy” for kart racing. The layout is expected to be similar to that of Round 6. Most class championship battles are by now settled, so this will be a race for fun, for glory of the day, for the season finale - so do come and enjoy this race weekend ! — The Extreme Sports Cafe Racing team will be there competing, and also setting up our new chasis for next year, which will debut at this race, without the 2007 livery… This is a good opportunity to try some things out in a competitive environment, but with no real risk to our championship standings.. As we entered the championship too late to mount a serious challenge, and with a fledgling team, we are very happy

This page is for Grand Rounds Grand RoundsGrand Rounds (a blog 'carnival' which collates links to the best of the week's medical blog entries) One entry per bloggerPosts are to be written for a general audience I was organizing the links into categories, based on what's submitted. The Grand Rounds (http://rdoctor.com/medical_link/?p=41) went up on Oct 3 2006. More about grand Rounds at : http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com/2004/09/grand-rounds-submission-guidelines.html (http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com/2004/09/grand-rounds-submission-guidelines.html)

Grand Rounds is up at Cases Blog and Nursing Studio Podcast #13 heads up the Reviews section.  This is the first time I have submitted to Grand Rounds. Watch for it tomorrow on Change of Shift.

Mona Chopra dress changing MMS clip is being circulated all over the place, just before release of her hot skin flick ‘Naughty Boys’ and she is doubtful weather it is her or someone else in it. It seems like Naughty Boys have been at work off late. The actress is very upset as she finds it very cheap.The clip shows Mona Chopra changing her clothes during a movie shoot. The actress has seen the MMS but is not sure about the woman in video. Speaking on the same she explained that she undresses herself so many times during shooting. It might have happened that someone secretly shot her in nude. Calling it a serious breach of her privacy, Mona is planning to take legal advice on the issue from her lawyer.The actress said, “I find it very cheap. I can’t resort to these kinds of publicity stunts. It is seriously in a bad taste. But first I have to find out whether it is really me there in the MMS or someone else. It is quite possible that it is me, there in the MMS clip, but I cannot

Grand Rounds is a tradition in many hospitals around the country. Here is an on-line version. A touching story from hospital impact. This is one weeks post from Grand Rounds 2.05, a rotating column of medical professionals. I once spoke with one of the most famous hospital CEOs in America. Out of all the things he could have shared with me that day, he talked to me about a cleaning lady in his hospital. This is the story he told... A patient was in a coma and her grieving family sat around her. The patient had been completely unresponsive for weeks. Then, a particular cleaning lady unknowingly and deeply moved this family - simply by doing her job with a smile and by singing/humming a sweet tune under her breathe. The family noticed that the patient actually responded to this far-off cleaning lady's humming ever so slightly - a twitch of the eye, a tear. The family asked the cleaning lady to come in and sing to their loved one in the coma. Without hesitating, the cleaning lady put

Just a reminder for you to be sure and check out Dr. A.s blog on Tuesday. He is this weeks host for Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a gathering of posts, from the best of the medical blogosphere. With his personality and charm, it is sure to be one of the best rounds ever.

As you can see, this whole Grand Rounds thing has taken over my blog life, at least temporarily. The Doctor Anonymous blog has kind of become "the crash course on being a GR host" blog, at least until next week.For anyone curious, here are the poll results as of this posting:Which do you prefer? (69 total votes)Grand Rounds with a theme: 42%Grand Rounds without a theme: 58%Ideal number of Grand Rounds links each week? (75 votes)Less than 25: 35%From 25-30: 47%From 31-35: 9%From 36-40: 4%More than 40: 5%I got a few more submissions Wednesday. From what people have told me, this is par for the course (sorry for the golf lingo). I read a few more GR postings from the past few months, just to get a feel of how things have been done in the past.And, in fact, a similar discussion on the number of GR links occurred about nine months ago (look here, here, here, and here). This was before I was even blogging. I don't know if it's good or bad that this discussion is coming up again. Because, t