HP LaserJet P1606dn Promises Painless "Plug and Print" Installation
Printer News: HP LaserJet P1606dn Delivers 26 Pages Per Minute in a Small Package The HP Laserjet P1606dn introduces “plug and print” technology that enables you to start printing without installing a driver (software that communicates with your printer). Instead, HP embedded the printer driver in the LaserJet P1606dn
How Can I Print Color Brochures in Microsoft Word Faster?
PrinTip: Compress Your Images to Boost Printing Speed In Microsoft Word XP, 2003, and 2007, when you send a document with high-resolution images to a printer, it can take longer than you expect to print. This behavior is not peculiar to a single printer manufacturer or a particular printer . It’s a function of Microsoft Office and the way it processes images for printing
High deductible health insurance can be bad for your health
See why : “The individual health insurance policy they bought to replace Janie’s group coverage at work has such a high deductible that they’ve sharply cut back doctor visits, skipping some routine care and going only when absolutely necessary. Freelancers Janie and Chris Peterson love the freedom of life without a boss. But it comes with a high price — dwindling savings, erratic cash flow, and a ton of financial anxiety.” References: Financial planning for freelance workers – Mar.
"The doctor in literature: Private life" by Solomon Posen at Google Books
” This is a structured, annotated and indexed anthology dealing with the personality and the behaviour of doctors, and doctor-patient relationships – ideal for medical humanities courses.” Posted at Clinical Cases and Images . Stay updated and subscribe , follow us on Twitter and connect on Facebook .
Medical school letters of recommendation have formally been replaced by tweets
Doctor_V’s tweets in Brizzly (click to enlarge the image) – read from the bottom of the screenshot. Doctor_V : If you are a medical school I highly suggest you admit @beccacamp .@LeeAase I don’t know if Mayo School of Medicine takes Twitter recommendations but I formally recommend @beccacamp. Medical school letters of recommendation have formally been replaced by tweets.
The ClearOne MAX IP SIP-based VoIP conference phones are one of my favorite conference phones. One of the reasons (besides the excellent echo cancellation) is that it you can daisy-chain multiple MAX IP phones together, up to a total of four. This provides multiple speakers, multiple microphones, and multiple dial pads distributed throughout the room.
FDA: High-dose simvastatin increases risk of muscle injury – caution with lower doses plus Amiodarone, Verapamil, Diltiazem
Based on review of data from a large clinical trial and data from other sources, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is informing the public about an increased risk of muscle injury in patients taking the highest approved dose of the cholesterol-lowering medication, Zocor (simvastatin) 80 mg, compared to patients taking lower doses of simvastatin and possibly other drugs in the “statin” class
Rock legend Ronnie James Dio is fighting stomach cancer
On 25 November 2009, Dio’s wife and manager announced that he was diagnosed with stomach cancer: “Ronnie has been diagnosed with the early stages of stomach cancer.
Different types of kidney transplantation – Mayo Clinic video
“Dr. Raymond Heilman, Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program of Mayo Clinic in Arizona, gives an overview on the different types of kidney transplantation, including living donor and paired donor exchanges, and explains what kidney donors can expect.” Posted at Clinical Cases and Images .
Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Has an Unprecedented Five Year Warranty
Printer News: A Touch-Screen Control Panel and Apps Give The Lexmark Platinum Pro905 an Apple Feel Lexmark believes that your printer is not limited to what your computer tells it to print. The Lexmark Platinum Pro905 includes Lexmark’s SmartSolutions technology, which enables you to run Web-connected print jobs from the printer through iPhone-like apps.
Hockey-puck-on-a-rod test checks for concussion after head trauma
From NPR : The hockey-puck-on-a-rod test was invented by a Michigan high school student. It works like this: Tester suspends the device while injured athlete sits with forearm on table, fingers loosely circling the stick
Alteva , a unified communications hosted solution provider recently announced a partnership with Microsoft and Broadsoft to provide a true hosted Unified Communications (UC) solution to small businesses. Alteva has connected their hosted voice and messaging services with Microsoft Communication Services product suite, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server (OCS). Alteva is essentially offering a hosted unified communications platform that offers hosted Exchange, hosted Sharepoint, and hosted OCS (“The Big 3″ Microsoft communications apps) – all from a single service provide r
500 repetitions of 4 cardiac murmurs improved auscultatory proficiency of medical students
According to a 2004 study in Chest , the ability of medical students to recognize heart murmurs is poor (20%), and does not improve with subsequent years of training. Five hundred repetitions of four basic cardiac murmurs significantly improved auscultatory proficiency in recognizing basic cardiac murmurs by medical students.
Standardized patient: Over the course of three days, I had 23 head-to-toe physicals from 23 medical students
From Slate : “I was the first person these would-be doctors had ever fully examined on their own. Some were shaking so violently when they approached me with their otoscopes—the pointed device for looking in the ear—that I feared an imminent lobotomy. A “standardized patient” is a trained person who is paid $15 an hour to be poked and prodded by inexperienced fingers, so that med students can learn communication and examination skills before they are sicced on actual sick people.
AskaPatient.com – Medication Ratings and Health Care Opinions
This website “reports patient ratings and rankings of pharmaceuticals and prescription drug side effects. Database includes FDA-approved pharmaceuticals.” http://www.askapatient.com You can Search by Drug Name: http://www.askapatient.com/rateyourmedicine.htm You can add ratings for the medications you take or look at ratings and comments from other patients.
CounterPath Launches NomadicPBX, a Mobile Enterprise Convergence Application
Today, CounterPath launched its Nomadic PBX application, which seamlessly connects all employees’ mobile phones via a mobile network-based service. The NomadicPBX application is a presence-based, fixed and mobile voice, and instant messaging/short message service (IM/SMS) technology mashup with enterprise-ready features
The false idea that only the “top journals” publish the important stuff
From the former Editor-in-Chief of BMJ : The naïve concept that the “top journals” publish the important stuff and the lesser journals the unimportant is simply false.
How to Start Windows Explorer with Different Options
This is old info but I needed to refer to it after my Windows reinstall so I’ll just put it here for easy reference. Windows Explorer Command-Line Options ———————————— Explorer [/n] [/e] [(,)/root, ] [/select, ] /n Opens a new single-pane window for the default selection. This is usually the root of the drive Windows is installed on.
NatureVideoChannel — March 31, 2010 — “You might not realize it, but with an iPhone, you also have a stethoscope and a CPR trainer within reach. These are just a few of the more than 2,000 medical applications available on the iPhone, and here we’ve rounded up ten for you to check out.