The Doctors are OK with this?

Yesterday in “The Times” a nice article was posted about the revolutionary way in which doctors will receive education about CLINICAL genetics, this time it is from NonClinical Scientists……
At the tune of 4.5 Million British Pounds!
This may work with CGCs, oh wait, they don’t do much of anything in the UK system.
What about clinical geneticists?Who?
Ok, [...]

Peer Pressure

Ever since I’ve known UoL was going to roll out Blackboard 9 for the coming session, I’ve been thinking about using the new(ish) self and peer assessment tool for the reflective essays we plan to get students to write in the first week of our first year PLE course. As Moira commented, Marking 200 [...]

ABC Science Updates: Can you spot the Emu in the Sky?

ABC Science Updates, 30 July 2009Science Updates is a weekly email alert from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
== JOIN THE BIG AUSSIE STAR HUNT! ==Can you find south without a compass? Can you spot the Emu in the Sky? Here's your chance to learn about your night sky and help us measure light pollution in [...]

Blogging Beyond Blackboard

With the imminent arrival of Blackboard 9 at UoL, users now have a choice of four blogging tools within the VLE. These are the new blog tool in Bb9, the Bb9 Journal tool, and the Learning Objects (LO) personal and course blog tools:

Kudos to the UoL Blackboard team for listening to user feedback and modding [...]

加快库存周转的高效管.理方法 tya

高级仓储管理与库存控制 [...]

Pharmacogenetic Indication for a Medication?

That’s one way to market the newest medication to prevent stroke, heart attack or stent thrombosis.
Wha? Yes, I mean, Prasugrel otherwise known as Effient is FDA approved for use in these patients.
But one thing I was thinking is that, since the FDA put on the insert of Plavix that 2C19 testing may [...]

台北旅館節開跑輕鬆省錢住!

 台北旅館節開跑輕鬆省錢住!

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Summer Vaction-Style Random Thoughts

So my brother is currently in town on his annual post-Comic-Con visit (we’re going to Disneyland, yay!), so my posting will be even lighter than usual this week.
I’ve been reading some old SF novels over the past few weeks, and here are some of my random thoughts (spoilers, although I’m not sure the warning is [...]

American Medical Association: Obesity is a Disease but Not a Disability

The American Medical Association (AMA) finds that obesity is a disease but not a disability. In a resolution passed by the AMA on June 16 2009 and reported by various news services including ABC news The argument against disability was as follows“If obesity is designated as a disability, physicians could be sued or reprimanded [...]

Special Olympics GB, Leicester 2009

Special Olympics Great Britain (SOGB) is the major provider of sporting opportunities for people with a learning disability and provides equality of opportunity for all our athletes regardless of ability or degree of disability.

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