Archive for September, 2006

My sincere apologies for not posting Radiology Grand Rounds on time.
I did not have access to the internet while I was away in Chennai.
The 4th edition of Radiology Grand Rounds will be up by midnight today.

Out of Reach.

I’ll be away for the weekend. Ostensibly to attend a conference
I’ll respond to any submissions to Radiology Grand Rounds after monday.

Music Meme.

As usual…
Here I am…
Minding my own business…
And along comes a habitual offender…
and does it again
A short digression before I play. Why seven songs and seven people? Is it because of the சப்தஸ்வரங்கள் (sapthaswarangal)?
Actually this meme was too easy…
I just picked the next seven songs that played on shuffle mode in my iTunes’ Top [...]

Thanks to Arunn who is the inspiration behind what I hope will be a series of posts.
The longest-running and perhaps the most influential journal archive in Science, that of the Royal Society of England, is available now for FREE to anyone on the internet to explore. 350 years of scientific study is now available online [...]

This is the first call for submissions to the fourth edition of the monthly Radiology Grand Rounds which will be hosted here on the last Sunday of this month (Sept 24).
Anything that is relevant to Radiology or Medical Imaging will be accepted. You don’t have to be a radiologist to contribute. We would love to [...]

At a time when the future of primary care and family medicine are being debated in the US and primary care under the NHS in the UK is undergoing a troubled transformation, Family Medicine as a postgraduate specialty is taking its first faltering steps here in India.
The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has [...]

Out of the Closet.

Got your attention. Didn’t I?
No. Not that closet.
Check my about page for details.

A woman diagnosed as being in a vegetative state showed brain activity similar to that of healthy controls in tests of language processing and mental imagery. [1]
The 23-year-old woman had experienced traumatic brain injury in a traffic accident. Five months later, researchers (in Cambridge, UK & Liège, Belgium) used functional MRI to measure neurologic activity [...]