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Steve Severance now has a beta version of a radiology-centric search engine called Yottalook running on the internet.
See my earlier post and the comment by Steve.1
Check the about page for details about the odd name. It most definitely is not slang for ‘you ought to look!’
I’m doing my bit for promoting this cool [...]

I have no interest in the religious or cultural significance of male circumcision. I was an unbiased observer of the recent hullabaloo over the issue1 in the medical blogosphere.
This post is related to something that I read in yesterday’s Physician’s First Watch bulletin.
Circumcision Greatly Reduces Risk for HIV Infection
Adult male circumcision cut the risk for [...]

About a week ago, my wife and mother came across a botanical rarity when they broke open a coconut for making coconut chutney.

There were two kernels inside the shell. One intact and the other broken.

My mother declared that she had never seen or heard of such a coconut in the fifty years that she [...]

Dr. iBear is back after a long (nearly 6 months) blog-vacation.
I must admit that my hiatus has turned into quite a lengthy one. I found that much of my blogging was taking up time from my other joys in life..
I became a bit overwhelmed with blogging as I felt compelled to be posting frequently [...]

It matters not to my friend Moof that I am not a Christian and I may not have heard any Christmas songs?!!
What matters is that she got tagged. So she just has to tag me.
I really can’t be angry with her, what with the spirit of Christmas and all.

“Blessed is the season which [...]

More News from the recently held 92nd Annual Meeting of the RSNA.
Google doesn’t always yield good results when it comes to searching the Internet for radiology research.A hospital-based software engineer has teamed with doctors to design a small search engine utilizing many of the same techniques and algorithms used by popular engines like Google, but [...]

Elasticity imaging, an experimental software technique that looks at ultrasound frames as they are collected, has been shown to characterize breast lesions as benign or malignant with high sensitivity and specificity.
Presenting Initial Research results at RSNA 20061, Richard G. Barr, M.D., Ph.D., noted that the technique has been evaluated for several years. People have made [...]

Thanks to Dr. K, whose blog I discovered today, I took yet another quiz…..
No offence meant to my friends in the US, but I’m sure the fact that I did not go to an American High School played a major role in this
You paid attention during 91% of high school!

85-100% You must [...]