Etopia Media Medical News Network #49:
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Dr. Eliseo Guallar, at Johns Hopkins University, discuss a new study showing that taking high-dosage Vitamin E supplements increases overall mortality rates.
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A new online medical journal plans to make its articles available for free over the Internet. The Public Library of Science Medicine (PLoS Medicine), launched earlier this month, will be available to anyone
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Also: Science tattoos making the Web rounds. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Take a look at what autism can truly be like, through the eyes of Amanda Baggs. In a video she produced and posted on YouTube, this brilliant young woman shares a glimpse into her world. Dr. Sanjay Gupta brings her story to Anderson Cooper 360 tonight.
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See a roundup of the week's news and events, from World AIDS Day to Australian brush fires, Asian games, and more.
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Scientists from across the globe gather to learn more about the ways in which light can be used in medicine.
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roundup Plus: Level 3 to buy Sprint's dial-up business...Cisco CEO's salary shoots up from $1...SanDisk ups capacity on flash memory cards.
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[World News]: New York, Oct 26 : In a measure of the ridiculous length to which Americans are going in the face of a shortage of flu shots in the country, a ferry company in Washington state is offering a sort of vaccine tourism to the neighbouring
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roundup Plus: Newspaper sites take up paid search ads...Microsoft IPTV to woo Swiss test group...Sony speeds up Memory Stick cards...Real touts one week, 1 million songs.
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Tycho: New one's up, for last week's "The Spore Cult." Feed is here. (CW)TB
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Yesterday's piece, lightly edited, on the Huffington Post. http://x98.us/jz  I think it looks pretty good over there!
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Logitech International unveils the world's first computer mouse to use a sensor based on a laser. Also: Nintendo slashes some prices & hellip;. Sales of Boston Scientific's new heart stent dip & hellip;. and more.
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Adobe late with Photoshop Elements for Mac...iStockphoto tightens model release requirements...Canon 5D Mark II rumor...PDF now an ISO standard
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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Patrick Stewart has an angioplasty to improve blood flow.  Plus news in brief on Spike Lee and Motley Crue.
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New board will focus on safety of drugs already on the market. Also: Flarion makes bold moves to spur expansion of infrastructure for its mobile data technology.... Texas Instruments can make cheaper 3G phones.... and more.
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Every day, millions of people are bombarded with health information through direct-to-consumer drug ads on TV. Millions more go online to research a new diagnosis