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Do You Know: Interactive Health Games
Medline Plus, the trusted source for consumer health information, provides links to more than 50 interactive health games. The games have been created by a variety of organizations, both governmental and non-profit. The intended audiences include both health care professionals and consumers, including children. For example, the Nobel Foundation provides games to test your knowledge of the immune system, electrocardiograms, or blood types, to name a few. Teens can play the “Bully Round-Up” from the CDC. There are several food safety games for children. Think you know your insects? Try the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s stinging insect matching game, and keep safe this summer.
Blog Buzz: July 16- July 22
This week in blog land…
- David Pogue reviewed the new Mac operating system Lion in the NY Times
- An online tool to help estimate medical costs is expected in August from FAIR Health
- Lancet Oncology had a piece on smartphones as clinical tools in oncology
- A study about using Powerpoint in medical education to work with the way we learn has been written about by Dr. Shock and Michelle Lin at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
- Google announced Google Scholar Citations, a tool to track your citation metrics