http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/ all the self-absorbed Andy you can handle, and then some en-us 2005-12-28T22:28:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/034691.html Wired reports "Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations are unleashing disease and tracking its course, 6 billion people at a time."... calv0016 2005-12-28T22:28:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/034420.html From the Washington Post: "If we can cut the lag time from 30 years to a decade or less, that's 20 years of lives saved," said Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council, an advocacy group in White River... calv0016 2005-12-19T06:41:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/034388.html The next step in the research project I was involved in before medical school, using the nicotine vaccine to prevent the transfer of nicotine across the placenta, has advanced to the next stage. A paper was recently published in the... calv0016 2005-12-17T11:53:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/034387.html calv0016 2005-12-17T11:40:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/033235.html From Fox 9 news... I'm not a real doctor, but I play one at school calv0016 2005-11-30T23:43:30-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/033102.html My favorite web browser, and the one you should be using, just released it's new version. Get Firefox 1.5 here.... Computing calv0016 2005-11-29T18:50:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/033090.html So, I've now completed two out of six weeks of my psychiatry rotation at Hennepin County Medical Center. So what's it like? Well.... - The patients are much sicker than those found in the community. In general, the vast majority... I'm not a real doctor, but I play one at school calv0016 2005-11-29T15:53:13-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/032503.html news from my previous life... Nicotine vaccine may help smokers... calv0016 2005-11-19T00:08:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/032151.html “The static physics of the issue say . . . two people might be able to tip a cow,” she said. “But the cow would have to be tipped quickly — the cow’s centre of mass would have to be... calv0016 2005-11-14T07:04:29-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/032150.html My Ophthalmology rotation ended last Friday. I gave my presentation on the science behind vitamins for treating age-related macular degeneration and took the short exam, then went down to the Adytum and began studying for my psych rotation (yes, I'm... I'm not a real doctor, but I play one at school calv0016 2005-11-14T07:02:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/032149.html "We have only one enemy," CDC director Gerberding has said repeatedly, "and that is complacency." This comes from an interesting article on influenza at Scientific American.... calv0016 2005-11-14T06:57:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/031011.html This past week I began my Ophthalmology rotation at the U. It's almost entirely shadowing residents and seeing them work up patients. We're supposed to do the following: * experience most types of ophthalmic practice settings (i.e., outpatient, inpatient, emergency... I'm not a real doctor, but I play one at school calv0016 2005-10-29T23:26:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/031009.html I'm clearly not in Louisiana now. This is because our Team 4 deployment was suspended. The explanation is below: We have just received news that the State of Louisiana is suspending all state-based relief efforts effective October 26. This means... calv0016 2005-10-29T23:21:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/029224.html My very own U of M Internal Medicine Interest Group was featured as an "IMIG of the Month" in ACP's IMpact newsletter.... I'm not a real doctor, but I play one at school calv0016 2005-10-06T18:53:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/calv0016/blog/029158.html I've received word that I am on the U of M's MRC Team 4, set to be deployed to Louisiana between October 23 and November 11. The exact composition of the team is still undecided, but it looks like we... calv0016 2005-10-06T09:46:23-06:00