Using appropriate music for the footage also enhances the experience for home movies. For a baby's "first bath" scene, for example, you could play Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash," or for a skiing scene, you could play Rancid's "Fall Back Down" over a montage of multiple wipeouts -- as long as you complied with copyright restrictions and paid the appropriate fees, of course. Join discussion...

A new weight loss drug designed for obese adults failed to win approval from an FDA advisory panel Wednesday, mainly because of fears that it can lead to depression and suicidal thoughts in some patients. Join discussion...

A seven-year-old girl in Canada might one day give birth to her genetic half-sibling. The girl's mother has donated her own eggs to give the child, who was born with a disease that affects her ovaries, the chance to have children of her own. Melanie Boivin, a 35-year-old lawyer from Montreal, secured legal permission for the move after realizing that her daughter, Flavie, could not have children without donor eggs. Flavie has Turner syndrome, a rare condition in which one of the X chromosomes i Join discussion...

I’ve blogged about passion before, and it got a lot of responses. Everybody talks about it; from the half-dead old professor who gives the introductory lecture in first year and then disappears back into his coffin until next year, to the tough-love-doling quasi-military doctor who first takes charge of you when you start work at the hospital. Every book on medicine contains at least a chapter on it; old doctors swear you’ll never make it through med school if you’re just in it for the mone Join discussion...

Can you make it through hospital rounds or a day in clinic without consulting UpToDate? Do you rely almost entirely on UpToDate to research topics or patient encounters, without going to primary sources? Do you feel you’d be unable to practice competently without it? Do you consider it your “peripheral brain” (translate: substitute for thought)? If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be UpToDate dependent. The habit can be darned expensive as Maria points out in a recent intu Join discussion...

"We are a guidance system, not a book of knowledge," Dr. Lawrence Weed wrote in 1968.[1,2] Then, as now, medical information was expanding exponentially. Each of us physicians needs information sources for an accurate, complete differential diagnosis and for specific diseases. Join discussion...

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”…but why? Do you really know what makes an apple so special? Why is it that we never hear an orange or a banana a day keeps the doctor away? Apples have properties that no other fruit have and its benefits have been proven overtime. You will be able to get the benefits of these properties individually with other fruits, but an apple combines everything and makes it simpler. It has been shown over and over that if it’s not simple, easy and fast, people Join discussion...

Our crops are not doing well these days: too much water, too little sunlight... In short, they are suffering from stress. Scientists from VIB, associated with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), have revealed a new mechanism demonstrating the intricate ways in which plants deal with stress. The newly discovered control system has a remarkable way of orchestrating the activity of hundreds of genes, forcing the plant into 'safety mode'; the consumption of energy is contained while the Join discussion...

I have previously written about the Army’s robotic prosthetic arm projects - run of course through DARPA. You can see my posts and a video fest at Video Fest of Brain-Computer Links & Control. An equally amazing story is how the project has come to be- DARPA contacted Deam Kamen (and team at DEKA of Segway fame) and challenged him to create this amazing feat of technology. The NYT reports Join discussion...

Here is the result of 2007 Physicians Compensation Survey by Martin, Fletcher. As usual, Interventional Cardiologist tops the list. I also heard that some Interventional Cardiologists earn around $8,00,000 per year on profit sharing basis. Join discussion...