Here is a report about a wireless campus, Dartmouth (using 802.11).
Stanford medical school has used wireless (Bluetooth PDA's) to provide a "cloak of anonymity" to enhance conference participation. I plan to use a low-tech version of this polling next week.
In 1951 Eugene Aserinsky stayed up all night watching his 8-year old son sleep. Smithsonian Magazine, October 2003, has a wonderful history of sleep research, its people and personalities--Aserinsky, William Dement, Allan Hobson and others. (Available as full text pdf).
The smell of lavender around the clinic the other day was pleasant enough. Did it shift mood? From my very quick search, trials of aroma therapy are often negative (hospice patients, radiation therapy patients). But this one impossible-to-follow abstract does show frontal EEG "shifts" with lavender and rosemary.
This NEJM editorial has an good graphic image of malaria's life cycle, and discussion of world resistance. (Points out that research continues with public and private support.)
Accompanying research by Schwartz et al shows that nearly a third of malaria in travelers returning to the US & Israel had its onset more than two months after exposure. Most of these delayed cases were P. Vivax and P. Ovale.
Herbal remedy & nephrotoxin aristolochic acid, has been sold on the web for GI symptoms, cough and weight loss...despite an FDA warning. This Berkeley site has pertinent links, including a recent New England Journal editorial.
This is the clearest review that I have seen of Dayton's experience with a specialty "heart hospital." It shines light on a similar business plan for Cincinnati.
The first Wednesday night of every month is now One World Wednesday at the Cincinnati Art Museum. (They are open every Wednesday night.)
PDAbuzz.com shows a Tungsten T3. (Slides open for landscape view.) The new Palm device is expected this fall.
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and Siemens report that computer order entry cut medication errors by 50%. Brian Jacobs guides the project.