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| MED | Live Sleeve Gastrectomy Twitter Surgery
Alex Gandsas, M.D., Division Head, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, will perform a sleeve gastrectomy, which will be twittered live. The patient is a 49 year old male with a history of hypertension and sleep apnea. The patient’s body mass index is 57, and he currently weighs 362 lbs. His ideal weight is 159 lbs. | 14-Aug-2009
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| MED | Webwise Nurses Harness New Media for Global Health
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) is harnessing the power of wireless technologies and online communities to help nurses throughout the world “connect for health.” | 11-Aug-2009
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| MED | New Social Networking Community Links Family Medicine Practitioners
Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) today announced the launch of www.5minutemd.com, a new online community for family medicine practitioners. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. | 07-Aug-2009
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| SCI | TMS Grows Its Global Presence with Social Networking
To further its mission to engage members and grow its global presence, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) has joined three social networking sites. TMS is now reaching out to the worldwide materials science and engineering communities through its society pages on LinkedIn, a professional network site; Flickr, a photo-sharing site; and the all-encompassing Facebook social network.
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| LIF | Maryland Students Blog About their Study Abroad Experiences in England
Prof. Mike Olmert (English) takes a small group of Maryland students to London for what may be one of the most intensive study abroad experiences out there. This year, he's got the students blogging about their experiences. It's obvious they are learning lots of things on this trip! | 21-Jul-2009
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| LIF | "Face-off to Facebook: from the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century"
A conference hosted by The George Washington University's Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications, "Face-off to Facebook: From the Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate to Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century," will mark the 50th anniversary of the debate and examine new opportunities for U.S. global outreach in a Web 2.0 world. | 20-Jul-2009
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| LIF | International Journalists Hone Multimedia Skills at Ithaca College Workshop
Journalists from around the world will spend a week at Ithaca College learning how to use multimedia and alternative resources for gathering and disseminating news in their respective countries. Among those participating are journalists from Ukraine, Georgia, Venezuela, Kenya, Malaysia, India, Nigeria, and South Africa.
Expert available | 16-Jul-2009
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| LIF | Professor Reports on Iranian Election Turmoil
A University of California, San Diego professor has emerged as a leading scholarly authority on voter sentiment and new media in Iran in the wake of the June 12 election in which Iran's official news agency announced that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won about two-thirds of the votes cast. | 22-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Computer Forensics Finds Twitter Plays Key Role in Cyber Attacks on Iranian Government
Users of the popular networking site Twitter could be the unwitting participants in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) computer attacks that are rendering Iranian government Web sites inaccessible to users, said Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Warner said U.S. law punishes participants in DDOS attacks with up to one year in prison and fines that can range into the thousands of dollars. | 16-Jun-2009
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| LIF | Celebrate Bloomsday with Performance Twitter
Twitter performance of the “Wandering Rocks” chapter from James Joyce’s Ulysses on Bloomsday, June 16. | 15-Jun-2009
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