My favourite online dictionary is, without a doubt, Wordnik. Do you think we need a social dictionary like Wordnik for medicine? Here’s the thing. I’ve always said that the reason I’m not retaining new words is that I don’t really understand how they’re used: Wordnik remedies this problem by providing a plethora of contextual [...]

Toronto’s Medicine 2.0 scene is heating up! Hot on the heels of my recent visit to the Center for Global eHealth Innovations in Toronto, the Center released an exciting new (and free!) iPhone app for Type I diabetics to track their blood sugar: Bant. Bant is short for Banting, the Canadian who discovered insulin at [...]