The blogs listed below are current, which means they have been updated within the past few weeks. They also are listed in alphabetical order by blog title within each category.

Longevity and Aging

1. @ging: This blog is all about scientific findings on aging and its underlying mechanisms.
2. Biology of Aging: This blog is funded by the Ellison Medical Foundation and hosted at the MBL/WHOI Library, which aims to put knowledge and issues surrounding aging and lifespan in front of a world-wide audience ranging from school children to expert scientists.
3. Biosingularity: This blogger has coined the term, “Biosingularity,” to define a time when scientists will be able to engineer new biological systems and have complete molecular control in manipulating existing life forms.
4. CRON Diary: This blogger has been practicing calorie restriction with optimal nutrition for almost a decade. She participates in three different medical studies related to diet and calorie restriction.
5. Fight Aging! This blog focuses on the causes of aging and includes a vast number of resources for research, links to initiatives and more.
6. FuturePundit: This blog focuses on aging, biotech, brain functions, climate, energy and current and future trends.
7. Humanpl.us: Eric Tatro is a singularitarian and an enthusiast of new technologies that promise to radically transform the way humans live, work and interact with each other.
8. Longevity Science: Dr. Gavrilov researches the biodemography of human longevity along with mathematical models of aging and mortality and the genetics of aging and longevity.
9. Ouroboros: The mission of this blog is to provide commentary on developments within the field of aging as they are reported in the literature and at relevant conferences.
10. SIAI Blog: This blog is maintained by the Singularity Institute for Artifical Intelligence, which believes that humanity will “likely create a powerful AI” in the coming decades.
11. Singularity Hub: Singularity Hub is a blog and news network covering the latest in robots, genetics, longevity, artificial intelligence, aging, stem cells, and more.

Biology and Evolution

12. A Blog Around the Clock: Bora Zivkovic focuses on chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution.
13. A Very Remote Period Indeed: This blog reviews recent archaeologicl publications that have anything to do with Paleolithic archaeology, paleoanthropology, lithic technology, hunter-gatherers and archaeological theory.
14. EvolutionBlog: Dr. Rosenhouse provides his commentary on the “endless dispute between evolution and creationism” in his blog.
15. Evolving Thoughts: An associate professor at Bond University in Queensland posts thoughts on essentialism in biology to “sundry other reviews.”
16. Living the Scientific Life: This evolutionary biologist/ornithologist and freelance science and nature writer (with a sense of humor) lives in Germany and writes about birds, evolution, environmental issues and more.
17. Panda’s Thumb: While this blogger keeps a focus on the defense of science foremost, Panda’s thumb is filled with a wide range of scholarly thoughts and opinions critical of the anti-evolution movement.
18. Pharyngula: This blog reaches beyond the research area of the pharyngula stage of the zebrafish more often than zebrafish proliferate.
19. Pleiotropy: Bjørn’s research is currently on the effects of epistasis and pleiotropy on adaptation, and sympatric speciation driven by resource competition.
20. Sandwalk: This Canadian biochemist offers some entertaining reading, easy-to-understand logic and illuminating arguments.
21. Stranger Fruit: John M. Lynch, an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University, conducted his post-doctoral researcher in evolutionary biology.
22. The Questionable Authority: Mike Dunford studied evolution at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Now he blogs on a variety of subjects, which seem to always lead back to evolution.

Neuroscience

23. BrainBlog: Dr. Anthony Risser is a consulting neuropsychologist who blogs about news concerning human knowledge of the brain and behavior.
24. Brain Waves: Zack Lynch is author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World, and he is the founder and executive director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) and co-founder of NeuroInsights, among other achievements.
25. Brain Windows: Brain Windows is a blog devoted to reporting, analyzing and interpreting the latest results in the field of brain imaging technologies, particularly at the levels of systems, circuits, single cells and below.
26. Brains Lab: Andy McKenzie is studying how the brain works on various levels. This blog chronicles some of his notes along the way.
27. Deric Bownds’ MindBlog: Bownds’ 35-year lab research contributed to understanding how vision works. Now, he focuses on studying evolution, development and function of human brains.
28. Developing Intelligence: Chris Chathm, a graduate student, focuses on developmental and computational cognitive neuroscience, comparative psychology, psychometrics, and artificial intelligence.
29. GNIF Brain Blogger: Initially an official undertaking of the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation (GNIF), this award-winning blog covers topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives.
30. Mixing Memory: This scientist’s work is in higher-order cognition, including things like long-term memory, analogy and similarity, metaphor, concepts and categories, the interconnection between language and thought, and embodied cognition.
31. Neuroanthropology: This blog is a collaborative blog created to encourage exchanges among anthropology, philosophy, social theory, and the brain sciences.
32. Neurochannels: This postdoctoral researcher at Duke University works in Miguel Nicolelis’ lab studying sensory coding in the rat whisker system. But, his blog is so much bigger.
33. On the Brain: As co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Posit Science, Michael Merzenich heads the company’s global team. His research for more than three decades is centered on brain plasticity.

Microbiology

34. Aetiology: While this blog’s focus is on epidemiology of infectious disease or general microbiology, discussion leads to a wider range of topics including general epidemiology, vaccines, medicine, public health, pseudoscience and politics.
35. Microbiology Blog: This blog is maintained by Horizon Press and keeps microbiologists updated on events and news with an eye to networking.
36. MicrobiologyBytes: This is a generic site that covers everything from Africa to virology, antibiotics to vaccines and biology to — essentially — microbiology.
37. Pharmaceutical Microbiology Blog: This blog’s intent is to remain topical, detailing news, updates to standards, compliance, book reviews and so on in relation to pharmaceutical microbiology, contamination control, cleanroms, as well as more general quality control and quality assurance issues.
38. Small things Considered: Elio Schaechter and Merry Youle present a ‘microbe blog’ that maintains a focus on the minute things in life.
39. The Evilutionary Biologist: John Dennehy is an evolutionary biologist who studies bacteriophage life history stochasticity and the population dynamics of host/pathogen interactions.
40. Viroblogy: This blogger’s main research interests are presently in making human and animal vaccine candidates in plants and insect cells: these include vaccines for mucosal Human papillomaviruses (HPV) and Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype C.
41. Virology Blog: When the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson, referred to the anthrax bacillus as a virus, Dr. Racniello realized that some education was lacking in the virology department. This blog is his effort to educate readers about viruses.

Biotechnology

42. Biotech Blog: Yali Friedman, Ph.D., is founder of thinkBiotech. His book, Building Biotechnology, is used as a course text in dozens of biotechnology programs.
43. Cleantech Blog: Cleantech blog’s founder is Neal Dikeman, a partner at Jane Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based merchant bank focused on clean technology, energy & environmental technologies.
44. Frederick County Biotech Community: What started as a county-wide initiative in Maryland has turned into a global phenomena, as readers the world over tune in to catch the latest bioscience updates from scientists in Frederick County.
45. Holman’s Biotech IP Blog: Chris Holmans’ primary research interests lie in biotechnology and intellectual property, so this blog provides analysis and commentary on recent developments relevant to this area of the law.
46. ScienceRoll: Bertalan Meskó, MD launched the first university credit course that focuses on Web 2.0 and medicine for medical students.
47. The Cross-Border Biotech Blog: Former scientists, attorneys and other contributors from the U.S. and Canada focus on biotech news and new biotech companies.
48. Todd W. Harris, PhD: Dr. Harris is a freelance consultant who solves data management, analysis and visualization problems in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, and financial sectors.

All-Around Biological News and Research

49. AIBS Executive Director’s Blog: This blog sums up American Institute of Biological Sciences activities, straight from the executive director’s desk.
50. The Biology Blog: Created in 2009 to offer a generic outpouring of biological news to the general public, this blog covers the gamut from “AntiScience” to Zoology and also offers Web tools for researchers.

The following list is categorized, the links are filed alphabetically within those categories, and each link leads to download pages from a variety of resources. These tools can lighten you bag, save time and provide essential geek essence.

Android Tools

1. Save MMS: Save photos, audio and video from your MMS text messages directly to your memotry card.
2. WiFi OnOff: This free app allows you to enable or disable your WiFi with one click. Uses only a single home screen cell space.
3. WiSyncPlus: This app provides ultimate control over synchronization and power savings for your Android phone. Control and schedule all WIFI and cellular data access and limit Google’s core services to save battery life.

Class/Office Tools

4. Documents to Go 2.0: Use this free app to view and use Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files and to create, view, edit, save and send attachments while maintaining 100 percent of the original file format.
5. Droid Scan: For less than a cup of coffee, you can turn your mobile device into a portable document scanner. Droid Scan also uses perspective correction to help you take a photo of a whiteboard from any angle. After you shoot the whiteboard (figuratively), share your shot via email, Picassa or SMS.
6. iReader: This app is the most full-featured ebook reader for Android. Use it to read books and PDF files on your phone.
7. Speaking Pad: Why settle for a regular notepad when you can have one that speaks while you type? Not great a lecture, however.
8. StudyDroid: This free app allows you to create unlimited packs of flash cards on your phone. Simply create a pack, add a card, fill out the front and back, and keeping adding cards as you need them. Mark a card as “known” and StudyDroid will keep track of your knowledge by displaying a percentage of known vs. unknown. Great tool to study for tests, certifications and licenses.
9. Voice Recorder: This free app can save trees. Use it to record lectures, meetings and more and save the audio file and email it to yourself. You also can enable background recording so you can record AND take notes, but be aware that some users have complaints about sound quality with the background action.

Reference Tools

10. ColorDict: This free dictionary app gets constant rave reviews across the Web as the best dictionary app on Android. The download is the only gripe…but it’s easy when you realize you need to install the software first, then download the data that fills the dictionary. You also can gain access to plugins, such as a thesaurus.
11. Elements: A periodic table of the elements is a handy app for your science courses. Just click on an element to look up its melting point, appearance, atomic radius and more.
12. HandyCalc: The best, free scientific calculator around.
13. SciencePal: If you’re willing to part with a dollar, SciencePal offers elements as well as constants, polyatomic ions, solar system and nuclides in one easy-to-use app.
14. Taber’s Medical Dictionary: An essential for medical students or clinicians, this download contains over 60,000 entries, 9,000 new and revised terms, 1,000 full-color illustrations and 30,000 audio pronunciations. You can add contents to your favorites for quick retrieval, too.

Entertainment

15. Listen: Google Labs provides podcast search, subscribe, download and stream to your Android phone. You also can create a personalized audio-magazine filled with free shows and news stories while you listen (English only).
16. Mother TED: If you’re addicted to TED, this app allows you to watch the latest TED videos based upon themes, talks and tags.

Socialize

17. Facebook: Stay connected, share status updates and do whatever you do on Facebook with this app.
18. Google Buzz: Gain instant access to the mobile version of Google Buzz with this free app.
19. Twidgit Lite: Stay updated with your Twitter feed with the ability to view the last twenty tweets, including reply and retweet functions.
20. wpToGo: Blog away to multiple WordPress accounts using text, images, tags and categories. You also can view comments and post previews on the go.

Outside the Gates

21. Cardar: Free up some gray matter with this app…you don’t need to remember where you’ve parked the car, because you can find it later with this app. Also includes driving directions from Google Maps.
22. Ghost Radar: This portable app from Spud*Pickles is designed to detect paranormal activity by analyzing nearby energies; however, it does not detect EMF nor gravity. Geek factor is increased by the ability for the paranormal to speak, but you need to download the Eyes-Free Project’s Text-to-Speech extension.
23. iMap Weather: If you live in a lab, when do you have time to look outside? This app will inform you about the weather through high-quality radar images, lightning strike information and severe weather notifications even when your phone is off.
24. Metal Detector: This free app turns your phone into a metal detector (which is a great tool if you constantly lose your car keys). Great device, because it doesn’t pick up on aluminum.
25. Where: Never get lost, find the closest coffee shop and stay on top of news with this app, which includes businesses, weather, traffic and headlines. Get it all in one app with Where.

Doctors, surgeons, specialists, nurses and students all can gain valuable connections and invaluable knowledge by joining one of the twenty-five social networking sites for healthcare and medical professionals listed below. The sites have been categorized and listed alphabetically within each category. This method shows readers that we do not favor one networking site over another.

Physicians

1. Doc2Doc: This site contains a free online doctors community that holds a range of tools for doctors to network with other doctors on a professional and social level. Create a forum, build your own community within this community based upon your own interests or workplace and find and connect with new or old colleagues around the world. This network is powered by the BMJ Group.
2. DocCheck Faces: This private social network site operates on the premise that “in every white coat you’ll find a human being.” This network is free to use and exclusive for medical professionals (meaning, doctors only). Register, build a profile and find contacts or invite colleagues. This site is a full subsidiary company of the DocCheck AG.
3. DoctorNetworking: Discuss medical topics, ask and answer medical questions, post and find medical jobs and network in privacy with this physicians-only site. DoctorNetworking is able to offer physicians free membership, free of pharmaceutical promotion and free from the fear that their personal information will be sold.
4. DoctorsHangout: This is a personal and professional networking site geared toward doctors and med students worldwide. Doctors can exchange clinical experiences, review their cases and share clinical knowledge in privacy in a site that holds features such as reviews, customized profile page, photo and video uploads and more.
5. Healtheva: This network is geared toward physicians, researchers, residents, interns, and medical students. Once registered, you can join a private community interested in basic science research, clinical research, paper collaboration, and startup and commercialization opportunities.
6. Ozmosis: This is the network where “good doctors go to become great doctors.” Register to build a network or to learn from peers in ask and answer portals, a section for clinical cases and from the journal club, where professionals discuss journal articles and more.
7. Relaxdoc: This site offers a free online resource for physicians, created by physicians. Exchange views about personal and professional issues, discuss cases, drugs or course treatments, share ideas for management and more along with access to a full Medline database, medical journals, professional resources and educational exclusives.
8. Sermo: Sermo claims to be the largest online physician community in the U.S., with over 115,000 community members. This is where physicians come to collaborate on difficult cases and to exchange observations about drugs, devices and clinical issues.
9. Student Doctor Network: No matter your specialty, this site can help you focus on your major or on networking with other students in your field. Enjoy forums, blogs, wikis and a bookstore that can help you ace your med studies. Med students also can use some doctor networking sites listed here.
10. Tiromed: This is a free networking resource portal for physicians and med students to use for networking, information sharing and building community. This site was founded by a group of practicing physicians.

Specialities

11. BioCrowd: If you are a student, scientist, business person or other healthcare professional with a passion for bioscience, you may want to join this network to build relationships, share ideas, find jobs and identify new career opportunities.
12. DermRounds: This networking site was created by dermatologists for dermatologists, residents, fellows, other physicians, health professionals, industry leaders and anyone else who is connected with the field of dermatology.
13. OBGYN.net: Join this group to share knowledge and gain information form over one million pages filled with educational content, discussion forums, videos, educational tutorials and images. The goal of this network is to continuously improve services in the field of women’s healthcare.
14. Present Diabetes: Built by Present eLearning systems, this networking site provides researchers and caregivers with a collaborative community with the singular goal of fighting the diabetes epidemic.
15. Present Podiatry: This site also is managed by Present eLearning systems, and it focuses on community built around health care professionals who focus on foot care. Gain access to cutting edge CME lectures, focus groups, blogs, instant messaging, chat and other forms of professional networking at this networking site.
16. SurgyTec: This community offers surgeons a place to share case reports, receive second opinions, learn about events and news and connect with other surgeons. SurgyTec is based in The Netherlands, but operates globally with a large community of the best medical practitioners and academic peers.
17. Syndicom SpineConnect: With a growing case knowledgebase of over 1300 cases and 5000 reviews, SpineConnect is the place where spine surgeons look for insights into complicated cases, information on new technologies, and as a venue for conducting case-based research.
18. Within3: This site offers a venue for clinicians, physicians, nurses and more to create environments for collaboration, clinical trials and professional networks.

Nurses

19. MyNurseBook: This networking site for nurses focuses on the global nurse shortage and solutions to this crises. This site looks as though it is fairly new, so get in on the ground floor.
20. Nurse Connect: Find friends and former nursing colleagues, network your way into a new nursing job, rate and review hospitals and more with privacy at this nurses’ networking site. NurseConnect is owned and operated by AMN Healthcare, Inc.
21. Nurse.com: Registered users have full access to a site filled with discussions, polls, content and other features. This iste is sponsored by Gannett Healthcare Group, publisher of many nurse publications.
22. NurseLinkUP: Nurses can use this site to find jobs, to create a detailed profile and to connect to other nurses. NurseLinkUP also maintains a Facebook page, so users can connect in two places. You must be registered to view all content.
23. NurseTogether: This site is more than a network site, as it offers advice, education, forums, global nursing focuses, a store and more. Nurses, nursing students and those considering a career in nursing can come together, communicate and connect on the issues that matter to them at this site.
24. NurseZone: This online community is dedicated to providing nurses with professional and personal development information and opportunities. Users can find a wealth of helpful content and engage in forums, blogs and with sharing personal stories and experiences.
25. Student Nurse Network: This is a new Ning social networking site that was built by nursing students for other nursing students. Create a page, engage in forums, share photos and more once you’ve registered.

Although most lab tech jobs continue to be in hospitals, the need for technicians who can specialize in fields such as clinical biochemistry, hematology, coagulation, microbiology, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, mycology, immunology, immunohematology (blood bank), histopathology, cytopathology, genetics, cytogenetics and IVF labs may continue to grow as well.

The following list of twenty-five excellent Web tools for lab technicians includes a sampling of online tools that cannot possibly cover all specialties; therefore, this is a general list divided into categories that include policy information, educational resources, organizations and more that are free to use and that can help boost your lab technician career. Each link is listed in alphabetical order within the categories to show readers that we do not favor one resource over another.

Educational Resources

1. Amazing Atlas of Antibody Anatomy: Search through software, images and data for academic research, teaching and learning.
2. Blood, The Vital Connection: This is an American Society of Hematology (ASH) site that offers basic education to patients, providers and students. Professionals can tune into Bloodline, a reference site that contains links to important hematology sites and resources.
3. Center for Phlebotomy Education: Although many courses and videos are not free, this site offers a newsletter, school directories, links and a “Needle Know-How” article on specimen collection at no charge.
4. CDC: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a government site that provides resources for the public as well as for scientists who work in all fields connected with laboratory technician careers.
5. DNA Initiative: This government initiative provides funding, training and assistance to ensure that forensic DNA reaches its full potential to solve crimes, protect the innocent and identify missing persons. The focus at this site is on training – including online courses – and tools, including FBI support, required for the job.
6. Free Online DNA Training: NFSTC (National Forensic Science Technology Center) offers a variety of DNA training programs online, made possible by National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and Department of Justice grants.
7. Office of Biological & Environmental Research: This U.S. Department of Energy site offers research materials to anyone interested in genomic research, structural biology and other biological systems.
8. Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory: This site is under the umbrella of the United States Department of Agriculture. Research featured on this site focuses on the systematics of fungi as biological control agents and plant pathogens.
9. The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education: The Mercer School of Medicine and the University of Utah’s Eccles Health Sciences Library provide free online reference tools and images that pertain to pathology, including exams and tutorials.

Database Search and Analytic Tools

NOTE: Hundreds of database search and analytic tools exist to use on the Internet. The following list contains just a handful of those various tools. You can find more tools listed at biophilessurf:

10. BiBiServ: The Bielefeld University’s Bioinformatics Server offers a variety of tools for bioinformatics searches, analytics and phylogeny.
11. HaptenDB: This database includes haptens in pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, drugs, vitamins, steroids, hormones, toxins, dyes, explosives, etc
12. NCBI Structure: the National Center for Biotechnology Information provides a vast array of resources for the scientific community to conduct searches, to analyze and to construct biomedical projects. You also can gain access to their advanced Entrez tools.
13. V Base: V BASE is a comprehensive directory of all human germline variable region sequences compiled from over a thousand published sequences, including those in the current releases of the Genbank and EMBL data libraries.

Collaboration

14. Forensic Hub: The Forensic Training Network provides this forum where forensic professionals and students can join discussions, post useful resources, job opportunities and events. Discussions can be made private or public.
15. Mycology.Net Forum: This discussion forum is accessible only online, and includes general information, jobs, systematics and support categories.
16. Scientist Solutions: You can find a wide variety of discussions at this site, from DNA to cell and tissue culture, and from analytical chemistry to protein detection.

Policy

17. American Society for Microbiology: Learn more about policy issues ranging from biosecurity to water safety, public health and esport controls at this page geared toward microbiology lab techs and scientists. You also can explore the ASM site while you’re at that link through the tabs at the top of the page.
18. CIDRAP: The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy is a global leader in addressing public health preparedness and emerging infectious disease response on topics such as bioterrorism, biosecurity, food safety and more.
19. CLIA: Regulated and implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulate all laboratory testing, except research, performed on humans throughout the U.S. Learn more about these regulations through this link.
20. DNA Resource: This site contains domestic and global DNA policy developments along with a monthly report and archives.

General Organizations

21. ASCLS: The Society for American Clinical Laboratory Science provides a hub for laboratory scientists and is an information base for awards, scholarships, events, continuing education sources and more.
22. ASCP: The American Society for Clinical Pathology welcomes laboratory professionals and students to their hundreds of workshops, symposia, teleconferences, e-courses, and self-study programs annually.
23. COLA: This is a physician-directed organization whose purpose is to promote excellence in laboratory medicine and patient care through a program of voluntary education, consultation, and accreditation.
24. NCA: The National Credentialing Agency for laboratory personnel is a voluntary, nonprofit, non-governmental organization that conducts certification of medical laboratory personnel. They also sponsor various activities to help promote professional development in the medical laboratory profession.
25. NAACLS: The National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences in an international agency for approval and accreditation of educations programs in the clinical laboratory sciences. Use this site to learn about programs and scholarships or, as a professional, volunteer or join a committee.

General Medical Research

Here are some general blogs that cover medical research and information.

1. Medical Research News Blog: This blog from MedicineWorld provides interesting new research and breakthroughs.
2. FasterCures: Looks at different issues in health care, and looks at the field of medical research and works toward reform.
3. The Health Care Blog: Considers different questions related to the medical field, and shares the latest research and procedures.
4. Medical News Base: Get the latest in medical technology and research.
5. The Lancet Global Health Network: A great blog that pulls medical research and news from different journals and papers from around the world.
6. Karen Grepin’s Global Health Blog: A blog focusing on research and the results of medical research around the world.
7. South Carolina Rural Health Research Center: This blog looks at medical research, especially as it relates to health issues in rural areas.
8. Institute for Women’s Health Research: Northwestern put together this blog to share medical research related to women’s health.
9. PharmaGossip: Get the latest news and medical research related to drug development and effects.
10. Clinical Cases and Images: This blog is devoted to showing clinical cases and also the results of research as case studies progress.
11. Animal Medical Center blog: Even pets need someone to find ways to keep them happy. This medical research blog focuses on animal health.

Public Health Blogs

Often, blogs with a public health focus do great reporting on medical research. And, their posts provide helpful and applicable information for those reading the research.

12. Wall Street Journal Health Blog: This blog reports on the latest medical research and how it relates to ordinary folks.
13. Covering Health: A blog focuses on medical research and how it is covered by journalists.
14. Effect Measure: Results of different medical research, and how they relate to public health.
15. Global Health Policy: This blog provides insight into different health happenings around the world, and reports on research findings.
16. Healthcare Technology News: Get the latest in medical technology and the research that is making it possible.
17. Gooznews: Intelligent analysis of medical research and public health policy.
18. Dr. Buttery’s Public Health Blog: A great resource for those who are interested in the results of public-health based research. Results of medical research and interpretation of data.
19. Health Care Industry Buzz: Find out what’s going on in the health care industry, what research is being performed, and how it affects the public.
20. Conflict Health: Health issues, news and research on the areas of the world affected by war.
21. Health Alerts: This blog from Yeshiva University provides alerts related to health and medical emergencies.

Medical Research on Specific Conditions

These are blogs devoted to what’s happening with regard to various conditions. If you are looking for specific research, these blogs are good places to go.

22. Gynecological Cancer Research Network: This blog focuses on medical research related to gynecological cancers.
23. CureSearch: This blog is devoted to sharing the latest medical research related to childhood cancers.
24. ALS Spread the Word: Devoted to Lou Gehrig’s Disease and sharing the latest breakthroughs related to finding ways to treat the condition.
25. Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease: This blog focuses on the medical research involved in using stem cells to treat heart disease.
26. Heart Disease and Stroke: You’re the Cure: This blog looks at attempts to help heart disease and stroke victims, as well as looking at medical research and advancements.
27. Adult Stem Cell Research: This blog looks at advancements made through the use of adult stem cells.
28. Diabetes Daily: Different blogs from those with diabetes. Sharing research and the latest medical technology to help those who suffer from diabetes.
29. Celiac Princess: Get information on the latest treatments and research for Celiac disease, and learn about different foods that you can prepare to help you deal with the condition.
30. Modeling Parkinson’s Disease: This blog aims at modeling Parkinson’s and providing research about this degenerative condition.
31. At Risk for Huntington’s Disease: IF you are looking for medical research and news on Huntington’s Disease, this blog is an excellent place to go.

Medical Ethics Blogs

These blogs deal with the ethics of medical research and ethics in the health care profession in general. These are great places to go if you are looking for more information on how medical research is conducted.

32. Research Ethics Blog: Looks at the ethical implications of medical research, especially human subject medical research.
33. Sufficient Scruples: Learn about medical ethics and understand how the health care profession should function.
34. Medical Ethics Blog: Takes a look at the ethics behind medical practice and research.
35. FDA Law Blog: Get the latest FDA medical research results and learn about legal issues.
36. Lost in Translation: Medical research, commentary and discussions of medical ethics.
37. Drugwonks: Discusses the latest pharmaceutical medical research in context of public policy and ethics.
38. Adventures in Ethics and Science: A look at scientific breakthroughs in the medical field, as well as their ethical implications.
39. Biopolitical Times: Latest health research and alerts, along with a dose of ethics and public policy.
40. BrainEthics: Looks at the latest medical research with regard to the human brain, and discusses it in ethical terms.

Medical Professional Blogs

Some of the best information on medical research comes from those working in medical professions. Here are some great blogs that share health issues and information.

41. Dr. Scherger: This blog on Revolution Health offers information on different medical conditions and treatments.
42. BrainBlog: Blog about the brain and the latest research related to understanding it.
43. Family Medicine Notes: Get news and information, as well as research, on the latest in medicne.
44. Wachter’s World: Learn about what’s going on in today’s health industry, from practices to policy to research.
45. Super Dok: Get observations, medical news and information from this doctor and professor in the Philippines.
46. Dr. Geoff’s Med Blog: Information on the latest treatments and health issues from a former emergency room doctor.
47. Mothers in Medicine: This is a multi-author blog that brings medical news, information and research to readers — from the perspective of mothers in the medical industry.
48. Mind Hacks: This blog focuses on neuro science and the breakthroughs and research in that field.
49. Reflections in a Head Mirror: This blog comes from the Medical College of Wisconsin and follows the experiences of a doctor, and shares his insights on treatment options.
50. Stress Blog: The Mayo Clinic offers a look at stress reduction and research related to how stress relief can help other conditions.

Earth Clinic
This site is filled with various ideas and concepts for folk remedies and holistic cures. The site is prepared with objective for shared knowledge to bring health and hope through safe, inexpensive, natural cures for people around the globe. The site also has physical status with offices in Atlanta and correspondents from around the globe. The site was started in 1999 and from holistic healing also expanded to other areas like alternative medicine.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine [NCCAM]
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the research organization controlled by Federal Government’s for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that comes under the head as complementary or alternative medicine practice. It does not take place of primary health care provider instead it encourages one to discuss all aspects of care and treatment with your health care provider involving any complementary or alternative medicine practices.

Holistic Medicine
This is the site provided with extensive information on holistic healing that can be prior consulted with holistic healing practitioner on number of subjects ranging from holistic medicine, alternative medicine, holistic healing, nutrition, toxic consumer products and many other subjects.

Holistic Online
This site is filled with information on various therapies on health like Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Mind- Body Medicine, Herbs, Nutrition and Vitamin. Alternative health care therapies have been covered here in details like Acupuncture, Ayurveda, Aromatherapy, Homeopathy, Hydrotherapy, Herbal Medicine and Naturopahty.

Natural Health Information
Natural health information articles by Dr. Joseph Mercola provided at the website is to facilitate people with practical answers to their problems of health care. He is a New York Times Best Selling Author. He has also penned famous books on health and hygiene named as The No-Grain Diet and Take Control of Your Health.

1. Customized Google

This extension allows the users to set the search engine Google features to his or her liking. This extension blocks any unsolicited advertisement in the engine. This blocking of unwanted information includes Google mail. The medical worker wanting to search on images of a particular ailment can remap Google images and he or she can go to images directly. He or she does not have to go to the original website. Customized Google extension allows the user to add links acquired from different engines into the final search results.

2. Gspace

This extension manages and stores content and the Google mail is used as an internet storage device. A doctor can use this extension to store information concerning similar patient medical history and condition from the internet. This extension is convenient as it allows files to be place  in Google mail easily without stopping  other work  from being carried out. Gspace also allows the user to listen and watch audio and video files. The extension also allows the user to access pictures stored in the Gdrive.

3. DownThemAll

This Firefox extension is convenient for the medical workers. It is very flexible in terms of down loading files. This utility gives the user more control in downloading of files from the internet. The medical worker can easily establish the files he or she wants to download.

4. Scrapbook

This extension is the most widely used by medical personnel through out the world. Medical students and scientist find it extremely useful. It allows users to save web pages from particular sites together with website addresses. These come in handy to medical workers who frequently search through the internet concerning a particular topic. The extension allows the user to arrange the pages in way similar to bookmarks .This comes in handy as the user is able to create a bibliography of areas researched on. The medical worker will find this extension very useful as it replaces typing errors when typing of addresses in the bar for the URL.Due to his or her work schedule he or she may not correctly type websites internet addresses. The extension also fixes typing errors of domains such as .edu,.com,.gov.it also corrects the protocol used in internet addresses. The extension will also look into the correct country code.

5. Flash block

This extension stops flash player from opening when a site is accessed. This is useful to the medical worker who does not want annoying information from playing. This is so because majority of site are written with the flash media. This extension will replace flash with button where u can watch the message if the user decides to. There can be a useful documentary to the medical worker on e U-TUBE and he or she can stop it if its one of those irritating online advertisements.

Interested high school students to become medical technicians are advised to concentrate on the algebra, biology, chemistry, physics, computer skills, English, health occupation/medical professions education and physical education. The schools where they can train to become medical laboratory technicians mostly request for the following requirements; entry level students should have at least a high school diploma or an equivalent. Learning institutions that offer medical laboratory technician training are; the Arizona school of health sciences and university of Cincinnati both offer online studies. Everest University, Olympia College, western career college, Bryman College, in California we have Newbridge college, in Florida there is Keiser university, Illinois we have the Rush university, Indiana in National college or Kentucky the Spencerian college and so many others.

Some of the specialties that the students can take are; clinical chemistry, clinical microbiology, hematology, transfusion science, histology, diagnostic cytology, and lastly clinical genetics. Highly trained medical laboratory technicians are relied upon by health care professionals to provide accurate processing and assessments. The information and expertise offered by these skilled specialties also helps physicians determine appropriate patient treatment plans. Their performance is sometimes determined by school training and if this is not up to standard when they are practicing as medical laboratories technicians they are bound to be below set standards, for example Apollo college medical trains its students not only to perform a full range of essential lab procedures but also to perfect and determine different tests.