Isabel (owned and developed by The Isabel Medical Charity, a UK registered charity) is a new pediatric online tool designed with the primary intention of decreasing potential medical errors when caring for critically ill children. The origins of the website lie with the parents of Isabel who, at the age of 3 years, spent 4 weeks in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) recovering from the complications of a missed diagnosis.

The paramount function of the website is its utility as a diagnostic aid. After receiving a patient age category and some clinical features, Isabel will output an instantaneous list of up to 15 differential diagnoses. This feature can be invaluable in a difficult-to-diagnose pediatric case and can serve as an excellent, readily available reference for faculty, fellows, pediatricPages

Saturday, July 23, 2011

SUVUDU Lunch with Timothy Zahn and Shelly Shapiro

From 1983 until 1991 Star Wars fans had to wonder, what happened next after Return of the Jedi? What was the fate of our heroes? Did Han and Leia live happily ever after? Did Luke have further adventures?

Into the galaxy far, far away entered an author, Timothy Zahn, who not only started to answer some of these questions about the characters we loved in the movies, but also introduced a cadre of new characters that would grow to be loved by fans just as much as some of the characters from the original trilogy. Mara Jade, Grand Admiral Thrawn, Captain Pellaeon, Jacen, Jaina, Ghent, Winter, the list goes on and on.

Since that fateful book the popularity of Star