Statistics, Cartoons and Clinical Effectiveness

If “statistically significant,” “p-values,” “research spin” and “Cochrane” spark your interest you may like the Absolutely Maybe and Statistically Funny blogs by HildaBastian. A founding member of the Cochrane Collaboration, she currently “works at making clinical effectiveness research accessible as lead for the PubMedHealth team” at the National Institutes of Health. Cartooning has become an effective consumer advocacy tool for Hilda, who describes herself as “scientist, blogger, cartoonist.” A recent interview in NLM In Focus talks about her very interesting background.

Websites Referenced

http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/author/hbastian/

http://statistically-funny.blogspot.com/

http://hildabastian.net/

http://www.cochrane.org/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/

https://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2016/05/16/hilda-bastian-she-speaks-and-draws-truth-to-scientific-power/

Genetics Resources

Genetics information aimed at health care consumers is available at Genetics Home Reference. High school students and teachers are the focus of the information offered on GeneEd Web. Both sites provide materials understandable to someone wanting an overview or beginning a study of genetics. They were created by the National Library of Medicine and the National Human Genome Institute.

Websites Cited
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/ghr
http://geneed.nlm.nih.gov
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
http://www.genome.gov