I recently came across the Medical News TV Network (HT: Bertalan Meskó’s Science Roll) which looks like it’s trying to be the CNN of medical news coverage, in the way that CNN became the source of 24/7 news coverage back in the 90s. 
Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent, will host the daily news program and Dr. Robert Lazzara is the founder. Looks like they’ll be covering the latest in medical research news as well as preventative care and wellness. 
MDiTV is the first health sciences media network to exclusively use internet-based video content. MDiTV will be a new platform for the health care community to interact and share information, available through apps, smart phones, widgets, and television. It is the first network of its kind.
Hopefully, with their embrace of online video and interactive media they will bring light to not only the latest research discoveries but also issues in the medical research industry– specifically the roadblocks that are keeping discoveries in the lab from becoming treatments for patients.
Follow them on Twitter @mditvorg. And watch out for their debut.
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Sounds… interesting. I’d check it ou
Comment by Quinley F — January 21, 2010 @ 1:29 pm
Quinley, Thanks for your interest. The site is still beta. Have a look and I would welcome your thoughts and suggestions.
Robert
rlazzara@mditv.org
Comment by robert lazzara — January 21, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
Dunno if it’s still there but the Exploratorium used to have a permanent exhibit that captured people not for the usual one minute or so, but 20 or 30 or 45. It was called Sickle Cell Counsellor and gave you a track ball and a button and three couples to interview and six experts to consult. It was a rich learning environment and was remarkably engaging. Your purpose was to learn each couple’s sickle cell status by a blood test and advise them about whether to have children and so forth. The key structure was that whatever you chose to do next got you something, usually a video clip, that lasted less than a minute. I was there for a full 45 minutes and still remember a lot about the condition, years later.
It was built by a student of Roger Schank and his Institute for the learning Sciences at Northwestern Univ. perhaps ten or fifteen years ago. Now he’s an E-Learning guru. I remember Engines for Education. If some of what you did was provide downloadable material for engaging interactive learning experiences, it would be stone wonderful. But that is a whole lot to ask from a struggling startup channel. Perhaps if you provided a hosting site for such material, some educators would contribute some.
If I recall correctly, several universities are offering their whole curriculum or major parts of it for free. Even non-interactively, that could be fascinating to many of us. It would be great if such things were accompanied by a wiki where students could ask questions and others could answer and others could refine those answers. Each episode of each topic could have a page of its own and provide cross links to related material for those who wished to dig deeper.
Comment by Richard Karpinski — January 30, 2010 @ 9:56 pm
Hey, this is on the MRF site. Can you interview actual researchers about what they found out in the last few years? Would you be able to provide enough background that people could understand what their findings mean? If lay watchers could start to understand what MS does and what the scientists are trying to find out in order to design a therapy that might work, that would be exciting. With luck, it might even get some eager students to undertake to become scientists and help achieve real cures.
As you can see, the opportunity to interact fires up some of us.
Comment by Richard Karpinski — January 30, 2010 @ 10:10 pm