Grand Rounds 2.50

By tsmith on September 5, 2006.

This week's edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compendium of medical blogging, is up over at Clinical Cases and Images.

Other carnival news:

The next edition of Pediatric Grand Rounds is scheduled for September 10th,and hosted by Shinga of Breath Spa for Kids. Because of the time difference to the UK your contributions would be much appreciated by no later than Saturday, September 9, 17:00 London time; send them to breath.spaATSIGNgooglemail.com.

And finally, the next edition of Animalcules, the carnival of the wee beasties, will go live next Thursday, Sept. 14, at Viva la evolucion!. I don't have contact info for the author right now, so in the interim feel free to pass submissions along to me: aetiology AT gmail DOT com.

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