This is an interesting post to the Health Blog of the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com). It’s about an article in the journal Personalized Medicine about the do-it-yourself (DIY) science movement. The journal article, written by Melanie Swan (melanieswan.com), lays out seven steps to “accelerating the professionalization” of do-it-yourself studies by laypeople.
Here’s a link to the WSJ blog post:
blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/03/
Health Blog/WSJ
When Medicine Really Gets Personal: The DIY Clinical Trial
By Amy Dockser Marcus
March 30, 2012, 3:38 PM
And here’s a link to the article in Personalized Medicine:
www.futuremedicine.com/doi/
Good luck to all your lay researchers!