Monday, August 10, 2009

Health News of the Day

Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day.

  • Doctor Is In Online: Doctors are using the Web to treat patients as a growing number of health insurers pay for it, WSJ http://bit.ly/145OpO

  • "RelayHealth is a secure, private way to communicate with your doctor online" http://bit.ly/NvnC5

  • BMJ integrates its social network website doc2doc on the front page http://www.bmj.com

  • BMJ Case report: Abdominal pain and swelling. What is the cause? http://bit.ly/1T5cc

  • BMJ Statistical question: Number needed to treat http://bit.ly/19JdJz

  • Survival tips for junior doctors: a free 17-page PDF book from doc2doc (BMJ social network) http://bit.ly/CXnS7

  • Battle over popular bone drug Fosamax bursts into court http://bit.ly/2N7YTO

  • BMJ: Steroids provide symptomatic relief of pain in sore throat, in addition to antibiotic therapy http://bit.ly/u5ydu

  • Textbooks Offered For iPhones: Publisher is making its college digital textbooks readable on iPhones and iPods http://bit.ly/3mSPkE

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) is not an endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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