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.

  • Rosiglitazone increases risk of heart failure and fractures, but does not increase overall cardiovascular mortality http://bit.ly/ReujZ

  • Our digital world: camera phones and the diagnosis of a seizure. One picture is worth a thousand guesses. http://bit.ly/psdyO

  • CNN: Cleveland Clinic pushes into future http://bit.ly/AZXNN

  • Just registered with the BMJ social network site Doc2Doc http://doc2doc.bmj.com - Give it a try.

  • NYTimes on preventing burnout during residency: "Taking Time for the Self on the Path to Becoming a Doctor" http://bit.ly/Knsqp -- Who advised the NYTimes to redirect article comments to a separate blog? - "Join the discussion on the Well blog" http://bit.ly/iPcvX - Strange.

  • CrowdEye search for Twitter makes interesting word clouds and associations: allergy http://bit.ly/LKL1T

  • I believe we had the first ever Journal Club on Twitter on Dec 11, 2008 http://bit.ly/ZkDn0 - please reply @JRBtrip to expand the idea: "Imagine multiple contributions from the 'twitterverse' - a global perspective on a paper."

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