Thursday, December 17, 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:

In praise of physical examination - "Stanford 25" teaches trainees 25 useful physical exam manoeuvres http://bit.ly/4UumVn

How to Avoid Injury on the Ski Slopes http://bit.ly/50BB0Q -- Low speed, "readiness" for risk, new equipment, old and powder snow, and drug consumption are risk factors when skiing http://bit.ly/8vlt25

Lying obliquely in bed may be a clinical sign of cognitive impairment? BMJ http://bit.ly/6h3lr3

To combat a nationwide shortage of doctors, medical schools in the U.S. plan to add 3,000 first-year students by 2018 http://bit.ly/8msc4J

Brain maps compare the surgical and the anaesthetic brain - BMJ Christmas Edition http://bit.ly/8uuJm4 and http://bit.ly/5HGfGn

Guidelines for Small Pulmonary Nodules on CT Scans: If low probability - Serial CT scanning at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months http://bit.ly/8LbBXE

The Cholesterol Drug for People Without High Cholesterol But with High CRP http://bit.ly/7xUjN8

Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki http://bit.ly/6hFxJW - NOT recommended.

India will become the world’s most populous country in 2025, surpassing China - NYT http://bit.ly/4X5CJo

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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