Friday, July 31, 2009

Health News of the Day, part 2

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.

  • Eating omega-3-rich seafood may be a mood-lifter for women who are feeling depressed during pregnancy. Seafood may help depression in pregnancy - but pregnant women should limit consumption due to its mercury content... "Although common in western countries, depression is virtually absent in countries where people eat a lot of fish" http://bit.ly/jVrJA - Sounds like a bald statement...

  • Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes http://bit.ly/Z61jv - Not for me but the brave ones here may check it out.

  • CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen just started a blog at Blogger.com: Welcome to medical blogosphere! It looks like 140 characters on Twitter were not enough for @elizcohencnn - so here is the blog http://bit.ly/11sc4j

  • Pathtalk.org is a weblog about pathology http://pathtalk.org

  • Inspiring non-scientists: A Nature editorial reviews the TED Talks approach http://bit.ly/123EIx

  • Top 1,000 Hospital Web sites (worldwide) - http://bit.ly/15VkVQ , also Top US list: http://bit.ly/5YRC8 A huge data set.

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) does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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