Wednesday, July 1, 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.

  • Patients Visit With Their Physicians Online as More Insurers Begin Paying for Digital Diagnoses. Bad idea: "How to be a digital doctor and diagnose conjunctivitis via email" http://bit.ly/KcUmB

  • New pneumonia score - SCAP (developed in Spain) outperforms other scores in predicting severity http://bit.ly/18eQyn

  • 36 Hippocratic Aphorisms of Nephrologic Interest - the authors of the article are 3 Greek doctors http://bit.ly/OSn3W

  • In the U.S., every horse receives Lasix (furosemide) diuretic on the day of the race http://bit.ly/HAla5

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