CURRENT  MEDICAL  NEWS  SOURCES



The following recommended online news sources offer reliable information and timely news stories about medical research.

Understanding Medical News

 Tips For Understanding Popular Medical Information
          This site includes important questions to ask as you are reading and evaluating medical news.

 Understanding Risk. What Do Those Headlines Really Mean?
            Discusses the differences among types of clinical research and explains the significance of types of risk in research
            results.  Excellent easy to understand information about risk.  Adobe Reader needed to read this file.  Download the free reader
            here .             

 Beyond the Headlines: What Consumers Need To Know About Nutrition News
            From the International Food Information Council, a publication to help consumers understand how research becomes
            news.

Recommended Online News Sources

Aetna InteliHealth Health News
        Top news headlines for the day.  Also on its  homepage ,  there is a section of commentaries written by Harvard Medical
        School physicians of several of the day's top news stories.

 CNN Health
         Daily updated articles from a variety of news sources with links to related CNN stories and websites.

1st Headlines - Top Health Headlines
        Top news stories from a variety of sources.  Story may be covered by more than one news sources, allowing the
        reader to compare stories and fill in information gaps.

 News Sources With Daily/Weekly Email Delivery

 MedlinePlus Health News
        Produced by the National Library of Medicine, this site has daily news releases from sources such as United Press
        International, New York Times Syndicate, and Reuters.  Stories can be retrieved for thirty days from publication.  Users
        may sign up for daily email of "Health Headlines" in several different categories.

Medscape -
        From WebMD, a website for doctors with a comprehensive news feature.  Go to the website to read the daily news or sign
        up for any of the forty free newsletters for delivery to your email address.  There are newsletters in twenty-five specialities,
        a weekly multi-specialty edition, health business news, and much more.

NewsWise
        Select "Mednews" for medical news stories.  Information from news releases of more than four hundred universities,
        professional associations, and research institutions.  Register and sign up to receive weekly  medical news digests
        via email.
 
 

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