CURRENT
MEDICAL NEWS SOURCES
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
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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.
Reuters Health eLine
Daily medical news for the consumer (free) and for the professional (requires
a subscription fee). Distributed by
Reuters News Syndicate.
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
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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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