Medical and Health News

Headline News

• 1stHealthNews - Top Health News Headlines
  http://www.1stheadlines.com/health.htm
  
  News from various sources including ABC News, Baltimore (MD) Sun, CBS News, MSNBC, and Reuters Health are provided.
  
  
• CNN.com - Health
  http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/
  
  
• MedlinePlus - Health News
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html
  
  Provides access to the past 30 days of news from the New York Times Syndicate, Reuters Health, United Press International and others.
  
  
• Pharmaceutical News Harvest™ - CoreyNahman.com
  (http://www.coreynahman.com/)
  
  
• Reuters Health
  http://www.reutershealth.com/
  Sections for medical professionals (by subscription)
  Section for consumers (free)
  
  
• Washington Post - Health Prevention and Treatment
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/health/

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News from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - News and Public Affairs

Selected sites from the DHHS

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Media Relations
    http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/
    
    
• Food and Drug Administration
  • FDA Press Releases and Talk Papers
    http://www.fda.gov/opacom/hpnews.html
    
    
• National Institutes of Health
  • News and Events
    http://www.nih.gov/news/
  • NIH Clinical Alerts and Advisories
    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.htm

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News from Health-Related Organizations

• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
  • This Week in Washington
    http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/start.htm
    
    This is a page within the Government Affairs and Advocay section of the AAMC web site. It provides summaries and links to information about health issues at the national level.
    
    
  • News from Our Nation's Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals
    http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/start.htm
    
    
• National Academies
  • Science in the Headlines
    http://www.nas.edu/headlines/

    The National Academies consist of four organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council. Every year, the National Academies produce hundreds of reports that examine a range of issues from AIDS to obesity to science education, and more. This site provides summaries of issues in the news with links to related reports.

• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Media Centre
    http://www.who.int/inf/
    
    WHO press releases and factsheets are available at this site.

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News from Organizations for Health Professionals

• American Dental Association
  http://www.ada.org/index.asp
  
  
• American Medical Association - AMA Newsroom
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3085.html
  
  
• American Nurses Association - Press Releases
  http://nursingworld.org/pressrel/
  
  
• National League for Nursing - News Releases
  http://www.nln.org/pressreleases/index.htm
  
  
• American Pharmaceutical Association - News
  http://www.aphanet.org/
  
  
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists - ASHP Breaking News
  http://www.ashp.org/news/index.cfm?cfid=15820716&CFToken=49042922
  
  
• National Association of Social Workers - NASW Press Room
  https://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/default.asp

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News from Research Institutions, Universities, Government Agencies, Companies, etc.

• ErekAlert! News by Subject: Medicine & Health
  http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject.php?kw=104

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science provides this site as a forum in which universities, associations and societies, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can distribute science, health and technology news to the media. The site also archives press releases and makes them available to the public. The institutions that submit press releases are responsible for the content of their releases.

• Newswise
  http://www.newswise.com/
  
  More than 400 higher education and research institutions participate in this collaborative resource by providing their knowledge-based news. From the Libraries menu select MedNews.
  
  
• ScienceDaily Magazine - Health & Medicine News
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/

  This online magazine and Web portal is devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Its articles are selected from news releases submitted by leading universities and other research organizations.

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Medical Literature Cited in the News

• Health and Medicine in the News
  http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed/

  The Bio-Medical Library of the University of Minnesota has developed this site to "provide quick access to journal literature and meeting abstracts on subjects discussed in health and medicine newspaper articles. The Star Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities [Minneapolis Edition] is scanned daily for relevant articles. The first priority for inclusion in this resource is newspaper articles that announce new research findings and refer in some way to current or forthcoming scholarly publications."

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Understanding Medical News

• Understanding Risk: What Do Those Headlines Really Mean? - The NIH Word on Health
  http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/apr2004/risk.htm
  
  
• Tips for Understanding Popular Medical Information - University of Connecticut Health Center
  http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/rbpopmed.html
  

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Reviewed: March 2007