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Blogs for Medical Information

The term blog is short for "web log." A blog consists of postings that are text, images, audio files, videos, or any combination of these formats. The most recent posting is listed at the top. Postings are archived and often categorized.

The blogs listed here provide medical information and other related resources.

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	Health Politics with Dr. Mike Magee

	Guide to trends in health policy and public health.



	Medicine and Man

	Relevant latest health news, tips on how to stay healthy, disease reviews, and other news and events related to the medical community.



	Pallimed

	Reviews of current palliative medicine, hospice, and end-of-life research with a particular focus on publications not from the major palliative care journals.



	PsychCentral Blog

	Analysis and reporting on the news and research findings in psychology, psychiatry, online behavior, and mental health.



	Pulmonary Roundtable

	Complex pulmonary cases and discussion of the possible diagnoses or treatments in the comments section.



	The Cancer Blog

	Cancer topics in the news, prevention, treatment, and types of cancer. [back to top]

Doctor Diaries



	California Medicine Man

	Discussion of healthcare delivery and medical issues.



	Kevin, MD

	Commentary on primary care and internal medicine news and controversial medical topics. [back to top]

Images and Clinical Cases



	Clinical Cases and Images Blog

	Collection of case histories, imaging, and clinical examination and procedures.



	*Clinical Images and Cases on Flickr

	Image collections corresponding to the Clinical Cases and Images Blog.



	Radiology Picture of the Day

	New medical image daily with a brief description.



	*The Teaching Files: X-rays on Flickr

	Small collection of X-ray images with notes. [back to top]

* These are not blogs per se, but rather image collection sites with commentaries.

Law and Ethics



	Bioethics Discussion Blog

	Discussions of ethical issues in medicine and focus on an ethical issue of the month.



	Blog.bioethics.net

	Blog by the editors of The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB).



	California Medical Malpractice Law Blog

	Selected archives of a blog by San Francisco personal injury lawyers. [back to top]

Medical Education



	Medical Education Blog

	Created by the University of Saskatchewan.



	Medical Education Literature Searching

	UCSF librarian's literature searching tips and other medical education resources. [back to top]

Medical Journals



	BMJBlog

	The British Medical Journal's blog for discussions of each journal issue.



	Health Blog

	The Wall Street Journal's blog on health and the business of health.



	Health Affairs Blog

	Blog of the Health Affairs journal that covers health policies.



	The Lancet Blog

	Blog of British journal, The Lancet.



	Nature Newsblog

	Blog of the journal Nature. [back to top]

Medical Technologies



	MedGadget

	Internet journal of emerging medical technologies.



	The Palmdoc Chronicles

	Latest medical PDA news and updates. [back to top]

UCSF Blogs



	UCSF Blogs

	Blogs created by UCSF students, faculty, and staff.

Directories of Blogs


	Medical News Feeds Bloggapedia Google Blog Search [back to top]				Ask.com's Blogs & Feeds Search Technorati

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