Medical News of the Obvious

ACP Internist Blog offers a weekly post titled Medical News of the Obvious. Recent posts report on studies telling us that:

automobile deaths decline as gas prices rise because there are fewer people on the roads to kill or be killed
teenage girls are susceptible to peer pressure
erectile dysfunction is lower in men who have intercourse more [...]

Medical blogs raise privacy concerns

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition today featured a story about blogging by doctors. This brief report touches on various types of blogging by physicians – from case reports to management problems like malpractice suits to venting about problem patients difficult cases. One interviewee — a psychiatrist — suggests that doctors who use blogs [...]

MedWorm: Medical RSS & Search Engine

MedWorm (www.medworm.com) is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds.  From the description on MedWorm’s “About” page:
MedWorm collects updates from over 5000 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical [...]