Health Highlights – January 6th, 2009

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Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read. For a complete list of recommeded sources, see our links page.

• The Web 2.0-EBM Medicine split.
  [1] Introduction into a short series. | Laika’s MedLibLog

  In the first of a series of posts, Laika discusses the division between evidence-based medicine and medicine 2.0.

• 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter? | ScienceRoll

  Use Twitter? Have trouble keeping up with all the tweets? Berci Mesko shares some tips on how to follow efficiently.

• Top Healthcare Conversations of 2008 | Healthcare NBIC

  Jack Powers, director of the the International Informatics Institute (IN3.ORG), documents the January 1, 2009 Health Memes from around the web.

• Cancer Research Blog Carnival #17 | Blind.Scientist

  New to the Cancer Research Carnival, Blind.Scientist hosts the 17th edition, covering some great cancer studies and a cancer patient's perspective on what's really important: less doing, more being.

• How Good Are Doctor Rating Sites? | e-Patients.net

  Dr. John Grohol reviews a report on doctor rating sites and addresses the issue of statistical significance.

• Michael Frank probes neurogenetic basis of “oops!” | biomarker-driven mental health 2.0

  Mistakes, we all make 'em. Dr. John Fossella reviews a study that provides insight in the way human error-processing works.