Health Highlights – March 3rd, 2008

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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.

• Introducing … RxWiki! | Secundum Artem

  N.B. introduces a wiki resource on drugs, edited and reviewed only by licensed pharmacists.

• Top 10 Reasons to Stay Healthy | Mark’s Daily Apple

  Mark’s Daily Apple gives the top 10 reasons why you need and want to stay healthy.

• Perfect Parents | Musings of a Distractible Mind

  Dr. Rob ruminates about parenting, discipline and children.

• e-Second Opinions: 100 Search Engines and Tools for Medical Self-Diagnosis | NOEDb

  At the Nursing Education Online Database, Jessica Hupp provides 100 of the best online tools to help you diagnose and treat medical symptoms until you can see a doctor.

• CF “success” story | Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You

  Dr. Steven Murphy, aka the Gene Sherpa, writes about the recently reported decrease in children born with Cystic Fibrosis and the importance of personalized medicine.