Meanwhile, for your reading & conversation pleasure:
MEDSCAPE & OTHER HEALTH-MED FREE LINK FINDS OF THE WEEK
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■ Music Lessons Boost Brain Function, Learning Ability in Impoverished Kids ■ Shared Medical Appointments OK With Patients
■ Elderly Profit From
Group Meetings & Home Visits ■ Can Sports Medicine Benefit Temperature-Sensitive Patients in Climate Change:
"The Cooling Shirt" ■ Nigeria Hopes to Eradicate Polio Despite Insurgency ■ The D.I.Y. Medical Tester ■ Relationship Between Obesity and Exposure to Light at Night: Cross-Sectional Analyses of Over
100,000 Women in the Breakthrough Generations Study
■ NSAIDs [such as daily aspirin] May Reduce Breast Cancer Recurrence ■ Ebola Emergency & Experimental Drugs ■ Surge of Lawsuits Over Lipitor (atorvastatin) alleging that Pfizer knew of possible serious side effects...but never properly warned the public]
■ Religiosity Associated With Less Depression in Elderly: Study (also has an excellent 4th ¶ on how/why
correlations found in research are
not equivalanet to causations, a fact most popular reportage fails to distinguish)
■ Interim CDC
Guidance for Polio Vaccination for Travel to and From Countries Affected by Wild Poliovirus ■ Interactive
Back-to-School Health quiz
■ Commentary:
Why Sex Differences in Basic Research Matter In the Clinic
■ Health Care Needs of Cancer Survivors in General Practice
■ the Neural Development of Trust and Cooperation ■ Cologuard™
[non-invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening ■ Olfactory Dysfunction as Familial Biomarker for Schizophrenia ■ India Declared Polio-Free, but Global Risks Persist ■
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MEDSCAPE is a mostly-plain-English news & research report service geared for healthcare professionals but FREE to all who register - choose "Consumer" on the PROFESSIONS list in the registration process that starts when you first click on a Medscape link.
Selecting multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, because a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you only want access and no emails).
Many Medscape articles are commentable - if you use a screen-name for privacy, it's worth devising one that won't undermine your own comments' impact.
Articles with videos of speakers provide a transcript below the vid window and you can shut sound off if you'd rather read than listen. Some articles are slideshows or quizes with accompanying text.
Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, such as, "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'". Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.