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How can you keep current with a field where the pace of change is so great – including new treatments, technologies, processes or disease flare ups?

The Internet provides a number of news services, both for general information and specifically for medicine. (Many require registering at the site to receive an email targeted at your interests). Here are some news services where you can remain anonymous.

1. Medline Plus – News by Date
Browse the daily news clippings. Covers approximately the last 3 months of medical and health news reported in newspapers and medical journals.

2. IHealth Beat
Reports the impact the Internet and IT progress is having on health care. Browse daily news or select a topic from the navigation bar.

3. Harvard World Health News
An online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health. The site offers a combination of original reporting and a digest of news stories and commentaries from newspapers/magazines worldwide on pressing issues in public health.