Links to Keep up with Medicine as a Whole: Written for a Good Friend

10/24/2016
By Ulisses Santamaria
Starters and General Medical News:
I personally use google news for a lot of my general medical news, but I know china and
google don't exactly get along...So here are some others.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
Good overall medical news site, a lot of google news articles come from here.

http://www.medscape.com/
I've been using this site since high school for medical news. It also comes with a
medical reference that is written, updated, and peer-reviewed by doctors across the
U.S. It also has an education section where you can test your skills against other
doctors that also do the activities.

http://www.healthday.com/
https://medlineplus.gov/
Good site, it has a category for regular people and doctors. Medline Plus (NIH's regular
people reference for medicine) takes their news from here a lot.

Journal Article Starting Points:

So, before diving into full blown research articles. I think it would help to see articles that
travel across different disciplines.

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/currentissue
If you make a personal account with the Journal of the American Medical Association
(JAMA), you should be able to see all of the articles for the current issue of JAMA. But
you can't look at past issues. Original research articles are legit and the perspectives I
think are interesting to read.

http://www.nejm.org/
The nice thing about the New England Journal of Medicine is that you don't need an
account to read the current issue for free. The articles/perspectives are deemed more
prestigious than JAMA.
In-depth Research Articles:
Unfortunately, as Alumni, we lost access to all of the paid journals for research
purposes, so we have to rely on open access journals now. Since they're generally
viewed as "less prestigious than paid journals" we're at a bit of a loss, but not totally. I'll
only be linking the best open access places.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Pubmed central, the government's answer to open access of high quality material. So
any article that is fully funded by NIH has to be published to pubmed and made free
within 12 months of publication in a paid journal. To get the most out of it; press
advanced search, then search by title/abstract.

https://www.plos.org/
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is currently the largest and most prestigious open
access journal network out there. It has a browsing option and different categories to
browse from. It's definitely cool to look at and cool to browse.

https://www.biomedcentral.com/
You can think of this as the rival to PLOS. It's the other prestigious open access journal
network. I think they do have some that you need to pay for the bulk of it is free, so it
should be no big deal.