Medical Newsletters/Subscriptions?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I'm a high school senior I want to know some good newsletters or subscriptions that post the newest medical advancements or discoveries because I'm genuinely curious about the subject. Now that college apps are over, I want to delve deeper into the current advancements of the medical field. I try to use some websites such as CNN or New York Times but I fond those not as engaging. I want to find material such as medical journals where physicians publish their research or other print that is similar. I prefer e-mail notifications or just any good website. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>i don’t know about free ones/ones you can sign up for if you’re not a physician (in training) but I get the AMA morning rounds each day (never read them) and stuff from the American College of Physicians (also never read it). A lot of journals have news blogs now. While JAMA is the big, clinically oriented one, I think the Nature/Science ones would probably be better reads.</p>

<p>I googled “medical newsletters” and got a ton of stuff - most of them being school’s publishing their own announcements of things (e.g. Harvard, Stanford, Hopkins) which at your stage could still be interesting to read.</p>

<p>Most journals require a subscription and they can get pretty expensive.</p>

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<p>@MedicalBoy
I’ve been reading this since I was in high school. You can sign up for e-mail, RSS, podcasts, or whatever suits your needs.</p>

<p>[CDC</a> - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)](<a href=“http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/]CDC”>Home page for MMWR | MMWR)</p>

<p>enjoy. :)</p>

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<p>I will ditto what Brown said. I work as a medical librarian. You would not believe how expensive biomedical journals are! (Don’t get me started about the predatory publication practices of certain medical publishers coughcoughcoughelsiviercough.)</p>

<p>Even consumer-oriented newsletters like Mayo Clinic Health Letter and MedLinePLUS require subscriptions.</p>

<p>However, past issues of MedLinePLUS are available online for free. </p>

<p>[Fall</a> 2013 Issue: Volume 8 Number 3 | NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine](<a href=“http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/fall13/toc.html]Fall”>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/fall13/toc.html)</p>

<p>So is some content from the Mayo Clinic Health Letter</p>

<p>[Mayo</a> Clinic Health Letter](<a href=“http://healthletter.mayoclinic.com%5DMayo”>http://healthletter.mayoclinic.com)</p>

<p>Science News just recently changed it policies about online access. Its online content used to be free, but in October that policy changed so that only the first 3 paragraphs are available to non-subscribers.</p>

<p>Occasionally some content published in Nature is made freely available, but generally access to most articles in Science and Nature require a subscription.</p>

<p>If you want a good general science journal, you might try PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences). It’s open access (free). </p>

<p>[Proceedings</a> of the National Academy of Sciences](<a href=“http://www.pnas.org%5DProceedings”>http://www.pnas.org)</p>

<p>Except for PNAS and a very few other journals (like arXiv for astronomy, astrophysics and mathematics) view open access journals with great suspicion. (Most open access journals are not peer-reviewed. Most are pay-for-play and will publish anything no matter how poorly done.)</p>

<p>If you want something less technical than Nature, Science or PNAS, you might try reading the blogs at Scientific American. </p>

<p>If you have a particular topic you’re interested in and don’t mind hunting around a bit, you might try doing some searching in PubMed to see what’s new.</p>

<p>[Home</a> - PubMed - NCBI](<a href=“http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed]Home”>PubMed)</p>

<p>Lastly, if you are near a public university or medical school, you have the right to access their print & online subscriptions and journal databases from inside the library. (Remote access by non-students/non-staff is a major violation of their subscription contracts.) </p>

<p>Some public library systems also subscribe to Science or/and Nature, but you will need to check the local catalog to see if your is one that does.</p>