Read or Listen to latest 4 largest medical journals !!

This is a collection of articles I have found interesting in the weekly editions of the "big five" medical journals: NEJM, JAMA, Annals, Lancet and BMJ (a few more journals are included occasionally). Please see the end of the post for a suggested time-efficient way to stay up-to-date with the medical literature.

Medical Journals tab: A screenshot of iGoogle with RSS feeds from the major medical journals.

1. Subscribe to the RSS feeds of the 5 major medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, BMJ, Lancet and Annals) plus 2-3 subpecialty journals in your field of interest. RSS is a Really simple syndication where u will get the head lines of latest updates to your desktop....


2. Read the journal on the day it is published online, for example, NEJM on Wednesdays.

3. Listen to journal podcasts. Click here to subscribe the podcasts of the 4 major journals in iGoogle. Add the subscriptions to yourigoogle. Igoogle is little advanced than classic google search. just type www.igoogle.com in your browser and login with your gmail account. you can add the links of podcasts in your igoogle.
Alternate way is open reader.google.com and add the links i am giving below

1. NEJM,
Feed: http://podcast.nejm.org/nejm_audio_summaries.xml

2. Lancet,
Feed: http://podcast.thelancet.com/lancet.xml

3. JAMA,
Feed: http://jama.ama-assn.org/misc/jamapodcasts2006.rss

4. BMJ, (the podcast is not active now).

5. Annals,
Feed: http://media.acponline.org/feeds/annals.xml

just copy the links and go to "add subscription" in Google Reader and add the links given

Hope You read these journals and apply them for better patient care !

Dr Pavan

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Craziest X-rays !

A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.


This X-ray shows a boy who swallowed magnetic pieces of a block one at a time. When they hit his stomach, they reconnected.


Elsie, a 6-month-old Saint Bernard, swallowed a 13-inch serrated knife in September 2005. After an operation, the pup had an 8-inch scar but was otherwise fine.


A film shows PVC plumbing pipes inserted in the bones of a deceased person as part of an alleged body parts ring.


Doctors in Pakistan removed a whole lightbulb from a prisoner's anus June 28. The man said he awoke with the problem, but doctors weren't sure.


X-rays from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., show items such as bed springs and batteries that prisoners swallowed to gain trips to outside hospitals.


A An 6-inch pair of surgical scissors appears in the abdomen of Australian Pat Skinner in April 2004 -- 18 months after her initial operation.


A nail gun shot six nails into construction worker Isidro Mejia's head during an April 2004 accident. He not only survived but was expected at the time to recover fully.


An alien face seems to appear in the X-ray of a duck, which died in May from injuries it had when found.


On 2004, dutch actress Georgina Verbaan confounded critics who doubted the authenticity of her jugs by publishing impressive x-ray profiles on her website. The results are conclusive proof that the 25-year-old did not surgically enhance her breasts in advance of a €200,000 photo shoot for the December issue of Dutch Playboy.


Python Gulps Down Queen-Size Electric Blanket. It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket - with the electrical cord and control box. Veterinarians Karsten Fostvedt and Barry Rathfon performed the two-hour operation.

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