There is so much medical information on the web, but if you are a medical professional, student, or just someone in need of medical information, the following to 20 medical blogs can give you the answers you need. The information on these blogs contains up to date research and information on a variety of topics.
1. The Student Doctor Network
The Student Doctor Network is a great place for faculty, students, and advisors to connect and discuss everything from being a doctor to medical news.

2. Literature, Arts, and Medicine Blog
The goal of the NYU Blog is to create a space and open up discussion on medical research with how it relates to humanities, arts, and social sciences.

3. DrugWonks
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest has brought to us the DrugWonks blog. Reading through this blog, you will find information on new drug studies, FDA approvals and more.

4. The Portable Pediatrician
As a licensed practitioner of pediatrics, Dr. Stacy B. Stryer, focuses on children’s health including natural health, hearth health, cold and flu, and even college health.

5. Center for Health Care Research and Policy
As part of its mission to improve the health of the public by conducting research that examines access to health care, increases the quality of health care services, and informs health policy and practice; the Center for Health Care Research and Policy has developed this great blog to discuss its reviews, advertise seminars and reach out to the community.

6. Rx for healthcare
Oregon’s Rx for Healthcare Blog, sets out to inform the public and encourage discussions about how healthcare reform can come about.

7. Doctor David’s Blog
As a pediatric oncologist, Dr. David, uses his blog to write informally for anyone who is interested in pediatric oncology, cancer research, cancer treatments, and breaking medical news.

8. Women’s Health
Dr. Vivian Dickerson is a licensed OB/GYN who writes to inform women of all ages need to know for optimum health!

9. Health Blog
The Health Blog, brought to you by The Wall Street Journal, offers news and analysis on health and the business of health. The blog covers stories from “why Joe Lieberman is opposed to expanding medicare” to “how remedial reading class changes young brains”.

10. Medical Humanities Blog
As a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Institute for Medical Humanities, Daniel Goldberg uses this blog to discuss the nature and future of medical humanities.

11. The National Nurse
Endorsed by American Holistic Nurses Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, The Center for Nursing Advocacy and other medical and nursing organizations, The Nation Nurse brings you news about nursing, conventions, research and more.

12. MyCancer
As a Journalist, Leroy Sievers, felt the need to share about his battle with cancer. Read through his blog to keep up with his progress, as well as up to date information on cancer treatment.

13. MedicalNerds.com
This blog is all about technology, stats and IT for medics, brought to you by the Medical Nerds. If you need to find out how to Zip a file, or the pitfalls when buying a blackberry from eBay, then this is the blog for you.

14. Acupuncture Today
This site, about acupuncture, will inform you on everything from “low-level laser light acupuncture” to “an effective supplemental therapy for cancer”.

15. Respectful Insolence
Respectful Insolence brings you news on alternative medicine and general industry through clever and funny post.

16. PsychCentral Blog
Brought to you by The PsychCentral, this blog informs and discusses all types of mental health symptoms, diseases and treatments, from parenting to anxiety to grief.

17. Stress
As a Mayo Clinic oncologist, Dr. Edward T. Creagan, talks about everything from dealing with stress to ways of simplifying your general life.

18. Healthy Relationships
Licensed as a psychotherapist, Mira Kirshenbaum uses this blog to cover how relationships are connected to your health. With subjects from fitness, cancer, sex, to addiction and much more, this site has you covered.

19. The Differential
This blog is brought to you by several medical students through Medscape blogs, and covers all sorts of information. Students are from colleges such as Cambridge University, UNC Chapel Hill, UT Health Sciences Center, and more.

20. Health and Nutrition by Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Best-selling author, Dr. Michael R. Eades, who wrote Protein Power, uses his blog to inform you about diet research studies, metabolism, nutrition and more.

Earning a Casino Management certificate may sound like an exciting and glamorous job, but the recession is dulling that luster. Casinos are seeing a decrease in revenue these days, but some people have an idea how to boost that revenue.
Factual arguments can be presented that reducing slot hold percentages and providing excellent customer service are two methods to increase patronage and ultimately returns for Vegas casino operators. Earth – shatteringly simple and non – novel, right? Certainly the gamblers (including this author) who enter Vegas casinos wouldn’t argue with those actions. Why does Vegas casino management never consider palpable slot hold reductions as a means to increase customer base and returns or, God forbid, actually implement a trial run at it? According to this … | Read the rest of this entry »

American adults in this country are overweight, and the Center for Disease Control estimates the number to exceed 67%. Nutritionists can be helpful to fight the battle of the bulge, and to become one, you will need a nutrition degree. Nutrition students in Montana recently rolled out local produce to promote a healthier lifestyle.
A table loaded with plump tomatoes, fragrant onions and crisp green beans attracted curious glances from passersby, with a few stopping to sample and purchase the produce grown at the MSU Towne’s Harvest Garden, a 2.5-acre farm run by the Friends of Local Foods, a student group formed in 2006 to tout the benefits of locally grown grub. Business picked up when classes let out, with students and teachers alike … | Read the rest of this entry »

There are many popular television programs on today that depict the many stages of wedding and wedding planning. But what kind of training so you need to work in this fast paced and often unpredictable business? Earning a bridal consultant degree can be the first step towards a career in the world of weddings.
People in the wedding business are privy to the kinds of personal, fairy-tale moments that make romantic comedies a top seller every time.
“I had one guy who wanted to know where he could put the ring on the branches of the Christmas tree,” Tina Jansen, owner of The Wedding Shoppe, in Danville, recalled. “He wanted to propose while they were decorating.”
Jansen found a perfect, whimsical solution in wee little ring … | Read the rest of this entry »

Certain areas of study have been seeing declines in enrollment over the last several years. The number of students enrolled in computer science degree programs, for example, has plummeted by a significant percentage.
Large segments of the U.S. population are not considering careers in IT, shaping a shortage in qualified developers. Few students are enrolling in computer science courses, and a dwindling number of those are women and minorities, government experts say.
The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts high demand for programmers. Its Occupational Handbook for 2006-2016 lists computer application software engineers as the fourth most in-demand occupation due to “increased applications of emerging technologies” and the growing complexity of businesses. Software engineers for systems are listed at number 25.
Despite that demand, there has been … | Read the rest of this entry »

Firefighters are a very important part of society, and the current California news drives that point. Earning a degree in fire protection would prepare you for jobs in public safety as well as for government agencies. Public safety professionals can prepare themselves to earn higher salaries by pursuing a fire protection degree.
A fire burning in Los Angeles County grew more than six-fold overnight, threatening more than 10,000 homes and the Mount Wilson observatory as firefighters battle wind gusts and continued high temperatures, officials said.
The Station fire, which has now consumed 35,200 acres (14,245 hectares) since it began four days ago in the Angeles National Forest, spread rapidly with flames as long as 80 feet (24 meters), the U.S. Forest Service said on its … | Read the rest of this entry »

A company’s image can often be more important than the products and services that it provides. Today’s digital media has changed the face of PR by offering a great deal of opportunities for good will advertising, and image overhauls. Earning a public relations degree can get you started in this modernized field.
Here’s the good news. Before the economy collapsed, the PR industry was already in the midst of a revolution. Digital communication began its exponential proliferation long before last year. In the process, PR gained more respect and leverage as a business driver. It clearly emerged as the discipline best equipped to drive and manage digital interaction.
So when the industry’s revolution met the ongoing recession, adaptability and creative thinking increased in terms of both staffing … | Read the rest of this entry »

Physical therapy is a high growth area in the healthcare field. Those who have a degree in physical therapy may want to continue their education and go back to school and earn their doctorate. The University of South Dakota has now come up with a unique online program to facilitate a doctorate in physical therapy.
USD will now offer an online transitional doctorate of physical therapy degree (tDPT) through the School of Health Sciences.
This is the first online doctoral program in the South Dakota Regental System, according to USD’s Web site. There are 21 other online-only tDPT programs in the U.S., said Patrick Cross, USD tDPT program director and assistant professor.
There are 15 students, five from South Dakota, expected to enroll in classes this fall … | Read the rest of this entry »

Earning a paralegal certificate or paralegal degree can provide many job opprtunities in various areas of the legal field. Some paralegals are taking their skills to do-it-your-self legal document businesses where they are simply responsible for filing documents that would otherwise be handled by a lawyer.
If you are looking for an affordable method to file for divorce, using a paralegal may be the way to go.
Amy Wishart of DoItYourselfDocuments has worked as a paralegal in the state of Washington for several years. Wishart said she provides a service that saves people time and money.
“The main benefit is the savings as whole,” Wishart said. “If they have nothing to divide then it’s the easiest and most inexpensive way to get a divorce.”
According to Wishart, most … | Read the rest of this entry »

The economic downturn has affected people in a variety of businesses across the board. Some people have found themselves completely out of business and looking to do something else. Many are returning to school to earn nursing degrees or medical degrees to fill the need for medical personnel and nurses across the country.
Art and Tillie Pease once had a thriving yacht brokerage business on Kent Island that once pulled in $3 million in sales.
Today, the couple live with their 28-year-old daughter out of necessity. They lost their jobs and their home after the boat business collapsed — the victim of high gas prices and a recession in which boating is a sacrificial luxury.
They’re taking a shot at a new life. But first they’re … | Read the rest of this entry »