The Intelihealth Professional Network from the Johns Hopkins University offers news from the Reuters Health Service for physicians at http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ . You need to register for this, but registration is free. If you like, they will also email you the medical news headlines daily, so that you can keep upto date with what is happening in the world of medicine ! This will ensure you are one step ahead of your patients, who will most probably read the same news the next day in their daily newspaper ! The news articles are archived so that you can search for the topic of your interest.

Healtheon at http://healthcenter.healtheon.com/headlines_index.html also offers daily medical news. Since it is written for the patient in non-technical language, it’s much easier to understand ! It’s very useful in helping you to explain recent advances to patients and students.

Another useful site for health and medical news is Medserv Medical News at http://www.medserv.dk/index.html, which provides an international perspective.

For news about health and medicine in India, you can search at http://www.healthlibrary.com/news/index.htm, which archives all health-related stories from leading Indian newspapers.