The Health Tweeder

Pixels and Pills, a social media collaboration from a couple of pharmaceutical marketing firms, have put together an interesting service called The Health Tweeder. It visually displays the number of Twitter tweets gathered under various health categories in petri dishes, with each cell in a dish representing a tweet.

Some of the tweets are from consumer, but many are from researchers and companies, pointing the way to yet further information. A really clever way to graphically display real-time interest and activity in a range of health topics.


Let me know if this is something you find useful.

(Originally discovered on David Rothman's blog.)

NCBI Bookshelf

The National Library of Medicine has an online Bookshelf of searchable full-text biomedical books, many of them produced by various government departments and agencies.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books

Just a few of the titles that may be of particular interest to ACC health science faculty:

• Health United States, 2008
• Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses, 2008
• The Future of Disability in America, 2007