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Are you looking forward to a career in health or medicine? If so, it can help to read blogs and get a feel for what is available. There are a number of health education and medical information blogs out there. These blogs look at medical education, address different possibilities in the health care field and discuss policy issues. You might be surprised at the number of possibilities there are. Here are 50 of the top health and medical education blogs

The medical billing and coding programs at these career colleges offer a glimpse into medical billing education across the US. Though the course curriculum varies slightly from school to school, each of these colleges offers a quality learning experience for students entering the field of medical billing.

The University of Saskatchewan sponsors this blog. Recent posts include "Medical Education Uses in Second Life" and "Who Says Medical Education Hasn't Changed?"

Details nominees for best medical blogs of 2008. These are over several categories including best clinical sciences blogs, best ethics blogs etc and you can link out to each of the blogs.

A medical student's journey inside genetics and medicine through Web 2.0.

Journal of Medical Ethics blog

"Leicester Medical School has introduced medical students to online interaction with patients at the very beginning of their course."

Earnings for medical assistants vary depending on their experience, skill level and location. The mean annual salary nationwide for medical assistants as of May 2007 was $28,430.

Both work in a hospital or doctor's office, both make sure patients are comfortable and cared for, and both are relied on for the smooth operation of a medical office. But medical assistants and nurses are two distinct professions, each with a slightly different focus.

"The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on health care, builds on Mayo Clinic's leadership among health care providers in adopting social media tools, which began with podcasting in 2005. Mayo Clinic has the most popular medical provider channel on YouTube and more than 60,000 "followers" on Twitter, as well as an active Facebook page with well over 20,000 connections. With its News Blog, Podcast Blog and Sharing Mayo Clinic, a blog that enables patients and employees to tell their Mayo Clinic stories, Mayo has been a pioneer in hospital blogging. MayoClinic.com, Mayo's consumer health information site, also hosts a dozen blogs on topics ranging from Alzheimer's to The Mayo Clinic Diet."

This is really unbelievable: The drug and medical-device industries are mobilizing to gut a provision in the stimulus bill that would spend $1.1 billion on research comparing medical treatments, portraying it as the first step to government rationing.