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Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks: 'Like' Facebook's 'Year in Review' function? Many don't http://buff.ly/1rrmFpS - Facebook "Year in Review" feature highlights a larger digital design problem: Algorithms and code aren't intelligent, they just do what they're told. Students distracted by electronic devices perform at the same level as those who are focused on the lecture http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25279260? Using social media offers a host of practical benefits to the modern academic or public intellectual . Look for Powerful tweets that supply original analysis, theoretical insight or historical context. On a basic level, Twitter gets people, including non-­traditional audiences, reading your work. Apply the “billboard test” : imagine that anything you tweet is going to be put up on a sign for the world to see. http://buff.ly/1s3XRUh Dr. Jeffrey B. M...

Keeping HIV and AIDS in check: Dr. Keikawus Arastéh is an internist at the Center for Infectious Medicine and HIV of the Berlin-based Auguste-Viktoria-Klinikum. He explains how to recognize an HIV infection, how to avoid contracting it in the first place, and what therapies help keep it in check.

From Deutsche Welle (DW): Dr. Christian Kessler discussed stress and its harmful impact. What are some good ways to relieve stress and relax? And how can meditation help both body and mind cope with stress?

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media (#HCSM) in the past 2-4 weeks: Social media and physicians : Exploring the benefits and challenges. http://buff.ly/1yNZ0iV Are You Tweeting Away Your Relationship? http://buff.ly/1mN0rqH  -- Imagine you invested 50 min a day actively listening to your loved ones. Will the internet eat your brain? A neuroscientist warns Digital Technologies are Leaving their Mark on our Brains. The scientist is worrying that smartphones and social networks are sucking users into an unsatisfying digital facsimile of reality, frying their memories, atrophying their social skills and generally rotting their brains http://econ.st/1q9ENSr Family Dinners May Buffer the Effects of Cyberbullying http://buff.ly/1w4ynog Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Health and Medicine : Review of what is available http://buff.ly/YacKI4 The majority of You-Tube videos purporting to be about CPR are not relevant educational ma...

Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them? Michael Mauser explains the visual phenomenon that is floaters. Eye floaters are called muscae volitantes, Latin for “hovering flies". Floaters are visible because of the shadows they cast on the retina. View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-are-those-floaty-things-in-your-eye-michael-mauser Related reading: Your Eyes: Understanding Flashes and Floaters - Cleveland Clinic http://buff.ly/1zNgIr8

From TV-watching marmosets to pretend baby penguins, this is Nature’s pick of the cutest animal stories in science this year:

Texting shrinks peripheral vision to only 10%. "Cell phone use is on the rise and our eyes keep looking down. Try looking up and see what you've been missing."

A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently: What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast . “In many parts of the world, breakfast is tepid, sour, fermented and savory.” After birth, babies prefer the foods they were exposed to in utero, a phenomenon called “ prenatal flavor learning ” http://buff.ly/1tbjAYf High Milk Consumption Linked to Higher Mortality in Adults, Without Fracture-Prevention Benefits http://buff.ly/1wET24c 90% of workers perform better when listening to music , different genres of music are better tailored to certain tasks http://buff.ly/1xE1RJK A Push to Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data. Researchers Marry Modern Analytical Techniques to Centuries-Old Theories on What Makes People Sick - WSJ. U.S. government has a budget of $120 million to fund research on the efficacy and safety of alternative medicines http://on.wsj.com/1tKufv1 What You Learn in Your 40s - We still have time for a second act, but we’d better get moving o...

From TED-Ed: We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves. Lesson by Noah Zandan, animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio. View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-language-of-lying-noah-zandan

The color blue suppresses appetite more than any other color. Apart from blueberries and plums, which are mostly purple, there are few naturally blue foods. The hypothesis is that in the remote past, when humans foraged for food, blue was a warning of spoilage or danger. The Buffet Blues by National Geographic: Everyone loves an all you can eat buffet, but controlling our appetites can be a bit of a struggle. We’re testing to see if a simple change of scenery can impact peoples’ portion sizes.

The highly virulent Ebola virus has seen a few major outbreaks since it first appeared in 1976 -- with the worst epidemic occurring in 2014. How does the virus spread, and what exactly does it do to the body? Alex Gendler details what Ebola is and why it's so hard to study. Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Andrew Foerster. View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-we-know-and-don-t-know-about-ebola-alex-gendler

How do the lungs work? TED-Ed video When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body’s cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? Emma Bryce takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive. Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Andrew Zimbelman for The Foreign Correspondents' Club. Read the full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-do-the-lungs-do-emma-bryce What does the liver do? There’s a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It’s your liver: the heaviest organ in your body, which simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. Emma Bryce gives a crash course on the liver and how it helps keep us alive. Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Andrew Zimbelman for The Foreign Correspondents' Club.

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is an angiopathy that affects medium-sized arteries predominantly in young. Renal involvement occurs in 60-75%, cerebrovascular involvement in 25-30%, visceral involvement in 9%, and arteries of the limbs in about 5%. Cleveland Clinic physician, Dr. Gornik and Pam Mace from FMDSA answer questions about fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) on this spreecast video chat (6/2014). References: Fibromuscular Dysplasia (FMD): Causes, Types, Symptoms and Treatment - Cleveland Clinic http://bit.ly/1sRTXKw

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