Of the top 50 countries that offer the highest quality healthcare in the world, the U.S. ranks 37th. Due to rising healthcare costs and the number of uninsured Americans, doctors and hospitals are under pressure to discharge and release patients from their care as quickly as possible. While this cuts medical bills for insurance companies and medicare and medicaid, it also comes with some extremely adverse effects on the quality of healthcare. Competent health administrators with their MHA degrees are in high demand now, as healthcare costs continue to rise as quality suffers. Now is a good time to earn your MHA, as salaries are on the rise and it’s simple to find scholarships to go back to school.

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The blogs listed below are categorized and listed in alphabetical order within each category.

Organizational Blogs

1. Cancer Action Network’s Health Care Reform: ACS CAN is the nation’s leading cancer advocacy organization that is working every day to make cancer issues a national priority. They also provide their insights on the healthcare debate.
2. Guaranteed Healthcare: GuaranteedHealthcare.org is a project of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and patients and community groups around the country.
3. Health Beat by Maggie Mahar: Maggie Mahar is a fellow at The Century Foundation and the author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.
4. Health Care for America Now! Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care.
5. Health Care Reform Blog: The Campaign for an American Solution is a grassroots effort whose mission is to build support for workable health care reform.
6. Latinos United for Healthcare: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) provide their perspectives on nationalized health care at this blog.
7. OpenForum: OpenForum is a blog supported by the community of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, dedicated to writing and dialogue that advances health as an issue of fundamental human rights and social justice.
8. Physicians for a National Health Program: PHNP is a single-issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program.
9. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Their blog reflects this goal.
10. The New Health Dialogue: This blog is provided by the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute.
11. Wendell Potter’s Blog: Potter is a Senior Fellow on Health Care at the Center for Media and Democracy. He also is an advocate for socially responsible organizations, including health insurers.

Policy Blogs

12. Consumer-Driven Health Care: This blog is a special project of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983.
13. Daily Health Policy Report: Provided by Kaiser Health News, this blog provides a daily update on changes in health care policy.
14. Disease Management Care Blog: This blog provides a resource for information from the world of disease management in a variety of venues.
15. Health Affairs: Learn more about nationalized healthcare through the lens of the Policy Journal of the Health Sphere.
16. Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review: This blog brings Bob Laszewski’s take on the latest federal healthy policy and marketplace activities. Mr. Laszewski is president of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, LLC.
17. Health Policy and Communications Blog: his blog is to foster discussion and analysis about how health policy and communications issues affect clinical and economic outcomes.
18. Health Policy Watch: This is a Century Foundation Project that seeks to provide experts and non-experts alike with a portal on these developing debates on health policy and on ideas for achieving universal coverage.
19. Health-Care Policy Blog: Franklin and Marshall College provides a blog format for discussion about health care policy.
20. Healthy Policy: Kate Steadman is obsessed with health policy, which she shares at this blog as well as at other Web sites.
21. Managed Care Matters: This is Joseph Paduda’s blog about managed care for group health, workers’ compensation and other insurance needs.
22. Medicaidfirstaid: This blog is dedicated to improving the performance of our nation’s health system to care for children and others in need.
23. National Center Blog: This blog is a project of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think-tank.
24. Washington Policy Blog on Health Care: The Washington Policy Center, an independent, non-partisan, research and education organization located in Seattle, Washington, provides insights into health care policy in this blog.
25. Workers’ Comp Insider: This is Lynch Ryan’s blog about workers’ compensation, risk management, business insurance and much more work-related healthcare topics.

Insurance Blogs

26. Insureblog: This blog covers insurance issues, principles and solutions.
27. Shargel Health Care Reform Blog: This blog presents a focus on small business in the reform dialogue. Susan Shargel is founder and president of Shargel & Co. Insurance.
28. The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog: Alan Katz has long been a strong advocate for agents and the roles they play in America’s health care coverage system.

Business and Health

29. Fierce Healthcare: Although this site is geared toward healthcare industry executives, you can get a different perspective on healthcare with this blog. Look along the top navigation tabs on this site to get more information on healthcare and IT, finance, hospitals and medical record news.
30. Health Business Blog: David E. Williams, this blog’s author, is co-founder of MedPharma Partners LLC, strategy consultant in technology enabled health care services, pharma, biotech, and medical devices.
31. Health IT & Healthcare Reform: Read Brian Ahier’s views and information on government 2.0, health information technology and on reforming the healthcare system.
32. Healthcare Economist: Jason’s research interests include all issues related to healthcare policy and economics, the health insurance market and, and Medicare research.
33. Healthcare Informatics: While the main focus is healthcare issues for the CIO, anyone can pick up on the topics and insight provided by this business blog.
34. PHI Blog: PHI works to strengthen the nation’s long-term care direct-care workforce, which includes nearly 3 million home health aides, certified nurse aides, and personal care attendants. Their blog focuses on health care changes and how they might affect long-term care, the elderly and the workforce for that venue.

The Law

35. FDA Law Blog: Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. practices in the areas of new drug development, controlled substances, advertising, and health care law complement their core FDA (Food and Drug Administration) practice.
36. HealthBlawg: David Harlow, a health care lawyer and consultant with over twenty years of public and private sector experience, provides his perspective on health care law.
37. Healthcare Law Blog: Holland & Hart practices in the Mountain West, and they provide a perspective on how healthcare law affects that area’s residents.
38. HealthLawProf Blog: Follow nationalized health care policy through a law professor’s eyes.
39. Home Care Law Blog: Learn more about legal and policy issues in home health care, private duty and hopice industries. The law firm of Gilliland & Markette LLP maintains this blog.

Other Perspectives

40. Catholic Healthcare West Thought Blog: CHW provides a blog about health care reform among other topics.
41. Commonhealth: Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, offers insights into health care for the nation.
42. Health Care Renewal: A core of writers, including physicians, express their insights into health care’s core values, “especially those stemming from concentration and abuse of power.”
43. Let’s Talk Health Care: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a full-service health benefits company serving members throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and beyond, provides a format for readers to talk about health care changes.
44. National Journal Health Care: A variety of experts chime in with their opinions and research into the national healthcare debate.
45. Paul Taylor Healthcare Reform: A hospital CEO shares his vision for health care reform.
46. Prescriptions: The New York Times provides a column focused specifically on the health care debate.
47. Slate’s Health Reform: An Online Guide: Follow the health care story as it unfolds through this constantly updated guide to the best online information sources about this debate.
48. The Consumer Healthcare Blog: Look to this blog for consumer healthcare news, health advice and industry options.
49. The Health Care Blog: A top blog for every man’s (and woman’s) reference to health care in this nation, from opinions to reviews and policy watches.
50. The Ludicrous Project: This blog encourages those individuals entering the medical profession to examine the moral and economic foundations of individual rights and capitalism. The archive holds all previous posts.

The blogs listed below are all updated frequently, and they are listed in categories for your convenience. Each link is listed alphabetically within those categories to show readers that we do not favor one blog over another.

Hospital CEO Blogs

1. Healing Hospitals – Formerly Ask a Hospital President: Although this blog is written by a former hospital president, it is included because Nick Jacobs continues to write about health care and hospital administration topics.
2. Hospital Life: Marty Bonick is president and CEO of Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog is about “life, work, and everything in between…”
3. Leading the Way to Medical Excellence: Mr. Colones, president of McLeod Health non-profit institutions, provides weekly insights into his facilities and health care in general.
4. Let’s Talk Health Care: Interim Chief Executive Officer at Harvard Pilgrim in Massachusetts, Bruce Bullen, provides his insights at this online forum and community blog.
5. More Than Medicine: Tom Quinn is president and CEO of Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York, and he offers weekly thought about health care in general.
6. Running a Hospital: President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mr. Levy, offers his thoughts on hospitals, medicine and health care issues.
7. St. Joseph Medical Center: Mr. Kashman, the Chief Executive Officer at St. Joseph Medical Center in Missouri, offers news and information about this facility.
8. Todd’s Perspective: Todd Linden is president and CEO of Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a private non-profit hospital located in Grinnell, Iowa.

Law Blogs

9. ABA Journal Blawgs: This is a blog directory to all blogs posted in the ABA Journal. Many of these blogs pertain to health care issues.
10. Drug and Device Law: This blog contains Jim Beck and Mark Herrmann’s personal views of various topics that arise in the defense of pharmaceutical and medical device product liability litigation.
11. Drug Injury Watch: Tom Lamb is an attorney, or lawyer, who represents patients and their families in drug injury lawsuits.
12. FDA Law Blog: Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. is the largest dedicated food and drug law firm in the country, with a niche practice in drug development and more.
13. Health Care Law Blog: Bob Coffield, located in West Virginia, focuses on helping businesses and health care providers weave through a variety of state and federal health care regulations and assisting them in business transactions.
14. Health IT Law Blog: Steven J. Fox is an acknowledged and well-known national authority on information technology, and he assists clients with legal issues and strategic counseling involving technology in the realm of health care.
15. HealthBlawg: David Harlow is a health care lawyer and consultant with over twenty years of public and private sector experience.
16. Healthcare Law Blog: This Holland & Hart blog is dedicated to healthcare law issues in or affecting the Mountain West.
17. HealthLawProf Blog: S. Elizabeth Malloy, Andrew Katsanis Professor of Law at University of Cincinnati College of Law, provides her take on health care and the law.
18. Journal of Health Law and Policy: This blog is an online forum where those interested in discussing current health law and policy developments can collaborate, discuss, and advance solutions to a variety of healthcare issues.
19. Juvan’s Health law and Private Equity Report: Jayne E. Juvan, Esq., is an attorney who concentrates her practice principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
20. Physician Law: Follow current news, updates and useful tips relating to legal issues that affect physicians and non-institutional providers in their personal and professional lives.

Pharma Blogs

21. Eye on FDA: Mark Senak of Fleishman-Hillard’s Washington, D.C. office, and an authority on regulatory aspects of communications and medical products, offers his personal opinions in this blog.
22. Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma: Updates and Commentary related to the book by the same name, written by Howard Brody, MD, PhD.
23. Internet Drug News.com: Updates on pharma news, FDA approvals and more.
24. Pharma Gossip: A different perspective on “Big Pharma.”
25. Pharma Marketing Blog: This blog reflects the personal opinions of John Mack, publisher of Pharma Marketing News.
26. Pharmaceutical Business Review: Gain access to updated news in the pharma industry.
27. Pharmalot: This is an independently-owned and operated site that investigates drug companies.
28. PharmaManufacturing: This is the digital resource for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine.
29. PharmExec Blog: This blog provides discourse, dialogue and discussion about global pharma matters.
30. PharmTech Talk: This blog belongs to Pharmaceutical Technology, the authoritative source of peer-reviewed research and expert analyses for experts in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

IT Blogs

31. Be Spacific: Read this blog for daily law and technology news with links to reliable primary and secondary sources on topics including: e-government, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft and more.
32. Candid CIO: Will Weider, CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System, offers his perspective on the healthcare IT industry.
33. Crossover Health: Dr. Shreeve’s professional interest is the “convergence of medicine, technology, and business.”
34. eHealth: John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio, and he writes about eHealth and health IT.
35. HealthBlog: Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft’s worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD.
36. HealthNex: This blog focuses on Electronic Health Records (EHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE), biobanking and more patient-centric health care and IT. Contributors include many IBM experts.
37. HIS Talk: An anonymous writer shares healthcare IT news and opinion at this blog.
38. Medical Connectivity: Medical Connectivity Consulting out of Oregon offers news and opinion regarding health care, medical device connectivity and related issues.
39. Neil Versel’s Healthcare IT Blog: This blog reflects a healthcare journalist’s views on health care, a major segment of the IT industry he covers.
40. The Biotech & Healthcare IT Blog: A blog for the latest on goings in the Biotech and Healthacre IT world from Biohealthmatics.com.
41. The Healthcare IT Guy: This blog belongs to Shahid N. Shah, the founder and CEO of Netspective Communications LLC and an expert technology strategist, enterprise architect, software engineer, and business management consultant.

HIPAA and Other Policy Blogs

42. Care About Medicare: If you want to stay on top of Medicare news, visit this blog that monitors many sources to help keep readers up to date on policies.
43. Health Care Organizational Ethics: Organizational ethics is what this blog is all about, as organizations provide most health care settings today. Dr. Sabin talks about holding these organizations accountable.
44. Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review: This blog reflects Bob Laszewski’s review of the latest latest developments in federal health policy and marketplace activities in the health care financing business.
45. Health Care Policy, Innovation and Renewal: A vice president for Strategic Advancement for five-hospital system in Nashville offers his personal take on ways to improve quality, efficiency and equality within global health care systems.
46. Health Policy and Communications Blog: This blog’s intent is to foster discussion and analysis about how health policy and communications issues affect clinical and economic outcomes.
47. HIPAA Blog: This blog is “a discussion of medical privacy issues buried in political arcana.”
48. HIPAA Blog: Another HIPAA blog that focuses on compliance and medical privacy.
49. Managed Care Matters: This is Joseph Paduda’s blog on managed care for group health, workers compensation and other medical news for health care providers.
50. Wachter’s World: This blog approaches the policy and practice issues that affect real docs and nurses – and real patients – in real hospitals and clinics.

The apps listed below are listed in alphabetical order, and the links lead to the actual apps, press releases or reviews about the apps. All apps are either included in the Pre or listed in the Palm Pre App Catalog download.

1. Accuweather: Stay on top of the weather in any locale through this Pre app. Five-day forecasts are available, along with current weather data, satellite and radar imagery so you can plan your workouts or avoid natural disasters.
2. AP News: Associated Press news alerts arrive in your Palm Pre notification bar with this app. View photos, watch video and read updated stories on health and wellness.
3. Classic: This app allows you to run older apps that were developed for the legacy Palm OS. If you had older apps that you used for your health and wellness lifestyle, use this app to apply those functions to your lifestyle through Pre. The Classic App Store provides all the apps you’d ever want for Palm OS – and now for Palm Pre.
4. Documents To Go: The Pre comes with a PDF viewer (PDF View) and a Documents Viewer (Doc View) which are very usable for reading documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and plain and rich format documents that you may receive from your health and wellness contacts while on the road. But, webOS fans can look forward to the Documents To Go app soon. Sign up to be notified about the release.
5. Evernote: This app allows you to remember everything (prescriptions, doctor’s visits, etc.) with notes, photos, task tracking and more. Evernote’s cloud-based sync enables you to recall everything, no matter if you’re using Pre, a desktop, laptop or Web.
6. Goodfood: Find nearby restaurants that suit your tastes and that come recommended by others who like the same foods. Recommendations are based upon location, ratings and prices.
7. Google Maps: Google Maps is integrated with Pre’s universal search function, so when you begin typing in search you can launch straight to Maps to find what you need, such as spas, organic grocers and more.
8. Infopedia: If you want the ease of using Wikipedia for health and wellness information, then Infopedia will help. This third-party app allows you to browse and search Wikipedia articles and bookmark them for later reference.
9. LikeMe Mobile: LikeMe has partnered with Village Voice Media to help you find the best places to eat, sleep and meet other people of like mind – or of like health.
10. LinkedIn: This social media tool is considered one of the hottest connectivity networks available. The LinkedIn app for Pre provides access to most all of its basic features whenever you have wireless connectivity so you can stay on top of your health and wellness network.
11. mCraig: This is a Craigslist browser for the Palm Pre, and it automatically detects your current location to narrow listings to your area. Great tool for finding what you need health- and wellness-wise on the cheap.
12. Messaging: Stay in touch with like-minded health and wellness friends with this classic example of the new webOS synergy feature. Pull in conversations with anyone in your Email, SMS or IM contact lists. The Pre comes with preloaded email and search apps as well.
13. Mobile by Citysearch: This app is great for the Pre owner on the go. Use Pre’s built-in GPS to detect locations and then serve up location-based search results for any amenity you might want such as hotels, doctor’s offices, hospitals and more. Choose between recommended and nearby listings and snag phone numbers, hours of operation and addresses as well as GPS location.
14. Pandora: What’s the use of having connectivity if you can’t have tunes that keep your spirits up while resting or exercising? Pandora, the Internet radio station that you can program, is an app that is both intuitive and enjoyable. If you already have a Pandora account, all your previous stations populate to the Pre app when you sign in.
15. Shortcovers eBook Reader: This Shortcovers service provides a cloud-based reader with access to free eBooks, chapters, news and magazine articles, short stories, blog posts and much, much more. The app is free, and books are reasonably priced. Look for items covering health and wellness from their listings.
16. Spaz: If you’re an avid Twitter, Identi.ca and/or Laconica user, this open-source app is one way to stay in touch with followers and friends via the Pre. For those with multiple personalities, Spaz supports multiple accounts.
17. SplashID: Use this Palm Pre app to store private data such as passwords, credit cards and banking details. If you save the master password in your safety deposit box, then it could provide much needed information for your next-of-kin should you encounter an accident.
18. Sprint Navigation: Keep your eyes on the road and stay alive with this app that uses turn-by-turn navigation and text-to-speech utility. This app is preloaded in the Palm Pre.
19. Sprint TV: Stay on top of health and wellness news with a wide selection of quality shows including the Weather Channel and CNN Live.
20. Tasks: List all the things you need to do today (such as workout, organic marketplace, doctor, etc.) and sync with your Google, Facebook or Exchange accounts.
21. The New York Times: This news app can provide you with the latest in health and wellness news from the Gray Lady.
22. Today Show: This app features the latest videos, stories and photos about food, health, relationships, travel and more from one of the most popular morning shows on television.
23. Tweed: Share information with your followers through this Pre Twitter app, where you can gain access to all the basic Twitter features such as the Friends and Public Timelines, Replies, Direct Messages, Favorites and more.
24. Web Browsing: No worries about keeping up with Web browsing while mobile – the Palm Pre contains different Web sites that can be opened while working on other apps.
25. WHERE: This Pre app can detect your location via the Pre’s internal GPS and it delivers a wide range of local search results for business listings. You also receive detailed weather reports, local traffic reports and a Yelp integration along with U.S. news.

The following twenty-five free open courseware classes focus on the issues surrounding CAM and integrative therapies along with the five major areas of CAM medicine: alternative medicine systems; mind-body interventions; biological-based therapies; manipulative and body-based methods, and; energy therapies. The links within these categories are listed alphabetically to show readers that we do not value one course or class over another.

Issues

1. Alternate Approaches to Healing: This is an introduction to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in America. Learn more about acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, massage therapy, mind-body medicine, and naturopathic medicine. [University of Washington]
2. Integrative Medicine: This short course covers the issues involving integration between western and alternative medicines. The focus is comparison on personal and preventative care as opposed to the current disease-oriented approach. [National Center for Compementary and Alternative Medicine]
3. Issues in complementary and alternative medicine: This course focuses on understanding health and healing and covers critical issues in therapeutic relationships and ethics in complimentary and alternative medicine. [Open University]
4. Medicine and Public Health in American History: Learn more about how western medicine evolved in American history and about the changing social and cultural meanings and entanglements of medical science and practice in this country. [Notre Dame]
5. Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora: Learn how Afro-Atlantic religious traditions have challenged western conceptions of illness, healing and the body. Learn also how these traditions have offered alternative notions of morality, rationality, kinship, gender and sexuality. [MIT]

Alternative Medicine Systems

6. Chinese Medicine Basics: Learn more about acupuncture, Chinese herbs, tongue diagnosis and more from this learning site. [Acupuncture.com]
7. Homeopathy Elementary Course: Dr. Manish Bhatia has laid out a course meant for lay-people, patients, allopathy doctors, nurses, alternative medicine practitioners and student to learn more about homeopathy basics. [Alternatives]
8. Overview of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: This free course defines CAM, discusses each of the five CAM domains and talks about integration of CAM into traditional practice. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]
9. What is integrative medicine? This entire Web site is devoted to lectures, PowerPoint presentations and course syllabus that focuses on the explanation and integration of alternative systems into Western medicine. [University of Texas Medical Branch]

Mind-Body Interventions

This area employs a variety of non-mainstream techniques intended to facilitate the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms.

10. Brain and Cognitive Sciences: This department at MIT offers a number of free open courses that tackle the study of the brain and mind through understanding cognitive processes. These studies include the connection between mind and body through a number of graduate and undergraduate courses. [MIT]
11. Introduction to Clinical Pain Problems: This course talks about a variety of physical pain and presents ways to evaluate the biomedical characteristics of the pain experience, including temporal pattern, severity, intensity and relieving factors. [Tufts]
12. Mind and Body Medicine: A Relaxed Attitude: Learn about the nature of the mind and emotions and how diseases can be counteracted through mind therapy and selected body therapy. [LearnWell]
13. Mind-Body Medicine: This course focuses on the relationship between stress and altered mental states and illness. Hypnosis and its effects are explained, along with the use of mind-body medicine for cancer treatment. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]

Biological-Based Therapies

These methods include natural and biologically-based practices, interventions and products.

14. Herbs and Other Dietary Supplements: Learn more about dietary supplements, including current research on the efficacy and safety of dietary supplements and reputable resources to learn more current information about this topic. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]
15. Introduction to Botanical Medicines: This module focuses on the uses of the ten most common botanicals, their history, science and principles, evidence, regulatory issues, safety, certification and licensure and more. [University of Minnesota]
16. Nutrition and Medicine: According to this course, only twenty-five percent of U.S. medical schools require a nutrition course. This course seeks to fill that void as it tackles the theoretical to the clinical aspects of nutrition. Learn basic nutrition principles relevant to other medical courses such as pathology, growth and development, and pharmacology. [Tufts]
17. Studying the Effects of Natural Products: Learn more about natural products’ roles in health care research and the integrated approach to therapeutics. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]

Manipulative and Body-Based Methods

Includes movement therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy and-or any technique based upon body movement and manipulation.

18. Acupuncture: An Evidence-Based Assessment: This free course covers the history of acupuncture, compares the differences between western and Chinese medicine, and describes research on the efficacy of acupuncture and the mechanisms underlying its various uses. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]
19. Manipulative and Body-Based Therapies: Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation: Use this free course to learn more about the chiropractic profession, including potential safety hazards and research challenges associated with this profession and with spinal manipulation. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]
20. Massage: A short module that provides an introduction to massage therapy, defined in this course as the manual manipulation of soft body tissues to enhance health and well-being. [University of Minnesota]
21. Neurobiological Correlates of Acupuncture: Learn how brain imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to study acupuncture. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]

Energy Therapies

This area focuses on energy fields originating from within or outside the body, such as biofields or electromagnetic fields, respectively.

22. Electromagnetic Fields: Although not a full-fledged course, this page at Medline Plus offers overviews, links to authorities such as the Food and Drug Administration and more on the topic of electromagnetic fields and health. [Medline Plus]
23. Energy Medicine: An Overview: Although this is an historic document, you can learn how energy medicine covers all fields within alternative medicines through biofields. [National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine]
24. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Data Acquisition and Analysis: Learn more about human brain mapping studies that include fMRI experimental design including block design, event related and exploratory data analysis methods, and building and applying statistical models for fMRI data. [MIT]
25. The molecular world: This unit covers all atom structures, including chemical patterns that often can be explained by electronic structure. [Open University]