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One of the most sensitive branches of medicine regarding online medical information is pediatrics. In this collection, we selected the best resources for You.

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Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed


Micro-blogging is the practice of sending brief text updates, photos, audio/video clips or links and make these public on a website and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. These messages can be submitted by text messaging, instant messaging or e-mail.

Many micro-blogs provide short commentary about medical news, medical specialties or a company's products and services.

Webicina features two microblogging platforms including Twitter and Friendfeed.



Pediatrics on Twitter


Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates, which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends.



Pediatrics News / Organizations

American Academy of Pediatrics
Committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Children's Hospital Pittsburgh
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is one of the world's leading pediatric hospitals.

Medscape Pediatrics
Latest medical news, articles, and features from Medscape Pediatrics.

MNT Pediatrics News
The latest pediatrics / children's health news published daily. Articles from research centers, universities and prestigious journals.

Pediatric Image Quiz
Collection of interesting images in pediatrics in a quiz format.

Pediatrics
Pediatrics, children's health, baby health, pediatric, family practice, family medicine, family doctors, autism, ADHD, flu, broken bones, vaccines, immunization etc.

University of Maryland Hospital for Children
Children's Health news and updates from the University of Maryland Hospital for Children.



People Who Post About Pediatrics

Damian McNamara
Reporter for 18 medical specialties--including derm, oncology, surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, internal medicine, pediatrics and more.

Dr Kim, MD
Pediatrician's insights about child health, parenting and doctoring kids.

Dr. Ayala
Pediatrician, artist, entrepreneur, blogger, mother, creator of Herbal Water.

Dr. Dhanu Sant
Lover of kids and a holistic approach to healing. Founder of WholeKids Pediatrics and Yoga, Columbus' first provider of pediatric integrative medicine.

Dr. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, MD, FAAP
Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Pediatrics Now and Dr. Gwenn Is In Blog, and lover of java and pop culture!!

Erik Deurell
Basic Pediatrics for Parents is a flip guidebook that provides parents with easy to find concise answers to their questions about common pediatric ailments.

Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician, activist, soccer player.

Jen Dyer MD, MPH
tylish pediatric endocrinologist, researcher, former Texan who loves NYC, beginning foodie who believes in the power of balanced nutrition to prevent disease.

Liz Szabo
I report on medical news for USA TODAY, covering cancer, children's health, kids/parenting and some environmental health (BPA, etc.)

Melissa Arca, M.D.
I'm a pediatrician, mom of two, writer, and blogger. I write passionately about motherhood, parenting, and children's health. Candid parenting moments included.



Directories


There are aggregators that help you find people tweeting about pediatrics.

Twellow


Twellow.com is currently grabbing publicly available messages from the Twitter.com micro-blogging service. They analyze and categorize each of the users responsible for those messages into the various categories found at Twellow.com.




Search.twitter.com


It lets you track all the tweets and Twitter users focusing on pediatrics.

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