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Coursera, University of California is offering a free 6 week course, Understanding Research; An Overview for Health Professionals.
Starting 27th January 2014. The course lasts 6 weeks, and consists of
2 - 4 hours per week of lecture videos plus homework and tests. Successful completion earns you a validated certificate.

From the site: Welcome to QMed's comprehensive Directory of Indian Medical Sites. Our aim is to make this resource the first choice for locating websites of Indian medical & healthcare entities / information resources.

With this Directory of Indian Medical Sites, we are working at a goal - we want people to say “Indian medical information is not hard to find” !

From the page: Call for Papers: Social Networks, Health, and Mental Health
Guest Editors: Andrew V. Papachristos, PhD and Alexander C. Tsai, MD, PhD

Social scientists have long observed that the social environment and inter-personal relationships exert substantive influences on health and health-related behaviors. In particular, the past decade has seen a growing interest in the how social networks influence health behaviors including: smoking, obesity, suicide, interpersonal violence, drug use, and communicable diseases and pathogens. For this Special Issue, Social Science & Medicine will assemble a collection of empirical, conceptual, and systematic review articles that will make novel contributions to advancing social science inquiry into how social networks affect health and mental health.