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In August of this year, this blog was invited to become part of the Medpedia family of news and analysis sites that are mirrored on the Medpedia web portal.
The folks at Medpedia describe it this way:
What is Medpedia News & Analysis?
Medpedia News & Analysis allows high-quality health and medical content sources to self-organize by category and keywords on Medpedia, and then inter-link with Article pages and other parts of Medpedia.
Content submitted to Medpedia and accepted by the community appear in the News & Analysis section of the site and is organized by category and keywords. Sources reflect a wide range of professional, academic and scientific topics and are referenced on related articles and patient Communities
Visitors to the site can browse the various blog feeds by category. You’ll find Avian Flu Diary under the Public Health listings.
Browse News & Analysis by Channel
Yesterday, after spending a couple of months recruiting blogs and tweaking the system, Medpedia announced several new features and officially unveiled their News & Analysis section.
Two other areas announced yesterday were Medpedia Alerts and Medpedia Questions & Answers. I’ve already configured my RSS feed reader to pick up alerts in several categories.
There is, quite simply, a ton of information to explore in this rapidly growing, and dynamically updated site. I’ve only begun to scratch the surface.
If you are a medical or science junkie, or need to do some research, or are just looking for some new medical or health blogs to read . . . this is the place for you.
MEDPEDIA PROJECT EXPANDS PLATFORM TO INCLUDE Q&A, NEWS & ANALYSIS AND ALERTS
New Tools for Sharing and Advancing Medical Knowledge
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 10, 2009) – The Medpedia Project today announced the addition of three new services on the beta version of the technology platform for the worldwide health community: Medpedia Answers for asking and answering medical and health questions; Medpedia Alerts for displaying real-time medical and health news alerts; and Medpedia News & Analysis for sharing medical news and analysis. These free resources are available today at www.medpedia.com.
Medpedia Answers collects questions and answers about health, medicine and the body. Each question is tagged with both MeSH and plain-English headings for better discovery. Each question is also pushed into relevant areas throughout the Medpedia Project such as patient communities and article pages. Questions and answers are for general information purposes only, not as a substitute for in-person evaluation or specific professional advice. Anyone with a profile on Medpedia can participate. The Medpedia Answers Top Contributors list gives recognition to the most active contributors.
Medpedia Alerts is a platform for aggregating and distributing health and medical news alerts. Organizations with real time alerts simply plug their feed into the platform -- joining other feeds such as the CDC, the Red Cross and the American Heart Association – to attract more readers who can subscribe to custom aggregated alerts feeds for free. In addition, any member of the Medpedia community can submit an alert in the Medpedia Alert Stream, or submit a website or Twitter account to be integrated into the platform on an ongoing basis. Submissions to the Alerts platform are reviewed by the community and if approved, are included in the appropriate Alert categories.
Medpedia News & Analysis allows high-quality health and medical content sources to self organize by category and keywords on Medpedia, and then inter-link with Article pages and other parts of Medpedia. Sources reflect a wide range of professional, academic and scientific topics, and over 150 sources have added themselves and been accepted by the Medpedia community onto the News & Analysis platform. Content in the Medpedia News & Analysis section is not part of the (CC-BY-SA) license of Medpedia and copyright is held soley by the author(s). Organizations and individuals who regularly publish medical and health content online are encouraged to submit their source to the News & Analysis section of Medpedia at http://www.medpedia.com/news_analysis.
