This feed gives you the latest news about MedWorm updates. It is updated by Frankie Dolan, MedWorm creator, who you can reach via the form on the 'About Us' page on the MedWorm site. http://www.medworm.com/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:58:00 +0000 MedWorm has a new category of newsfeeds dedicated to medical eduction. Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:58:00 +0000 Are you a medical professional with a keen interest in RSS and Health 2.0 technologies? Maybe you would like to get involved with MedWorm and join a body of MedWorm Associates? Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:45:00 +0000 MedWorm now includes data collected from over 5,000 medically related, hand-verified and classified RSS feeds from authoritative medical RSS news feeds, including medical journals, organizations, news sources, information websites, blogs and podcasts. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:25:00 +0000 It is now possible to receive updates to your favourite MedWorm medical feeds via email. First register with MedWorm by giving an email address, user name and password of your choice. Then subscribe to any of the thousands of feeds you see listed in MedWorm, by clicking on the My MedWorm chicklet next to a feed listing. Finally click on My Account to select how often you would like updates emailed to you. Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:08:00 +0000 It is now possible to open medical and health related discussions on MedWorm by clicking on the comment icon that appears next to every MedWorm item. You will be prompted to logon when posting comments - registering takes less than a minute and is free. All comments will appear in related discussion categories, such as by medical speciality or medical condition, which you will be able to view via the discussion links throughout MedWorm. Each discussion category is also accompanied by its own RSS feed. The link here shows all current MedWorm discussions. Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:15:00 +0000 Thank-you for your patience over the past few weeks - MedWorm was getting to be very slow in returning your search results, due to increased popularity of the site. The MedWorm server has now been upgraded, which has seen much improved performance. You will now see query results return much faster, and all RSS feeds updating more frequently. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:05:00 +0000 You can now browse all the medical sources that are included in MedWorm via either the Publications Directory or the Blog Directory. To view all official publications, click on Publications Directory on the menu, and then choose a medical speciality. You can also view all the latest items from all the publications in that speciality by then clicking on the River of News tab. To view all medical blogs, click on Blogs Directory on the menu, choose a blog category and you will see the River of News for that category. To view the individual blogs, click on the Sources tab. Items are listed in order of their last update. Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:08:00 +0000 MedWorm query results are now returned via a new tabbed interface, giving you the options of ordering your results be date, ordering my relevance, or applying/removing a filter. The link here shows an example of a search for the subject Anorexia. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:45:00 +0000 MedWorm query results are now returned via a new tabbed interface, giving you the options of ordering your results be date, ordering my relevance, or applying/removing a filter. The link here shows an example of a search for the subject Anorexia. Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:45:00 +0000 Filter functionality by feed category is now available in MedWorm. After running a query you will see a 'Filter' link to the right of the search results, underneath the sort by Date/Relevance link. Clicking on the Filter link will give you a break down of the categories available within your search results. To view the results for any one of those categories click on the hyperlink of that category. Alternatively, to view combined results, select the check boxes of the categories that you wish to view and then click on the Filter button at the bottom right of the list. Filtering results will also automatically create an RSS feed for your filtered search, which you can subscribe to via your favourite feed aggregator, or via the free online MedWorm aggregator. The link provided here demonstrates a search on aids/hiv across all data sources, including blogs. Click on the Filter option to the top right of the results to try out the new functionality. Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:48:00 +0000 Tag clouds are now available for all the medical blogs in MedWorm. Tags can be viewed in a variety of formats, for different time periods: week, month, or year. Clicking on any of the tags will take you to all the blog items with that tag and will also give you access to an RSS feed for those items, which will be updated twice daily. Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:45:00 +0000 http://www.medworm.com/rss/blogs.php It is now possible to view and get rss feeds for medical blogs by category on MedWorm. Blogs include those from both physicians and patients. Patient blogs have been categorised by their medical conditions or illnesses, which are the first listed categories; new categories related to particular conditions will be added over the coming weeks. Blogs by medical professionals are found mostly under the categories related to career titles, ie. Anesthetists; Family Physicians; Surgeons; etc., which follow the patient conditions categories, but some have been placed in the patient conditions categories, where say a physician is focusing on a particular medical condition in their blog. The blog categories cover a wide scope, since for example a surgeon may not always blog about surgical matters. If anyone feels that their blog should be placed in a different category, please use the MedWorm Contact Us form on the website to let us know so, that we can re-categorise it. Should you like to submit a medically related blog for MedWorm inclusion, please create a free MedWorm account to get access to the feed submission form. Apologies for the requirement to create an account - this step is to help combat spam - you only need to provide a user name, password and email address, which only takes a minute, and you can easily delete your account afterwards should you prefer. Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:36:00 +0000 http://www.medworm.com/rss/blogs.php?i=1 http://www.medworm.com/ It is now possible to search MedWorm and create RSS feeds by data type. All MedWorm data sources have been given one of the following types: news, consumer, journals, organizations, info(medical websites that do not fall into any of the other categories), blogs. You can search within any combination of these types by selecting or deselecting the check boxes alongside to the search button. By default, all types are selected apart from the Blogs category. Alternatively, should you wish to search within just one of the data types, after entering your search text in the search box, click on the hyperlink of your chosen category. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:27:00 +0000 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=9 http://www.medworm.com/ A new 'Speciality' link has been added below each item returned when searching MedWorm, or browsing its categories, to let you know from which of MedWorm's specialities each feed item belongs. The only place where this link has not been implemented is in the Specialities category itself, since such information would be redundant there. Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=8 http://www.medworm.com/ The MedWorm server upgrade is now complete, but due to domain name propogation you may still be visiting the old server for the next day or two - it will take a couple of days for everything to settle down and for all feeds to be fully up to date. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:16:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=5 http://www.medworm.com/ MedWorm is currently undergoing a server upgrade. Feed updates have been temporarily stopped until all is complete. Some user generated feeds may also stop working for a short while. Apologies for the inconvenience - after which you should start to notice some real improvements in performance. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:45:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=4 http://www.medworm.com/ Many MedWorm users are now taking advantage of being able to create their own RSS feeds from their MedWorm searches. However, we have noticed that more than half of the feeds created could be improved upon since many searches include spelling mistakes, redundant words, or do not include all variations of words. Before generating your own feed, first have a look at MedWorm's pre-generated feeds that have been created for the following categories: Medical Specialities, Conditions, Therapies, Cancers and Vaccinations, which have been optimised using more advanced queries with boolean operators, for the best results. You can browse all the categories via the MedWorm menu. If you do not find the subject that you would like, you can complete the category suggestion form at the bottom of each category page, and we will create the new category for you if we think it would be of use to other MedWorm users. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:51:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=3 http://www.medworm.com/ There are now over 3000 RSS data sources in the MedWorm database, with more being added daily. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:51:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=2 http://www.medworm.com/ Additional blog functionality that has recently been implemented on LibWorm.com is now been rolled out to MedWorm.com. This will include the addition of medical blogs, which will be categorised, with each category having its own outgoing RSS feed, and the implementation of tag clouds. The first step now taking place is that medical blogs are being added to MedWorm data sources. You will not see any of the blog items in the outgoing Medical Specialities RSS feeds, but will start to see them filtering through to all other feeds: Medical Conditions, Cancers, Therapies, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinations, in addition to the user created feeds, where the search terms are met. There will shortly be the option to exclude the blogs from your feeds, as some people would prefer to receive only officially published items. However, please be assured that all medical blogs added to MedWorm are manually verified to help ensure that they come from only medical professionals, and that all blogs, whilst they will contain some general chat, do also include medically relevant information. It is now becoming widely accepted that medical blogs are playing an important contribution to advances in medical communications, hence the decision to add medical blogs to the database. If you would like to submit a medical blog for MedWorm inclusion, please first register on MedWorm, which just requires your email address, username and password, which will then give you access to the feed submission form. This step is necessary to help avoid spam and if you do not wish to keep your account afterwards, you may easily delete it should you prefer. Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:50:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?i=1