Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Reliable Doctor-Produced Health and Medical Information via RSS Syndication.

MedicineNet.Com unveils over 1000 new fabulous totally not-funky RSS 2.0 feeds. Very nice. Thanks! Via LibraryStuff. [Scripting News]

"We offer five types of health and medical RSS feed channels.

  • Daily Health and Medical News Channel (updated nightly Monday through Friday)
  • Weekly Health and Medical News Digest Channel (compilation of the previous week's daily health and medical news - updated every Friday night)
  • MedTerms Medical Word of the Day Channel (a medical definition from our medical dictionary - updated daily, 7 days a week)
  • Specialty Channels (specific, over 1,000 available - for example the Acne Specialty Channel) and
  • General Channels (broad, 35 available - for example the Skin General Channel)

Specialty Health and Medical Channels (specific disease, procedure, or medication)
There are over 1,000 specialty health and medical channels to choose from. These include diseases and conditions, medical procedures, and medications. ... For example you can subscribe to the Psoriatic Arthritis Specialty Channel. When articles related to this specific topic are updated or added on MedicineNet.com, the channel will be updated accordingly. This process occurs nightly.

General Health and Medical Channels (broad medical and health topics)
We currently cover 35 General Health and Medical Channels. A collection of specialty articles typically make-up a general channel. For example our Arthritis General Channel includes over 250 arthritis related articles such as Osteoarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis. Below is a listing of available general channels. "

A complete list of all the channels and feeds is on the site.


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