Physician blog

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.

There are now over 3000 RSS data sources in the MedWorm database, with more being added daily.

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.

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.