Physician blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.