Empowered patients have been sharing different health parameters such as sleeping habits, diets, blood pressure, etc. with each other in San Francisco for years. I'm talking about Quantified Self, one of the most interesting health-related projects ever. This and other similarly outstanding fitness tools and solutions are collected in Webicina's Fitness and Web 2.0 guide.
Let's see other examples as well. Here is Weight Watchers, a community site for those who would like to lose weight by the help of others. They have been assisting millions of people for 45 years.
Regarding fitness podcasts, I should mention Geekfit that helps geeks and other like minded people in the area of fitness.
In the world of fitness blogs, Yoni Freedhoff manages a great blog focusing on obesity medicine.
When it comes to medical search engines, WolframAlpha lets you compute body-mass index or how much calorie you can burn during different types of exercises.
You can find hundreds of examples on Fitness and Web 2.0. We also help you follow the best fitness blogs, journals, news sites and Twitter users on PeRSSonalized Fitness:
PeRSSonalized Medicine is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.
The newest category is dedicated to PeRSSonalized Midwifery containing quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals, Twitter users and Youtube channels.
Many thanks to Sarah Stewart, a health professional (midwife) and great blogger with nearly 30 years of clinical and education experience who helped a lot by sending me tons of quality midwifery resources.
Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine is unique:
You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
You can personalize any of the sections.
You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
It is a community-based project. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, comes up with 3-4 selections every week in order to assist empowered patients in their health management. The newest one is dedicated to Leukemia and Web 2.0. Such a selection is a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and mobile applications. It was designed to help patients by providing medically reliable information and websites.
PeRSSonalized Leukemia is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about leukemia in one personalized place.
Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine is unique:
You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
You can personalize any of the sections.
You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
It’s meant to be a community-based project so we are open to suggestions. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, published today Dermatology and Web 2.0, a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and mobile applications. It was designed to help medical professionals interested in dermatology find the best resources online.
PeRSSonalized Dermatology is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about dermatology in one personalized place.
Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine is unique:
You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
You can personalize any of the sections.
You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
It’s meant to be a community-based project so we are open to suggestions. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, just published Stroke and Web 2.0, a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and mobile applications. It was designed to help stroke patients and affected families find the best resources online.
PeRSSonalized Stroke is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about stroke in one personalized place.
You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.
You can personalize any of the sections.
You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.
It’s meant to be a community-based project so we are open to suggestions. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.
