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News and Information on Rheumatology


Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide people interested in dermatology with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS as described in this video.

If you don't want to learn how to use RSS, PeRSSonalized Rheumatology, a free, simple, multi-lingual Webicina service that features the latest news of the most relevant social media resources focusing on medical conditions and specialties, is created for you.



This video shows how it works:



You can also insert the term "rheumatology" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on rheumatology automatically.


We collected the best sites focusing on rheumatology-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.


Rheumatology News and Support


American College of Rheumatology


  • Description: Publications, clinical meetings, and useful rheumatology resources
  • Quality: Official website of the American College of Rheumatology




eMedicine - Rheumatology


  • Description: "eMedicine is the most authoritative and accessible point of care medical reference available to physicians and other healthcare professionals on the Internet. The evidence-based content, updated regularly by nearly 10,000 attributed physician authors and editors, provides the latest practice guidelines in 59 medical specialties. The eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base contains articles on nearly 7,000 diseases and disorders and is richly illustrated with some 30,000 multimedia files."
  • Quality: HONcode accredited




Family Practice Notebook


  • Description: "This notebook is intended to aid primary care providers in their pursuit of optimal care, well-informed patients, and healthy families."
  • Quality: "This site is derived from a peripheral brain collection of medical notes and is divided over 4316 topics within 616 chapters and 31 subspecialty books. Information is gleaned from reputable sources, referenced where possible, taken from lectures and workshops, peer reviewed articles and bulletins, and key texts."




Medical News Today - Arthritis / Rheumatology News


  • Description: "The latest Diabetes News articles published daily. Includes news on type I diabetes (insulin-dependent) and type II diabetes (adult-onset) and prediabetes - treatment, medications, breakthroughs, causes and prevention options."
  • Quality: The most comprehensive medical news site.




MedlinePlus


  • Description: "MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news."
  • Quality: Project of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.




MedPage Today - Rheumatology


  • Description: "MedPage Today is the only service for physicians that provides a clinical perspective on the breaking medical news that their patients are reading. Co-developed by MedPage Today and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education, each article alerts clinicians to breaking medical news, with summaries and actionable information enabling them to better understand the implications."
  • Quality: Physicians and other healthcare professionals may also receive Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits at no cost by completing these educational programs.




Medscape - Rheumatology


  • Description: "Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time."
  • Quality: Medscape is a part of the WebMD network.

Medscape Rheumatology


MedWorm - Rheumatology News


  • Description: "MedWorm is a medical RSS feed provider as well as a search engine built on data collected from RSS feeds. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a technology used to simply publish and gather details of the very latest information on the internet."
  • Quality: MedWorm was built and is owned by Frankie Dolan, a UK based IT developer.

MedWorm Rheumatology


National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases


  • Description: The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases.
  • Quality: NIAMS is one component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

NIAMS


Rheumatology News


  • Description: Free access to full-text articles, latest news and research reports from medical meetings and expert commentary.
  • Quality: Member of Elsevier.






Social Bookmarking


Social bookmarking lets you store, organize and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

Here are a few social bookmarking sites and the collection of links featuring your field of interest.

Del.icio.us


  • Description: Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.






StumbleUpon


StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you.




Diigo


Diigo: If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one -- it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other.

diigo

Click here to see all the rheumatology-related sites submitted on Diigo.com.


Biowizard


Biowizard keeps you up to date with the most important published literature as chosen by the global biomedical research community.

BioWizard users submit relevant, timely research articles they have found to be useful and interesting. The articles you submit are then read by the rest of the community who promote articles they feel are deserving of recognition. The best articles in a research field are brought to the top page for all to read and discuss.

biowizard

Click here to access the best rheumatology-related articles submitted by the scientific community.




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