News and Information on Rheumatology

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide patients and medical professionals with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS. This video describes how you can use RSS:



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You can insert the term "rheumatology" or your field of interest into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on that search term automatically. It means you don't have to keep going back to Pubmed week by week and check whether there are new additions to the database. But you let the information come to you.

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

American College of Rheumatology

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

eMedicine

• 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."

Kosmix

• Description: "Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into magazine-style topic pages, enabling people to navigate the Web..."
• Quality: The team of Kosmix

Medical News Today

• 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

• 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.

MedWorm

• 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.

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)

Rheumatology News

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