News and Information on Surgery

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 "surgery" 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 surgery-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

About.com Surgery

• Description: Surgery-related articles; information about procedures, before and after surgery guides.
• Quality: Accredited by HONCode

American College of Surgeons

• Description: "Surgery News provides concise, cutting-edge reports from clinical meetings; reports on the politics affecting the surgical profession and the socioeconomic scene in Washington, DC, and at the state level; FDA actions and the results of clinical trials; expert commentary; reports on the business aspects of surgical practice today; and news from the College itself. The newspaper is being published as a cooperative endeavor of the American College of Surgeons and the Elsevier Society News Group, a unit of Elsevier/International Medical News Group."
• Quality: Provided by the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL

General Surgery News

• Description: "General Surgery News is a monthly newspaper designed to keep general surgeons abreast of the latest developments in the field. The publication features extensive meeting coverage, analysis of journal articles, educational reviews, and information on new drugs and products."
• Quality: t has been managed since 2004 and has contact information.

MDLinx

• Description: "MDLinx connects healthcare professionals and patients to tomorrow’s medical knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and research solutions."
• Quality: Free to register.

MedlinePlus Surgery

• 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: Accredited by HONcode

MedPageToday Surgery

• 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: Contact information and details about the editorial staff are provided.

Medscape General Surgery

• 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.

PubSurg

• Description: Weekly Pubmed links for surgeons by Attila Dubecz, MD.
• Quality: A medical professional collects peer-reviewed articles.