Following the Biomedical and Healthcare Blogosphere

April 4, 2009 | by

The mission of Highlight HEALTH is to promote advances in biomedical research, to encourage health literacy and to provide reliable sources of health and medical information (more on the about page). In support of these goals, when Highlight HEALTH hosted the Holiday Edition of Grand Rounds in December 2008, I introduced subscription options for eight credible, rotating health and medicine blog carnivals.

There’s a revolution occurring on the Web: those “authoritative” articles written on traditional, static websites are being replaced with blogs, wikis and online social networks. In the sphere of health, medicine and information technology, this “real-time Web” consists of many who are professionals in the field; their posts are listed below.
In the digital age, these are the characteristics of new media: recent, relevant, reachable and reliable.

Fast-forward to April 2009. There are now ten health and medicine blog carnivals that offer email and/or RSS subscription options. Each carnival feed post links directly to the blog hosting the carnival. You never have to search for the latest edition of any of your favorite health and medicine blog carnivals again! There’s something for everyone: the weekly best of the “medical blogosphere”, nursing, genes and genetic diseases, Web 2.0 and medicine, cancer research, neuroscience and psychology, surgical experiences, health policy, medical librarianship and palliative care.

Subscribe with RSS Grand Rounds Subscribe with RSS Change of Shift
Subscribe with RSS Gene Genie Subscribe with RSS Medicine 2.0
Subscribe with RSS Cancer Research Subscribe with RSS Encephalon
Subscribe with RSS SurgeXperiences Subscribe with RSS Health Wonk Review
Subscribe with RSS MedLib’s Round Subscribe with RSS Palliative Care Grand Rounds
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A Google Calendar highlighting all of these carnivals is also available. The calendar is publicly accessible, so if you have your own Google Calendar, you can conveniently follow the Health and Medicine Blog Carnival schedule right next to your own by clicking on the +GoogleCalendar icon in the lower right corner of the calendar. If you click on any event, the description links directly to the specific carnival feed. You’re just three clicks away from the latest edition of any carnival in the biomedical and healthcare blogosphere. You can also subscribe to the Health and Medicine Blog Carnival calendar using iCal or RSS.

If you’re interested in more than one carnival, an aggregated feed is available. The Health and Medicine Blog Carnival Mashup enables you to receive notification of all the carnivals by email and/or RSS.

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Lastly, many people are using Twitter to complement or replace RSS. If you use the microblogging service, you can also keep up with all of the new carnival editions by following @BioMedCarnivals on Twitter.

My hope is that these subscription options increase the popularity and readership of each of the carnivals. With all these choices, it’s easier than ever to follow your favorite health and medicine blog carnival(s).

Do you know someone who isn’t reading any of the health and medicine blog carnivals? Click on the “ShareThis” button below this post and share on Facebook or email this article to a friend so that they can learn how to follow the biomedical and healthcare blogosphere.

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed readers are great tools for managing information flow. Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and other web-based news feed readers enable you to stay up-to-date with the latest content from your favorite websites.

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However, occasionally you need something more convenient, something you can save and reference later. Receiving Highlight HEALTH Network updates via email is an excellent alternative for a number of reasons:

New Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Feed

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It’s been almost a year since we introduced the Highlight HEALTH Network. The network is an aggregation of content from three sites:

  • Highlight HEALTH
  • Highlight HEALTH 2.0
  • The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

There’s also a network webpage, Highlight HEALTH.net (.net as in network, creative isn’t it?), which displays recent content from each site. The Highlight HEALTH Network makes it easy to stay up-to-date with the latest articles and directory links, all from a single source.

Seven Ways to Connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network

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Get connectedDon’t want to miss any of the articles, news and links published on Highlight HEALTH (Discover the Science of Health), Highlight HEALTH 2.0 (Following Web 2.0 in Health and Medicine) and the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory (An Online Reference Guide for Reliable Health and Medical Information)?

Maybe you’ve a recent visitor … maybe you’ve been reading much longer. Whichever the case, there’s a number of ways to access content on the Highlight HEALTH Network. From RSS feeds to e-mail alerts to social networks, there’s bound to be a resource that works best for you.