Social media resources
Blogs
Clinical Cases and Images: CasesBlog : "Health News Updated Daily by an Assistant Professor at University of Chicago, Internist and Allergist"
Evidence eMended : provides expanded commentary on articles reviewed in the American Academy of Pediatrics publication, AAP Grand Rounds
Evidence Express : written by Anna Joseph, Communications Officer at the South Asian Cochrane Centre
Evidence-Informed Musings : written by Prathap Tharyan, Director of the South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre
Evidently Cochrane - sharing the latest Cochrane Reviews : written by Sarah Chapman and Harry Boardman from the UK Cochrane Centre
Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Blog : a blog by the publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, a site assessing the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments
(the) health informaticist : a blog about knowledge translation, Web 2.0 and evidence-based medicine
iMedicalApps : independent reviews of mobile medical technology and applications by a team of physicians and medical students
Liberating the Literature from the TRIP Database
NPC Rapid Review : a service from the UK National Prescribing Centre, offering access to "quick and succinct commentaries on recent newsworthy health issues related to prescribing and/or medicines"
Official Blog of The Cochrane Collaboration: News, information, resources & issues affecting The Cochrane Collaboration
Therapeutics Education Collaboration (TEC) : Medication Mythbusters: Practical Evidence-Based Therapeutics by James McCormack & Michael Allan, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC, Canada
TrustTheEvidence.net from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), Oxford, UK
News & Networks
Cochrane on Facebook
Cochrane on Twitter
Professional networking websites for scientists
Podcasts
CKS (Clinical Knowledge Summaries) Podcasts
Healthcare 411 : podcasts from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (USA)
NPC Rapid Review Podcasts from the UK National Prescribing Centre
Podcasts from The Cochrane Library
The New England Journal of Medicine Podcasts and Feeds
Therapeutics Education Collaboration (TEC) podcasts
RSS Feeds
Most newspapers, magazines and professional journals now offer RSS feeds of their news headlines, table of contents or other pertinent information. This section includes only a few examples.
NPC Rapid Reviews via RSS from the UK National Prescribing Centre
The Cochrane Collaboration RSS feeds include current news, opportunities, workshops, and more
The Cochrane Library RSS feeds : Special Collections; Editorial; Highlighted New and Updated Reviews
TheLancet.com RSS Feeds
The New England Journal of Medicine Podcasts and Feeds
Webicina PeRSSonalized Medicine : offers lists of specialized RSS feeds
Wikis
HLWIKI Canada : "an open, freely-accessible wiki with entries about health librarianship, social media and current information technology topics"
Medpedia : "an open platform connecting people and information to advance medicine" supported by Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading global health organizations
This list does not aim to be comprehensive, but it is updated regularly. Suggestions and feedback are welcome at web@cochrane.org.
Updated on: February 22, 2013, 10:28
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