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Medical reference platform making high quality medical information easily accessible to everyone.
New York, NY
Joined February 2019
We're excited to support the incredible work of Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE), a network for students interested in evidence-based health care. Follow @Students4BE and visit to learn about S4BE.
s4be.cochrane.org
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OpenMD's medical reference directory now indexes over 850 freely-accessible medical information sites.
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Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations. An exceptional review by @Briony_Swire and @davidlazer.
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Directory of COVID-19 resources, including guidelines, journal collections, and public health guidance from government agencies and leading medical publishers.
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Directory of free COVID-19 resources from government health agencies and leading medical publishers. All listed sites have made coronavirus-related content available for free during the public health...
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Announcing the launch of OpenMD Medical Dictionary, a free resource providing definitions, pronunciations, and illustrations for more than 11,000 medical terms.
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Definitions of medical terms from leading medical institutions. Includes thousands of illustrations, phonetic pronunciations, and related terms.
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OpenMD's medical reference directory now lists over 800 freely-accessible medical information sources. Which online sites do you turn to most frequently for health news and information?
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has expanded its directory of leading online health resources to more than 750 sites. The directory provides users with a curated guide to reputable sources of medical information.
openmd.com
Directory of leading online health reference sites, including medical journals, health news, online tools, student resources, and major medical specialties.
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RT @DrPaulOffit: Measles Is Making a Comeback. Here’s How to Stop It.
nytimes.com
Lawmakers and social media platforms each have a role to play in fighting back.
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CDC's weekly morbidity and mortality report details the first pediatric tetanus case in >30 years in Oregon. Remarkably, after 57 days in the hospital, the boy's parents still declined DTaP and other recommended immunizations.
cdc.gov
In 2017, a boy aged 6 years who had received no immunizations sustained a forehead laceration while playing outdoors on a farm; the wound was cleaned and sutured at home. Six days later, he had ...
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Facebook has announced a series of steps it is taking to combat the spread of vaccine misinformation on social media.
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American Academy of Pediatrics urges major technology companies (incl. Google, Facebook, and Pinterest) to combat vaccine misinformation online. Full letter from @AmerAcadPeds:
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Should You Google Your Medical Symptoms? Insightful article by @catharob about online medical information accuracy and privacy.
consumerreports.org
Most people Google medical symptoms. Consumer Reports explains how to protect your privacy while you search.
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RT @Doctor_V: Why Health Search is at at Tipping Point - Early thoughts on @openmdcom (is a 33c sponsor) https://t.….
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RT @DrPaulOffit: Facebook, Twitter are blocking dangerous antivaccine posts. It’s about time l Opinion via @phillyd….
inquirer.com
Mainstream media, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the safety of vaccines, realizes that there aren’t two sides to this story. Also, nothing educates like outbreaks.
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RT @ucsf_library: BREAKING NEWS: UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access to publicly funded research. #UCElsevier….
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QUEST provides a strong framework for evaluating online health information. Evaluation criteria include authorship, attribution, conflict of interest, currency, complementarity, and tone.
bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com
Background Online health information is unregulated and can be of highly variable quality. There is currently no singular quantitative tool that has undergone a validation process, can be used for a...
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