Attention Webmasters and Healthcare Marketing Professionals
Free RSS News Syndication Service for Websites
and Net Users Seeking Reliable Doctor-Produced Health and Medical Information
MedicineNet offers the convenience of RSS feeds
which provide a means to view and deliver new or updated health and medical content
that is posted on MedicineNet.com to your website or desktop. The RSS feeds are organized by channels. We have general and specific
medical and health channels covering the latest medical news, diseases and
conditions, procedures and tests, medications, and our MedTerms medical word of
the day channel. By subscribing to a channel, you can have
important headlines delivered to your XML enabled website or desktop on health and medical
topics of interest to you. If you are looking for website integration and RSS is
too technical, we do offer content syndication using our free syndicator
tool.
To get started:
- you need to install an RSS feed reader, (A reader is a software
application similar in function to
your email program - you will see headlines and descriptions in the channels
you've subscribed to in this application - see the list of some of the
available RSS readers)
- and subscribe to a channel. To subscribe you need to copy the channel URL
into your reader.
The 
icon helps you identify that an RSS Feed is available. This icon will have the
URL link to that channel. To subscribe to the channel, right-click on it and
choose Copy Shortcut. Switch to your reader and select File, New menu option
(this may vary based on your reader). Follow the menus to add the channel.
If you click on this icon, a new browser window will open that
includes the XML code. All you need is the URL that points your reader to that
channel. For example our Daily Health and Medical News channel URL looks like
this: http://www.medicinenet.com/rss/dailyhealth.xml
To add the channel, you can copy this URL from the browser into your reader. See
the instructions in your reader software on how to create a new channel.
Once you have subscribed, your reader will automatically check the channel for updates. For example, if MedicineNet posts a new Arthritis article, and
you've subscribed to our Arthritis General Channel, you will see that this article has
been added in your reader. You can go directly to that new article on
MedicineNet.com. This is a
great way to keep up-to-date on the new or updated content posted on
MedicineNet.com. We have many health and medicine channels that you
can subscribe to in the RSS format. Please subscribe and enjoy! We also have other free
health and medical solutions available.
Benefits of RSS Feeds
- You take control and determine which RSS channel you would like to view.
- You only view a headline and description making it easy for you to scan topics.
- The link will take you directly to that article.
- You are alerted when our site is updated.
Available MedicineNet RSS Feed Channels
When you see this icon ,
throughout MedicineNet you know that there is an RSS feed channel related to the
health or medical topic you are reading. By clicking on the icon and using your
RSS reader, you can subscribe to that channel.
We offer five types of health and medical RSS feed channels.
- Daily Health and Medical News Channel (updated nightly Monday through
Friday)
- Weekly Health and Medical News Digest Channel (compilation of the previous
week's daily health and medical news - updated every Friday night)
- MedTerms Medical Word of the Day Channel (a medical definition from our
medical dictionary - updated daily, 7 days a week)
- Specialty Channels (specific, over 1,000 available - for example the Acne Specialty
Channel) and
- General Channels (broad, 36 available - for example the Skin General Channel)
Specialty Health and Medical Channels (specific disease,
procedure, or medication)
There are over 1,000 specialty health and medical channels to choose from.
These include diseases and conditions, medical procedures, and medications . To
locate a specialty channel, look for the Specialty icon on the right navigation of the article or the bottom of the index page on the
specific health and medical topic page. When you
see this, you know the specific topic has an associated RSS specialty channel. You just need
to subscribe to that specialty channel. For example you can subscribe to
the Psoriatic Arthritis Specialty Channel. When articles related to this
specific topic are updated or added on MedicineNet.com, the channel will be updated
accordingly. This process occurs nightly.
General Health and Medical Channels (broad medical and health topics)
We currently cover 36 General Health and Medical Channels. A collection of
specialty articles typically make-up a general channel. For example
our Arthritis General Channel includes over 250 arthritis related articles such as
Osteoarthritis and Psoriatic Arthritis. Below is a listing of available general
channels. You can also locate a general channel by looking for the General icon on
the left navigation of the Focused topic in MedicineNet.com.
What is RSS?
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication and is based
on a technology known as XML. Among other things, RSS allows you to view
headlines of the latest content posted on a website like MedicineNet.com. When
you see the XML icon on a page on MedicineNet.com, you know that that particular article or
topic has an associated RSS channel. You will need an RSS reader (also known as a news aggregator) to properly interpret the RSS feeds on the
channel. These readers
also allow you to subscribe to the channel. The advantage of an RSS feeds is you only
view the most recent changes to our site. This alerts you to an important
change or addition in a medical or health topic that may be of interest to you.
RSS Resources
General information on RSS:
There are many RSS readers (news aggregators)
available for download. Search for RSS readers in your favorite search
engine to find the most popular ones. Most are software applications that
must be installed onto your computer. Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
browsers both support RSS feeds.
RSS Feed Terms of Use
We encourage you to use our health and medical RSS feeds, so long as you
do not post the entire article and so long as you provide proper attribution and
links back to MedicineNet.com. The MedicineNet RSS feeds are also available
for syndication onto your web site.
For more free health and medical content, learn about our Content
Syndicator Tool offering easy delivery of MedicineNet headlines that appear
on your website.