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Find out how to export all of your favourite news feeds from MedWorm into GoogleReader using an OPML file. Feeds can be exported grouped together by medical specialty or by any other MedWorm topic, such as a medical condition.

MedWorm data is now available to search via the following categories: news, research, blogs, podcasts, video, events funding, alerts, and clinical trials. Other categories of data are soon to be added, including forums, images, books and jobs.

MedWorm is pleased to announce that it is now being supported by blue sky scrubs, makers of some of the most stylish medical scrubs and scrub hats available for those hospital doctors that care about their appearance. blue sky scrubs are currently sponsoring a number of topics on MedWorm including Surgery, Nursing and Intensive Care, which you can view under the Publications Directory. As a sponsor they receive their text link under the title of every page within the topic and at the bottom of every fifth item within each associated RSS feed. Have a look at the Sponsorship MedWorm page to find out more.

MedWorm is proud to reveal details of its soon to be launched ad matching network. Register a quality profile now and get $5 free advertising when it launches.

Frankie Dolan is presenting MedWorm at the Health 2.0 conference in Paris on Tuesday 6th April.

The MedWorm Rivers of News by specialty have just been improved. You can now view up to the last 2250 items indexed on MedWorm by medical specialty. Click on any specialty in the Publications Directory, then click on the River of News tab and you can scan through the latest data by browsing through the pages. The MedWorm Rivers of News are essential time saving pages enabling all doctors to keep right up to date with the latest publications, news and guidelines in their area of expertise.

It is now possible to add tags (labels) to your favourite MedWorm searches and news feeds, which enables you to create multiple personalised 'Rivers of News'. Check out the new functionality by signing in or registering for a free My MedWorm account, then subscribe to some of your favourite topics in MedWorm using the orange MedWorm button next to the RSS logo, add some tags, and go to your 'My River of News' view to see the results. Watch this space for more tagging functionality coming shortly.

Now you can get the top 20 most popular medical and health articles that have been read via MedWorm or its outgoing RSS feeds, for the past 30 days, for all medical specialties and topics, such as medical conditions. For the first time available, these lists can give you a good indication of what medical and health publications people are really reading on the Internet, due to the thousands of medical feeds that are filtered through MedWorm and the thousands of readers that now receiving their medical updates via MedWorm. This link shows you the top 20 most read items in the Brain Cancers category. Simply navigate to any topic or specialty in MedWorm and then click on the 'Top 20' tab. There is also an RSS feed available for each of the Top 20 lists.

Now you can get the top 100 most popular medical and health articles that have been read via MedWorm or its outgoing RSS feeds, for the current week or month. For the first time available, these lists can give you a good indication of what medical and health publications people are really reading on the Internet, due to the thousands of medical feeds that are filtered through MedWorm and the thousands of readers that now receiving their medical updates via MedWorm.

MedWorm has released an advanced query tips page that will help you get the most out of your MedWorm queries, including examples of how to use boolean operators.

MedWorm has now completed its migration to a new hosting platform and its performance is much improved. Apologies for the irregular service over the last week; hopefully you will find that the move was well worth the short disruption.

MedWorm is currently undergoing a network migration and there is a reduction in data available until it is complete. Full service will resume tomorrow, with improved performance.

MedWorm has a new template.

MedWorm has a new logo.

Worried about swine flu? You can track all the latest news with the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS feed.

Disability publications now have their own category and RSS feed in the MedWorm directory.

MedWorm has a new category of newsfeeds dedicated to management in health and medicine. If you would like any new RSS categories adding to MedWorm, you can request them using the 'Suggest Category' box at the bottom of the page.

If you have any medical data, such as medical reports or medically related press releases, but don't have an RSS feed for your data, you can now enter your data directly into MedWorm, and MedWorm will automatically create an RSS feed for that data.

Materials Science publications now have their own category and RSS feed in the MedWorm directory.