Here's a question for you - do you follow news? Do you keep up with what's the latest in care, treatment and medication for your assorted illnesses?
If you do, I've got something that could be of interest for you - the list of best news sources for migraines and headaches on the Internet.
In the olden days, it was enough to go to BBC or CNN to get the latest scoop. If you wanted to get an in-depth look on a particular subject, one would google or yahoo some keywords and presto, you are certifiably "informed".
Nowadays, it's not so simple. Each of the big search engines has a separate search for "News", "Blogs", etc. If you simply google "migraine" you will get swamped with a lot of junk, viral sites that want to sell you the latest snakeoil and other pointless information.
And while CNN, BBC and other large news conglomerates do publish an enormous amount of news, they tend to use their own content only. If you want to read more than just articles from the big guys, it is better to use news portal websites such as Google News, Yahoo News, NewsNow, etc. Using dedicated news searches helps you get to the core of what you want to find.
Here's a few of them in terms of relevance and usability:
The Big 3:
The ones every one knows about. However, what no everybody knows is that for specific topics such as "migraine" or "headaches" they don't have the same amount of information. Google comes up first, followed by Yahoo. MSN Live Search is way behind the first two.
Some less-known news sources might provide some unexpectedly good articles. For example, newsnow.co.uk is a leading news site in UK that does include sources even Google sometimes misses.
- http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
- http://www.altavista.com/news/
- http://news.ask.com/
- http://search.us.reuters.com/query/
Here are some excellent sources of news that might escape attention of a casual news reader but do provide additional content and bonuses. Some have article-related discussions, some are highly specialized, some offer advanced searching options. Take you time to browse around, you might find that you don't want to go back to the news-as-usual after reading these:
- http://www.medworm.com/
- http://www.newsvine.com/
- http://www.nowpublic.com/
- http://www.queryserver.com/news.htm
- http://www.topix.net/
The last but not the least is our own, very specialized, very tiny niche of blogs and web sites that publish migraine and headache news. For some, it's the main topic, some do it occasionally. The included sites answer to 2 main criteria - they do publish news and they do update periodically.
- Teri Robert's SharePosts
- Somebody Heal Me by Diana Lee
- The Daily Headache
- Headache and Migraine News Blog
- ChronicBabe
- and of course, this site - www.raingem.com (we do update daily)
I apologize if some site or blog is not included - I either don't know about it or it's not updated often enough to warrant the inclusion. Feel free to let me know if there are some sites that I missed.
update:
User-recommended sources:
www.pubmed.gov
"17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s". Thanks, Christine.
Hopefully this information was helpful and interesting. In future installments I plan to cover more sources of news and information such as blog searches, RSS data feeds and even Tweeter. Stay tuned.
2 comments:
One info source I recently found is the federal government-sponsored website PubMed. It has over 17 million summaries of articles from biomedical journals, including many headache and neurology journals. It's pretty easy to search, and if you set up a free account, you can save a search and PubMed will run it every day or week and email you the results. For example, I saved a search on preventatives for chronic tension-type headache, and PubMed emails me links to summaries of the latest articles once a week.
Christine,
Thank you, does look like a very good source of info. I'll play with it a bit, if it works well for me, I'll update the article with PubMed's search.
Rain
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