PeRSSonalized Medicine: Quality Stroke News, Blogs, Journals, Twitter and Youtube December 14, 2009

I launched PeRSSonalized Medicine to help patients and doctors keep themselves up-to-date more easily without any kind of IT knowledge. It is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.

Now here is the newest category, PeRSSonalized Stroke with all the quality news sites, blogs, peer-reviewed journals and web 2.0 tools focusing on stroke. What is stroke?

A stroke (sometimes called an acute cerebrovascular attack) is the rapidly developing loss of brain function(s) due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage. As a result, the affected area of the brain is unable to function, leading to inability to move one or more limbs on one side of the body, inability to understand or formulate speech, or inability to see one side of the visual field.

Some reasons why it is unique:

• You can search in the database. It means you will find medical information only from a quality selected portion of the world wide web.

• You can personalize any of the sections.

• You can also receive the newest Pubmed articles focusing on your search term. Just insert your field of interest, a therapy, a condition, etc. and click Search. Then you can add the newly created box to your personalized medical “journal”.

• It is a community-based project. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.