Leukemia and Web 2.0: Selected Online Resources February 1, 2010

Webicina, the first medical web 2.0 guidance service, comes up with 3-4 selections every week in order to assist empowered patients in their health management. The newest one is dedicated to Leukemia and Web 2.0. Such a selection is a free comprehensive resource containing all the web 2.0 tools from quality blogs and communities to online slideshows and mobile applications. It was designed to help patients by providing medically reliable information and websites.

Please take a look at the table of contents:

• News and Information on Leukemia
• Leukemia in the Blogosphere
• Leukemia Podcasts and Intrerviews
• Leukemia Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
• Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
• Leukemia Wikis
• Leukemia videos, animations and videocasts
• Mobile Applications
• Social Bookmarking
• Medical Search Engines
• Slideshows about Leukemia

PeRSSonalized Leukemia 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 leukemia in one personalized place.

Some reasons why PeRSSonalized Medicine 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’s meant to be a community-based project so we are open to suggestions. Please let us know which quality resources should be added to the database.