Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of MedLib’s Round, edition 2.7, on Tuesday, August 10th. As host, I invite you to send your submissions.

Here at Highlight HEALTH, we promote advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy. To assist in that promotion, we have a page on Facebook (fan us!) and a presence on both Twitter (@HighlightHEALTH) and FriendFeed (HighlightHEALTH). However, from a strategy standpoint, there’s much more that can be done with social media. Like what? You tell us!

The theme for this month’s edition of MedLib’s Round is “Leveraging social media to promote health information online”.

What is MedLib’s Round?

MedLib’s Round is a monthly blog carnival of “excellent blog posts in the field of medical information”. Anyone can submit an article as long as it is relevant and of good quality. If you have an article on evidence-based medicine, information literacy, medical librarianship, PubMed or Web 2.0 tools, submit your article here or send it to me using the website contact form.

Priority will be given to those posts that focus on leveraging social media to promote health information online.

Please submit your article no later than Sunday, August 8th at 04:00:00 UTC (12:00pm CST).

Receive e-mail notification when MedLibs Round 2.7 is published.

Previous editions of MedLibs Round are listed at the MedLibs Round Archive.

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Three years and going strong!

This month, Highlight HEALTH celebrates its third year promoting advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy. We’re also excited to introduce the NIH Newsbot, which will help us to keep you up-to-date with the latest research news from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Highlight HEALTH Network consists of three web sites:

• Highlight HEALTH
• Highlight HEALTH 2.0
• The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

Each of these sites has a different purpose. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we focus on evidence-based biomedical research to educate readers and empower patients (if you’re interested in contributing, please let us know). Highlight HEALTH 2.0, a group effort, follows the use of Web 2.0 in health and medicine. Lastly, the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is an online reference guide for reliable health and medical information.

There are a number of ways to connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network, including email or RSS feed, Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. If you have an internet-enabled cell phone, Highlight HEALTH can also be accessed via the mobile web.

Most popular articles for 2009

We’ve calculated the most popular articles for 2009 using two measures, either by the highest number of page views for the year (shown in red) or by the average number of page views (shown in white and calculated as the number of page views/number of days posted).

Top 10 articles by page view

1. Lack of Sleep Increases Susceptibility to the Common Cold
   (article #4; 10,679 page views)
2. H1N1 Vaccine Study Summaries: Single Dose Provides Protection
   (article #42; 10,232 page views)
3. Lifetime Immunity From the Flu
   (article #10; 8,611 page views)
4. Brain Toniq Review: The Science Behind the Think Drink
   (article #17; 8,458 page views)
5. What You Need to Know About the H1N1 Vaccine
   (article #47; 8,053 page views)
6. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #21 – National Cancer Research Month
   (article #21; 8,036 page views)
7. Clearing Up Concerns Over Vicks VapoRub
   (article #6; 7,914 page views)
8. New Genes Associated with Blood Pressure and Hypertension
   (article #25; 7,638 page views)
9. Read Highlight HEALTH In Your Inbox
   (article #3; 7,384 page views)

Top 20 articles by average page views/day

1. H1N1 Vaccine Study Summaries: Single Dose Provides Protection
   (article #42; average: 96 page views/day)
2. What You Need to Know About the H1N1 Vaccine
   (article #47; average: 88 page views/day)
3. Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8
   (article #54; average: 55 page views/day)
4. Chromosome Telomeres and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
   (article #48; average: 54 page views/day)
5. Details of Critically Ill Patients with H1N1 in Mexico and Canada
   (article #50; average: 53 page views/day)
6. Rehabilitation at Home Just as Good as Day Hospital Care
   (article #43; average: 47 page views/day)
7. Medpedia Now Includes News & Analysis, Alerts, Q&A
   (article #58; average: 42 page views/day)
8. Safety and Distribution of the H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
   (article #53; average: 42 page views/day)
9. Book Review: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
   (article #49; average: 41 page views/day)
10. Health Highlights – October 30th, 2009
    (article #51; average: 37 page views/day)
11. The Review Is In: Lifestyle Changes Prevent Breast Cancer
    (article #46; average: 36 page views/day)
12. Physician Failure to Report Abnormal Test Results to Patients
    (article #32; average: 36 page views/day)
13. New Genes Associated with Blood Pressure and Hypertension
    (article #25; average: 35 page views/day)
14. Metabolic Discoveries Hidden In Our Genomes
    (article #39; average: 35 page views/day)
15. The Spectrum Health Value Study: Insured vs. Uninsured
    (article #36; average: 33 page views/day)
16. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #21 – National Cancer Research Month
    (article #21; average: 33 page views/day)
17. Need For Less Sleep Associated with Gene Mutation
    (article #40; average: 33 page views/day)
18. NIH to Hold Conference on Family History
    (article #38; average: 33 page views/day)
19. Medpedia: Reliable Crowdsourcing of Health and Medical Information
    (article #34; average: 32 page views/day)
20. Brain Toniq Review: The Science Behind the Think Drink
    (article #17; average: 32 page views/day)

Thanks for reading and Best of Health in the coming year!

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed readers are great tools for managing information flow. Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and other web-based news feed readers enable you to stay up-to-date with the latest content from your favorite websites.

However, occasionally you need something more convenient, something you can save and reference later. Receiving the Highlight HEALTH Network RSS feed via email is an excellent alternative for a number of reasons: Read the rest of this article …

As Highlight HEALTH celebrates its’ second year promoting advances in biomedical research to encourage health literacy, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued readership.

Three websites make up the Highlight HEALTH Network:

• Highlight HEALTH
• Highlight HEALTH 2.0
• The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory

Each of these sites has a different purpose. Here at Highlight HEALTH, we focus on evidence-based biomedical research to educate readers and empower patients (if you’re interested in contributing, please let us know). Highlight HEALTH 2.0, a group effort, follows the use of Web 2.0 in health and medicine. Lastly, the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is an online reference guide for reliable health and medical information.

There are more ways than ever to connect with the Highlight HEALTH Network, including email/RSS, Twitter and Facebook. If you have an internet-enabled cell phone, Highlight HEALTH can be accessed via the mobile web.

Top 20 most popular articles

Here are the most popular articles for 2008 (top 20 based on the number of page views/number of days posted):

1. Grand Rounds 5.14 Holiday Edition
2. Metabolic Changes in Human Brain Evolution and Schizophrenia
3. Encephalon #58 – Decision Making
4. Potential Location of Autism Genes Identified
5. The New Placebo: Prescribing Positive Expectations with Real Drugs
6. 2008 Presidential Candidates on the Issues of Biomedical Research and Healthcare
7. Health Search and the Semantic Web
8. The Power of Gratitude to Cultivate Happiness
9. Neurodegenerative Disease and the Coming Epidemic
10. Chiropractic Adjustments and Artery Dissection: Is Your Neck in Safe Hands?
11. Viral-based Human Disease and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
12. New Highlight HEALTH Network RSS Feed
13. Closing Arguments on Big Tobacco, Boston Legal Style
14. The Cancer Genome Atlas Reports Molecular Characterization of Brain Tumors
15. Highlight HEALTH Goes Mobile
16. Gene Expression Can Predict the Survival of Lymphoma Patients
17. Health Highlights – October 7th, 2008
18. HelixGene Foundation to Ensure Responsible Reporting of Genomic Medicine
19. Cancer Research Blog Carnival #13 – Stand Up To Cancer
20. Overeating Fast Food Carbs Causes Signs of Liver Damage

Thank you and Best of Health in the coming year!