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We publish several different types of information as RSS feeds. It is possible to read these feeds on your desktop computer using a piece of software called a newsreader. It is also possible to incorporate views of these feeds into your own websites in such a way that they are always kept up to date.

Examples of newsreader software include NetNewsWire for Mac OS X and FeedDemon or NewzCrawler for Windows.

There are a number of articles and tutorials available explaining more about RSS particularly aimed at webmasters and content publishers. Two good examples are:

• RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmaster By Mark Nottingham, Senior Principal Technologist, BEA Systems
  
  A an excellent introduction to RSS, its versions and modules.

• What is RSS? By Mark Pilgrim on the XML.com site
  
  A good but really quite technical introduction and history of RSS.

• The BBC have recently upgraded their RSS services and have more information about RSS on their website

For a set of instructions to get the output from these feeds on to your site take a look at the RSS-Xpress site.

Another tool for aggregating RSS feeds onto a website using PHP and JavaScript is Feed2JS.

If you wish, you can use our Feed2JS installation to embed our RSS information in your site. Just include the following tagging in your HTML where you wish the feed to appear:

<script
src="http://www.medev.ac.uk/static/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=<The feed URL here >&num=5" type="text/javascript">
</script>

So to embed our News feed in your site use the following tagging:

<script
src=
"http://www.medev.ac.uk/static/feed2js/feed2js.php?src=http://www.medev.ac.uk/static/news_rss_feed.php&num=5" type="text/javascript">
</script>

The following are the feeds we currently publish:

[Right click below and copy the URLs to paste into your newsreader..]

• News
• Events
• Combined feed from BIOME
• Funding Opportunities

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• MEDEV and HSaP are pleased to announced that the jointly run HEALTH Network Group has appointed Frances Gordon as Learning and Teaching Consultant - Interprofessional Education.
• You are invited to the Improving the future healthcare workforce conference (CETL4HealthNE) (19 March 2010, St James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne).
• You are invited to the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients and MedBiquitous Annual Conference (26-28 April 2010, London).

• Higher Education Academy
• Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre
• The Academy Subject Network