CZ Talk:Health Sciences Workgroup

Active articles requiring attention

Would health sciences authors and editors kindly take a look at Cosmetic Surgery ? Thank you, Nancy Nancy Sculerati MD 09:23, 27 February 2007 (CST)

History of Medicine

I'd like to add a subcategory instead of one large article. Any objections?--Peter A. Lipson 13:15, 27 April 2007 (CDT)

What do you buy "add a subcategory"? Not sure what you mean. --Larry Sanger 19:46, 27 April 2007 (CDT)

Sorry, I'm not sure of the terminology. For articles that relate to the history of medicine, should there be a separate category or just have each article under medicine?

New articles

I added a bunch of new articles so that we can blue some red. They need lots of work, but are an ok starting point. I'll of course work on them, but i could use all the help i can get.Peter A. Lipson 13:03, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Finding source evidence for Health Science articles

I have a number of health related search plugins to help quickly find source evidence. The plugins can be installed from http://medinformatics.uthscsa.edu/searchplugins/. Please let me know if other search tools are needed.Robert Badgett 12:41, 4 May 2007 (CDT)

A serious check on Health Sciences editors

Anyone interested, please take a look at the latest discussion on Category talk:Health Sciences Editors. Thanks! --Stefano Bartoletti 11:49, 22 August 2007 (CDT)

Need medical terms defined

Already we have articles using words like myalgia and arthagia and so forth that the lay audience will not understand. I think we need to start making definition pages for these kinds of terms so that people besides MDs no what the symptoms mean.

I think definitions page would be great. For readers that have nav popups installed on their browser, that would let them over their mouse over the term and the definition would display without their leaving the page.

Disclaimer needed on health articles

This is a continuation of a discussion that started on User_talk:Robert Badgett about whether CZ health pages needs a disclaimer alerting the reader to consult their health care provider for medical decisions.

Making a disclaimer would be easy with a template. Might be best if the template succinctly announced the link, then the link went to a page that detailed the disclaimer. This would avoid using precious space at the top of each page. Should probably think of putting these on disease pages as well. Questions:

• We need to vet this with others.
• If CZ goes with this, do we rely on authors to insert the template, or is this more safely done automatically on any article in the health science category?
• Other questions?

- Robert Badgett 16:21, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Roberrt, this is probably important enough that we should make a proposal on the official proposals page. Take a stab if you would like to it, otherwise I will work up the text, for the proposal and the actual disclaimer, this weekend. David E. Volk 10:28, 7 March 2008 (CST)

Probably the easiest way to deal with this technically is to create {{subpages-hs}}, which will contain the disclaimer. Stephen Ewen 10:39, 7 March 2008 (CST)

David, that would be great if you could start on it. I still need to work on CZ:Proposals/Standardizing the naming of biomedical articles. which is floundering. - Bob - Robert Badgett 11:50, 8 March 2008 (CST)

Proposal has been made

I made a quick proposal at CZ:Proposals/New regarding medical disclaimers. Please comment as desired. David E. Volk 09:14, 10 March 2008 (CDT)