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...site. Individual faculty members are not obligated to contribute or edit articles. HMS Professor Joseph B. Martin, a former dean of the Medical School, serves on Medpedia’s Board of Advisers. Currier said that “a small percentage” of articles on Medpedia were authored by HMS professors. “We’ve taken content in from only the most prestigious and reputable sources,” Currier said. He added, however, that because medical decisions should be based on the advice of personal doctors, “ultimately, we can?...
...Medpedia is a global effort modeled after Wikipedia to build a comprehensive medical resource that will be readily accessible and understandable to both health professionals and patients...
...Other academic institutions, including the medical schools at Stanford and Michigan and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, will be contributing to the Medpedia Project, too—though all of the content they provide will be editable. HARVARD RESEARCHERS CREATE DISEASE-SPECIFIC CELL LINES
...challenge is," Komaroff said, "will enough people contribute enough time and energy to make Medpedia what it aspires to become...
...response to Medpedia's call for qualified editors shows promise...