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Cardiology task force

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 style="border:3px solid #abd5f5; background: #f1f5fc; width:100%; Template:Border-radius padding:8px;" colspan=1| Thank you for joining Cardiology task force, a collaborative effort to make the project more comprehensive and allot of improvment needed for many articles. Below are some ongoing tasks for you to take part in, or you can add a task to do. Another great place to check out is Category:Cardiovascular system stubs.  MaenK.A.Talk 13:14, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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  Cardiology task force, tasks you can do:

Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!

 Welcome to WikiProject Medicine!

I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:

Read our Manual of Style for medical articles and guide to Reliable medical sources

Join in editing our collaboration of the month (the current one is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Discuss with other members in the doctor's mess

Have a look at some related WikiProjects

Have a look at the collaboration dashboard

Have a look at the Trusted Sources recommended by Wikiproject medicine

Have a look at the most powerful citing tool Diberri's tool

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or please feel free to ask for help on my talk page.

Again, welcome!. Happy editing, JFW | T@lk 20:41, 24 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  WikiProject Medicine, tasks you can do:

Some stroopwafels for you!

Excellent work at hypertension, including the identification of sources that meet the standards of WP:MEDRS. The cardiovascular disease articles on Wikipedia need a lot of work, so your presence is much welcomed. JFW | T@lk 22:56, 27 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Translation project

We are working on a translation project to both improve than translate key medical articles into as many other languages as possible. The list of articles is here Book:Health care. There are a couple of other cardiovascular related articles that need work before translation including: myocardial infarction, hypercholesterolemia, and cardiovascular disease. Would appreciate your help :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:42, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Rosetta Barnstar
As per here [1] the article on hypertension to which you extensively contributed is making its way into other languages. Thanks you for your involvement in the WP:TTF. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:10, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

New medical organization

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 21:17, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!
Hi Adh30! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Multilingual editors are welcome! (But being multilingual is not a requirement.) Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 21:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Million Award

The Million Award
For your contributions to bring Hypertension (estimated annual readership: 2,121,000) and Diabetes mellitus type 2 (estimated annual readership: 1,002,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment--few editors have even one such article, much less two--and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 14:20, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Million Award is a new initiative to recognize the editors of Wikipedia's most-read content; you can read more about the award and its possible tiers (Quarter Million Award, Half Million Award, and Million Award) at Wikipedia:Million Award. You're also welcome to display this userbox:

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Hypertension to Good Article status.
This editor won the Million Award for bringing Diabetes mellitus type 2 to Good Article status.

The Pulse

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Medical Translation Newsletter


Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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If you are receiving this newsletter without having signed up, it is because you have signed up as a member of the Translation Taskforce, or Wiki Project Med on meta. 22:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Adh30, for posting that link to BHSOC.org, The British Hypertension Society. Much helpful info at that page, especially the videos on how to interpret the korotkoff sounds while reading a mercury spyhmomanometer. And I found the European Society of Hypertension recommendations, at http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/12/1462

However, some other issues are not addressed, such as when and how to verify the calibration of a patient’s consumer grade blood pressure device, that is used at home. I find that all consumer grade devices measure inaccurately when new, giving readings that are 5% to 15% too high. And, as the devices age, they drift either up or down. (I know this is true, by comparing with a mercury sphygmomanometer, tee'd into the air line, and a good stethoscope.) IMHO, that is unsatisfactory for the tight tolerance band on acceptable blood pressure. Yet, no one wants to recognize this situation. For example, here in the USA, MDs refuse to let me take a comparison measurement with my sphygmomanometer, right after measurement on their automated machines. Not a comfortable situation.

Thanks for your help. 68.35.173.107 (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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