Overview The editor's view

Post-Polio News (ppn) an online news cutting service that specialises in news relating to polio and post-polio issues.

Disability and other health related issues are also covered.

News sources are many and varied including newspapers, magazines, medical journals and support group notices to name but a few.

As editor of this independent service I have total freedom over what news I choose to output.

Post-Polio News therefore inevitably reflects a personal bias.

Nevertheless, I try to report with an even hand and views expressed by the authors of the news items I include in Post-Polio News do not necessarily reflect those of my own.

Primary news source feeds are RSS and Twitter. Post-Polio News is distributed via RSS (Google Reader/Feedburner) and Twitter. For anyone not presently set up to receive either RSS and/or Twitter there are email and newspaper options.

POST-POLIO NEWS is a developing service and aspects of it may change at relatively short notice.

TwitterFor those who prefer to scan headlines

Twitter is both a source and distribution channel for Post-Polio News. As a follower of @postpolionews you will have a direct line to the Editor via the Reply facility or Direct Messages if I have decided to follow you in return. Due to current issues with transferring some news sourced via Twitter to RSS and Email distribution, the former will provide the most complete POST-POLIO NEWS distribution.

Newspapers a convenient way for you to select from the last 24 hours worth of articles



Early Edition published circa 4:00 a.m. GMT/UTC 24/7	Late Edition published circa 4:00 p.m GMT/UTC 24/7
Optionally you can subscribe via a link on either edition to email reminders when each edition is updated (note that if you wish to receive notifications of both editions you will need to subscribe to both). Currently the notifications only include details of headline news items. If you wish to receive more detail via email please check out the Google Reader via email option below. IMPORTANT - As editor, although I have control over the set of articles from which each newspaper issue is built, I currently have no control over which articles are chosen from that set. Nor do I have any control over any advertisements that may appear in the newspapers.

RSS (Google Reader/Feedburner)for those who prefer summaries

RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is also both a source and distribution channel for Post-Polio News. The advantage of RSS over Twitter is that the 'notice' is not limited to 140 characters.

Email Daily Digestfor those who prefer email

A daily digest is available via email consisting of a selection of POST-POLIO NEWS output including, depending on the source, the partial or full text of each item.

Video Channels

Some news items include links to videos. This section is an experiment to see if it is viable to provide alternative direct access to those videos which are hosted on video libraries such as YouTube.

The YouTube icon above the video opens up the postpolionews channel in a new tab. The video displayed above is the last one that was added to the playlist of 'Latest' videos. The postpolionews channel includes a number of catagorised 'archival' playlists into which videos are periodically transferred from the 'Latest' playlist.

Post-Polio Health International

Although this UK site shares the 'Post-Polio' part of the domain name with Post-Polio Health International (www.post-polio.org), Post-Polio News (www.post-polio.org.uk) is an independent domain and site owned and managed by myself, Chris Salter.

Post-Polio Health International (PHI), or GINI as they were called in the mid 1990's when I first ventured into post-polio support on the internet, provide a unique service to the international polio and post-polio community.

Contact Details

Comments on this service are welcome. I will also consider any support group or oganization news but they will have to be in the form of links to the news/information as I am unable to publish news articles on this site at this stage.

Please email either postpolionews@post-polio.org.uk or postpolionews@originalthinktank.org.uk.

This page was updated Monday, 23 April, 2012 2:59 AM .