Web Content RSS Feeds
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ to which you subscribe for free content. RSS is a technology that is still being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites and blogs.
In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website, you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added. This is still an option, but RSS feeds allow content to come to you.
What if you could tell a blog to let you know every time it is updated? This is what RSS does for you.
Then, you can add the shortcode everywhere you want (pages, posts, widgets etc):
RSS is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published. You don’t need an email to tell you when there is an update. You will know automatically as soon as new material is published.
It’s almost like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to your door, RSS feeds are delivered wherever you’d like to receive it – your iPad (or tablet), direct to your email clients such as Outlook or Gmail, for example. You can then read and download transmissions offline at your leisure.
How to Use RSS
Get an RSS Reader – The first thing you’ll want to do if you would like to use a RSS is to get an RSS Feed Reader. There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features – however, an online search for "RSS Feed Reader" for the device where you’d like to receive the feed (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone) will turn up a number of free selections.
Typically the feeds work a little like receiving emails. As you subscribe to the feed you’ll see that unread entries will be marked as bold. As you click on them you’ll see the latest update and can read it right there in the feed reader. You are given the option to click through to the actual site or move onto the next unread item – marking the last one as ‘read’.
Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is still an Option
If the above explanation all just seems a little too complicated for you then please don’t worry. You will continue to receive email updates as new information is posted. Just make sure you have signed up in various areas of the CMDA website where we offer simple subscription forms for various resources, and we will send you email notifications when new content is available.
Please note: CMDA does not provide technical assistance for the use of RSS Feeds or the installation and use of RSS Feed Readers.
RSS Feed: The Point Blog
- Kuczewski Errs: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right March 10, 2025by Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) In a recent Hasting Center Bioethics Forum Essay, “Supporting Patients and Students Who Are Immigrants: What to do and Why Most Bioethicists Won’t Do It,” Mark Kuczewski asserts that bioethicists, and medical systems in general, should not cooperate with any governmental attempts to identify or detain aliens who […]Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics)
- Psychiatry’s Dirty Secret: How Big Pharma Hijacked Mental Healthcare March 6, 2025by Jeffrey E. Hansen, PhD Let’s be honest—modern psychiatry has sold out to Big Pharma. In 1980, with the release of the DSM-III, the field took a sharp turn away from human-centered mental healthcare and fully embraced the disease model, aligning itself with pharmaceutical giants.Jeffrey E. Hansen, PhD
- On the Side: March 2025 March 4, 2025by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® “In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor” (Acts 9:36, NIV).Christian Medical & Dental Associations®
- President Trump’s Executive Order on IVF March 3, 2025by Andrè Van Mol, MD On February 18, President Trump signed an executive order titled, “EXPANDING ACCESS TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION.” Noting “the importance of family formation,” the prevalence of infertility (“as many as one in seven”), and the high cost of IVF ($12,000 to $25,000 per cycle), the administration committed itself to a policy […]Andrè Van Mol, MD
- Federal Judge Blocks Gender Mandate February 28, 2025by Brick Lantz, MD We want our CMDA members to be aware we are tracking the outcome of President Trump’s orders to protect vulnerable youth from transgender distortion.Brick Lantz, MD
- The USAID Imbroglio: A Misinformation Campaign—Part 1 February 26, 2025by Steven Willing, MD Between my junior and senior years, I worked a summer job as a secretary-typist with the reviled United States Agency for International Development (USAID). What can I say? I was only 18 and not yet attuned to the subtle tells typically attributed to international criminal organizations.Steven Willing, MD
- Moabites February 25, 2025by Al Weir, MD "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgement on themselves" […]Al Weir, MD
- Sidewalk Man February 18, 2025by Al Weir, MD “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers…” (Luke 10:30b, BSB).Al Weir, MD
- The Corruption of Psychology: How Ideology Has Replaced Ethics and Healing February 17, 2025by Jeffrey E. Hansen, PhD There was a time when psychology was dedicated to truth, healing and human flourishing. At its core, our profession was meant to serve as a beacon of understanding, guiding individuals toward mental clarity, emotional resilience and personal freedom.Jeffrey E. Hansen, PhD
- An Update on PEPFAR from CMDA February 13, 2025by Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics) In 2003, President George W. Bush launched a program called The President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has become one of the most successful foreign aid programs in United States history. According to the State Department, as of September 30, 2023, PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives […]Jeffrey Barrows, DO, MA (Bioethics)
- Stairwell Conversations February 11, 2025by Al Weir, MD “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses…” (Acts 1:8, NIV).Al Weir, MD
- Treating Health Disparities on Our Knees February 11, 2025by Nicole D. Hayes Ecclesiastes 9:11 contains the familiar text, “the race is not to the swift” (NIV) (or to those who run fast), but in the case of Black Americans, the race to health began well ahead of us, particularly with slavery.Nicole D. Hayes
- On the Side: February 2025 February 5, 2025by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® As a little girl, I remember Valentine's Day so vividly—decorating a shoebox to hold our cards at school, picking just the right Valentine for each friend in our class and, uh, having bronchitis several years in a row and missing the whole thing.Christian Medical & Dental Associations®
- Someone is Watching February 4, 2025by Al Weir, MD “Join with others in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do” (Philippians 3:17, NIV).Al Weir, MD
- Disruptions January 28, 2025by Al Weir, MD “Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island” (Acts 27:14, NET).Al Weir, MD
- Elevator Encounter January 21, 2025by Al Weir, MD “But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents” (Mark 12:42, NIV).Al Weir, MD
- “Nature” Does a Face Plant: Promoting the Transgender Suicide Myth January 16, 2025by Steven Willing, MD What if an original research paper published in a respected international scientific journal declared that keeping men out of women’s sports or banning the gender transitioning of minors caused an increase in suicide attempts among transgender youth? Wouldn’t you expect them to show actual evidence of an increase? Well, you ought. […]Steven Willing, MD
- The Long View: Lessons from Tenwek’s Community Health Program January 15, 2025by Christian Medical & Dental Associations® Today, the Tenwek Community Health and Development (TCHD) program little resembles the original program begun 40 years ago. That is a good thing! The goals of the program haven’t changed, but the strategies certainly have evolved.Christian Medical & Dental Associations®
- Pancakes and Roaches January 14, 2025by Al Weir, MD “And he who was seated at the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new’” (Revelation 21:5a, ESV).Al Weir, MD
- Social Transitioning is Neither Neutral nor Benign January 9, 2025by Andrè Van Mol, MD Here at CMDA, we’re often asked about why we, as an organization broadly and as our advocacy team specifically, seem to be more concerned about policy and ethics and less so about domestic missions—for our neighbors in need here in the U.S. These inquires and suggestions are often made out […]Andrè Van Mol, MD