News via RSS Feed

Get the latest news from the Danish Medicines Agency by subscribing to our RSS feed. All you need to do is insert the link below into the RSS reader of your choice. Read more about RSS feeds and readers and how to get started below.

What is an RSS feed?
Stay updated with RSS feeds
What is an RSS reader?
Why use RSS?
Getting started

What is an RSS feed?

An RSS feed is a text document on the Internet. You can compare it with a table of contents that contains links: It offers overview and access to content that you are interested in. The technology is widely used by websites that post new information frequently, e.g. news pages, blogs and the website of the Danish Medicines Agency. You can subscribe to feeds, thereby gaining an overview and access to content from many different Internet sources in one place.

Stay updated with RSS feeds

If you would like to receive the latest news from the Danish Medicines Agency, RSS technology keeps you abreast of news, which means that you do not have to watch our website closely or wait for our news letter.

… you can see it immediately in your RSS reader:

If you do not have an RSS reader or want to know what it is, continue onto the section below.

What is an RSS reader?

In order to subscribe to RSS feeds, you need an RSS reader. An RSS reader is a simple program used to gain an overview of and to arrange the RSS subscriptions. It is similar to an e-mail service like Hotmail and Gmail or an e-mail program like Outlook; when the websites that you subscribe to are updated, you can see it in your feed reader and then click the news you want to know more about.

The illustration above shows a personal page on bloglines.com. Bloglines is a free Internet-based RSS reader that you can use for RSS subscriptions, e.g. news services and blogs. The left-hand column displays your subscription feeds. Unread news items from one of your website subscriptions are highlighted in bold. By clicking a feed in the left-hand column, the right-hand column displays the news headline, a brief summary and a link that takes you to the news item in its entirety on the website where it is posted.

Why use RSS?

RSS is neat if you want to track news from several different websites. If you are interested in news from e.g. the Danish Medicines Agency, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, RSS enables you to keep an eye on these particular websites simultaneously in one place, your RSS reader. In other words, it is not necessary for you to visit each and every website to stay updated.

Getting started

You need an RSS reader to subscribe to RSS feeds. There are several options available:

• Use a free Internet service, e.g. Bloglines or Google
• Download a program from the Internet, e.g. FeedReader (some programs are free, others are available at a cost)
• The newer browsers like Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 and Opera 9 allows you to add RSS feeds to your favourites.

The factbox to the right contains a link to the webpage AtomEnabled, which is a collection of links to various RSS readers. The posted links offer you more information about how to use these RSS readers.

The Danish Medicines Agency, 22 May 2007