Medical vocabulary changes in PubMed or Medline

Overview of Vocab­u­lary Devel­op­ment and Changes for 2012 MeSH

  • 454 Descrip­tors added
  • 42 Descrip­tor terms replaced with more up-to-date terminology
  • 15 Descrip­tors deleted

Totals by Type of Terminology

  • 26,582 Descrip­tors
  • 83 Qual­i­fiers
  • 202,066 Sup­ple­men­tary Con­cept Records (SCRs)

Help­ful Links

Please con­sult the 2012 online Intro­duc­tion to MeSH for more details. Lists of new and changed vocab­u­lary are avail­able at these links:

MeSH Vocab­u­lary Changes
New Descrip­tors — 2012
Changed Descrip­tors — 2012
Deleted Descrip­tors — 2012
New Descrip­tors by Tree Sub­cat­e­gory — 2012

Source: NLM New files for the week of Dec 5, 2011

National Library of Medicine adopts auto-complete feature

  “*NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Nov-Dec 2011, Search Auto-Complete Fea­ture Added to NLM Main Web Site, Med­line­Plus and Med­line­Plus en Español

  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd11/nd11_mplus_auto_complete.html ”

From NLM New files for the week of Nov 7, 2011

MeSH, Medical Subject Headings from NLM (National Library of Medicine)

MeSH is a great resource,a the­saurus, espe­cially sig­nif­i­cant if you access Med­line – from what­ever source.  (PubMed is the free ver­sion, acces­si­ble every­where any­one has access to the internet.)

MeSH means Med­ical Sub­ject Headings.  They are assigned by index­ers at the National Library of Med­i­cine.  This the­saurus is com­plete with def­i­n­i­tions or scope notes.  It is orga­nized in a hier­ar­chi­cal fash­ion so that if you wanted to search all antibi­otics, for exam­ple, you wouldn’t have to sep­a­rately type all of them, but could just “explode” the main heading.  You can limit the head­ings to a major con­cept, the most impor­tant concept(s) in the arti­cle.  You can also attach sub­head­ings, such as adverse effects of antibi­otics.

 

Medical subject headings for MEDLINE 2010

Every year the index­ers at the National Library of Med­i­cine update the Med­ical Sub­ject Head­ings (MeSH) based on the lat­est usage of bio­med­ical, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, pub­lic health and disease terminology.

 *NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Nov-Dec 2009, Newly Main­tained MEDLINE for 2010 MeSH Now Avail­able in PubMed

Source: NLM New files for the week of Dec 14, 2009

MedlinePlus Now on Twitter

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Fol­low us on Twit­ter, medlineplus4you, to get the lat­est health infor­ma­tion from the National Library of Med­i­cine (NLM).

NLM launched medlineplus4you on Twit­ter as a com­pan­ion to NLM’s pop­u­lar and respected con­sumer health Web site, MedlinePlus.gov.

Both medlineplus4you and MedlinePlus.gov pro­vide trust­wor­thy health and well­ness infor­ma­tion from U.S. gov­ern­ment agen­cies and other author­i­ta­tive sources.

From the NLM New files for the week of Aug 31, 2009

Journals added to PubMed

The NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin dated March-April, 2008,  announces index­ing cov­er­age  for, and inclu­sion of 7 new jour­nals, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which might beThe Jour­nal of Cell Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Sig­nal­ing and BMC Med­ical Physics.

NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Mar-Apr 2008, PubMed Cen­tral: New Jour­nals Par­tic­i­pat­ing and New Con­tent Added:   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pmc.html