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PubMed Health — A comprehensive online resource about “what works”

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“NLM Announces Expan­sion of PubMed Health

New Resources Cre­ate a Com­pre­hen­sive Online Resource for Clin­i­cal Effec­tive­ness Reviews

 

The National Library of Med­i­cine (NLM), the world’s largest med­ical library and a com­po­nent of the National Insti­tutes of Health, announces the expan­sion of the infor­ma­tion avail­able from PubMed Health (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/), which pro­vides inte­grated access to clin­i­cal effec­tive­ness reviews.  

NLM’s National Cen­ter for Biotech­nol­ogy Infor­ma­tion (NCBI), in part­ner­ship with England’s national Cen­tre for Reviews and Dis­sem­i­na­tion, the Cochrane Col­lab­o­ra­tion, the US Agency for Health­care Research and Qual­ity, and other agen­cies in the US and abroad, now makes avail­able more than 18,000 clin­i­cal effec­tive­ness reviews via PubMed Health. PubMed Health orga­nizes these clin­i­cal effec­tive­ness research results, includ­ing full texts as well as sum­mary infor­ma­tion, for con­sumers and clinicians.

Effec­tive­ness stud­ies are essen­tial for informed clin­i­cal and con­sumer deci­sion mak­ing. Mul­ti­ple stud­ies are nec­es­sary over time, and inter­pret­ing their com­plex and often con­flict­ing results is a challenge.

Sys­tem­atic reviews of clin­i­cal effec­tive­ness stud­ies address this need with rig­or­ous sci­en­tific method­ol­ogy. How­ever, they are scat­tered across the bio­med­ical lit­er­a­ture and the Web sites of pub­lic health agen­cies around the world that pro­duce many of them. The National Library of Med­i­cine is uniquely posi­tioned to gather these crit­i­cal clin­i­cal resources in one place.

Users of PubMed Health can: 

  • Access the whole com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tion of resources in a sin­gle search, includ­ing can­cer infor­ma­tion for con­sumers and clin­i­cians from the National Can­cer Institute
  • See the results of a simul­ta­ne­ous search for reviews in PubMed
  • Refer to con­sumer med­ical ency­clo­pe­dia search results also deliv­ered simultaneously
  • Fol­low RSS feeds of fea­tured reviews and “Behind Head­lines,” which looks at the research behind news stories
  • Learn to make sense of research results in its “Under­stand clin­i­cal effec­tive­ness” and “Behind Head­lines” sections
  • Share resources via e-mail and social media with “Add this”

NLM invites you to visit PubMed Health, learn more about the Web site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/about/) or fol­low the project on Twit­ter @PubMedHealth (https://twitter.com/PubMedHealth) to help you keep up with the evi­dence on health­care effectiveness.”

Source: NLM New files for the week of Dec 12, 2011 (NLM Announces)

Medical vocabulary changes in PubMed or Medline

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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

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  “*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

OSTI, the science & technology portal of the U.S. Government

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OSTI, the Office of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Infor­ma­tion is worth book­mark­ing.  It serves as a por­tal for most of the fed­eral goverment’s infor­ma­tion, reports and data for 18 agen­cies:

Agriculture,Commerce, Defense, Edu­ca­tion, Energy, Health & Human Ser­vices, Inte­rior, Trans­porta­tion, Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, Library of Con­gress, National Aero­nau­tics & Space Admin­is­tra­tion, National Archives & Records Admin­stra­tion, National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, and the US Gov­ern­ment Pub­li­ca­tions Office.

Ter­mi­nol­ogy and the­sauri might help in your infor­ma­tion searches.

This site is a gate­way to DOE col­lec­tions at ScienceAccelerator.gov, global sci­ence via WorldWideScience.org, sci­en­tific research data as an open gov­ern­ment ini­tia­tive, and the OSTIblog.

Much of this, they declare, is out­side Google’s purview — in the “deep web.”

National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus — new features

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The National Library of Med­i­cine announced today that their Med­line­Plus web­sitefor con­sumer health went live today with a new look and new fea­tures.  One of the more inter­est­ing fea­tures is here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/videosandcooltools.html

There are videos avail­able on top­ics such as human anatomy, sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures and health news. “Test your knowl­edge with the inter­ac­tive tuto­ri­als and games.”  NLM has employed social net­work­ing con­nec­tions, and pro­vides a med­ical dictionary.

Source:  Terri Ottosen, M.L.I.S., AHIP Con­sumer Health Out­reach Coor­di­na­tor,  National Net­work of Libraries of Med­i­cine, Baltimore

 

PubMed adds citations to books and chapters — from “Bookshelf”

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Source:  NLM-ANNOUNCES@LIST.NIH.GOV

The National Library of Med­i­cine  Week of Apr 5, 2010

 
 *NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Mar-Apr 2010, Book Cita­tions Added to PubMed and Changes to Displays

It’s new and books are not retriev­able labled as such in PubMed, but they will be retrieved in Med­line searches.  Book­shelf is sep­a­rately searchable.

For exam­ple, if you search (in PubMed/Medline) fein­gold syn­drome in the title, you will retrieve the book, chap­ter, or doc­u­ment, as well as arti­cles, too.  NIH is now using color high­lights to clearly indi­cate full text availability.

Fein­gold syn­drome searched in the field labeled book, will retrieve 0.

The fol­low­ing search terms can be used to retrieve the Book­shelf cita­tions in PubMed, e.g.,    pmc­book fein­gold syn­drome:

  To retrieve books and chapters: pmc­book
  To retrieve books: pmc­book­ti­tle
  To retrieve book chapters: pmc­bookchap­ter

Medical subject headings for MEDLINE 2010

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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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medlineplus twitter logo
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