Debuting in February, the National Library of Medicine’s Drug Information Portal offers more than 12,000 drug records for online searching by the public, healthcare professionals and researchers. With a user-friendly search engine that requires only a drug name as a search term, and information buttons and balloon pop-ups as guides, the new portal provides clear descriptions of…
MEDLINE data changes for 2008 are explained in a recent National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin, including information on changes made to MEDLINE during the annual NLM maintenance known as Year-End Processing (YEP). MEDLINE/PubMed Year-End Processing (YEP) Activities. NLM Tech Bull. 2007 Sep-Oct;(358):e10 also explains how the current maintenance effort affects the NLM schedule for…
Over the next five years, the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and a consortium of NIH Institutes plan to invest more than $190 million to accelerate studies in the emerging field of epigenomics, the study of the biochemical networks and linkages that control the function…
Participating in Clinical Trials, a new health topic developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), describes the benefits and risks of clinical trials, and explains how they contribute to medical research. Basic terms are defined as well as the types and phases of trials, the informed consent…
Researching women’s health issues is now easier, quicker and more inclusive with a new Web site that gathers information from scientific journals and reports on the latest developments related to women’s issues. NLM’s Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS), Office of Outreach and Special Populations partnered with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health…
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