Improving the Odds for Title Searching in PubMed

Improving the Odds for Title Searching in PubMed

Searchers often copy an article title from another source then paste it into PubMed for a search. If a phrase in the title matches with an author name it can cause the search to fail. To improve title searching, PubMed now ignores phrases that match with author/investigator names that are made up only of stopwords (e.g., During A, May BE, Just BY). For example, in the search for the title, Prediction of performance level during a cognitive task from ongoing EEG oscillatory activities, the phrase, during a, is ignored and the search retrieves the expected citation. This special effect occurs when the phrase is part of a string of other words, none of which have search tags. When a name is entered by itself, e.g., just by, it is interpreted as a name search. To search for an author name (that matches with stop words) plus other terms, use an author search tag, e.g., just by [au] AND seizure.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so08/so08_pm_title_searching.html

Library Closed to the Public Sundays and Some Evenings for the Next 5 weeks

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public on the following dates and times:

Sunday, Oct. 19
Monday, Oct. 20, 5p-10p
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 5p-10p
Sunday, Oct. 26
Monday, Oct. 27, 5p-10p
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 4 (ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY)
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 9
Tuesday, Nov. 11 (VETERANS' DAY HOLIDAY)
Wed, Nov. 12, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 16
Monday, Nov. 17, 5p-10p

Asian American Health

The Asian American Health web resource, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to increase public awareness of the health concerns of these important minority groups, who are major contributors to our society's economy, innovation, and vibrancy. Links are provided to an assortment of documents, web sites, databases, and other resources.

Asian Americans represent a large and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population. A recent U.S. Census estimate puts their combined numbers at over 11 million people and predicts a better than tripling in population by 2050. They are exceedingly diverse, coming from nearly fifty countries and ethnic groups, each with distinct cultures, traditions, and histories, and they speak over 100 languages and dialects. Asian American diversity extends to socioeconomic indicators, with members found throughout the spectra of poverty to wealth, and illiteracy to advanced education (U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features).

Although Asian Americans in the United States suffer from the same health problems as the population at large, certain illnesses predominate. There is a particularly high rate of liver cancer among Asian Americans, while lung cancer is their leading cause of cancer death. Vietnamese women's cervical cancer rate is five times that of Caucasian women. Asian Americans have among the highest rates of tuberculosis and hepatitis B in the United States. Asian Indians have an unusually high rate of coronary artery disease, and parasitic infections are particularly widespread among Southeast Asian refugees (Cancer Facts on Asians & Pacific Islanders).

http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

Directory of Info Resources (DIRLINE)

DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.

DIRLINE contains over 8,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine, although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests. These information resources fall into many categories including federal, state, and local government agencies; information and referral centers; professional societies; self-help groups and voluntary associations; academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems and research facilities. Topics include HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, most diseases and conditions including genetic and other rare diseases, health services research and technology assessment.

Database/journal access restored

Hamilton Library was able to restore remote access to the online resources. Please notify us if you have any difficulties accessing the online resources.

Phone: 692-0810
email: hslinfo@hawaii.edu

Thank you for your patience while we investigated the problem.

Remote access to databases down; however, if you're in the library. . .

The server that allows UHM folks to access journals and databases from outside of the library is having some technical difficulties. However, if you are in the Health Sciences Library or computer lab, you will be able to access the following resources by clicking the links below:


PubMed MEDLINE

AccessMedicine

eMedicine

MDConsult

Stat!Ref

UptoDate


You can also try this from inside the Library or Computer Lab:

Once you get to that brownish page, and instead of clicking on the link to go to the resource, right-click and select "Copy Link Location" (wording may vary slightly depending on your browser), then pasting that into the address bar and deleting everything the " http://eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/login?url= " (everything before the second http://)

Women's Health Resources

Women's Health Resources was created in a partnership between the National Library of Medicine Office of Outreach and Special Populations and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The purpose of this page is to present topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine information products to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.


www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/womenshealthoverview.html

US FDA :Office of Women's Health

From the U.S. Food and Drug Admininistration:

OWH Science Program
The Office of Women's Health established its Science Program in 1994 with three specific goals in mind:
-To address gaps in current scientific knowledge
-To encourage new directions in research
-To set new standards of excellence in women's health


www.fda.gov/womens/

The Prescribing Guide for Hawaii

Created by University of Hawaii JABSOM Faculty Member Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng.

The Prescribing Guide is a free resource for Hawaii’s providers so that they can easily find which drugs are covered (and more affordable) for their patients.

The Website provides the following links to…

• 4 major formularies in Hawaii
• HMSA
• HMSA Quest
• AlohaCare
• Medicaid FFS
• Walmart $4/$9 generic list , Costco, and Longs Drugs
• Medicare.gov - to look up Part D health plan formularies
• Rxassist.org - to look up pharmacy assistance programs
• Online search for ICD-9 codes

http://www.prescribingguide.com

OrganDonor.Gov

Access to U.S. Government information on organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

http://organdonor.gov/

The Minority Health Archive

From the University of Pittsburgh
Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health

The Minority Health Archive, created in collaboration with the Center for Minority Health and the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, is an online archive of print and electronic media related to the health of the four nationally recognized minority groups: Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders . The Minority Health Archive provides the opportunity not only to research and gather documents in a variety of subject areas, but also serves as a resource to deposit other related materials not already posted to the archive.

http://minority-health.pitt.edu/

Natural Standard - New Database!

The Health Sciences Library has started a new subscription to the database, Natural Standard.

Natural Standard provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. A grading scale is used to indicate the level of scientific evidence available for a given therapy or indication. Written in varying reading levels to accommodate professionals and consumers in making informed therapeutic decisions.

A link to Natural Standard can be found on the Library's More Databases page.

A Student's Guide to Medical Literature

This site has been designed especially for medical students, but it can be used by anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. If you are having trouble researching a medical question, or want an easy guide to critical appraisal of journal articles, this is the site for you!


http://grinch.uchsc.edu/sg/

Women's Health Resources

This resource was created in a partnership between the National Library of Medicine Office of Outreach and Special Populations and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The purpose of this page is to present topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine information products to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.

www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/womenshealthoverview.html

Wiley & Blackwell Online Journals Down June 27-29

Wiley has acquired Blackwell Publishing and is migrating all journals from the Blackwell Synergy site to Wiley Interscience. As of Monday, June 30th 2008, Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

Blackwell Synergy will close at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th, and we anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while the they transition and re-index data.

NIH Launches Undiagnosed Diseases Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2008/nhgri-19.htm

Library Summer Hours

The Health Sciences Library will observe the following Summer Hours:

Monday, June 23 - Thursday, July 3, 2008:

Mon - Fri	8am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

The Library will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

Why Don't We Do it in our Sleeves?

The Maine Medical Association, along with Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, created this entertaining video about coughing and sneezing into your sleeve rather than hands. It's funny and educational!

Google Video (flash):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8574515984097771637

Windows Media:
http://www.coughsafe.com/mplayer.html

Quicktime:
http://www.coughsafe.com/quick.html

NIH Drug Information Portal

The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies, including drug inserts. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC.

http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

Disaster Information Management Research Center

The National Library of Medicine® (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Website about its Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC). The DIMRC Website seeks to provide access to quality disaster health information at all stages of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.

DIMRC is tasked with the collection, organization, and dissemination of health information for natural, accidental, or deliberate disasters. The Center is committed to providing this information as part of the federal effort to help prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the adverse health effects of disasters. It will work with federal, state, and local government, private organizations, and local communities.

DIMRC will focus its efforts on providing disaster health information resources and informatics research that will be directly beneficial for public health officials, healthcare providers, special populations, and the public.