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Three articles about Pubmed

Three research papers about PubMed were published in open access journals in a short period of time. Two of them are written by the same authors and are dealing with the use of Pubmed among clinicians. The third one talks about two different approaches to teaching PubMed to medical students. Answers to questions posed during […]

26 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Growing Number of Scientific Papers About Blogs

Number of articles about blogs published in journals indexed in Medline is constantly growing. The first article was published back in 2003, but in 2008 was a substantial step forward. Are blogs becoming a hot topic among medical researchers? Take a look at the chart > These 46 articles were written by 85 authors from […]

13 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

PubSearch for Pubs

In my recent post about the possible use of iPhone by medical doctors, I mentioned PubSearch. PubSearch is an application which allows you to search for scientific articles in the PubMed database on your iPhone. It seams that this was not obvious to some people, or it actually was. Hence this funny review from the […]

30 September 2008 | humor, internet, iphone | No Comments

Why is iPhone perfect for doctors

I purchased my iPhone about six months ago and it has in many ways changed my life for the better. This is especially true regarding my work as a medical doctor. I believe that iPhone is a perfect gadget and that it can improve any physician’s performance. That is way I decided to present some […]

26 September 2008 | internet, iphone, medicine, science | 14 Comments

Pubmed search on iPhone

PubSearch is an application for the iPhone designed to search Pubmed. It has a simple user interface and is pretty fast. Developers have already announced the enhanced version of this app, called PubSearchPlus which will offer more features.

19 September 2008 | internet, iphone, medicine, science | No Comments

GoPubMed

Recently I wrote about PubReMiner, an online application designed to help you search PubMed. Now I present a similar and even more powerful application named GoPubMed. When you search PubMed the conventional way, via the Entrez system, two things happen. First your query is translated with identification of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and secondly this translated […]

8 June 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments