Category Archives: medicine

topics medical in nature

AMA goes crazy, digitizes everything

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

The digitization of JAMA and the Archives backfiles is soon to be completed, to be released by the end of 2008. They’ll be available for a one-time purchase and an annual maintenance fee for having them hosted through Highwire. 2 … Continue reading →

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gem of the day: medpage today

Posted on May 18, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

MedPage Today is “putting breaking medical news into practice.” this resource is a free website developed by MedPage Today and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, focusing on medical news headlines. The site covers breaking medical news and analyzes … Continue reading →

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gopubmed

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

playing around with gopubmed for the first time (i know, i know!) today. i put in my favorite search term, “gastroesophageal reflux,” and waited to see what happened. a lot of resulting information was displayed, looking not like any search … Continue reading →

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to read: Text mining and ontologies in biomedicine: making sense of raw text

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

http://kathrin.dagstuhl.de/files/Materials/08/08131/08131.SpasicIrena.Other.pdf Abstract: The volume of biomedical literature is increasing at such a rate that it is becoming difficult to locate, retrieve and manage the reported information without text mining, which aims to automatically distill information, extract facts, discover implicit links … Continue reading →

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found in mentalfloss store

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

med school in a box

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

just yesterday i commented to a colleague that for a discipline as visual as medicine, the libraries that serve it still tend to be text-centric, and then, bam! i hear about a journal that embodies what i imagine is the … Continue reading →

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