Black History Month in Medicine

Americans have recognized black history annually since 1926. Although blacks have been in America at least as far back as colonial times, it was not until the 20th century that they gained a respectable presence in the history books.

To honor this chapter and join the celebration, we invite you to visit the Black History Month: A Medical Perspective that has been published by Duke University.

Sage Sayings of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still

"If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good."

"Since God is supreme intelligence, He did not leave out of the body anything necessary for the continuance of life."

Thruhlar Robert E. Doctor A.T. Still in the living. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1950.

What is InfoPOEMs?

InfoPOEMs is a collection of searchable evidence-based information for clinicians. The primary care and family practice journal literature is continuously surveyed by InfoPOEMS to identify valid and clinically applicable new evidence that is summarized in brief synopses or InfoPOEMS (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters). InfoPOEMS can be delivered daily to subscribers via e-mail that may change the way of their practice.

InfoPOEMs is available on the web, Pocket PC, and Palm OS devices and can be accessed from the Medical library's website . From the InfoPOEMs page, click on ACCESS InfoRetriever.

If you need assistance downloading and installing the InfoRetriever client or if you have questions about searching with InfoRetriever, please consult the InfoPOEMs Frequently Asked Questions pages or use Ask a Librarian service .

PubMed Updates

Clinical Queries

The PubMed Clinical Queries page went live on 1/6/2005 with a redesign to provide an improved interface to the specialized PubMed searches for clinicians. The new design retains the basic functionality and the search strategies for the queries have not changed. It provides:

• Search by Clinical Study Category (formerly: Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters)
• Find Systematic Reviews
• Medical Genetic Searches (New: developed in conjunction with the staff of GeneReviews: Genetic Disease Online Reviews at GeneTests, University of Washington, Seattle.

For comprehensive searches, use PubMed directly.

What is the Password?

This is the question that many of you have been asking recently, when you were trying to access our online databases. The answer is, there is no password. In order to facilitate accessing databases available to our users, they are all pre-authenticated if you access through the library website. Except for MD Consult , which the users should create their own user name and password.

Where is the Cubby?

The PubMed Cubby has been replaced by My NCBI, a central place to customize NCBI Web services. To use it, you must first register and your browser must accept cookies.

You can use My NCBI to:

• Save searches
• Set up e-mail alerts for new content
• Display links to Web resources (LinkOut)
• Choose filters that group search results

My NCBI is free. For more information, read My NCBI Help or NLM Technical Bulletin