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MEDLINE
is the United States National Library of Medicine's premier
bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and
the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations
and author abstracts from more than 4,300 biomedical journals,
including over 12 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's.
Abstracts are available for free and many full documents are
also downloadable free-of-charge.
Searches
for PUB MED documents can be made by author names, journal titles,
or important keywords from the topic itself.
Here's
a quick lesson in how to search for articles using PUB
MED:
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GO TO THE PUB-MED SEARCH PAGE BY CLICKING
THE PUB-MED LOGO ABOVE or CLICK HERE |
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ENTER THE WORD "fats" in the SEARCH WINDOW, press "go".
Note that this yields over 48,000 results with the first
20 displayed in the current window. |
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Narrow down your search by entering EFA (after the
word "fats") and pressing "go" again. This narrows it
down to 277 matches. This means that 277 articles contain
references to FATS and EFA's |
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Now add the word "cholesterol" after EFA. Press "go"
and the search narrows down to 46 articles. Better still. |
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Finally, add the word "arteriosclerosis"
and your search has yielded a manageable sum of 3 articles!
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By carefully
selecting key words on the subject that you wish to study,
PubMed can help you select articles that match your unique
criteria and help you find precisely what you are looking
for! |
