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Watch Out for the Lay People Hanging Around PubMed

Sep 03, 2008

Not only do scientists use PubMed to search for all the information under the sun on a given topic, but so do lay people -- and the NCBI noticed and made a small change. When working on her mumps posts, Sandra Porter noticed the fairly new box at the bottom right of the PubMed results page that includes patient drug information from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. "Even better," she writes, "the information is written in English! My students always complained about the difficulty of reading abstracts in PubMed."

 

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