Session Four – It’s Not Just PubMed

National Library of Medicine for the Health Sciences StudentPresented by

Mark D. Puterbaugh, Information Services LibrarianEastern University Libraries

St. Davids, PA 19087

Daily Med

DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts). This Web site offers health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides this as a public service and does not accept advertisements.

Search for Drug by Name

You wish to search for information on the drug warfarin. As you type in the word a list of suggested terms appears on the drop down list.

The results return a list of related drug information, including variants and generic drug names.

Drop-down Tabs for Detailed Information

Drug Label Sections drop-down tabs present information such as:

• Clinical Pharmacology• Indications and Usage• Contraindications• Warnings• Patient Counseling• Warnings• Over dosage• Medication Guides

Links Out to Many Resources

DailyMed links out to many reliable resources for additional information such as:

• DrugBank• ClinicalTrials.gov• PubMed• MedlinePlus• and more.

Drug Information PortalThe NLM’s Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC.

Text from http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/about.jsp

Links Out to Select NIH Resources

The Drug Information Portal links out to databases produced by the NIH.

The list of resources for a “warfarin” search include:•ClinicalTrials.gov•MedlinePlus•LiverTox•LactMed•Pillbox

Provides In-depth Information

The Portal links to variety of additional information assets such as: •ChemIDplus•PubChem•synonyms•Drugs@FDA•USA.gov

MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is a great ready reference tool and consumer health information site.

Choose the “Health Topics” link to view the listings of available health information.

Browse Topic Headings

Choosing “Children and Teenagers”under “Demographic Groups”

reveals a listing of resources for that age group.

Choosing “Children and Teenagers”under “Demographic Groups”

reveals a listing of resources for that age group.

Health topics are displayed under easily understood subject headingsHealth topics are displayed under

easily understood subject headings

Easy to Use Links

Follow the topics links for more information.

Follow the topics links for more information.

Search MedlinePlus

Searches reliable

resources for consumer oriented

information.

Searches reliable

resources for consumer oriented

information.

Retrieves from Reliable Sites

Images from theHistory of Medicine (IHM)

IHM is a browsable, searchable collections of thousands of public domain images from the the NLM collections.

http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov

Grab an Image

View and export images in a variety of sizes.

Create an account and build a collection.

International Resources

http://europepmc.org

Europe PMC is based on PubMed Central (PMC), developed at the NCBI in the USA and is part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories that also includes PMC Canada. It is supported by 26 funders of life sciences and biomedical research, including charities and government organizations across Europe, led by the Wellcome Trust.

Europe PMC is developed by the European Bioinformatics Institute, The University of Manchester (Mimas and NaCTeM), and the British Library.

Gain Familiarity with Global Research

PubMed Central Canada is a free on-line archive of published, peer-reviewed health and life sciences research that allows users to quickly and easily search and download the latest health research papers.

http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/

KoreaMed

http://www.koreamed.org/

KoreaMed, a service of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE), provides access to articles published in Korean medical, dental, nursing, nutrition and veterinary journals.

KoreaMed records include links to full-text content in Synapse and publisher web sites.

PubMed for Mobile

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mobile/

The NLM provides a wide variety of mobile apps and sites so that you can search on the go.

Commercial providers have made a number of excellent apps for iOS and Android.

What’s next?

You have finished the course lessons you may proceed to the final assessment.