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Online access to health information resources in India, what more should we be doing?

Online access to health information resources in India, what more should we be doing?

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My two recent posts - Literature searching and the ideal researcher, and Country wide access to databases / journals: an urgent need both brought in several comments and I thank every reader for these. We will be compiling the comments to see how we should move ahead. I am also happy to add that since my last posts, I have learned of one important development - that AIIMS Delhi and PGI Chandigarh are the first academic libraries in India to subscribe to EMBASE! I learned this at an event I attended at AIIMS Delhi last month. In fact this institution's library has access…
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Short Courses on Biostatistics

Short Courses on Biostatistics

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Thirty-seventh Short Course in Biostatistics The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing series of its thirty-seventh Short courses in Biostatistics from May 28 – June 7, 2018 at CMC Vellore. These courses are mainly designed to train researchers to competently handle and analyze health/medical data. These courses are targeted towards Biostatisticians/ Statisticians, Epidemiologists, Medical Researchers and Social Scientists who have basic knowledge in Regression analyses. Course Date Last date for registration Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression & Survival Analysis May 28-June 01, 2018 May 21, 2018 Multilevel Modeling (MLM) and Longitudinal…
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NLM: An integral part of the NIH since 1968: A Brief History of its Inception

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  If you have used PubMed, and taken a wee bit of trouble to look at the left side of the search box, you may have noticed the PubMed logo followed by the words: US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The NLM is where the whole PubMed database is compiled.  Let us learn a little more about the NLM and its history. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library with a print and electronic collection used by millions of people around the world. NLM has been around since 1836,…
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