In May 2021 a young doctor - Vinayak Mishra - approached QMed. He had completed his medical degree and experienced that it was difficult to get mentors if he wanted to author a systematic review. He asked us if he could work on a collaborative project with us where QMed…

For quite long I had assumed that since PubMed Central (PMC for short) was included in PubMed, one did not have to search the PMC database - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ - separately. PMC is an "archive" of free biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Journal articles are added and archived in PMC…

In my last post I had mentioned that when we worked with researchers engaged with research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission, we observed that if they had approached us earlier we may have saved them lots more time. After my last post, one of them mentioned - "If we…

QMed recently started training and helping health professionals who have volunteered their time for research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission. This research project is being coordinated from CMC Vellore. They have subscribed to QMedCourses. The group is divided into small teams working on various research projects concerning healthcare in…

The other day I got an email from a doctor who is doing some important research on a topic. The doctor wondered why s/he got different results while combining two terms with AND and OR (Term 1 AND Term 2) versus (Term 1 OR Term 2) I have also had…