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Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

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This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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Newsletter- July 2013

Newsletter- July 2013

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Dear Friends The July 2013 issue of our newsletter is up on our website.  Well this is really a March to July 2013 issue (reasons in the newsletter), and it summarizes the blog posts of all these months, (conveniently linking to the respective posts). We share our developments in these months, this blog being one of them.  Happy Reading! Vasumathi Sriganesh                        
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Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

Event: MBBS Students of DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai – on Public Health Challenges

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Networking with students and recent graduates (Yes - Social Networking being a predominant part) sometimes "takes me places". I recently got introduced to Anita Kumar who is a III MBBS Student at the Dr DY Patil Medical College, Navi Mumbai. She invited me for an event that she and her colleagues organized today at the college. The team - "The Student Scientific Committee" in collaboration with the Dept of Community Medicine, presented a program "Public Health Challenges: Young Minds at Work" I had no clue what it was about, and Anita had  not given me details.  And it happened to…
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