Health professionals carry huge amounts of medical information in their heads. The profession demands it. But as life progresses and there are other responsibilities (as a parent, HoD, office bearer of an association or administrator) that creep into one's life, there are lots more activities that need doing. These tend to be overwhelming, especially as the world today, has become too focused on speed in every activity. With the need for increased effectiveness, coupled with far too much to do, we could lose track of our organizational skills in an effort to achieve all of them in the shortest time…

If you are a caregiver/health sciences student with particular interested in the Life Sciences, this post will be of special interest to you. The NCBI Bookshelf, from 1999 onwards, provides free access to full text documents and books on their website. As of date, the most popular resources used via this tool remain textbooks. There are a number of classic textbooks available on this platform, notable ones being Stryer’s Biochemistry, Baron’s Medical Microbiology, and Walker’s Clinical Methods. While these editions are older, they are still accessed by a number of students and educators all across the world. The tool is particularly helpful for…

If you are a health sciences student/practitioner with a paper you want to publish, you might face some indecision about where to publish it.  JANE is an online tool designed to help you with this. All you have to do is feed in the title/abstract of the paper in the box, and click “Find Journals”. JANE matches your document to a host of other documents in PubMed to give you the best match for journals that may accept your paper. All journals found in PubMed are included in JANE. This includes all authors with one or more publications in the…

When you type in a query like “Famous surgeons in India” in the Google Search box, you see a picture carousel of several surgeons, followed by a host of relevant search results. Have you wondered how this works? We broadly know about terms like result ranking, search engine optimization and more. But let us understand this better. Let us learn about the "Google Knowledge Graph". If you are someone who enjoys exploring new ways to search and looking for things online, you should definitely understand this Google Knowledge Graph is Google’s way of putting facts, faces, and places together as…

  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,…