Medline Acquires Chester Labs; Chester Labs to Continue as Independent Operating Entity Under New Name of Chester Packaging, LLC Jun 27, 2008
June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Medline Industries, Inc., the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, announced today that it has acquired Chester Labs, a leading manufacturer of liquid products for personal care, infection control and diagnostic use in medical facilities ... "Our new alignment with Medline provides us access to capital to accelerate what we think is a very exciting new product development agenda. It also allows us to upgrade the infrastructure... (PR Newswire)
Treatment for Eye Allergies Jun 16, 2008
Medline Plus - http://www ... gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001031. (Suite101.com)
City wants Reese Hospital to be future home of Olympic Village Jun 14, 2008
The Daley administration has an "agreement in principle" with owner Medline Industries Inc. of Mundelein for the 37-acre site, a spokesman for the citys planning department said Friday. A Medline spokesman on Friday would not confirm any agreement with the city ... Owners of Michael Reese, which leases the property from Medline, notified state health officials in a letter last week that it plans to shut down by yearend because of financial troubles and Medline's plan to sell the property. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Alogliptin Alone and With Add-On, Reduces Hb A1C in Phase 3 Trials Jun 11, 2008
Congress Resource Centre. Recent news - Diabetes. (DG News)
Owners plan to close Reese by yearend Jun 6, 2008
The property is owned by Medline Industries Inc. of Mundelein ... Spokespersons for Medline, the citys planning department and Chicago 2016 bid-organizing committee didnt immediately return phone messages late Wednesday. (Crain's Chicago Business)
'CURRENT BIOLOGY' STUDY: Sexual signal exaggeration affects physiological state in male barn swallows Jun 4, 2008
Current Biology -- Safran et al.. Title/abstract/keywords. (USA Today -- Tech)
Silent Thyroid Dysfunction Has Risks May 27, 2008
Their findings are based on pooled data from 12 studies identified through a search of MEDLINE (1950 to 2008) ... Related MedlinePlus Pages. (MEDLINEplus)
Thyroid dysfunction increases heart disease risk May 26, 2008
Their findings are based on pooled data from 12 studies identified through a search of MEDLINE (1950 to 2008). Ten of the studies involved population-based groups that included 14,449 subjects. (Xinhuanet, China)
Weight-Loss Aids Bought on Internet Might Harm Your Heart May 17, 2008
Next, the researchers scoured medical databases, including Medline, Pubmed and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, to find out if there was any significant association between the ingredients and cardiac problems ... Related MedlinePlus Pages. (MEDLINEplus)
A systematic review of tests for lymph node status in primary endometrial cancer May 6, 2008
Relevant articles were identified form MEDLINE (1966-2006), EMBASE (1980-2006), MEDION, the Cochrane library, hand searching of reference lists from primary articles and reviews, conference abstracts and contact with experts in the field. The review included 18 relevant primary studies (693 women). (BioMed Central)
The Circle of Willis May 5, 2008
Medline Plus: Medical Encyclopedia. This article is owned by and permission to republish in print, or to repost anywhere online a year after publication date, must be granted by the author in writing. (Suite101.com)
Reliable Medical Information Online May 2, 2008
"You want to go directly to a medical website like Medline Plus. But how can you tell if a website is reliable? Experts say look at the last three letters, and always click on "About Us" to find out who is running the site. "If you're looking at a site that ends in. edu, that's coming from an educational institution," said Dr. Mark Cohen, internist and pediatrician at Lifetime Health. "It's coming from a university, it's coming from a medical school, so that is more likely to be reputable than a... (WOKR13 Rochester)
The National Association of School Nurses selects SAGE to publish its journal May 2, 2008
It is indexed in MEDLINE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing d Health Literature, PsychINFO, and Scopus. SAGE is also custom publishing the NASN Newsletter, the bimonthly official newsletter of the National Association of School Nurses. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Teenage suicides: Study advocates greater family support Apr 22, 2008
BMC Psychiatry (ISSN 1471-244X) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar. 4. (EurekAlert!)
NIH's National Library of Medicine Opens Exciting New Interactive Exhibition, ''Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health'' Apr 18, 2008
"Most of the scientific articles we index are written outside the U.S. and almost half of the MEDLINE () inquiries we receive are from outside this country. We have many formal partnerships with other nations, too, to provide training and to facilitate interlibrary loan."The fact that the Internet has made our vast holdings accessible to people around the globe certainly helps in the fight against the complex and widespread health challenges facing the world today," he continued. "Against the... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Ski champ Randall faces a genetic threat Apr 12, 2008
Source: American Heart Association, National Institute for Health Medline Plus. Randall's career highlights. (Anchorage Daily News)
Interventions designed to improve the quality and efficiency of medication use in managed care: a critical review of the literature - 2001-2007 Apr 8, 2008
We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for publications from July 2001 to January 2007 describing interventions targeting drug use conducted in the US managed care setting. We categorized studies by intervention type and adequacy of research design using commonly accepted criteria. (BioMed Central)
Local activists stymied in requests for fluoridation data (517) Apr 4, 2008
PMID: 17697714 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE. " Marcie wrote on Apr 2, 2008 10:39 PM:" My daughter is allergic to fluoride. (Malibu Times, CA)
Science tackles female sexual dysfunction Apr 1, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008. It isn't unusual for doctors to hear from grateful patients - to get cards or flowers after treating someone for cancer or saving someone in surgery. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Does the routine use of global coronary heart disease risk scores translate into clinical benefits or harms? A systematic review of the literature Mar 21, 2008
We searched MEDLINE (1966 through June 13, 2007) for articles relevant to our review. Using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, we included studies of any design that provided physicians with global risk scores or allowed them to calculate scores themselves, and then measured clinical benefits and/or harms. (BioMed Central)
Only Two Percent Of Child Drug Trials Have Independent Safety Checks Mar 20, 2008
Only papers published in English on the Medline database during the seven-year study period were included and the authors excluded studies that covered HIV and cancer because of high deaths rates from the actual diseases. Just over half of the studies compared a drug with a placebo dummy and a further 35 per cent involved a new medicine. (Science Daily)
Are those new thermometers for the forehead more accurate? Mar 17, 2008
33) Medline oral thermometer from the drug store. The two thermometers agreed on only two of the four trials, both saying my temperature was 98. (Boston Globe)
Pain-free childbirth? Get real! Mar 15, 2008
A systematic review was conducted using the following databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, BIDS, EMBASE, MIDIRS, Sociological abstracts and PsychINFO. Studies which examined experience and expectations of pain and its relief in labour were appraised and the findings integrated in a narrative review. Results. (BioMed Central)
Cheaters beware! Tool sniffs out plagiarism Mar 4, 2008
Last year, the team randomly selected summaries, or abstracts, from the MEDLINE database and put its tool to the test ... 04 percent of MEDLINEs database (roughly 6,700 cases in all). (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
What Is Strabismus? Mar 1, 2008
Strabismus Symptoms, Causes and Treatment. Strabismus Symptoms, Causes and Treatment. (Suite101.com)
How effective is good domestic kitchen hygiene at reducing diarrhoeal disease in developed countries?: a systematic review and reanalysis of the UK IID study Feb 23, 2008
Electronic searches were carried out in October 2006 in EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Knowledge, Cochrane central register of clinical trials and CINAHL. All publications, irrespective of study design, assessing food hygiene practices with an outcome measure of diarrhoea were included in the review. All included studies underwent data extraction and the data was subsequently analysed. (BioMed Central)
Patients push boundaries of Lyme disease debate Feb 19, 2008
Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine). These sites reflect the perspective of 'Lyme-literate' physicians and patients who attribute their illnesses to chronic Lyme disease. (News & Observer)
Online Journals Gain Readers, Respect Feb 15, 2008
"It allows for much faster publication. It's Medline- or PubMed-indexed right away," he said, referring to main places researchers go to look up articles. "As the editor I determine who does reviews . . . but we use (BioMed Central's) electronic processes for notification and follow-up on reviews. (BioMed does) all the typesetting.". (Investors Business Daily)
Protecting yourself against germs Feb 5, 2008
Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, suggests you lather your hands with soap and water and wash for at least 15 seconds. Don't use your clean hands to turn off the water. (Stoneham Sun, MA)
More duplicate papers being published? Feb 5, 2008
Mounir Errami and Harold Garner of the U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report how they searched and analyzed more than 62,000 abstracts indexed in Medline and found that 1 ... The authors there give plenty of caveats for their Medline analysis, which I didn t summarize fully in this post ... In examining the Medline database, the authors were limited to looking for duplicates by title and abstract. (Nature News Service)
Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles Jan 31, 2008
Based on the study, researchers estimate that there may be as many as 200,000 duplicates among some 17 million papers in leading research database Medline ... Researchers Mounir Errami and Harold "Skip" Garner of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas used a text-matching algorithm to compare seven million Medline abstracts against matching entries flagged by the database's software as being closely related ... 01 percent) of the 17 million plus Medline entries will turn... (Scientific American)
British journal retracts article by Harvard doctor Jan 30, 2008
The alleged duplication came to light last week when researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center wrote a commentary in Nature about finding thousands of duplications when they scanned 7 million articles listed on Medline, an online database of biomedical scholarly publications. The Dallas Morning News reported that one of the instances involved Simon's paper and the earlier article by Dr. Roy Fleischmann, also of the University of Texas Southwestern. (Boston Globe)
Computer-based Tool Aids Research, Helps Thwart Questionable Publication Practices Jan 29, 2008
In the first phase of the study, published in Bioinformatics, researchers used eTBLAST to analyze more than 62,000 abstracts from the past 12 years, randomly selected from Medline, one of the largest databases of biomedical research articles ... An analysis of more than seven million Medline abstracts turned up nearly 70,000 highly similar papers. (Science Daily)
Software reveals plagiarized study Jan 29, 2008
Harold Garner, biochemistry and internal medicine professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, led a project that used an advanced computer program to search the Medline journal and news database for suspicious duplication that could indicate plagiarism ... The study found that between 1 and 2 percent of the publications in the Medline database contain some duplicated text. (The Daily Texan, TX)
Dallas wins big expansion from Medline Jan 28, 2008
Dallas beat out San Antonio, where Medline has a 194,000-square-foot warehouse, for the expansion, city officials said. Medline has outgrown its 156,672-square-foot warehouse south of Interstate 20 near Hampton Road, said Robert Waller, senior vice president of operations for the Mundelein, Ill. (Dallas Business Journal, TX)
How many papers are just duplicates? Jan 24, 2008
As many as 200,000 of the 17 million articles in the Medline database might be duplicates, either plagiarized or republished by the same author in different journals, according to a commentary published in Nature today. Mounir Errami and Harold Skip Garner at the The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, used text-matching software to look for duplicate or highly-similar abstracts in more than 62,000 randomly selected Medline abstracts published since 1995 ... The... (Nature News Service)
Duloxetine Does Not Relieve Painful Physical Symptoms In Depression, According To Current Analysis Jan 22, 2008
Studies were selected through searching Medline and Cochrane Trial databases as well as examining Lilly's public clinical trial database. A random effects model was used. (Science Daily)
Should all papers be in English? Jan 22, 2008
100 years ago, German was an important scientific language, but now only 2% of journals indexed in Medline are in German. I personally haven t written a scientific paper in German in for many years. (Nature News Service)
Bandage Basics Jan 20, 2008
For competitor Curad, owned by Medline Industries Inc., the sports line with more cushion and flex is hot. Johnson on's waterproof products are popular as well, along with strips that have pads pre-treated with antibiotic ointment. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Forget what Mom said: Its viruses, not a wet head or chilly house, that give you a cold Jan 17, 2008
Children get, on average, three to eight colds a year, according to Medlineplus, a health information Web site from the federal government ... Medline Plus common cold page. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Banquet Manager Saves Groom's Life with Donated Kidney Dec 27, 2007
Medline has on the practice of organ donation and transplants. As of this afternoon, people are on the waiting list to receive needed organs in the United States. (Gothamist)
Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe Dec 27, 2007
The article says We used Medline and Google to search for evidence to support or refute each of these claims ... From TPP Medline is the National Library Medicine database of medical journal articles ... Google also can be useful for finding credible medical research, such as early references from the NIH and other institutions that may not appear on Medline. (New York Times)
Snake Venoms Share Similar Ingredients Dec 26, 2007
BMC Molecular Biology (ISSN 1471-2199) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar. 3. (Science Daily)
Eight glasses of water a day - and other myths Dec 26, 2007
They used Medline, a database of medical literature, as well as Google to search for evidence to support or refute each of the popular notions. And despite their widespread acceptance, all the selected medical beliefs turned out to be either "unproved or untrue.". (Globe and Mail)
Researchers bust '8 glasses a day' myth Dec 25, 2007
Rachel Vreeman and Aaron Carroll used Google and Medline to search for evidence supporting the advice to drink eight glasses of water a day. They are not the only researchers to have found there is a complete lack of evidence to support the rule. (ABC Online)
Doctors: med students, but older... Dec 21, 2007
After removing a beer bottle cap from inside a 24 year old Australian rules football player, who had ingested it after drinking from the cup his team had just won, Dr Douglas conducted a comprehensive Medline search for similar examples involving champagne corks. He failed to find any examples of similar problems. (Nature News Service)
Elsevier announces new journal partnership for 2008 Dec 7, 2007
PLEFA is Medline indexed, and has an Impact Factor of 2. 261 (Journal Citation Reports 2007, Published by Thomson Scientific). (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
EBCT: A useful screening test for heart disease? Nov 26, 2007
Studies were identified from the PUBMED, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Current Contents, INAHTA and Cochrane Collaboration databases. We identified studies published in English evaluating EBCT using: 1) a prospective design among asymptomatic patients where CAD was measured in terms of clinical outcomes (e. (BioMed Central)
SARS: a model disease Nov 21, 2007
BMC Medicine (ISSN 1741-7015) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, Scopus, CAS, Google Scholar and Thomson Scientific (ISI). BioMed Central () is a UK-based independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research. (EurekAlert!)
State approves funding for 14 businesses; 1,000 new jobs expected Nov 16, 2007
Medline Industries, Dubuque, 63 jobs. Expanding customer service and support operations into new building. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Africa: Aids Therapy Rates Falling Off Nov 13, 2007
In conducting the study, the researchers searched Medline, other literature databases, conference abstracts, publications archives and the "gray literature" (project reports available online) between 2000 and 2007 for reports on the proportion of adult patients retained after 6 months or longer in sub-Saharan African, non-research ART programmes, with and without donor support. Estimated retention rates at 6, 12, and 24 months were calculated and plotted for each programme. (allAfrica.com)
Effectiveness and costs of implementation strategies to reduce acid suppressive drug prescriptions: a systematic review Nov 6, 2007
A systematic review of intervention studies with a design according to research quality criteria and outcomes related to the effect of reduction of ASD medication retrieved from Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library. Outcome measures were the strategy of intervention, quality of methodology and results of treatment to differences of ASD prescriptions and costs. (BioMed Central)
Thomson Scientific Adds EMBASE Classic to Dialog and DataStar Oct 31, 2007
The new database complements current Dialog and DataStar life sciences offerings, including EMBASE(R) (1974+ in File 73/EMZZ), as well as the recently added BIOSIS Previews(R) (File 5/BIOL), Zoological Record Online(R) and MEDLINE (1951+ in File 155/MEZZ) archive data. About The Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation ) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. (PR Newswire)
Of Genes for Therapies Oct 28, 2007
In addition, medical reports in the PubMed, Medline and the U.S. National Library of Medicine databases were cataloged until 2003 by discredited 19th-century racial terms. Today, there are no rigorous, standardized scientific categories. (Wall Street Journal)
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Men with chronic heart failure can have active sex lives Oct 5, 2007
D., and Mandeep Mehra, M.D., conducted systematic independent literature searches using the MEDLINE database and examined a broad range of medical research that focused on chronic heart failure, sexual activity and sexual dysfunction. This literature included data from patient surveys and clinical trials. (EurekAlert!)
Researchers discover correlation between GERD and obesity in females Sep 14, 2007
WJG has been indexed and abstracted in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch) and Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Index Medicus, MEDLINE and PubMed, Chemical Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Abstracts Journals, Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology, CAB Abstracts and Global Health. ISI JCR 2003-2000 IF: 3. (EurekAlert!)
EBSCO Publishing Acquires Ten Print Indexes from SAGE Aug 30, 2007
The company's product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search , Business Source, CINAHL, DynaMed , Literary Reference Center , MasterFILE , NoveList, SocINDEX and SPORTDiscus as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database , EconLit, MEDLINE, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Medline Industries set to build distribution center Aug 29, 2007
Members: Not Registered. for free extra services. (Louisville Business First, KY)
Let yoga relax you Aug 25, 2007
Relevant trials were identified in the register of trials maintained by the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Registry, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, EMBASE, PsycInfo, and CINAHL.. It was found that mind-body therapies significantly reduced systolic blood pressure (SBP) by a mean 11. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Chief Justice Roberts leaves hospital Aug 1, 2007
A seizure is caused by "excessive electrical activity in the brain," according to Medline Plus, an online medical encyclopedia by the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Some seizures are focused on one part of the brain or one side of the body; others are classified as generalized, meaning the whole body is affected. (Los Angeles Times)
Texan infected with flesh-eating bacteria while swimming Jul 19, 2007
Other USA TODAY blogs. Steve Gilpatrick, a 58-year-old retiree, contracted a potentially fatal infection from flesh-eating bacteria while he swam off the coast of Galveston, Texas, according to. (USA Today)
Gabapentin and postoperative pain; A qualitative and quantitative systematic review, with focus on procedure. Jul 7, 2007
Medline, The Cochrane Library and Google Scholar were searched for double-blind randomized placebo controlled trials of gabapentin for postoperative pain relief compared with placebo, in adults undergoing a surgical procedure. Qualitative analysis of postoperative effectiveness was evaluated by assessment of significant difference (P<0. (BioMed Central)
A systematic review of maternal obesity and breastfeeding intention, initiation and duration Jul 4, 2007
A systematic review was conducted in January and February 2007, using the following databases: Medline, CINAHL and the Australian Breastfeeding Association's Lactation Resource Centre. Studies which have examined maternal obesity and infant feeding intention, initiation, duration and delayed onset of lactation were tabulated and summarised. (BioMed Central)
Unbound Medicine infobase now iPhone-compatible Jul 3, 2007
The company also makes available Unbound Medline, enabling clinicians to track medical journals and search in more than 15 million journal articles. The new iPhone interface takes advantage of the iPhone s Safari Web browser, providing ways to navigate by tapping on index terms or by entering searches in forms. (MacCentral)
Improving search filter performance: a study of palliative care literature Jun 28, 2007
A previously developed search filter for use on OVID Medline validated using a gold standard set of references identified through hand searching, achieved an unacceptably low sensitivity (45. 4%). (BioMed Central)
