Month: August 2022

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023 Now Available on AccessMedicine

Image Source: McGraw Hill

The 2023 Edition of CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment has launched on AccessMedicine.  As a reminder, you have full access to this text and much more through the library at Seton Hall.

For 60+ years, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment has been delivering the authoritative information that students, residents, and clinicians need to build their medical knowledge, expertise, and confidence.  Written by top experts in their fields, this unmatched guide enables you to find the answers you need quickly and easily.

This edition provides:

  • Coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders
  • Comprehensive approach to patient care, focusing on diagnostic tools for day-to-day practice
  • Hundreds of drug treatment tables for quick access to indexed trade names and updated drug prices
  • Diagnostic and treatment algorithms to present important information at a glance
  • Carefully curated, updated references to provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information, and PMID numbers for quick online access
  • Annual update on dynamic viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS
  • Hundreds of full color photographs, illustrations, and algorithms
  • Integration directly into Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment summaries

Credit to Susan Pluta for the original posting

Information about Monkeypox

Symptoms of monkeypox illustration
Image Source: CDC

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking an outbreak of monkeypox that has spread across several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox, including the United States.[1] Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.[2]

As of July 25, 2022 there are 5,189 confirmed cases of monkeypox is the United States.[3] As of July 29, 2022, there are 22,485 confirmed cases of monkeypox globally across 79 countries.[4]

Here are some resources to keep you informed about this outbreak:

Agencies:

Evidence Summaries:

Information for patients/general public:

Statistics and Data:

Relevant MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for searching at PubMed.gov:

References:

1.CDC. 2022 U.S. Monkeypox Outbreak. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 28, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html

2. CDC. About Monkeypox. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 22, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/about.html

3. CDC. 2022 U.S. Map & Case Count. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 29, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html
4. CDC. 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 27, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html

So, what’s the difference between PUBMED and MEDLINE?

Do you ever wonder what the difference is between PubMed and MEDLINE?  We will try to break it down for you so that you have better understanding between the two.

So, what exactly is Medline?  Medline is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. It contains 29 million references from approximately 5,200 biomedical, biology and health journals dating back to 1946.  Articles that are indexed within Medline are assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) based on their content.  Scholarly journals make up much of the content found in Medline, however there are also newspapers, magazines and newsletters that have been indexed into the database as well.  Medline can be searched through various platforms such as through OVID, ProQuest and EBSCOhost interfaces.

Okay so what does PubMed have then? PubMed is a free database maintained by the National Center of Biotechnology information at the National Library Medicine. PubMed contains over 34 million references that cover topics on medical, biomedical and life sciences. Although PubMed is a way of accessing the Medline database, it contains more content including books, in-process and ahead of print citations and citations to non-medical journals.

PubMed and Medline have very similar content.  In fact, approximately 98% of PubMed’s content is from Medline.  The biggest difference between the two is its availability as PubMed is accessible freely online without a subscription, while Medline is only available to institutions that subscribe to the database.

PubMed may be free, but it is always recommended that you should access it via the library website in order to have access to many free full text along with the ability to request an interlibrary loan of an article we may not have.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?otool=njshuwllib

References

“MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How Are They Different?” FAQs, Help Files, Pocket Cards. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html.pubmed/?otool=njshuwllib

Rickman, Karen. “LibGuides: Research Tips: What’s the Difference between PubMed, Medline & Embase?” Accessed August 1, 2022. https://kemh.libguides.com/library/search_tips/faqs/difference_between_pubmed_medline_embase.