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Content from both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience may be unavailable from Friday, 27 June through Monday, 30 June 2008 while the publishers transition data to the Wiley InterScience platform.

Health Disparities Added to PubMed Special Queries

The NLM Special Queries page now includes a link to a new subject page on health disparities.

According to the National Cancer Institute, health disparities refer to differences between groups of people. These differences can affect how frequently a disease affects a group, how many people get sick, or how often the disease causes death.

The MEDLINE® /PubMed® Search and Health Disparities Information Resources page offers a PubMed search including subject terms and other keywords. Areas of coverage include health disparities and minority health research.

The strategy uses MeSH® headings to retrieve indexed citations, plus title and abstract words to obtain other unindexed citations.

This search retrieves literature in many languages and research from many countries. The search currently retrieves over 57,000 PubMed citations.

The resources page provides links to other health disparities resources such as links to U.S. Government agencies, associations, foundations, research centers and grant information.

Send your comments about this resource to custerv@nlm.nih.gov or use our contact form.

For more information on the Special Queries Resource in PubMed, see the article New Special Queries Resource in PubMed®. NLM TechBull. 2005 Mar-Apr;(343):e1.

(Reposted from NLM Technical Bulletin)

Genealogical resource - AMA Decesead Physicians File

NLM is home to numerous genealogical resources for those seeking information about ancestors with medical or health related training. Among these is the American Medical Association (AMA) Deceased Physicians Card File, a collection of nearly 400,000 index cards created by the AMA between about 1901 and 1969 focusing on everyone in the U.S. who received a medical degree. The cards were updated throughout the physician's career with information about degrees obtained, licensing, addresses and finally cause of death and sometimes obituary citations and even portraits. Please visit the site at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/genealogy/