The Medical Library will be closed over the Easter weekend: Friday 22nd till Monday 25th inclusive. Normal hours resume at 8am on Tuesday 26th April. Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May, the Medical Library will be open 9am till 6pm.Saturday 30th April, the Library will be open, as usual, 9am till 5pm

Read the new Health and Social Care Bill 2010-2011: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/healthandsocialcare.html Responses from   BMA,   Royal College of Psychiatrists,   Royal College of Physicians,  Royal College of General Practitioners  You can also watch a debate from the BBC between Prof Julian Le Grand from the London Schools of Economics and Prof Martin Roland from Cambridge […]

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315321/Digital-Researcher.html On 14 February 2011, Vitae and The British Library are running the Digital Researcher 2011 to help researchers make the most of new technologies in their research. The interactive event, which will be held at the British Library, is for postgraduate researchers and research staff. It will include presentations and interactive sessions on subjects […]

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1529  Wednesday, 19 January 2011: 12:00 – 14:00Location: CRASSH Seminar Room Speakers Dr Louise Corti (Associate Director, UK Data Archive and Head of ESDS Qualidata) Dr Libby Bishop (Timescapes Project, University of Leeds About the seminar The drive to make research data accessible to the widest possible scholarly community through archiving and data-sharing mandates proposed […]

Can systematic reviews ever be the same again? The definition of a systematic review is, according the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is that they: “seek to collate all evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria in order to address a specific research question” But what happens when all the evidence is not available […]

On Thursday 6th January and Tuesday 11th January 2011, there will be a period of downtime on the NHS e-journal links to carry out essential maintenance. Access to NHS e-journals will be problematic durinng this period. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause.

The Medical Library will  close at 12.30pm on Friday 24th December 2010,  and reopen at 8.00am Tuesday 4th January 2011. We wish all members of the Medical Library a very merry Christmas,  and best wishes for the new year.

The Cochrane Library has been updated with a wealth of new and updated protocols and systematic reviews.Included are: Music interventions for mechanically ventilated patients Vitamin A supplementation for preventing morbidity and mortality in children from 6 months to 5 years of age Sublingual immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis Altered dietary salt intake for preventing and treating […]

Stroke RehabiliationFrom the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: Stroke The 2010 Evidence Update on Stroke Rehabilitation covers systematic reviews published between 1st July 2009 and 30th September 2010, with expert reviewers summarising evidence and commenting on key developments in the field. Malignancies Post Kidney Transplant from the NHS Evidence Specialist Collection: kidney diseases and male urogenital […]

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