From today, 1st April 2009, the National Library for Health (NLH) has transferred to NICE and become NHS Evidence. NHS Evidence will go live on 30 April 2009. NHS Evidence will provide an integrated online portal and a comprehensive source of fast, free, relevant and trustworthy information about clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. […]

An interesting post on the BioMed Central blog regarding what happens to the results of clinical trials.

We’re please to be able to make available a new set of e-books from Springer – on trial till 31st August 2009.To browse the whole list, go to http://www.springerlink.com/books/ (31,010 titles!) but if you’d like to see a more focused selection here are all the ones about medicine and here’s a bit more structure to […]

There’s more than one way to skin a cat… or so the saying goes. The same applies to CATs or critically appraised topics. There’s a new approach presented for critical appraisal by Young and Solomon in Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology which offers a variety of questions to pose to different types of research. […]

The strength of Cambridge as a globally-competitive centre for biomedical research, clinical education and healthcare innovation was confirmed today by the UK’s Department of Health. Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced that Cambridge University Health Partners was amongst the five winners of the race to be designated an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC). These centres, chosen […]

Thanks to TRIP creator Jon Brassey’s Twitter feed, I discovered the following Guide to Biostatistics that explains “important epidemiologic concepts and common biostatistical terms to help clinicians translate medical research into everyday practice”.Produced by MedPage Today, I hope you find it useful. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Medpage-Guide-to-Biostatistics.pdf

Survey: Using information on the move A chance to win an Flip video camera, £30 in book vouchers or membership to the Arts Picturehouse worth £27. I would like to invite you to take part in a survey intended to establish how the majority of Cambridge University students and staff access, or would like to […]

How time flies – it’s March already, and spring is in the air! What better time to brush up on your searching skills in order to get the evidence you need for clinical practice, CPD etc. Full details are available from http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/trainingdates.html The main highlights are: extended sessions: each session now lasts 1.5 hours to […]

British journal of medical and surgical urology 2008 vol.1(1)-Clinical Respiratory journal 2007 vol. 1(1)-Clinical and translational science 2008 vol.1 (1)-Hematology 2008 vol. 13(1)-International journal of rheumatic diseases 2008 vol. 11 (2)- Journal of communication in healthcare 2008 vol. 1(1)-Mucosal immunology 2008 vol.1 (1)-Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology 2008 vol.1 (1)-

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