You will probably not have noticed much difference yet, but the National Library for Health has changed. After 10 years of operation, the National Library for Health moved, as of 1st April 2009, to NHS Evidence: “a web-based service that will help people find, access and use high-quality clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice”. […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments “Guardian readers can now access the BMJ Group’s independent, high quality patient information on a wide range of health issues, from cancer, depression and back pain to every day ailments like the common cold and period pains.Written in plain English, the British Medical Journal has detailed information about the causes and symptoms of your […]

University and NHS electronic access is now available for these journals:- “Transplantation”“Plastic and reconstructive surgery” – Available on University computers at http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az – Available from NHS computers using NHS Athens username and password at http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/journals/Default.aspx (For NHS Athens registration see http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/nhsathens.htm )

https://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/1302/

University and NHS electronic access is now available!– Available on University computers at http://sfx7.exlibrisgroup.com/cambridge/az – Available from NHS computers using NHS Athens username and password at http://www.library.nhs.uk/booksandjournals/journals/Default.aspx (For NHS Athens registration see http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/library/nhsathens.htm )

https://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/1303/

Easter The Library will be closed for the Easter weekend (Friday 10th – Monday 13th April inclusive). Services resume at 8am, Tuesday 14th April. May Bank Holidays On May Bank Holidays, the library will operate restricted hours: 9am – 6pm.Bank Holidays: Mondays 4th and 25th May

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 […]