PubMed is a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish with select content in additional languages. The site brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations. There is also a site optimized for display on mobile devices, in both English and Spanish. In 2015, about 400 million people from around the world used MedlinePlus. The service is funded by the NLM and is free to users.
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed Central is more than a document repository. Submissions to PMC are indexed and formatted for enhanced metadata, medical ontology, and unique identifiers which enrich the XML structured data for each article. Content within PMC can be linked to other NCBI databases and accessed via Entrez search and retrieval systems, further enhancing the public's ability to discover, read and build upon its biomedical knowledge.
David J. Lipman is an American biologist who from 1989 to 2017 was the director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health. NCBI is the home of GenBank, the U.S. node of the International Sequence Database Consortium, and PubMed, one of the most heavily used sites in the world for the search and retrieval of biomedical information. Lipman is one of the original authors of the BLAST sequence alignment program, and a respected figure in bioinformatics. In 2017, he left NCBI and became Chief Science Officer at Impossible Foods.
The Vancouver system, also known as Vancouver reference style or the author–number system, is a citation style that uses numbers within the text that refer to numbered entries in the reference list. It is popular in the physical sciences and is one of two referencing systems normally used in medicine, the other being the author–date, or "Harvard", system. Vancouver style is used by MEDLINE and PubMed.
Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles. From 1879 to 2004, Index Medicus was a comprehensive bibliographic index of such articles in the form of a print index or its onscreen equivalent. Medical history experts have said of Index Medicus that it is “America's greatest contribution to medical knowledge.”
The Dermatology Online Journal is a monthly open-access peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1995 by Arthur Huntley. It is published by the California Digital Library and covers all aspects of general dermatology. The current editor-in-chief is Barbara Burrall.
David Coston Sabiston, Jr., M.D.,, F.A.C.S. was an early innovator in cardiac surgery. In 1962, he performed a seminal procedure that paved the way for modern coronary-bypass surgery, grafting a vein from a patient's leg to bypass a blocked coronary artery during open-heart surgery. The patient died from unrelated complications, but Sabiston's technique and other surgeons' improvements on it led to the development of surgical coronary revascularization as it exists today.
Doctors of BC, formally known as the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA), is a professional organization that represents 16,000 physicians, medical residents and medical students in the province of British Columbia. Its goals are to promote a social, economic, and political climate in which members can provide the citizens of BC with the highest standard of health care, while achieving maximum professional satisfaction and fair economic reward. Membership is voluntary.
Critical Care is an online open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive-care medicine. The founding editor and the current editor-in-chief is Jean-Louis Vincent of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Critical Care was established in 1997 and is currently published by BioMed Central.
The Indian Journal of Community Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine. The journal publishes articles on family health care, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health administration, health care delivery, national health problems, medical anthropology, and social medicine.
The Journal of Asthma & Allergy Educators was a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covered research in the fields of pulmonary disorders and allergy, especially asthma, allergy management, and patient education. The editor-in-chief was Concettina Tolomeo. The journal was established in 2010 and published until December 2013 by SAGE Publications in association with the Association of Asthma Educators.
The Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition is a peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes papers in the field of nutrition and dietetics. The journal was established in 1977 with Michael D. Caldwell as the founding editor. The current editor-in-chief is Kenneth B. Christopher. It is the official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and is published by Wiley.
Arun Garg is an Indo-Canadian physician in the province of British Columbia who is recognized for contributing linkages between Canada and India, his country of origin.
The Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering oncology. It was established in 1903 under the name Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung, and changed its name to Zeitschrift für Krebsforschung und klinische Onkologie in 1971. The journal obtained its current name in 1979. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media under a hybrid publishing model and the editor-in-chief is Klaus Hoffken.
Medical History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of medicine. It was established in 1957. After many decades of funding by the Wellcome Trust, ownership of the journal passed to Cambridge University Press in about 2011.
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, founded in 1876, provides leadership on national veterinary issues, advocates for animal welfare, and works to encourage life balance in veterinary professionals.
Medical Clinics of North America, also cited as The Medical Clinics of North America, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Elsevier. Each issue of the journal contains up-to-date review articles on a specific medical topic. The journal was established in 1915 as the Medical Clinics of Chicago, obtaining its current name in 1917. The editors-in-chief are Douglas S. Paauw and Edward R. Bollard. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.455.
The Clinical Teacher is a medical journal published by John Wiley & Sons. Established in 2004, the journal focuses on clinical education in the health professions. It is abstracted and indexed in Medline and Scopus, and the editor-in-chief is Aileen Barrett. The journal was established in 2004.
International Journal of Population Data Science, also known as IJPDS, is a peer-reviewed open-access journal publishing original research on issues in population data science and administrative data linkage to advance population study across health, education, environment and other domains. It was established in 2017 in partnership with the International Population Data Linkage Network (IPDLN).
