A little Google history from the Internet Archive

 
I first heard about Google in June, 1999. But Google was actually up and running early the previous year.  Check out this Google Friends Newsletter for May 18, 1998 (originally a Yahoo group!) in which “Larry and Sergey” wrote:
Google has now been up for over a month with the current database and we would like to [...]

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Last updated April 7, 2008

eScholarship Respository (California)

Cochrane Library: Free access for all?

A little Google history from the Internet Archive

Drug Information Portal: U.S. National Library of Medicine

The Dietary Supplements Labels Database: brands, ingredients, and references

Computer prediction: 1999 A.D.

A Google Scholar Primer

A Google Primer

Search with Blackle and save energy (maybe)

The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?

The [...]

Drug Information Portal: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Drug Information Portal: Quick access to more than 12,000 selected drugs
This new portal is produced by the United States National Libary of Medicine. It is one-stop shopping for drug information, and your enquiry searches many souces at once. Here is a list of resources searched by Drug Information Portal:

MedlinePlusDrug

MedlinePlusTopics

AIDSinfo

LactMed

Hazardous Substances Data Bank

Dietary Supplements Labels [...]

Museum of Bad Art (MOBA™)

  Pictured at left is Lucy In the Field With Flowers, the single painting planted the seed that grew into MOBA™. MOBA stands for Museum of Bad Art, and it was founded in the fall of 1993. Its motto is ART TOO BAD TO BE IGNORED.
MOBA™ is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, [...]

Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems

  The study below was just published in the February 13 issue of JAMA [subscription required].
Read about the study in MedPage Today and in Medical News Today.
Martin BI, Deyo RA, Mirza SK, Turner JA, Comstock BA, Hollingworth W et al. Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems. JAMA 2008; 299(6):656-664.
Context: Back and [...]

Defining Characteristics of Educational Competencies

  Here is a new review article from the March 2008 issue of Medical Education [full text by subscription]:
Albanese MA, Mejicano G, Mullan P, Kokotailo P, Gruppen L. Defining characteristics of educational competencies. Medical Education 2008;42(3):248–255.
Context: Doctor competencies have become an increasing focus of medical education at all levels. However, confusion exists regarding what constitutes a [...]

A survey of rural medical education strategies throughout the medical education continuum in Canada

   This article by Dr. Vernon Curran and colleagues was published in late 2007 in the French journal Cahiers de Sociologie et de Demographie Medicales [full text by subscription]. This issue contains several interesting articles on the state of health care in rural Canada.
Curran VR, Fleet L, Pong RW, Bornstein S, Jong M, Strasser RP, [...]

The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sport medicine

  The study from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, was published in the January 2008 issue of Sociology of Health & Illness [full text by subscription]:
Theberge N. The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sportmedicine. Sociol Health Illness 2008 Jan;30(1):19-34.
This article examines the integration of chiropractors into multi-disciplinary healthcare teams in [...]

Soft targets: nurses and the pharmaceutical industry

This article was just published in PLoS Medicine [Open Access]:
Jutel A, Menkes DB. Soft targets: nurses and the pharmaceutical industry. PLoS Medicine 2008; 5(2):e5.  PDF
Excerpt: [The prescription pharmaceutical] industry has been robustly critiqued in the medical literature for exploiting patients and doctors using a range of techniques: direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), sponsored teaching materials, advertising in [...]

Chiropractic manipulation: reasons for concern?

Check out this report of three cases, published recently in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery:
Gouveia LO, Castanho P, Ferreira JJ, Guedes MM, Falcão F, e Melo TP. Chiropractic manipulation: reasons for concern? Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2007 Dec;109(10):922-5.
Abstract: Chiropractic’s popularity is rising among the general population. Moreover, few studies have been conducted to properly evaluate its safety. We [...]