MDA Research Digest: About Technical Summaries and PubMed

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About the MDA Technical Summaries...

The MDA Technical Summaries are designed to be slightly more complex than the information presented in Quest or The ALS Newsletter, and frequently contain more information than is found in the published abstract. Note that links to materials in Quest, The ALS Newsletter, press releases and other supporting material are also provided when relevant.

In an attempt to be as comprehensive as possible, some papers are listed that don't have accompanying MDA Technical Summaries. However, all articles that have original published abstracts also have a link to that abstract on the PubMed Web site (see About PubMed, below).

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About PubMed....

Each article* listed in MDA's Research Digest contains a link to its original published abstract, or summary, in the PubMed database.

PubMed is a searchable public database maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information that contains abstracts of biomedical research articles from 4,000 journals dating from 1966.

A powerful and free tool for finding information on specific research topics, PubMed is the same database used by doctors and researchers. For more information on PubMed, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html#Introduction.

When you click on a "link to abstract" button in the Research Digest for a particular article, a new window to the PubMed site will open, displaying the abstract.

You can conduct your own individualized searches on PubMed. Simply go to the homepage (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/) and type in a term, such as "limb girdle 2B," and hit "search." You'll retrieve a list of abstract titles that you can click to get the full abstract. The best way to learn PubMed is to read the "Overview" section (a bit lengthy, you may want to skip around) and then try some searches.

* Exceptions: Some articles that take the form of commentaries or brief reports don't have abstracts associated with them and, thus, aren't linked to the PubMed database. Such articles always have an accompanying Research Digest summary.

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