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We hope you enjoyed Issue 1 of the Dialog Biomed/Life Sciences News. This issue brings you news about EMCare, a new nursing and allied health database on Dialog, expanded content in FSTA, search techniques and industry news.

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EMCare® Adds Nursing and Allied Health Coverage to Dialog

EMCare (File 45), a new bibliographic database produced by Elsevier and covering the topics of nursing and allied health, is now available on Dialog. EMCare provides cover-to-cover indexing of more than 2,700 international sources, providing timely access to information about scientific advancements that lead to more cost-effective and higher quality healthcare. The file also supports the practice of evidence-based treatment in a wide variety of settings.

EMCare, which updates weekly, features a 10-year backfile (1995 to date), and nearly 250,000 new records are added to the file each year. The nearly 2 million records are indexed with EMTREE, Elsevier's Life Science Thesaurus, which has been expanded with close to 1,500 nursing terms in addition to existing allied health terms. EMCare is the only database available on Dialog that specializes in nursing and allied health topics.

Use EMCare to answer questions like:

• what is the best practice in pressure ulcer management?
• what has been published recently on hygiene and MRSA infections?
• how has psychotherapy been used to treat stress disorders in adolescent victims of terrorist attacks?

Note: EMCare (EMCA) is also available on DataStar.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts Expands in Key Subject Areas

FSTA — Food Science and Technology Abstracts (File 51/FSTA) continues to expand its coverage of key subject areas. Based on extensive research into areas of importance to the food science industry, new topics have been added including obesity, diet regimes, nutritional management and related subject areas. Later in the year FSTA will begin covering pet foods.

In addition, coverage is being extended in the areas of nutrition, including sports and exercise nutrition, food allergy, animal studies, dietetic foods, and the medicinal uses of food herbs.

Because of the increasing importance of patent information to the food science community, FSTA is now adding up to one hundred Japanese patent records each week. Applications, granted patents and utility models with International Patent Classification (IPC) codes that cover all food related topics are included.

As a result of this increase in coverage, IFIS, the database publisher, has added a number of new journals to the Serials List. You can browse the list, updated annually, or download a copy in PDF format.

PsycINFO Reloaded on Dialog and DataStar

PsycINFO® (File 11/PSYC)on Dialog and DataStar has been reloaded with the new 2006 thesaurus. Updates and Alert runs have now resumed. There are no format changes to the current file display.

Some of the terminology in the 2006 edition of the thesaurus has been adjusted or modernized. For example, "Family Violence" is now "Domestic Violence." Examples of new terms added include "Geropsychology" (the psychological and behavioral aspects of aging), "Gratitude" and "Mindfulness."

A Global Registry of Animal Species?

Since Linnaeus introduced the system of binomial nomenclature in 1758 by classifying more than 10,000 species of animals and plants with two-part names, approximately 1.5 million species are thought to have been described, but more than 6 million names have been used. The result is that taxonomists try to figure out whether a name has been used before and also what other, similar, animals look like, making for a long, arduous process in naming new species. Read the article entitled "Today We Have Naming of Parts" that appeared in The Economist in February 2006 to see what issues surround the science of taxonomy.

Top Cited Articles Found in The New England Journal of Medicine

What are the trends in scientific research? According to Thomson Scientific "Red-Hot" Research Papers of 2005, the field of medicine leads the way with 21 of the top-40 "Hottest Papers" appearing in medicine-focused publications and the most highly cited article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read the article to see a listing of the top ten research papers and top journal subject categories.

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