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NewsRX Healthcare Newsletters Now on Dialog

Dialog is pleased to announce that a new health news database, NewsRX Healthcare Newsletters, is now available as File 135/RXNS. This database is a valuable addition to Dialog,complementing existing healthcare news coverage.

Content and coverage. NewsRX Healthcare Newsletters database contains approximately 20 healthcare newsletters, uniquely organized around therapeutic area, rather than industries, companies or products, as other newsletters tend to be. In print and on the Web, NewsRx and NewsRx.net have provided information solutions for business, government and consumers for over 16 years. Through weekly news reports, online databases and Internet news delivery services, NewsRx produces business and consumer information relating to drugs, chemicals, biotechnology, science, medicine and health. Once described as "the world's largest producer of weekly health information," NewsRx is known for its roster of highly respected weekly reports. NewsRx delivers over 800 issues annually consisting of over 19,000 pages and over 20,000 articles per year. Serving top professionals in over 50 countries worldwide, subscribers include pharmaceutical/biotech executives and researchers, medical product developers, hospitals and other medical facilities, physicians and nurses, educators and activists, government officials, and leaders in the academic and healthcare communities.

NewsRX provides answers to wide-ranging questions such as:

• What are the latest developments in anesthesia?
• What conditions are associated with copper deficiency?
• What can be done to reduce Hepatitis C transmission to neonates from infected mothers?
• What is the name of the newly identified hormone-regulated gene?

Some titles of newsletters included in the database are:

• Biotech Week
• Cancer Weekly
• Drug Week
• Gene Therapy Weekly
• Genomics & Genetics Weekly
• Health & Medicine Week
• Heart Disease Weekly
• Immunotherapy Weekly
• Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
• Pain & Central Nervous System Week
• Vaccine Weekly
• Women's Health Weekly

Coverage is international, from 1997 to the present with weekly updating.

Search features. File 135 is designed to be compatible with other fulltext files on Dialog. Use /DE to search Descriptors, /SH or SH= to search Subject Headings, e.g., S STEM CELL RESEARCH/DE; S SH=HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY. Search articles written by particular authors using the Author (AU=) field, e.g., S AU=HENDERSON, JULIE. Search text terms using the /TX suffix along with the S operator to ensure the terms appear in the same paragraph, e.g., S LIVER(W)DAMAGE(S)MUTANT/TX.

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