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The Journal of Patient Experience from @SAGE_News is #OpenAccess and New to the Library

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The library has recently added the Journal of Patient Experience (JPE), an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Patient Experience.  JPE accepts a variety of submissions such as original research articles, case reports, commentaries, patient narratives, and cover art centered around advances and applications that impact the patient experience. Topics should address JPE’s broad and interdisciplinary readership which includes clinical practitioners, patients and caregivers, healthcare executives and professional societies.  Authors interested in submitting to the journal should consult the submission guidelines.

The Journal of Patient Experience may be accessed through our eJournal A-Z listing.

A Repair of a Mutation, Glowing Tumors and More…

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Read on for some of the latest developments in cancer research.

  • In a breakthrough study, scientist repaired a disease-causing mutation in human embryos:


U.S. scientists successfully gene-edit human… by tomonewsus

  • Scientists at the University of Sheffield discovered that the drug methotrexate used for arthritis could be used to treat blood cancer patients. Initial tests were conducted on fruit fly cells. Further testing in human cells demonstrated the potential of methotrexate to directly inhibit the molecular pathway responsible for blood cancer.  Read more about these findings in Haematologica.
  • The use of a contrast agent that makes tumors glow enabled surgeons to identify and remove a greater number of cancerous nodules. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used a near-infrared contrast agent called OTL3 when combining intraoperative molecular imaging with PET imaging.  For more, see study published in the Annals of Surgery.

MeSH on Demand can Improve your PubMed Search Experience

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has released an enhanced version of MeSH on Demand, a tool that can be used to identify Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms relevant to an abstract/manuscript. The new version takes advantage of user feedback, extensive usability testing, and continued integration of the Medical Text Indexer (MTI). For more background information, see the article, MeSH on Demand Tool: An Easy Way to Identify Relevant MeSH Terms.

New Features Include:

  1. Highlighted user text corresponding to MeSH terms
  2. Quick view of MeSH descriptor term definitions (Scope Notes)
  3. Search results include PubMed/MEDLINE Similar Articles listed by title and PMID
  4. Easy interface to search PubMed using MeSH vocabulary found by MeSH on Demand
  5. Function for saving MeSH on Demand data to a text file

Ask us if you would like to learn more about improving your PubMed searches using MeSH.