Resource Highlights: NIH Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

An exciting new resource on complementary and alternative medicine research has arrived in the form of  NIH’s National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). The resource serves as a source of trusted information to educate healthcare providers in CAM practices and aid them in discussing CAM medicine with their patients. The NCCAM resource is tailored for health care providers of any discipline including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants.

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Resource Highlights: MyNCBI Redesign

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has launched a new interface for their MyNCBI service. MyNCBI is easily accessed via PubMed in the upper-right hand corner of the homepage. With the newly redesigned MyNCBI, you can more easily access stored information from your NCBI databases searches. The layout of the homepage allows for seamless perusing and at-a-glance retrieval of data. It is even possible to reorder boxes on the homepage to fit your research or personal needs. Simply drag a box to its desired location on the page; eliminating boxes can be done by clicking on the “customize this page” link at the top of the homepage.

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