This article has been superseded by the following: Plant-Based Foods – An Inclusive PubMed Search – Revised 2016 ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In our earlier article on searching for plant-based foods (PBF) in PubMed, we suggested that a quick way to search the subject is to combine MeSH plant-related explosions AND ourContinue reading “Plant-Based Foods – An Inclusive PubMed Search”
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PubMed Food Problem: Red Meat
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As we’ve discussed before, searching for “red meat” in PubMed is difficult because the subject is poorly covered in the MeSH vocabulary. Not only is there not a term for “red meat,” but there are also no MeSH terms for specific kinds of red meat (beef, pork, etc.). ThereContinue reading “PubMed Food Problem: Red Meat”
PubMed Food Problem: Cranberry & Cranberries
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence Part of the problem in searching for food in PubMed is that it’s often the case that there’s a fuzzy border between between food and medicine. A food that is enjoyed for its taste and general nutritional benefits may have properties that make it therapeutic for specific health conditions.Continue reading “PubMed Food Problem: Cranberry & Cranberries”
Is Chocolate A Food? A Problem In PubMed
By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence [Check out additional articles on PubMed & Plant-Based Foods] As we’ve written, searching for food-related subjects in PubMed is difficult because of the way the MeSH system is organized. Plant-based foods are especially difficult because in most cases they are treated mainly as plants rather than food. One result of treating plant-basedContinue reading “Is Chocolate A Food? A Problem In PubMed”
PubMed’s Secret Ingredient: Explosions
By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence, and guest author Chris Shaffer, former Hardin librarian, now University Librarian, Oregon Health & Science Univ Explosions are a powerful, built-in feature of PubMed that make it easy to search for clusters of related subjects. Because they’re so seamlessly incorporated into PubMed, it’s possible to search the database without havingContinue reading “PubMed’s Secret Ingredient: Explosions”
Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search
This article has been superseded by the following: Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search – Revised 2016 ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in an earlier article, searching for Food-Diet-Nutrition in PubMed is difficult because the subject is spread around in several different places in the MeSH classification system. In another article,Continue reading “Plant-Based Foods – A Tricky PubMed Search”
Food, Diet & Nutrition – An Inclusive PubMed Search
[March, 2016 – With NLM’s recent introduction of an inclusive diet, food and nutrition explosion, in most cases we recommend using the new explosion instead of the hedge described below. Please see our article on the new explosion.] By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As discussed in a previous article, searching for Food, Diet, andContinue reading “Food, Diet & Nutrition – An Inclusive PubMed Search”
Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition in PubMed
This article has been superseded by the following: Diet, Food, and Nutrition – How To Search in PubMed ********************** By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence Much of the power of PubMed searching is due to the elegant Medical Subject Heading [MeSH] system used to index articles. When you type words into the PubMed search box, itContinue reading “Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition in PubMed”