Many other countries spend a much larger proportion of their research time and resources on plant-based foods than the United States does. By Xiaomei Gu, Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence […]

By Xiaomei Gu, Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence In our explorations of plant-base foods (PBFs) in PubMed, it’s often striking that there are many excellent articles from non-US countries. So […]

By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu This article is based on a poster presented at the Medical Library Association annual meeting, Toronto, May 2016. Introduction Searching for nuts […]

By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu Searching for nutrition topics in PubMed is tricky. It’s especially difficult to search for plant-based foods (PBF’s). In 2014, we published an […]

By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu Searching for Food, Diet & Nutrition has long been one of the most difficult subjects to search in PubMed. We were happy […]

By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu As we’ve written earlier, the way that nutrition, food and diet subjects have been arranged in the MeSH tree explosion system has […]

By Eric Rumsey and Janna Lawrence As we’ve discussed, the big problem in searching for food-diet-nutrition subjects in PubMed is that the subjects are not together in a convenient bundle, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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