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I introduced you to PubMed and those who clicked on the links discovered much. There is more there for you to use but an explanation is in order. The example we are using is: Parkinsn - Risk Factors http://tinyurl.com/ykca2sv Others DBS for Parkinson's http://tinyurl.com/yfptp27 DBS Effects Update http://tinyurl.com/ylm3fzo At the top of the PubMed page with the references for "Parkinsons Risk Taking" is a search box. "PubMed" is selected for the searches and the search box is blank. Start typing a word like parkinsons and a drop down list of words that you can use in your search word, clicking on any will add that to parkinsons. Any word that you use will have additional things you can add to get closer to what you want and reduce the number you are not interested in. A bit further from the top of the page look for the word "Display", Summary is the default type which just lists the items found with a blue underlined heading which is a link to the abstract if there is one. Change the word "Summary" to AbstractPlus by clicking the down arrow next to its box. Set the number of items to display at one time. It is initially set to display 20 items. You can change this value to 200 if you wish but it will take a while for the government computer to do this and show you that many before you have to change the page to see more than 200 items. The next box to the right is the box labeled "Send To". We will use this later just remember it. Each item has a check box at the top of each abstract. You click on the check box to select it for keeping or sending to you. Now look down through the list of abstracts until you find something of interest and click on the title. The abstract will open for reading. To the right is a column labeled "related" which has other abstracts listed that are similar to the one you have been reading. The year of publication is generally indicated and if it is a review of the topic that has been chosen it is indicated. On each of these abstracts is the check box you click if you want to save that one. Ok, now we have read several abstracts and checked the check box for the ones that met our criteria, now remember the "Send To" box above. Click the down arrow next to the words "Send To" and select "Email". At one time up to 20 abstracts can be mailed to an email address of your choosing and the type of mail you want is given. If you chose HTML you will receive a full functioning web page with your results or if you select TEXT you will receive just the text representation of the abstracts. If you wish to share with a mailing list like Parkinsn, cutting and pasting is simpler in the text format. This email will probably be directed to the JUNK folder so retrieve it there. Another option of the "Send To" is clipboard in which case, the selected abstracts can be pasted via you computers "Paste" command into another document open on your desktop. Now with an abstract open you will notice the authors names are underlined. Clicking on one of them will produce a new list of articles that author has written or participated in. Also if you see a word or phrase of interest you can highlight it and drag it to the Search Box and release it for a search for that concept. On Windows machines highlight by positioning the cursor at the beginning or end of a word and hold the left mouse button down and move the cursor left or right until the word is highlighted. Release the mouse button and it will stay highlighted. Again put the mouse cursor on the word and hold the left mouse button down while you drag it to the search box and release the left mouse button. You may or may not be required to click on the Search button. The Parkinson's disease - Risk Taking is a collection of 170 items Tabs across the screen have the 170 items broken down into segments. All 170, Clinical Trial, Free Full Text, Items with Abstracts, Published in the Last 5 years, and Review. A note on Review items is that they are generally the rite of passage for young specialists to review the written record of specific conditions up to the current date of the article overseen by their mentor (famous doctor). You will see more from these bright young people as the mantle is handed off and they assume the lead. Use these tools to keep up with the now and what may hopefully occur within our lifetimes. John Cottingham ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn