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    March 14th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire
    Healthcare professionals in the UK now have access to the drug resource from the British National Formulary directly from DynaMed drug topics. British National Formulary Information Available Through DynaMed ~ Healthcare Professionals in the UK Can Access Vital Drug Resource and prescribed drugs are delivered by pneumatic tubes which you can find in this website, this are used for security reasons so they won't be tamper or altered. IPSWICH, Mass. — March 14, 2013 — Clinicians in the United Kingdom can now access authoritative and trusted guidance on the selection and use of medicines from the British National Formulary (BNF) directly from DynaMed, the premier evidence-based clinical information resource. EBSCO Publishing announced that DynaMed drug topics now include links to the corresponding BNF topics which can be accessed by BNF subscribers. The links allow clinicians to consult UK specific information on selecting, prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines at the point-of-care in concert with the evidence-based reference information available in DynaMed. BNF is the latest UK resource to be accessible through DynaMed, joining the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines; Patient UK Links; and links to electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC). DynaMed Editor-in-Chief, Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, FAAFP, says that the addition of the BNF links is another example of how DynaMed strives to meet the needs of healthcare professionals around the world. “DynaMed is committed to providing content and features that clinicians throughout the UK need. It is important that clinicians can access drug information that is specific to their particular region.” The BNF provides UK healthcare professionals with authoritative and practical information on the selection and clinical use of medicines in a clear, concise and accessible manner. Published monthly online and biannually in print, the BNF is a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Duncan Enright, the Publishing Director of the BNF at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, believes that the inclusion of the BNF links in DynaMed will ensure that subscribers using DynaMed will have access to the most trusted UK drug information. “DynaMed users already rely on that tool to provide the latest evidence-based information. By accessing the links to BNF, our subscribers can be certain that they are using the most recent edition of BNF for making clinical decisions.” DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. With clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics, DynaMed provides the latest content and resources with validity, relevance and convenience, making DynaMed an indispensable resource for answering most clinical questions during practice. Updated daily, DynaMed editors monitor the content of over 500 medical journals on a daily basis. Each article is evaluated for clinical relevance and scientific validity. The new evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate, representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Through this process of systematic literature surveillance, the best available evidence determines the content of DynaMed. About EBSCO Publishing EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. ### For more information, please contact: Kathleen McEvoy Public Relations Director (800) 653-2726 ext. 2594 kmcevoy@ebscohost.com
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    March 14th, 2013LISWire aggregatorLISWire

    Leiden (NL) / Boston (MA) – 14 March 2013

    Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and the Warburg Institute are delighted to announce Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton) as the second Brill Fellow at the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the Warburg Institute in London.

    Brill, the international scholarly publisher, and the Warburg Institute are delighted to announce Alexander Bevilacqua (Princeton) as the second Brill Fellow at the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) at the Warburg Institute in London. He will take up the position for a three month period between 1 May and 31 August 2014. The topic of his research will be “Islamic culture in the European Enlightenment”.

    The first Brill Fellow, Dr. Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, will be taking up the Fellowship from 1 May to 31 July of this year. She will hold a public lecture on 23 June 2013 entitled “Readings and Counter-Readings of the Qur’an in the Spanish Golden Age,” which is also the topic of her research during her Fellowship period.

    The Brill Fellowships at CHASE have partly been made possible by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for publishing, which was awarded to Brill in 2012, and they include free access to all online reference works and research tools published by Brill in the fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Postdoctoral researchers may apply for a two-, three- or four-month Fellowship for research projects on any aspect of the relations between Europe and the Arab World from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

    For more information about the Brill Fellowship at CHASE, please visit: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/fellowships.

    About Brill (brill.com)
    Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, BRILL is a leading international academic publisher in the fields of Ancient Near East and Egypt, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, contemporary History and History of War studies, Biblical and Religious Studies, Slavic Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, Human Rights and Public International Law. With offices in Leiden and Boston, BRILL today publishes more than 175 journals and around 600 new books and reference works each year. All publications are available in both print and electronic form. BRILL also markets a large number of research collections and databases with primary source material. The company’s key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. BRILL is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.

    About CHASE (warburg.sas.ac.uk)
    The Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) is dedicated to the study of the history of European-Arab relations from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. The objectives of the Centre include the promotion of research on the transmission of Arab scientific, philosophical, medical, theological and geographical knowledge in the Middle Ages and in early modern times; the deepening of our understanding of the historical flow of ideas and knowledge between the Arab world and Europe; and the enhancement of our appreciation of the impact of the Muslim/Arab world on the development of European science and civilization.