For those that wonder where we find the scientific studies that we quote, referenence, and refer to, here is a link to PubMed -- the best free resource for this purpose, that I am aware of:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

It is a huge searchable database of the abstracts of basically every study since about 1970.

Great post. I'd like to add that you can get quite a few full text articles for free at: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

I also recomend you use dictionary.com as it has deffinitions for most of those complicated medical terms that none of us can spell or pronouce.

Google is of course also a great reasouce and it will actually find quiet a few medical studies itself


GNC.com has a list of most herbals and supplements with a very structured analysis of their useage and safety issues

Rxlist.com contains infomation about perscription drugs

erowid.org is usefull for finding information of natural, perscription and illegal substances but more importantly it contains experiance vaults for many of these which can give you some feedback on them.

Some general tips for Pubmed and Google, if your looking to see if say asprin can say decrease blood pressure don't just look for information on aspirn, go ahead and search for something like 'blood asprine pressure' you can use any order of words for me even more specific and search for "asprin loweres blood pressure" in quotes. This offren cuts through hours a digging and takes you exactly where you want to go.

Pubmed offten but not always recognized several varieties of one words such as he common and botanical names of certain plants. It also knows difference tenses or some adjective and verbs but if you can't find what your looking for try a different tense. You might have to try asprin and decrease, decreases, or decreased blood pressure. Additionally knowing the chemical name for asprin in this case could help.

Remeber to keep in mind just because a substance was found in rats or pigs to do something doesn't mean it does the same thing in humans and often when a study is done with a compound that can be harmful the study does not mentioned if there were any adverse reactions because its not importanct to the study, while it would be very important if you want to use it.

Also check out the nearest large city library. My local library does not have access to medline but my university library and the mains cities library does as well. There for a small fee you can few the full studies to gleem aditional information not present in the abstracts.

Im minutes away from a bio-library and just recently been starting to tap into it. Lucky me

bump for pubmed.nl, its by far the best one i use for varsity, doesnt matter what im looking up, its delivers the goods
anything from exercise psychology, nutrition through to what i had for breakfast

If you only have access to abstracts (ie, PubMed), here's another tip for finding full-length papers online.

Take the following, for example:

Thompson, J.L., Butterfield, G.E., Gylfadottir, U.K., Yesavage, J., Marcus, R., Hintz, R.L., Pearman, A., & Hoffman, A.R. (1998). Effects of human growth hormone, insulin-like growth factor I, and diet and exercise on body composition of obese postmenopausal women. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 83(5), 1477-84.

Go straight to Yahoo or Google and search for a part of the exact title. In this case, search for something like "diet and exercise on body composition of obese postmenopausal women"

You'll end up finding either the full-text, or someone else's article referencing it. Either way, you're a step further than you'd be with just an abstract.

Gene

Some more additions:

http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/full-text.html

and

http://www.scirus.com/

Gene

Yet another database that is quickly searchable that lists all effects and side effects of Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical herbs and supplements...

http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/

Just discovered this very cool, very simple trick with google.

If you want the total breakdown for a good, including vitamins, individual aminos and all the different lipids just enter the food along with the word 'proximates' i.e. go search for "avacado proximates" and you will see what I am talking about. Very usefull

Don't know how well known this is, but there is a wonderful nutrient/food database program (sort of like a downloadable FitDay, but better IMO) called Nutribase SR13 Navigator. You download the first/main program and then download the 5 additional components that expand the information in the database... takes only a few minutes and when done, you have access to everything you ever need to know about virtually any food in terms of its contents (has full amino acid profiles, mineral and vitamin breakdowns, etc...). Makes meal planning much easier, no more running to the fridge to check the amount of carbs per slice of bread when planning detailed meal programs.

http://www.nutribase.com

dont forget about http://www.jci.org for free full text articles.

Http://www.sportsci.org has some decent stuff on nutrtion and some really good stuff on training.


Kc

for those interested in learning more about cellular pathways I urge you to check out this site.

http://www.genome.ad.jp/kegg/metabolism.html

it allows one to browse around the different pathways. It is an invaluble resource.

For those who haven't heard about Endnote yet I downloaded it yeasterday and must say I'm impressed with it. I'm sure I don't know half of what it can do but here is an example.

You do your search on Pubmed and then save all the results (of say creatine) into the text file, then open Endnote and import it into your library.. you will litterally have all of those abstracts on your computer. A collection of 1100+ ended up being like 3 megs so its not really that big.

Now you start your paper in word and when you make a statement you can search through your personal library and then click the citation that supports your statement. This will add [1] to the end of your current line in Word and the citation at the bottom of the docment keeping track of the numbers for you. You never have to type a citation again.

It is also compatible worl Corel.

I'm sure there are probably easier ways to do this but that gives you at least an idea of what you can do. I'm not sure if there is a limit on how big your library can be, Pubmed will only let you save 10,000 abstracts at a time which sounds like alot but if you search for say atrophy you get over 50k and I don't really know how or if you can break that up into small sections to add one at a time. But still, if nothing else you can add individual papers to your library to cite.

For those who haven't discovered this yet, Google now does conversions and math.

For instance if you enter the statement, "1 gallon in teaspoons" and click search you get "1 US gallon = 768 US teaspoons"

Or you can enter something a bit more complicated.

((1 US teaspoon) plus (half (1 US tablespoon))) plus (15 039 453 ml) = 15 892.0256 US quarts

Nifty

Thanks, guys! This thread in itself has become a sort of mini-library.

I personally love Google and use it daily, but still had no idea it would do conversions for you. Thanks, supnut.

http://www.ajcn.org/searchall/ The only one you'll need!

Go down and pick what journal you want to search from, tons to choose from, or you could do it the
hard way and go to each individual website and use only one search at a time.

Here's a load of sites that pertain to bodybuilding interests, (some pyschiatry journals). The search all covers most of these though I'm guessing.

ajpendo.physiology.org

www.sciencedirect.com

www.ajcn.org

ajp.psychiatryonline.org

ajpcell.physiology.org

www.ajrcmb.org

journal.ajsm.org

ajpheart.physiology.org

www.nursingworld.org/ajn/

ajprenal.physiology.org

ajpgi.physiology.org/

ajpregu.physiology.org/

ajplung.physiology.org/

www.amjmed.org

ajpcon.physiology.org

www.jphysiol.org

www.jgp.org
jap.physiology.org

link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00359/

journal.ajsm.org/

If you can't get the full text you will have to pay a subscription, unless your a colloge student who's school subcribes to the journal your looking for.

This is long address and thus hard to remenber. So,

www.pubmed.com

also:

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/#fmj

http://www.scicentral.com/



Some good shhtuff!!

http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/index.html


OMFG!!!


"American Chemical Society Publications is a division of the American Chemical Society. ACS was founded in 1876 and is the world's largest scientific society with more than 159,000 members. ACS advances knowledge and research through scholarly publishing, scientific conferences, information resources for education and business, and professional development efforts. The ACS also plays a leadership role in educating and communicating with public audiences—citizens, students, public leaders and others—about the important role that chemistry plays in identifying new solutions, improving public health, protecting the environment, and contributing to the economy."

Currently, over 30 peer-reviewed journals and magazines are published or co-published by the Publications Division.

Approximately 140,000 pages of research material are published annually both in print and on the Web, along with another 90,000 pages of additional Supporting Information available on the Web.

With the introduction of the ACS Journal Archives in 2002, we provide searchable access to 3 million pages of original chemistry dating back to 1879. Citation information for articles is available free of charge prior to their hardcopy publication via our ASAP Alerts service.


From Emory University

http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/history.htm -- info about medweb

http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/ --- Very good resource

Found another great resource... http://www.martindalecenter.com/

quote taken from http://www.martindalecenter.com/Reference_...e_1_Awards.html

"The Web site contains an extensive index to on-line references, including links to -- just for example -- more than 6,700 on-line calculators and thousands of teaching files, multimedia tutorials, and data bases. The site, which is divided into "information centers," also offers links to information on such subjects as the arts, science, sports, and technology, among many others. If it doesn't have a link directly to what you're looking for, it can probably give you ideas about where to look. "

His site now has 18,485 different calculators.

Edit: Health Science Guide http://www.martindalecenter.com/HSGuide.html currently has
137,500 Medical Cases & Grand Rounds;
62,600 Teaching Files
1,340 Courses/Textbooks;
1,785 Tutorials
470 Journals;
4,470 Databases Atlases & Image Databases
& 1,000's of Movies

Storming Media provides unclassified reports and documents from the Pentagon about science, technology, strategy or policy.

http://www.stormingmedia.us/

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I'll edit each time I find a meritorious resource rather then continuing to post resources each time I find one.

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http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/othernuts.html -->

"The Linus Pauling Institute's Micronutrient Information Center is a source for up-to-date, scientifically accurate information regarding the roles of specific vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals (plant chemicals that may affect health), and other nutrients in preventing disease and promoting health."

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http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/

"HUMANUM is a research oriented web site maintained by the Research Centre for Humanities Computing of the Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH), Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Our task is twofold: namely, 1) meta-indicing humanities resources worldwide, and 2) develop texts, tools and pages covering various interests in the humanistic scholarship."

http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/MedH.html --> Medical and Health
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http://leda.lycaeum.org/

The Lycaeum Entheogen Database (Leda) was created to organize the complex and ever-expanding web of entheogen information.

The Lycaeum works to promote public education about all aspects of psychoactive drugs and drug use, including, but not limited to:

Visionary and entheogenic aspects of drug use, Ethnobotany of indigenous cultures, Harm reduction, and Health and legal risks of drug use.
The Lycaeum website at http://www.lycaeum.org/ provides, free of charge, original research and content, an internet portal, forums...
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http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/Area_of_Intere...ted_States.html --> For all your chemistry needs.
Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science (75%) and High Technology (25%) comp- any with $1.2 billion in annual sales. Our biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and chemical manufacturing. We have customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, non-profit organizations, hospitals and in industry. Over one million scientists and technologists use our products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 34 countries and has 6,000 employees providing excellent service worldwide.
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Par, if you want me to stop adding to the list let me know.
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http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/freeresearch.htm --> Free Research Resources
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http://infomine.ucr.edu/
"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE. We hope our service is useful and would appreciate any comments."

The New England Journal of Medicine also allows free access to the full-text of their articles that are 6 months or older. http://content.nejm.org/

Dave

Par.
I have a few family members in the medical profession, and like you said pubmed is in their opinion the best place for any information. the only problem is supplement studies are limited

Reactome, of course: http://www.reactome.org

Another very cool tool is BioBar, if you use mozilla.
http://biobar.mozdev.org/

From the page

I thought I'd add CancerWEB's On-Line Medical Dictionary:

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/

"OMD is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark and contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history, in fact anything to do with medicine or science."

funnily enough when i type in that exact phrase ("avacado proximates") the only result i get is a link to this page LOL

One thing to consider when looking for references- be aware that some articles are retracted after the publication date, for any of a number of reasons, the primary one being some major flaw that casts serious doubt on the findings of the paper. This obviously has implications for studies that cited the paper as supporting evidence prior to the retraction, but did not go back and make the correction.

A good way to filter is to enter "retraction of publication" in the search field of PubMed along with your search keyword(s).

This link is also quite useful: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/errata.html

haha, i gotta b a retard for not searching further than bb.com. That place is Ergopharms bitch, whereas here is biased. i liiiiike.

http://scholar.google.com/

hey,

how can I get a cheap way of getting journals on nootropics. All the journals are like $8 or something.

pinball

Get the citation, go to your local library, fill out a request form, and they'll get it for you. Usually for free.

FreeBooks4Doctors



http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/
Neuroguide

This would have been really rad if 90% of the links weren't broken and the rest just a wild goose chase.

http://www.etfrc.com/

http://mdma.net/index.html (cool links bottom of pages)
http://mdma.net/refs/index.html (related to above)

http://drugbuyers.com/

http://www.mind-boosters.com/

http://www.mercola.com/blog/

http://www.brainmachines.com/neurotransmitters.html

http://www.benbest.com/

The Dutch have recently decided that publicly funded research should be available to the public, if only the NIH would follow suit. 25,000 Journal articles free.

http://www.creamofscience.org/en/page/lang....view/keur.page

Drug Companies Taint Medical Studies by Dr. Joseph Mercola





USA Today May 25, 2005 : http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-0...l-studies_x.htm


New York Times May 26, 2005 Registration Required : http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http...lQ27p3Q51Q26Q27


New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 352, Number 21, May 26, 2005: 2202-2210 http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/21/2202

I love Google.

http://scholar.google.com/

here's excelent site

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

J, did this site move?

Any idea where it is now, or if it still exists?