medicine

I was speaking to a retired dermatologist who said that a lot of patients came into his office for tattoo removal. He mentioned that many people with tattoos become allergic to the barium, a heavy metal, in the ink and needed to have it removed. I hadn't heard of this so I went to PubMed and Google Scholar to find out more.

In PubMed: Part 1, I explained why using PubMed to search for answers to medical questions is helpful. Now I'll describe how to use its advanced search functionality as I promised.

The default search form is located at the top of the page and looks like this:

Many of us have searched the web for information regarding medical conditions. If you haven't used PubMed, you should try it.

PubMed is a database of peer-reviewed scientific articles which are mostly health-related in scope. It's maintained by the National Library of Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health.