http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2008/nhlbi-06.htm

From asthma and cancer treatments to vaccines, no more hand-me-down research for children. A new Web site from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Children and Clinical Studies” http://www.ChildrenAndClinicalStudies.nhlbi.nih.gov, offers parents and health care providers an insider’s guide to children’s medical research, which saves lives and improves children’s health and well-being.

The Web site combines information about how clinical studies in youth are conducted with award-winning video of children, parents, and healthcare providers discussing the rewards and challenges of participating in research.

Resources include:

• Children and Clinical Studies, http://www.ChildrenAndClinicalStudies.nhlbi.nih.gov
• Database of clinical studies, http://clinicaltrials.gov/
• NHLBI Pediatric Heart Network, http://www.pediatricheartnetwork.com/

Are you bogged down processing invoices, bills and statements? Are you still waiting to put that check in the mail or for that check to come in the mail?

If you were an EFTS member, you could begin saving time and money. See the NLM
Technical Bulletin article to learn about the DOCLINE EFTS File Builder that will create the billing file to upload to EFTS. Did you know that the EFTS billing system is not just limited to payment processing for ILL and Document Delivery articles? You can post charges for such things as lost books and other services or fees provided by your library.

For information on joining EFTS, the EFTS staff at efts@uchc.edu or https://efts.uchc.edu/efts/Common/JoinEfts.aspx or Beth Wescott, your NN/LM SE/A Network Access Coordinator at bwescott@hshsl.umaryland.edu

MedlinePlus’ drug information content provider - the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) - has recently changed its product name from MedMaster to “AHFS® Consumer Medication Information”. As a result, there are changes to URLs of individual drug monographs on MedlinePlus, together with the September updates. We are replacing /medmaster/ with /meds/. For example,

Old URL:

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682563.html
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/druginfo/medmaster/a682563-es.html

New URL:

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682563.html
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/druginfo/meds/a682563-es.html

Old English URL http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a682563.html will redirect to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Old Spanish URLs,http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/druginfo/medmaster/a682563-es.html will redirect to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/druginformation.html.