medicine

Unbound Medicine has released The Merck Manual for Mobile Devices in partnership with Merck & Co.

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has created PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, said to be the first open-access journal devoted to the world’s most neglected diseases.

Elsevier has partnered with SOAPware to allow Elsevier’s iCONSULT clinical decision support content to be offered as a Clinical Knowledge Module to SOAPware v5 (liger) EHR users.

Sage Publications has acquired two journals from Prime National Publishing Corporation: American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias.

Thomson Pharma, the drug discovery and development information solution, has been enhanced with a new module that provides regulatory, legal and scientific information for development and registration of medicinal products and biologics.

EBSCO Publishing has made available an enhanced search experience for DynaMed. The DynaMed resource is now said to be more efficient and easy-to-use.

Springer has begun publishing Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC), the official journal of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Elsevier has launched a new online-only oncology review journal. Update on Cancer Therapeutics will be published quarterly and is intended for clinicians working in clinical oncology and cancer therapeutics.

Springer has acquired Obesity Surgery, the official journal of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity, from FD-Communications.

Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses is being launched by Blackwell Publishing amid growing international concerns about the possibility of an influenza pandemic.