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Does MEDLINE include popular press publications?

April 26, 2017MEDLINE Popular Press Publications

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Does MEDLINE include popular press publications?

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A few popular press publications, including Time and Newsweek, were originally indexed for the separate HealthSTAR database, created through a cooperative agreement between NLM and the American Hospital Association. As part of NLM reinvention efforts in the late 1990s, citations in the separate NLM databases were folded into MEDLINE/PubMed. Indexing of the health- and biomedicine-related content of these popular press titles has continued, and the citations are now tagged as part of the consumer health subset of MEDLINE/PubMed. The citation of titles such as Time and Newsweek are meant to provide access to information such as patient and public opinion about health and medicine, political proposals related to Medicare, health care, stem cell research, and other prominent news stories related to medicine and health care written for the lay public.