As a health professional, surely, on more than one occasion, you will delve into the search for scientific articles. Pubmed is one of those tools where you search for them, and while it takes time, you can easily find what you’re looking for if you keep a few key tips in mind.
There are many different filters available to Pubmed among which stand out: date of publication, impact and endless possibilities. Still sometimes, you may not be as accurate as you should be and you will loosen up your stock.
In the field of oncology is where more scientific articles are found
One of the fields in which you can find the most amazing articles is oncology, where research into it does not stop bearing fruit. It is increasingly easier to better understand the molecular biology of many types of cancer, which leads to establishing what their main causes may be and modifying lifestyles, and also makes it possible to establish new therapies, especially in the case of tumors resistant to more traditional chemotherapy.
Faced with so much innovation, it is necessary to know which articles have the necessary scientific rigor to be credible and which do not. On the Internet, you can easily come across articles of dubious scientific reliability. There are several websites in which scientific articles are published that seek to solve health problems in a completely different way than the one already established, even if it is effective.
There are many medical professionals who last for the veracity of what is published on the Internet
Although there are also websites that are dedicated to collecting these articles with the aim of reporting their doubtful veracity, always stating why we should not trust them.
Nowadays, any medical professional comes to doubt anything published outside of Pubmed or other sites classified as reliable. Above all, today, there are numerous articles in which the cure for cancer is discovered or any miracle that is not yet real.
Therefore, one of the key tips for reading scientific articles is to try to be critical and find out if the source is reliable or not. Although it is also important to put prejudices aside and try to give new information a chance, always in the right measure.