These include newspapers and magazines such as Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Health, and Prevention . Some of the information provide is written by health care professionals but not all. Many are of minimal value and are tossed hence the name. Some of the titles have more value and are actually indexed. Postgraduate Medicine and Mayo Clinic Proceedings are two which have substantive and are indexed.
Most medical journals have the same basic organization.
Obituaries Meeting Announcements Association News Abstracts from other journals' articles Instruction to Authors Publishers can be either an association, a commercial company, or a commercial company publishing for an association. Associations can produce journals which are just news about the profession such as Triad, The D.O., Michigan Medicine, American Medical News or more scholarly journals such as JAOA, JAMA , and New England Journal of Medicine. Scan the table of contents of JAMA and NEJM especially the lead article for the week. Read the abstracts, and if the abstract indicates that the article is germane to your practice population, then read the article. The database covers from 1966 to the present.