Top medical web publisher offers customized data feeds to web sites.BOSTON, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--March 21, 1997--SilverPlatter Education announced today the availability of custom versions of its Physicians' Home Page (PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. ) web site. Institutions and publishers may now offer their user communities a version of PHP designed to include their own insignia, contact information, links to locally held resources, and graphic elements of their existing web site. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , the new product, dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. "Your PHP", is hosted on SilverPlatter's T1 and servers so it provides fast service without tapping into any local resources. It requires little to no maintenance by institutional customers. The basic version of "Your PHP" provides users with access to the most important medical databases and a series of online publications driven by an editorial board of well-known physicians from throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Web site developers and administrators may offer their communities the entire PHP as it exists online, may choose subsets of the databases and publications available, and may add selections from SilverPlatter's catalog of over 300 databases. Links to locally held resources may also be included. PHP itself can be previewed by pointing any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. at http://php.silverplatter.com . Among the databases offered through PHP is the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE The online medical database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose parent is the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. MEDLINE contains millions of articles from thousands of medical journals and publications. The consumer section of the site (http://medlineplus. which provides 8.5 million records published in nearly 4,000 journals covering medical research since 1966. PHP's version, which is updated weekly, provides a document delivery function, links to journal home pages, and a fully integrated and hyperlinked MeSH thesaurus. Together, all of the content on PHP takes up nearly 27 gigabytes of hard disk space. In addition to the medical databases, PHP offers many online publications. MD Digests, one such publication, provides physicians with a quick glance of the current week's literature. It also provides links to related web sites and pre-authored database searches created by a librarian to provide relevancy. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Michael Grover, Product Manager for Physicians' Home Page, "PHP provides web administrators and content developers with a quick way to plug the databases and publications that physicians want into their sites. And, since it adopts the look and feel of its clients' sites, these vital resources integrate seamlessly." Medical Consumer Media, a Bethesda, Maryland Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, just Northwest of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1850, which in turn took its name from company that provides internet-based services to pharmaceutical companies, is one of the system's current users. Says Dr. Jon Merril, president of the company, "The PHP service allowed Medical Consumer Media to provide MEDLINE access to our customers quickly. Our relationship with SilverPlatter continues to be a key element in our success in this rapidly evolving industry." SilverPlatter technology is currently used by over 30,000 institutions worldwide. A white paper on the service, including some sample uses, is available. It can be retrieved via the web at http://php.silverplatter.com/yourphp.htm . For more information, contact: SilverPlatter Education/PHP 246 Walnut Street A number of streets are named Walnut Street:
Newton, MA 02160-1639 Phone: 1-617-244-0284 Fax: 1-617-244-5979 Toll-Free: 1-800-521-0574 http://php.silverplatter.com CONTACT: SilverPlatter Education/PHP 1-617-244-0284 Cynthia Johnson (x17) (cynthiaj@silverplatter.com) or Michael Grover (x23) (michaelg@silverplatter.com) or Charles Wood Charles Wood may refer to:
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