Tracy

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personal account | opinions are my own and all that | too curious for my own good | avid reader (no, I probably won't share because y'all might get judgey) | she/her | #medlibs 🦀 #EvidenceSynthesis #SystematicReviews | 🌈 🌻

Screenshot of text reads: Headline results (from summary) Descriptors in 2025: 30,956 Descriptors in 2026: 31,110 Adds (2026 vs 2025): 160 Deletes (2026 vs 2025): 6 Renames: 41 Records with any field change: 30,950 Element-level change rows (long format): Tree numbers: 474 Synonyms (Entry Terms): 1,083 Qualifiers: 64 Registry Numbers: 0 These figures reflect the annual vocabulary maintenance NLM performs (adds, deletes, merges, renames, scope note updates, qualifier adjustments, etc.), which they announce via the Technical Bulletin and distribute in the yearly MeSH Download files.
Screenshot of text that reads: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the termination of future Household Food Security Reports. These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger. For 30 years, this study—initially created by the Clinton administration as a means to support the increase of SNAP eligibility and benefit allotments—failed to present anything more than subjective, liberal fodder. Trends in the prevalence of food insecurity have remained virtually unchanged, regardless of an over 87% increase in SNAP spending between 2019 - 2023. USDA will continue to prioritize statutory requirements and where necessary, use the bevy of more timely and accurate data sets available to it."
screenshot of text that reads: "Chocolate often evokes happy feelings and reduces tension. The antidepressant effect of chocolate is due to its psychoactive chemical content, such as anandamides, which target opioid receptors in the central nervous system [45]. In a study conducted by Moreno-Dominguez et al. [46], excessive chocolate consumption was associated with more anxiety than moderate/low consumption."
screenshot of text that reads "Methods: The study is a narrative review. “Scopus”, ‘Web of Science’, ‘PubMed’ and ‘Google Scholar’ databases were used for literature search. The words “nutrition”, “crime”, “violence”, “psychology”, “psychology”, “behavior” and their combinations were used as keywords in the literature search and articles published between 2000 and 2024 were examined. After excluding articles whose full text could not be accessed and articles that were found to be missing important methodological details, 45 studies were included in the review."
Screenshot of PubMed error message that reads "filters applied: humans" and "search is temporarily unavailable. please try again later" and "timeout waiting for worker"
Screenshot of Washington Post headline that reads: "College football winners and losers: Vanderbilt beat No. 1 Alabama. Seriously. The Commodores’ 40-35 victory Saturday in Nashville is one of the biggest upsets in recent memory."
screenshot of PubMed error messages: "Search is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." and "Cannot search because the number of wildcards (*) exceeds 256."
Screenshot of PubMed search for ADHD and menopause showing the first result is about male sexual reproductive health.
Photo of "Tracy's King Crab Shack" in Juneau, Alaska.