ProQuest reminds me a little of the old days when we went to the library to read articles in magazines and periodicals. Here are all of those magazines and periodicals - on line now, not on the shelves. I decided to research primary biliary cirrhosis - an auto-imune disease my husband was diagnosed with in 1994. I looked at only information published in the past 12 months because I wanted to see what recent research might have discovered about this mysterious disease. I chose an article that looked promising. At first it looked daunting because of all the medical jargon, but as I began to read I realized that I understand most of this jargon because I have heard it and read it so much over the past 16 years! It was full of language I never dreamed I'd understand or know anything about! I read through the article only to learn that there doesn't appear to be any new information on this disease - at least according to this article. PBC attacks the bile ducts of liver; it presents in middle-aged people - usually women!; there is no cure, but some medications appear to slow the progress; eventually a liver transplant is needed; without a transplant the disease is always fatal. My husband had a living-donor transplant 6 years ago and is healthy today!
When my husband was first diagnosed I did lots and lots of research to learn everything I could about PBC, but now I want to find only the newest information to get updates on recent research. ProQuest works well for any kind of search a person wants to do.
