Gary Wiggins wrote:

> The Internet Grateful Med search software is now available for
> searching MEDLINE on the U.S. National Library of Medicine system.
> You will need an account to search the file.  The URL is:
>
> http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
>
> At the present time IGM searches only MEDLINE and its backfiles.  It
> also offers links to NLM's Online Images from the History of Medicine
> and to NLM's HSTAT system for access to Clinical Practice Guidelines.
> Searching in additional NLM databses will be available later this year.
>
> Source: The NLM Technical Bulletin no. 288-289 (Jan-Apr 1996): 1, 7.
>
> --Gary Wiggins, Indiana University Chemistry Library

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    The article said the couple whose son's story was the basis for the
movie "Lorenzo's Oil" helped demonstrate the service at a medical
conference yesterday at Georgetown University.  Sen. Bill Frist
(R-Tenn.), a doctor, introduced the system at a meeting on high-tech
health care information systems.
     The article notes that you can go to the Web page to open an account
with the library.  I just checked the page and there is a link to a page
telling how to open an account, but according to that one still needs to
submit paper forms (copies of which are available online at
gopher://gopher.nlm.nih.gov/00/nlminfo/agreements/TEMPgrp1/userid.txt).

Randall Brinkhuis