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How it works

The Toolbox contains research tools for finding psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis-related information on the Internet. Within the pages of this web site you will find annotated links to pages on other web sites, and search forms that search material on other web sites. When you select an external link or use a search form, the targeted page or search results will be displayed in a new, unframed browser window. If your browser supports tabbed viewing you may be able to direct targeted pages to appear in new tabs. For Firefox users: select the menu items Tools>Options>Tabs, check the option titled "Force links that open a new window to open in:" and select radio button: "a new tab". For IE7 and later users: select the menu items Tools>Internet Options>(Tabs)Settings, and in the section titled "When a pop-up is encountered" select radio button "Always open pop-ups in a new tab".

The Tools

• Search Tools
  Search Tools contains search forms that retrieve information from web sites and online databases relevant to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Search forms are arranged by category. To use a form, enter a search term in the form's white 'text box' and press the Search or Submit or Go button. You may also use any drop-down menus or check boxes within a form to narrow your search. Use the drop down menu at the top of Search Tools as a shortcut to jump to search categories.

• List O'Links
  The List O'Links contains a set of annotated links to online resources that provide information relevant to psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The links are arranged by category. Link categories span the topics of patient information, peer resources, online communities, medical information sites, bioscience, bioinformatics, research and clinical trial resources, alternate treatment information and consumer resources. The intent is to provide links to resources suitable for self-education at multiple levels. Use the drop down menu at the top of List O'Links as a shortcut to jump to a link category.
  

• Regulatory Documents
  Regulatory Documents contains links to archived FDA regulatory documents that review treatments for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Referenced documents include medication guides, and pharmacology, toxicology and clinical reviews maintained by the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Links labeled 'Search Medwatch' return search results from the FDA's Safety Information and Adverse Events Reporting Program. Links labeled 'Search FDA' return search results from the complete FDA web site. Please remember that archived documents are historical by nature. The information they provide on the safety and efficacy of reviewed treatments may not be up to date.

• Literature Searches
  Literature Searches contains links to preformatted PubMed searches using search-terms relevant to psoriasis and psoriatic-arthritis. PubMed is a database containing references to millions of articles published in thousands of peer-reviewed journals in the life sciences and biomedicine. Pubmed is searched using Entrez, an on-line search tool created by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Search results are displayed as links to references. A reference often points to an abstract (summary) of an article, the full article being available at the publisher's website for a fee. To find only references to articles that are freely available in full text format, re-submit your search term using the PubMed Central database. If you would like to create your own links to Entrez searches, NCBI provides this tutorial.