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<h1>MEDLINE<span class="registered">&#174;</span> Turns 35!</h1>
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<span class="initcap">o</span>ctober 2006 marks the 35th anniversary of MEDLINE (MEDLARS<span class="registered">&#174;</span>
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<td width="252" align="center" valign="top"><strong>1971 </strong></td>
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<strong>(Fiscal Year 2005 Statistics:<br /> October 2004-September 2005)</strong></td>
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<li>236 indexed journals; grew to 1,222 journals by September 1972</li>
<li>147,000 total citations for MEDLARS since January 1, 1969; grew to 490,000 by September 1972</li>
<li>22 users</li>
<li>70,000 searches/year by June 1972</li>
<li>Operated on an IBM 360/50 mainframe computer</li>
<li>Available via dial-up telecommunications</li>
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<li>4,928 indexed journals</li>
<li>606,000 citations indexed; 13,476,222 total citations</li>
<li>77 million PubMed<span class="registered">&#174;</span>
unique visits</li>
<li>754 million PubMed searches</li>
<li>PubMed/MEDLINE runs on 20 Dell PowerEdge 1850 servers, 2 CPU 8Gb RAM, with the Linux operating system in 64 bit mode</li>
<li>Available via the Internet World Wide Web</li>
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<li>NASA Mariner 1 arrived at Mars - the first spacecraft to orbit the Red Planet.</li>
<li>Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to Gerhard Herzberg, Canada for "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals."</li>
<li>Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize awarded to Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. of the United States "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones."</li>
<li>In November Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor.</li>
<li>The 26th Amendment lowered the United States voting age from 21 to 18.</li>
<li>Walt Disney World opened October 1 in Orlando, Florida.</li>
<li>"All in the Family" debuts in 1971 on CBS.</li>
<li>National Book Award for fiction presented to Saul Bellow for <em>Mr. Sammler's Planet.</em></li>
<li>The French Connection won the Best Picture Academy Award.</li>
<li>#1 song according to Billboard Magazine: Joy to the World (Three Dog Night).</li>
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<li>March 10 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.</li>
<li>Leading astronomers declared that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.</li>
<li>A U.S. advisory panel recommended that 11- and 12-year-old girls be routinely vaccinated against the human papillomavirus virus that causes cervical cancer.</li>
<li>A drug-resistant bacterium, <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em>, became the most common identifiable cause of skin infections treated in emergency rooms, accounting for 59 percent of such ER cases in 11 major U.S. cities.</li>
<li>April - More than 1,000 cases of the mumps reported in Iowa and seven surrounding states in the largest outbreak of the disease in the U.S. in more than 20 years.</li>
<li>July: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opens - as of September 2006 the film made over $414 million dollars in the U.S. </li>
<li>As of September, the current number one song is "SexyBack" (Justin Timberlake).</li>
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