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Combine Results with AND, OR and NOT

e.g. heart AND surgery – finds items containing both the words heart and surgery. To narrow your search you may find it useful to use proximity searching (see our useful hints page for further details)

e.g. heart OR cardiac - finds items containing any of the following:  the word heart, the word cardiac or both words (includes singular/plural, us/uk spelling variations)

(use sparingly) Searches for articles that do not contain the following words e.g. heart NOT surgery. As this is rarely used you must type NOT in your search rather than clicking on an appropriate button.