A few people have been in touch highlighting that the way we support advanced Boolean searching has changed.

In the old site you could create a ‘shortcut’ advanced search by typing in the main search box, for example:

If you do this on the new site, you get a different result:


Can people spot what’s happened? In reality it has treated ‘prostate’ as a title word and ‘zinc’ as title or body of the text. To reproduce the same result as the old interface you need to follow this logic:

I hope that helps people understand what’s going on and provides an insight into the more complex search opportunities.