Jennifer Lloyd

Ische Library Closing @ 6

Reminder: Monday through Friday, December 19th -23rd, the Isché Library will close at 6 pm.

Dental Library – Winter Break Hours

The Dental Library will be open from 8 am to 5 pm on Wednesday and Thursday, December 21st and 22nd, and from 8 am to 4:30 pm on Friday, December 23rd. Regular hours (8 am to 8 pm) will be observed on Monday and Tuesday, December 19th and 20th.

Winter Break Hours – Isch?® Library

During the semester break (and before the University closes for Christmas/New Year’s) the Isché Library will have shortened hours.
Sunday, December 18th 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday, December 19th through Friday, December 23rd 8 am – 6 pm.

Closed Saturday, December 24th – Monday, January 2nd.

Dental Library is Open!

The Dental Library has re-opened! The Library has been closed to the public since mid-August for HVAC & ceiling work.
The Dental Library hours are:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed

INNOPAC

INNOPAC, the LibrariesÔÇÖ Online Catalog, will be down this afternoon for up to 2 hours for a scheduled systems upgrade. Thanks for you patience.

*Edit* @ 5:10 pm – the upgrade did not complete. Completion/downtime may occur on Thursday, Dec. 8th in the morning.

*Edit* @ 7:30 pm – the upgrade has been postponed due to hardware issues.

Dental Library to Re-Open

The Dental Library will re-open on Sunday, December 11th! The Dental Library hours will be:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed

PayPaw & PayPerPrint

*Edit* All systems were back up by 10:15 am

Because of scheduled maintenance the PayPaw & PayPerPrint systems will be down across campus from 7 am – 10 am on December 1st.

Star: Hansen’s Disease Digital Collection

The full-text of the complete run (1941-2001) of the Star, a bimonthly newsletter published by the patients of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library. This collection was created with the cooperation of the National Hansen’s Disease Museum.

Gumbo Healthy?

The Stay Healthy, Louisiana! blog (from the Louisiana Public Health Institute) posted that a gumbo z’herbes recipe from the New Orleans School of Cooking was featured in Shape magazine. Who says Louisiana food can’t be healthy?

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Isché Library is closed today through Saturday. It will re-open on Sunday, November 27th at 1:30 pm. The Dental Library remains closed for repairs.

Veteran’s Day Ceremony

Chancellor Hollier announced a brief Veteran’s Day Ceremony on Friday, November 11th via email today.

“We will have a brief ceremony on Veterans Day to honor veterans and current military at LSU Health Sciences Center. So, weÔÇÖre asking LSUHSC vets and service men and women to gather at 10:15 a.m. in front of 2020 Gravier Street this Friday, November 11, 2011. Vice Chancellor Ron Gardner, a Vietnam veteran, will say a few words, and weÔÇÖll take a photo.

LSU Health Sciences Center is grateful for your sacrifice and your service, and we are proud that you have chosen to carry it forward to a lifetime of service as academic and health professionals.”

Royal Society Historical Archive – Free

Royal Society Publishing has opened their archive to the public free of charge. This archive includes “all articles from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, first published in 1665 and officially recognised as the world’s first ever peer-reviewed journal.” The archive covers 250 years of scientific discovery and includes covers all the publishers journals. Only articles more than 70 years old will be accessible. My favorite from the first volume (1665) is “A Relation of Persons Killed with Subterraneous Damps.”

LSUHSC Libraries do have access to the most recent content that is not free to the public. Access to recent matieral is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.

Saints Loss Due to Norovirus?

A new study in the December 1st issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases exams the spread of the Norovirus among NBA players in the 2010-2011 season.

Let’s blame the Saints loss last Sunday to the Rams on a stomach bug and hope they’re better this week for their game against the Buccaneers.

Link to the pdf of the article is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.

Halloween Candy Warning

The Food and Drug Administration issued an update last week on the health hazards of eating too much black licorice.

From the update: If youÔÇÖre 40 or older, eating 2 ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could land you in the hospital with an irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.

FDA experts say black licorice contains the compound glycyrrhizin, which is the sweetening compound derived from licorice root. Glycyrrhizin can cause potassium levels in the body to fall. When that happens, some people experience abnormal heart rhythms, as well as high blood pressure, edema (swelling), lethargy, and congestive heart failure.

I wonder if this applies to black jelly beans too?

Clinical Alert from NHLBI

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) issued a clinical alert on Friday, October 21, 2011:
Clinical Alert: Commonly Used Three-drug Regimen for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Found Harmful
NIH Stops One Treatment Arm of Trial; Other Two Treatments to Continue (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html)

One arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) was stopped for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.