Friday, February 6th is National Wear Red Day, when Americans nationwide wear red to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness.
Around town, local ladies will attend American Heart Association’s annual Go Red for Women luncheon and fashion show. Additionally, Macy’s will give all-day in-store savings & online discounts to customers wearing red February 5-8th.
In Louisiana, 35 percent of all deaths are a result of cardiovascular disease, and more women than men die from heart problems. You can find more information on heart disease in the Louisiana Health Report Card (pdf).
What is your risk for heart disease? Find out with the American Heart Association’s online heart checkup.
For February only, download a free PDF copy of Solomon Snyder’s Science and Psychiatry: Groundbreaking Discoveries in Molecular Neuroscience. A free, monthly book download is part of the subscription from Psychiatry Online, your one-stop online shop for (free) psychiatric textbooks.
Solomon Snyder has been instrumental in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology?óÔé¼ÔÇØas a pioneer in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and in the explanation of the actions of psychotropic agents. Science and Psychiatry is a collection of some of his best scientific papers, publications ranging over forty years that represent important advances in psychopharmacology and molecular biology. Audacious and unanticipated when they first appeared, these papers opened up new areas of understanding and revolutionized the modern study of the brain. Republished here, they show why fundamental research into the ?óÔé¼?ômessengers of the mind?óÔé¼?Ø is as essential for clinicians as for researchers.
You can access the book from PsychiatryOnline’s home page:
http://0-www.psychiatryonline.com.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/
(requires log-in off campus)
A new study from Australian Family Physician found “no clear ‘winner'” between DynaMed, MD Consult and UpToDate when it came to answering clinical questions.
You can read the full report free online here:
http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/200810/28814
Honestly, I’m happy if you just use an evidence-based clinical resource instead of Google.
DynaMed: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/dyna.html
MD Consult: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/mdconsult.html
Need a refresher or want to learn more about REFWORKS (our premier bibliographic management tool), but don’t have the time? REFWORKS IN 15 MINUTES is an online class designed just for you! Dates and times are below.
RefWorks in 15 Minutes
While the ideal way to teach users the basic features of RefWorks is to conduct a full training session, we realize that in some situations you may have only a few minutes to demonstrate the power of RefWorks. During this session, you’ll rapidly learn: how to create an account; direct export citations from two databases; create a folder; create a bibliography from a list of citations; and create a bibliography using Write N’ Cite.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:00 am
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:00 pm
https://refworks.webex.com/refworks/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=715252868
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:00 pm
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More Classes are available – from Write n Cite to RefShare to the basics –
Check out the full schedule on Refworks.com
Ever wonder why you always get sick at Mardi Gras? Surely it couldn’t be the mass consumption of food and drink combined with the scrambling around outside in all types of weather. Overindulgence aside, the “Mardi Gras malaise” sprang to my mind when I ran across “Public Health Surveillance for Mass Gatherings” (full text PDF) from the Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Lombardo, J.S., et al.; Vol. 27, No. 4 (2008):
Abstract:
Mass gatherings represent specific challenges for public health officials because of the health risks associated with crowd size and duration of stay. In addition, population movement requires public health departments to interact across jurisdictional boundaries to identify risks and disease-management solutions. However, federal privacy laws restrict the sharing of patient data among public health departments in multiple jurisdictions. This article examines previous disease surveillance practices by public health officials in planning for mass events
and describes a simple approach for sharing health-risk information that was employed in 2007 during Super Bowl XLI by the health departments of Indiana, Marion County, Cook County, and Miami-Dade County.
Want more? In honor of the Inauguration, Superbowl, and other large spectacles, the National Library of Medicine has put together a fresh new bibliography on Public Health Preparations for Mass Gatherings.
The American Society for Cell Biology’s Image and Video Library is a great collection of still images and dynamic videos of the highest quality covering the field of cell biology. CellDance is an annual contest hosted by the ASCB that spotlights new video and digital images in microscopy.
My favorite is this video from University of California, San Francisco, which uses synchronized swimmers to illustrate mitosis. (The first place winner on the Golgi Appartus is pretty cool as well.)
The ASCB’s Image & video library invites contributions from all cell biologists who wish to publish high quality images and videos on the site, and all content is available to view for free online. As of yet there are no submissions from LSU! Maybe you could be the first to contribute.
UK researchers say the video game Tetris may work to reduce Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, BBC news reports:
The Oxford University experiment works on the principle that it may be possible to modify the way in which the brain forms memories in the hours after an event.
A total of 40 healthy volunteers were enrolled, and shown a film which included traumatic images of injuries.
Half of the group were then given the game to play while the other half did nothing.
The number of “flashbacks” experienced by each group was then reported and recorded over the next week, and those who played Tetris had significantly fewer.
The study was recently published in the online, open access journal PLoS One.
View full text of original article (free).
From protecting our genetic information from discrimination to constructing an entire bacterial genome from scratch, here’s a round-up of the top stories in science and medicine for 2008:
Science Magazine names Reprogramming Cells the “Breakthrough of the year”; exoplanets & cancer genes make runners-up.
The NIH open access policy and GINA get a mention in Rick Weiss’s Top 8 Science Policy News Stories of 2008 at ScienceProgress.org.
Time Magazine went whole hog with it’s Top 10 of Everything, but we’re more interested in their Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs and Top 10 Scientific Discoveries.
Amazon editors selected Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin the best science book of 2008. Customers used their wallets to push My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor above Shubin; Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach sounds pretty interesting as well. (2008 was also the year of the colon, apparently.)
For you skeptics out there, The Quakometer offers his take on the best books about quackery, scepticism, complementary and alternative medicine and its effects on society for 2008.
Whether it’s your first H&P or fifty-thousandth, medical students and other health care professionals will find A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine useful.
Created by Charlie Goldberg, M.D. and Jan Thompson at UCSD School of Medicine, A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine is designed eye towards clinical relevance. Each section is constructed to answer the question: “What do I really need to know about this area of medical care?” and the material is presented in a concise, ordered fashion with color photographs that should be readily applicable to the common clinical scenarios seen in day to day practice.
Detailed descriptions of how to function in clinical settings are included. If you’ve ever wondered about oral presentations, patient write-ups, outpatient clinics, functioning on an inpatient service or clinical decision making, there are sections describing exactly that.
A Practical Guide to Clinical Medicine is freely available online for anyone.
Wandering around Learningradiology.com today, I stumbled across “22 Must-See Diagnoses for Medical Students“. It’s a great review if you have 12 minutes to brush up on your radiology skills.
LearningRadiology.com has a ton of multimedia radiology resources, from interactive quizzes, and cases of the week. There’s also video podcasts available to download to your iPhone or mobile device too.
Have a favorite radiology site? Post here, and we’ll add it our radiology links page.
An amusing news item from the New Orleans States, 23 March 1950 speaks to the cautions of associating with nameless seamen:
Fractures arm, leg in accident
James Garner, 29 years old, 421 S. Galvez, suffered fractures of the right arm and leg when his automobile crashed into a lamp post at St. Peters and S. Diamond early today.
Garner, an LSU medical student, said a sailor whose name he did not know was driving the auto. The sailor fled the scene. Garner was treated at Charity hospital and transferred to Hotel Dieu.
You can view this and other snippets of LSUHSC history in the Louisiana Digital Library’s LSUHSC Newspaper Clippings Collection.
A report from the Institute of Medicine released on Tuesday morning proposes revisions to medical residents’ duty hours and workloads “to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment resident training.” The report does not recommend further reducing residents’ work hours from the maximum average of 80 per week set by ACGME in 2003, but rather recommends reducing the maximum number of hours that residents can work without time for sleep to 16, increasing the number of days residents must have off, and restricting moonlighting during residents’ off-hours, among other changes. The committee, which was chaired by Dr. Michael Johns of Emory, estimates that the cost for additional personnel to handle reduced resident work could be roughly $1.7 billion annually.
Read the full report here
Thanks Ram Paragi, for the publication alert!
The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is a new free resource featuring over 442 peer-reviewed, full text, searchable chapters on women’s medicine.
“The Global Library of Women?óÔé¼Ôäós Medicine is a unique web library incorporating a range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women?óÔé¼Ôäós medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by more than 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. The website has been developed from the six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, which was first published in 1934 and has been edited for the last 30 years by professor John J. Sciarra.”
Though the site is available to the public, medical and health professionals can register for extra features, such as the ability to comment on the text, submit new material, and access videos, medical atlases and laboratory tests.
GLOWM was created in honor of the publisher’s daughter, Abigal Bloomer, who died of breast cancer at age 31.
Join us for another RefWorks class next Monday afternoon. RefWorks is a bibliographic management tool that can format a list of references for you. This class will cover the basics of loading your references into RefWorks from different databases like PubMed, Ebsco & Ovid, organizing your references using folders, and formatting bibliographies.
What: RefWorks Class
When: Monday, December 8th 2-3 p.m.
Where: Ische Library Room 405
Register: email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu
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