Turns out video games aren’t SO bad, at least if you’re planning to be a surgeon. A report from New Scientist magazine posits that surgeons perform better after warming up with Wii, — and that study’s authors are now planning to develop surgery training software for the video game platform.
“NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.” – JW Goethe
So opened one of the foremost science journals in history. Even back in 1869, Nature: the international weekly journal of science was pondering topics like science education in schools, the impact of environmental projects such as the Suez Canal, and recent solar eclipses.
Now that LSUHSC library has online full-text access to Nature from 1869 – present, you yourself can trace historic scientific events as they unfold in the biomedical literature, all from the comfort of your office or home computer!
Link: NATURE JOURNALS, 1869 – PRESENT: ONLINE FROM THE LSUHSC LIBRARY.
Welcome to LSUHSC and thanks for reading our blog! Here’s some useful tips to get a good start to your studies.
GET YOUR LSUHSC ID & LIBRARY BARCODE
As you stop by the Registrars office (Library ?óÔé¼ÔÇØ 4th floor) for your official university ID, make sure to drop by our Circulation desk for a library bar code. You?óÔé¼Ôäóll need it to check out books & get off-campus access to our many online resources.
SET UP YOUR PAYPAW ACCOUNT
Once you have your ID & library barcode, drop by the LSUHSC bookstore on the 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building (433 Bolivar St) to set up your PayPaw account. You can use it in the cafeteria (for food) & the library (to print). You can also add money to it online.
QUESTIONS ABOUT LOGINS, PASSWORDS, EMAIL ACCOUNTS?
See our handout explaining campus logins.
Contact the LSUHSC help desk at 568-HELP for any questions you might have concerning access to WebCT, Blackboard, email, or other computer related services. You can also contact your school?óÔé¼Ôäós computer support directly.
WANT WIRELESS?
We have directions for that for XP, Vista and Intel Proset on our homepage.
COMMON CAMPUS LOCATIONS
Cafeteria & Atrium – 3rd floor of the Nursing & Allied Health Building
Campus Bookstore – 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building
Elevated Walkway/Walk to Wellness – access this from the 2nd floor of any campus buildings
Student Financial Aid Office – 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building (around the corner from the Credit Union)
Wellness Center – 3rd floor of the Stanislaus Hall Dormitory
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We mentioned back in December that Web of Knowledge (the database which, among other things, allows you to see how many times an article has been cited) is changing. The switch is now only 13 days away!
Curious about how YOU can use the new ISI Web of Knowledge? Whether you’re a student, professor, vice provost, or librarian, Web of Knowledge can serve your needs. Check out this quick tour to see how the new face of knowledge can work for you.
Still insisting on using Google to do your research?
While we can’t force you use authoritative resources like PubMed or EBSCOhost’s CINAHL Plus with Full Text to search for journal articles (though we STRONGLY ENDORSE IT and YOU SHOULD), we can supply you with these tricks from Lifehacker.com for the times when Google is your tool.
For example, you can use Google to compare items with “better than” and find similar items with “reminds me of”. In fact, a search for LSU “better than everyone” gets over 19,000 hits!
That’s all the remaining time the library is open today!
In honor of the upcoming Buckeye beating BCS championship game, LSUHSC-NO campus closes at NOON today.
We will open again for regular hours Tuesday, January 8 (tomorrow) at 8AM.
Gearing up for gross anatomy? Check out this free online anatomy tool:
http://www.e-anatomy.org/index.html
e-anatomy is an anatomy e-learning web site. More than 1500 slices from normal CT and MR exams were selected in order to cover the entire sectional anatomy of human body. Images were labeled using Terminologia Anatomica. A user-friendly interface allows to cine through multi-slice image series combined with interactive textual information, 3D models and anatomy drawings.
Today is LSUHSC’S School of Nursing Family Day. Welcome!
Stop by the library for a barcode (to access LSU resources off campus), visit the Registrar’s office on the 4th floor (to do your paperwork), and check out our swank study areas (to finally relax!). We also offer group study rooms, wireless internet access and a computer lab.
Helpful links
Nursing Orientation Schedules
BlackBoard: School of Nursing
Nursing databases: Nursing Consult | CINAHL | Stat!Ref
LSUHSC WebMail
Financial Aid Office
And if you’re a new nursing faculty member, be sure to contact Mary Marix, your School of Nursing Library liaison, for specialized research support.
Starting on January 1, 2008, InfoRetriever with InfoPOEMs will be renamed Essential Evidence Plus.
Essential Evidence Plus will continue to feature InfoPOEMs (the daily EBM content alerting service), and the robust EBM search application formerly known as InfoRetriever. Plus, two new resources will become available:
EBM Guidelines – 1000 practice guidelines, 3000+ Evidence-Graded Summaries and 950+ high quality photographs
e-Essential Evidence (available Spring 2008) – 800 brand new topics designed to provide evidence-based answers to your most important clinical questions
Complete list of the tools and resources that will be included in Essential Evidence Plus.
Product access rights and core functionality for our existing subscription should remain the same and we do not anticipate that this update will result in a service interruption. Questions? Please contact us.
Web of Knowledge, the online resource that provides you with cited reference searching (Web of Science), a journal table of contents awareness service (Current Contents Connect), and journal performance metrics like impact factors (Journal Citation Reports) is changing it’s look in January.
WHAT YOU SEE NOW
Here’s our current start screen for Web of Knowledge. Note that you can try out the new version at the top of the screen.
WHAT YOU’LL SEE AFTER JANUARY 27TH
The new version offers a search form that searches all databases on the very first page.
Looking for Current Contents or Journal Citation Reports? Check under ‘Select a database’ or ‘additional resources’. 
A NEW LOOK FOR SEARCH RESULTS
Look on the right side of the search results screen to view references, who’s citing the article, and other useful information.
IMPROVED TOPIC SEARCH
Easily refine your search results by subject, author and more.
The library plans to offer a class on the new Web of Knowledge in February of 2008. For more info, email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu
If you have an iPhone you’ll be pleased to know that Epocrates Online has released a free web-based drug reference that’s optimized for iPhone and iPod touch devices. Just point your Safari browser to the following url to access over 3300 drug monographs (Note: you may be prompted to register with Epocrates):
Currently there’s not much medical software available for iPhone/iTouch. In fact, Apple only recently announced that they would allow developers to create iPhone software in early 2008. However, you can always use the Safari browser on your iPhone to access the many medical databases we have available online, just like on a computer.
New from the publishers of the PDR: PDRhealth.com, a free consumer health website.
Thomson Healthcare publishes the Physicians?óÔé¼Ôäó Desk Reference (PDR), a clinical resource on drug and disease monographs. PDRhealth.com is a free consumer health website based on the same information platform as the PDR.
PDRhealth.com offers drug & dietary supplement information, disease info and online health tools like cholesterol calculators and a drug interaction checker, in order to make critical health information accessible to consumers.
Individuals can also sign up to receive electronic newsletters, alerts on new clinical trials, and any new information about prescription drugs. The only thing lacking are pictures of the drugs and supplements, which are always available in the print edition of the PDR (available at our Circ. Desk & in Reference at QV 22 AA1 P56).
Did you know?
U.S.-based MDs, DOs, Dentists, Optometrists, NPs and PAs and U.S. medical students, residents and other select prescribing allied health professionals have FREE online access to the PDR and Thomson Clinical Xpert (registration required).
Did you know?
Thanksgiving is also the fourth annual National Family History Day.
Over the holiday or at other times when families gather, the Surgeon General encourages Americans to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in their family. Learning about their family’s health history may help ensure a longer, healthier future together.
My Family Health Portrait, a tool from the US Surgeon General, allows you to create a personalized and printable family health history report from any computer with an Internet connection and an up-to-date Web browser.
https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/
“The average American gains five pounds over the holiday season.”
It’s a common assertion over the holiday season, but where is the evidence?
“A Prospective Study of Holiday Weight Gain” from the New England Journal of Medicine (published March 23, 2000) investigated this claim and found that Americans experience a net 0.48-kg weight gain in the fall and winter. “Since this gain is not reversed during the spring or summer months,” the study found, “[the weight gained] probably contributes to the increase in body weight that frequently occurs during adulthood.”
Two more recent studies also investigate the 5 pound phenomena.
“The effect of the Thanksgiving holiday on weight gain.” from the Nutrition Journal (published 21 November 2006) and “The effect of the holiday season on body weight and composition in college students” from Nutrition and Metabolism (published December 2006) assessed potential changes that occur in body weight during the Thanksgiving holiday break in college students and found participants gained a significant amount of BW (0.5 kg) during the Thanksgiving holiday. “While an increase in BW of half a kilogram may not be cause for alarm,” the authors noted, “the increase could have potential long-term health consequences if participants retained this weight gain throughout the college year.” In fact, although average body weight remained relatively unchanged from pre-Thanksgiving to post-New Year’s, a significant positive relationship existed between the change in BMI and percent fat, total fat mass, total fat free mass, and trunk fat mass for the pre-Thanksgiving and post-New Year’s visits.
So what is to be done about it?
A study from the International Journal of Obesity (London) looked at “The role of conjugated linoleic acid in reducing body fat and preventing holiday weight gain.” Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), is a naturally occurring dietary fatty acid shown to reduce body fat in animals. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study among overweight adults, 3.2 g/day CLA significantly reduced body fat over 6 months and prevented weight gain during the holiday season. “Although no adverse effects were seen,” the study reports, “additional studies should evaluate the effect of prolonged use of CLA.”
Can’t get your hands on linoleic acid isomers?
Check out these tips on having a healthy holiday:
Check out these new book editions from AccessMedicine:
CURRENT Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2008
Current obstetric & gynecologic diagnosis & treatment.
CURRENT Pediatric Diagnosis & Treatment
Current Diagnosis & Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Cardiovascular Physiology
Endocrine Physiology
CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine
Also, new from STAT!REF:
Detailed Drug Information for the Consumer?é?« (2007)
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