A new survey (PDF) released Wednesday by the Louisiana Tumor Registry shows that cancer rates among white and black men are higher than national norms in every parish across the state.
The survey — led by Edward Peters, an assistant professor of epidemiology at LSU — examined cancer cases occurring between 2000 and 2004 and mapped cancer cases by type and parish.
The registry is a part of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
La. male cancer incidence surveyed — nola.com (Times-Picayune)
Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look At Race, Ethnicity And Health — KaiserNetwork.org
Lifestyle blamed for higher cancer rate in Louisiana — wwltv.com
DocMorph is an online tool that converts files among multiple formats. For example, it will create PDFs from MS Office Documents. It is a totally free, web-based service of a federal agency, and is open to the public.
It can convert over 50 file types (MS Word documents, Raw Text, RTF, PDF, HTML, image files, etc.) into PDF, TIFF, Raw Text, or Synthesized Speech. It also does OCR.
DocMorph is simple to use: upload the document, and wait briefly for the output to appear in the browser.
You need to register and log in — registration is free and logging in requires simply your e-mail with no password.
Who can you thank for this useful & free tool?
Why, the super folks National Library of Medicine, of course!
We’ve updated our electronic resources page to make it easier & faster for you to access our online databases & other resources. Check it out!
(Not showing up? Try hitting your SHIFT key + the Refresh button on your browser together, or F5 on your keyboard, to automatically refresh the webpage.)
Pssssst! We also updated the subject listings!
The library catalog, which was closed for maintenance this morning, is back online.
Access Medicine is simplifying the process of getting their book content onto your PDA starting July 17.
Instead of using the MobiPocket reader to download and view individual content chunks through ?óÔé¼?ôMy AccessMedicine,?óÔé¼?Ø (as it was in the past) users can now download full-text PDA-readable files from content pages using any commonly available PDA reader. Just find the content you want, click “PDA Download,” and sync the file to your PDA.
Please note: any PDA files you’ve saved to “My AccessMedicine” will be deleted from your subscription during the day on July 16 (today!)
Questions, problems? Contact AccessMedicine’s Customer Service at digitalmktg@mhprofessional.com
What’s New?
Clinicians using InfoRetriever on a handheld device will find our new and improved interface easier to use and more intuitive than ever before.
Some of these exciting enhancements include:
-Updated navigation to help you move around the product with ease
-Increase or decrease the font display based on your personal preference with the click of a button
-Less scrolling makes it easier to navigate InfoRetriever on your handheld device
-Refine your search results to pinpoint information even further
?óÔé¼?ªand much more!
Your current installation of InfoRetriever Updater will continue to keep InfoRetriever’s content up to date, but to receive the latest program enhancements, you’ll need to download the latest version. Don’t miss out, download the new release today! (Off campus requires login with WAM)
Is a cadaver your best friend this semester? Then you must be one of the many students taking Anatomy. There’s good news for you lab rats though — the library has several online atlases of anatomy available that you can use in the lab, through your laptop!
Color atlas and textbook of human anatomy. Vol.3 – Nervous System and Sensory Organs
by W. Kahle, M. Frotscher
Pocket atlas of human anatomy by H. Feneis & W. Dauber
Want more? Thieme ElectronicBook Library has oodles of atlases available.
We will re-open at 8AM Thursday July 5th.
However, you can access much of our information & resources online, all you need is a library barcode & a PIN you create the first time you access resources off-campus. Here’s a handy brochure on how to do it!
Are you a pirate in the sea of information?
Check out this article on Brittanica Blog by Gregory McNamee on strategies to avoid the riptides when assessing information you find-online or otherwise.
DID YOU NOTICE
MDConsult got a makeover last month: check it out!
MORE MDC NEWS
MD Consult was recently named one of “24 Tools No Doctor Should Be Without” by MD Net Guide. According to the Web site, “We consulted several MDNG editorial board members to determine which tools and resources they rely on and compiled this list of the top tools every physician should at least be familiar with, if not use in his or her everyday practice.” The full list is at available here (free registration required). Wow! MicroMedex, PubMed, Cochrane & Ovid also made the list!
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy 2007 has been added to MD Consult Core Collection. It replaces Rakel: Conn’s Current Therapy 2006.
Yeo: Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 6th ed., has been added to the MD Consult Choice Collection-Surgery. It replaces Zuidema: Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, 5th ed.
Burg: Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th ed., has been added to the MD Consult Choice Collection-Pediatrics, replacing the 17th edition.
LOOKING FOR MORE?
The library has oodles of e-books ready for you! MD Consult is only one of several places you can get online books. Check out these resources:
AccessMedicine
AccessSurgery
AccessEmergency Medicine
PsychiatryOnline
Stat!Ref
Thieme ElectronicBook Library
Miss the PDA expo today on the 2nd floor of the MEB? It’s OK. We’ll be back in the same spot tomorrow for the New Residents Orientation. Even if you’re not in Medicine, drop by for literature on a variety of PDA resources available to you for free as faculty, student or staff of LSUHSC.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by, and if you’re an incoming third year medical student — welcome back!
Summer semester is in full swing, and for some of you that means anatomy class. Before you start hacking away those cadavers, consider hacking of a different kind: using an e-book in the lab, direct from your laptop, to identify that fatty tissue.
Whoa! You mean I don’t even have to open a book???
Thieme ElectronicBook Library has over 20 atlases of the human body, including Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, Color Atlas of Human Anatomy, Vol.3, & The Human Body.
AccessMedicine, AccessSurgery & AccessEmergency Medicine are also good resources. Though no specific anatomy books are in here, a keyword search for any body part can give you lots of results from a ton of different e-books.
Computers are lame. Giving me the print edition
Not into the e-book thing? Good news — you can browse our extensive anatomy section of the library by going to the 4th floor books & looking for the call number QS 4 ot QS 17.
From the LSUHSC School of Medicine News Page:
The Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine is seeking patients with asthma and COPD to enroll in several different studies and would appreciate assistance. If you have a patient who may qualify, please call the Asthma Research Center at 568-3450, and leave the patient’s name and contact number. Thank you!
Our new books display is back after a long hiatus!
New Book Display
These books are available for checkout. Swing by the library and browse away.
RSS (aka Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a format for sharing and distributing Web content, and it is taking over!
For example, check out all the RSS feeds available from the NIH & the National Library of Medicine. Whether you want updates on consumer health news, high quality information about marketed drugs, or NIH Clinical Alerts & Advisories, there’s a feed for you. You can even set up an RSS feed on your specific research interests in PubMed. Now that’s one way to impress your colleagues!
RSS still confusing? Don’t let it threaten you. Check out this quick & easy overview of RSS from USA.gov & become an RSS-pert.
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