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LSU Health New OrleansDental library hours
Effective Sunday, July 17, 2011, the LSU School of Dentistry Library hours will be:
Sunday Closed
Monday through Thursday 8 am ÔÇô 8 pm
Friday 8 am ÔÇô 5 pm
Saturday Closed
Knapp, Maureen
Emergency Med oral boards help
Academic life in Emergency Medicine blog linked to a resource out of University of Maryland that EM residents will find useful.
The Emergency Medicine Oral Boards Training Video Series covers general principles of the exam, along with 2 case studies and medical pearls. These 6-10 minute movies should play on any computer browser.
What’s cooking, Uncle Sam?
1943 USDA nutrition chart
2011 USDA's MyPlate
With the reveal of the new food plate from the USDA, nutrition has been in the news lately. An article on NPR’s Morning Edition recently discussed “Washington’s long tradition of trying to guide the American diet”. From turn of the century agricultural expeditions to “the Poison Squad”, a group of young volunteers who explored the effects of contaminated food in the basement of the Department of Agriculture, this report chronicles the relationship of government and nutrition.
If you’re in DC this year, a new exhibit, “What’s cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet” at the National Archives details America’s food history.
Dynamed serial number expired?
Just a reminder that Dynamed serial numbers have a shelf life of one year. If you downloaded Dynamed to your smartphone about a year ago, it may be time to renew your serial number. (The app will tell you when your serial number has expired.)
Renewing is simple. Just email reference@lsuhsc.edu or call 504-568-6100 to request a new serial number and then enter it into the app on your phone.
More info on Dynamed: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/ss&d/data/dyna.html
Embryo app has NOLA connection
Embryo is new app for iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad from the NLM. This app provides a collection of digital serial sections of early stage human embryos for mobile devices. Features include human fertilization videos, photo micrographs of early-stage embryo development, 2D and 3D digital images using visual stack dissections, and a pregnancy calculator.
Embryo is especially cool because LSUHSC-NO scientists were involved in it’s creation. The app is a collaborative project between the NLM, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), the Virtual Human Embryo Project at LSUHSC-NO and the National Museum of Health & MedicineÔÇÖs Human Developmental Anatomy Center.
The Virtual Human Embryo Project was developed in the early 2000’s as a collaboration between embryologist Dr. Raymond Gasser at LSUHSC and the Human Developmental Anatomy Center in Washington DC. Dr. John Cork at LSUHSC joined the project at its inception as the software developer with a special interest in 3D-reconstruction. The images generated from the earlier project provide the basis for Embryo.
JAMA’s Online Evolution
Jama.com has simplified their online site.
“With every page a home page, readers coming to JAMA in the most frequent wayÔÇödirectly to an article from Google or PubMedÔÇöcan scan the titles of the latest issue as well as the most viewed and most cited articles.”
For an overview of new features, read the full editorial, free at JAMA.com
Health Indicators Warehouse
What is a health indicator?
Health indicators are measurable characteristics that describe the health of a population (e.g., life expectancy, mortality, disease incidence or prevalence, or other health states), determinants of health (e.g., health behaviors, health risk factors, physical environments, and socioeconomic environments); and health care access, cost, quality, and use.
What is the Health Indicators Warehouse?
The Health Indicators Warehouse is a new data hub from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Browse or search health indicators by topic, region or health initiative (like Healthy People 2020). Easily visualize data through tables, maps or graphs.
New Practice Exams Resource Guide
Hunting for test prep materials? Look no further than our new Practice Exams resource guide. Here you’ll find all of our practice exam and test prep materials in one place. Test your knowledge on nursing, medicine, psychiatry, dentistry and more in our new Practice Exams resource guide.
Phrase searching in PubMed
Problem: you want to search PubMed for a phrase like text messaging, but the phrase keeps getting broken up.
Solution: when searching for phrases:
ÔÇó Search the phrase first without quotes or search tags.
ÔÇó Check Search details to see how the search was translated.
ÔÇó Use quotes (” “) when your phrase is broken apart.
For details and screen shots, read the complete article at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf11/jf11_skill_kit_pm_phrase_searching.html
Using quotes work really well when you are looking for a specific article title!
Mobile AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine, the popular resource that includes the full text of Harrison’s Online, diagnostic tests, and much more is now optimized for your mobile device!
To log in, go to m.accessmedicine.com on your mobile browser and log in with your MyAccessMedicine user name and password.
Don’t have a MyAccessMedicine user name and password?
You can create one through the Access Medicine homepage. Simply select “MyAccessMedicine” on the right side of the screen and follow the directions.
Questions? Contact mknapp@lsuhsc.edu
A Vaccine for addiction?
An advance online publication from Molecular Therapy reports on a possible vaccine for cocaine addiction.
Based on the concept that anticocaine antibodies could prevent inhaled cocaine from reaching its target receptors in the brain, an effective anticocaine vaccine could help reverse cocaine addiction.
The website io9 reports “By combining a cocaine-like molecule with part of the common cold virus, you get a vaccine that turns the immune system against cocaine, keeping it away from the brain.”
Allegedly, this is the first ever vaccine for drug addiction. However, at this point it’s only worked on mice.
Full citation
Cocaine Analog Coupled to Disrupted Adenovirus: A Vaccine Strategy to Evoke High-titer Immunity Against Addictive Drugs Cocaine Analog Coupled to Disrupted Adenovirus: A Vaccine Strategy to Evoke High-titer Immunity Against Addictive Drugs
Hicks JH, et al.
Molecular Therapy (2010); doi:10.1038/mt.2010.280
http://www.nature.com/mt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mt2010280a.html
RefWorks in 15 minutes
If you have 15 minutes then you have time to get a quick introduction to a free information management tool called RefWorks.
RefWorks in 15 minutes will be offered online January 6, 12, 18 & 27th. Register here.
Similar to EndNote, RefWorks lets you search, organize and manage your references. Since it lives “in the cloud”, once you create your free account**, you can access it from any computer at any location.
Some things RefWorks can do:
- Format a paper or bibliography for you in the citation style you need.
- Instantly add references as you type a paper in MS Word
- Search PubMed (or another database) from within RefWorks
- Share references with other people
A live RefWorks class will be taught by local RefWorks expert Molly Knapp on Thursday, February 10th, 2011 from 10-11 am. Email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu for more information.
**RefWorks is available free to LSUHSC students, faculty and staff.
Top 20 FREE medical iphone apps
iMedicalApps.com has updated their list of free top medical apps for iphone and raised the number to 20.
Top 20 Free iPhone Medical Apps For Health Care Professionals
The list is a mixture of news, point of care resources, and non medical but useful apps for iPhone and in some cases, iPad.
Notes:
LSUHSC has an extended subscription to Micromedex, while the free app SkyScape also runs our subscription to Dynamed and Natural Standard. Email mknapp@lsuhsc.edu for install information.
Also listed is ePSS – a public health tool from AHRQ that displays screening measures derived from the USPSTF based on patient demographic information, and Doximity, a “Facebook for doctors” – for those that need yet another social networking service.
Bottom Line
Although it’s a little annoying to have to click through 20 pages to see them all, it’s a good list (and you can’t beat the price).
NEJM Image Challenge for iPhone
The New England Journal of Medicine has just released a new app version of their popular “Image Challenge” weekly email feature. Test your diagnostic and visual skills any time, any where with this $2.99 application.
Featured Books X-Ray display
To celebrate the 115th anniversay of the invention of the X-ray, a new display is now available in the library. It features many books on radiology. These books are available for check out.