Tools

PDR consumer health style

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).

A Picture of Health for Thanksgiving

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/

PeerClip – for Physicians, Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners

Here’s an interesting & free online resource for all you physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners out there:

PeerClip is a new tool that combines two ways gain knowledge?óÔé¼ÔÇØreading medical literature and interacting with peers?óÔé¼ÔÇØinto a powerful online tool. Currently PeerClip is available exclusively to physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners & free to qualified users. As a librarian, I can’t check it out, but it sounds mighty interesting.

Habla Medical Espa?â??ol with your PDA

Here’s a neat application for your Palm, Pocket PC or Smartphone:

FOCUSED MEDICAL SPANISH
FREE assessment tools to health care professionals who are charged with treating non-English speaking persons in the acute medical setting. These assessments are intended for all levels of Spanish proficiency, but especially for those with little or no Spanish language skills.

This could be really useful to you clinicians out there. These handouts give you phonetical pronunciations and translations of simple Spanish terms & phrases encountered during the medical interview. Whether you need to know
?Le duele el pecho? (Do you have chest pain?) to El sufre a menudo de nerios? (Does he have a history of anxiety?), these handouts show how to ask the right yes/no questions.

All you need to use it is Adobe Reader for Mobile Devices (also free – download here). Once you have Adobe reader, just download the files you want and sync your PDA. To access them from your PDA just use the Adobe link on your PDA.

DONT HAVE A PDA?
You can print out regular PDFs of medical Spanish AND listen to MP3 pronunciations on this site as well.
As they say in Spanish, ?é?íp?â?ísatelo bien! (Enjoy!)

Crime Maps from the City of New Orleans

The City of New Orleans & NOPD have redesigned their Crime Maps database. A great new site!

Need information on property around town? There’s also an address search.

Handy & free tool – PDF document converter from NLM

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!