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New Look for Links

The LSUHSC New Orleans Libraries have launched a new Links page using the social bookmarking website, Delicious. The new page features a tag cloud for easy access to the items tagged by LSUHSC Librarians.

One Book, One New Orleans

The Literacy Alliance of New Orleans, along with the Young Leadership Council, has sponsored a community reading program since Spring 2004. They have recently announced this year’s book, City of Refuge by Tom Piazza. The program period begins September 15th and should end mid-November.

One Book One NOLA 2008

4 things you didn’t know about Louis Armstrong

Planning to go to Satchmo Summerfest this weekend? “Satchmo” is one of the nicknames of Louis Armstrong, who is widely recognized as a founding father of jazz. This Friday through Sunday a free festival in the French Quarter celebrates Satchmo’s legacy.

Here’s some interesting health sciences related facts about Louis Armstrong:

SciPhone

From Jott, a personal note transcriber which records speech into text, to MIM, an application which explores 3-D models of the human body, check out the top 10 science applications for iPhone, via Seed magazine.

Friday fun: Vollig Weichgekocht

This link is dedicated to anatomy fans:
http://www.sarahillenberger.com/news_sz.html

(The German translation in the title is something like ‘false softness’.)

Disasters on MedlinePlus.gov

MedlinePlus has added a disasters category to its Health & Wellness section. Check out Hurricanes.

Library closed July 4th & 5th

The library will be closed Friday, July 4th and Saturday, July 5th for a University Holiday. We re-open at 1:30pm Sunday, July 6th for our regular hours.

And for you Residents working the ER this weekend, maybe now is the time to review “Not another 4th of July report: uncommon blast injuries to the hand” from the Emergency Medicine Journal. (If you’re on campus, you should be able to get the full text by clicking the purple LSUHSC icon in the abstract.)

More search results for ‘fireworks’ in Pubmed.

Library Hours

Listen to your buds

Catch the sounds in ‘Bump and Hustle’ and keep the music down!

A 2006 ASHA survey (that’s the American Speech and Hearing Association) indicated that 40% percent of students set their music players’ volumes too loud. In fact, a recent article in the Journal of Pediatrics found that most adolescents are aware that they listen to their music too loud, and (in the tradition of adolescents everywhere) really don’t care.

This online game from ASHA educates kids about the potential risk of hearing loss from unsafe usage of personal audio technology. The little buds even look like the headphones of an ipod. Cute!

Library Newsletter Summer Issue Available!

The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.

Dental applications for iPhone

Planet DDS, a provider of web-based dental software, has recently created an interface with the iPhone, Medical iPhone blog reports. Denticon Web-Based Practice Management on iPhone has capabilities for scheduling, records management, insurance billing, digital radiography, and more.

Hurricane Season: Be Prepared

A selected list of hurricane preparedness websites has been assembled by Mary L. Marix, Reference Librarian. Check it out and be prepared.

Go Ahead and Have Another Cup of Coffee

“Drinking up to six cups a day of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee daily won’t shorten your life span, a new study by Esther Lopez-Garcia shows.” The study is published in today’s issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

?óÔé¼?ôOmaha, here come the Tigers”

70 years end on a high note
Monday night at Alex Box Stadium was a wonderful ending to the 70 years of LSU’s old baseball stadium. The Tigers trounced the UC-Irvine Anteaters 21-7, to advance to the NCAA College World Series in Omaha. LSU will play North Carolina in the opening round of the 2008 NCAA College World Series at 6 p.m. Sunday. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN 2.

No pain, no gain
According to NCAA injury surveillance data for men’s baseball from 1998-2004, college baseball has a relatively low rate of injury compared with other NCAA sports, but 25% of injuries are severe and result in 10+ days of time loss from participation. Injuries can include everything from tearing the cartilage in your shoulder to taking a ball in the face. In fact, there’s 130 articles in PubMed on college baseball alone.

A healthy Tiger is a happy Tiger
This article from the Journal of Athletic Training gives an overview of collegiate injuries for 15 sports, along with recommendations for injury prevention.

And if you’re interested in how the new baseball stadium is coming along, click here for LSU Sports Net.

Undiagnosed Diseases Have a Home

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.

“The new program, which got under way over the past month, is the culmination of efforts by William A. Gahl, M.D., Ph.D., clinical director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the NIH; John I. Gallin, M.D., director of the NIH Clinical Center; and Stephen Groft, Pharm.D., director of the NIH Office of Rare Diseases (ORD). With the program infrastructure now in place, the program is ready to accept patients, the first of which is expected to be seen in July 2008.”

Blogging has Health Benefits!

According to Scientific American, Blogging is good for you, as are most types of expressive writing. Now we know why the blogosphere is exploding.