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.”
Need a little training on the new Ovid SP interface? Head on over to the OvidSP Resource Center and check out their brand new tutorials – all under two minutes and presented on targeted topics, so it’s fast and easy to get a little more training on the new layout.
MedlinePlus.gov debuted a multilingual feature, providing access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish today (Wednesday, May 7th).
“The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics. Continuous growth is expected.”
Every day, children ages eight to 18 spend more than six hours watching TV, playing video games or using the computer for recreational purposes. The more time youth spend in front of the screen, the more likely they are to be overweight.
Turnoff Week (April 21-27) is a nationwide campaign to raise public awareness about the effects of too much screen time. Sponsored by the NHLBI We Can! program, they offer helpful activities to reduce screen time.
Conceived by a Wisconsin Senator in 1969, April 22 is known to some as Earth Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
Are you doing anything for Earth Day? Planting a tree? Walking instead of driving? Absolutely nothing?
Whether you’re apathetic or animated about the state of our planet, you can let the world know on Google Maps today.
“However you’re planning to honor Earth Day (April 22) and combat climate change, we want to hear all about it ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ the more unique, the better.”
Who knows? Maybe you’ll even learn how other locals observe Earth Day…or how they do not.
That’s how many questions reference librarians across America answer in an average week.
Ever wonder what it’s like working the other side of the reference desk? Here’s a short video from our librarian overlords that examines that very question. Why? Because it’s National Library Week!
The City of New Orleans has finally put the survey about reinstatement of curbside recycling online. Please take a minute to fill it out if you are interested in the return of curbside recycling.
Researchers at the Imperial College London found that theobromine, a chemical commonly found in cocoa, may help patients with a persistent cough. Theobromine works by suppressing vagus nerve activity, which is responsible for causing coughing. A 2004 study in FASEB journal found that the concentration of capsaicin (a chemical a substance used in clinical research to cause coughing) required to produce a cough in those people given theobromine was around one third higher when compared with the group receiving a placebo.
The team also discovered that unlike standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no adverse effects on either the cardiovascular or central nervous systems.
No, I’m not talking about the Wii. This summer Nintendo will introduce a new program for the DS system. My Weight Loss Coach comes with a pedometer, mini quizzes and challenges designed to motivate and reward users for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The legibility of doctor’s handwriting has been an established source of humor . According to the Annals of Improbable Research, there have been 4 studies on physician handwriting in the last 30 years (really there have been many more). They even go so far as to recommend a penmanship book from 1843. However, according to Quality & Safety in Health Care, physician’s handwriting is as good (or bad) as anyone else’s.
Get a leg up on your classmates and check out www.getbodysmart.com. Created by an anatomy teacher, this website is a great resource for learning about the skeletal system, muscle tissue physiology and the nervous system among other subjects. The animated drawings, diagrams and interactive quizzes will help you ace your next exam.
Here’s nifty tool that can help you stay current on medical news and topics. MedWorm is a web-based program that takes thousands of RSS feeds from medical journals, websites, blogs, and more, and sorts them into categories so you can quickly get up to date news on the topic of your choice.
Whether you want to know the latest on Alzeheimers or need to stay up to date with consumer health news, MedWorm wriggles its way through the internet to bring you a comprehensive and current snapshot. You can even subscribe to it through your RSS reader. Now that’s a parasite I don’t mind having on my computer.
From the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan comes GENOME PROJECTOR, an awesome new tool for those interested in molecular biology.
Genome Projector, a searchable database browser with zoomable user interface, currently allows 4 different views: Genome map, Plasmid map, Pathway map, and DNA walk. It’s based on the same software concepts that run Google Maps, so the interface is pretty intuitive.
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