November is American Diabetes Month
November is American Diabetes Month according to the Centers for Disease Control. MedlinePlus offers a great deal of patient information on Diabetes that supplements the CDC page.
November is American Diabetes Month according to the Centers for Disease Control. MedlinePlus offers a great deal of patient information on Diabetes that supplements the CDC page.
The university-wide Fall Fest is today and all LSUHSC faculty, staff, students and their families are invited. It will be from 3:30 – 7:30 p.m. According to Chancellor Larry Hollier, “There will be something for everyone ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ delicious food and drink, live music from Bag of Donuts, an airbrush tattoo artist and clowns with balloons for the little ones. For those of you coming from off campus, free parking will be available in Student Lot 2 (on the corner of Perdido and Bolivar streets). We?óÔé¼Ôäóre grateful to Campus Federal for their sponsorship of the event.”
Did you know? The CDC postponed publishing updates to the adult immunization schedule until January 2009, but the folks at Group on Immunization Education (GIE) of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine has updated their PDA-friendly immunization schedules. You can also find other resources such as clinical scenarios for teaching, online educational videos, and curricular materials.
The CDC has created The Ounce of Prevention campaign to give health educators and consumers practical and useful tips. The website offers a variety of resources, including information on food preparation, wild animals, and antibiotics.
The Library Commons project is moving forward. Drywall has been up for over a week, but the workers started the mudding process today.
In case you haven’t heard, today is election day. Remember that to find your precinct or a sample ballot, the Louisiana Secretary of State offers GeauxVote website with that information.
The Libraries have offered a blitz of classes in honor of National Medical Librarians Month which ended on Friday. Here are the final two classes associated with our month of events:
Register today by calling the Circulation Desk (504-568-5550) or by emailing reference@lsuhsc.edu.
Check out this cool site from The National Library of Medicine.
Don’t forget to come to the Isché Library today between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm for the Shin-Dig!
Candy, Information, Giveaways!
Looking for some harrowing images to decorate your Halloween party? Check out the Library’s list of Image databases. Find videos of surgeries (AccessSurgery) or just creepy pictures of old houses (Louisiana Digital Library). Or even use the images for instructional purposes.
Well, we?óÔé¼Ôäóve reached the end of National Medical Librarians Month, and as things draw to a close we?óÔé¼Ôäód like to focus on one more new resource with which you are already familiar: the new and improved E-journals list.
Let?óÔé¼Ôäós review the advice and words of caution Becky provided us when it came out:
Task for Week 4:
The Dental Library Open House will be today from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. Go and “Sink Your Teeth In!”
Move along, just trying to get some web statistics stuff set up here.
The Isché Library will be hosting a Halloween Shin-Dig from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, October 31st. | |||
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Two more chances to learn and one chance to celebrate:
Check out the Dental Library Open House on Tuesday, October 28th from 11:30 to 1:30; Go and “Sink Your Teeth In!”