It’s the Midnight Special

Remember the Isché Library is open until midnight tonight (Friday, May 8th) and tomorrow (Saturday, May 9th) for special exam hours. Time to get studying!

iPhone Clinical Trials

A new application for iPhone allows users to access the database of the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health which holds the results of and information pertaining to more than 71,500 clinical trials.

ACCESS NOW: iClinical Trials

Of course, there is always clinicaltrials.gov if you don’t have an iPhone.

Read more: “Ivor Kovic, M.D. ?é?? Blog Archive ?é?? NIH Database More Accessible to iPhone Users” – http://ivor-kovic.com/blog/?p=419#ixzz0EqGkrQSH&A

Get Fit!

Who remembers the President’s Fitness Challenge from grade or high school? The pull-ups were my most hated event.

president fitness challenge

President Obama has reiterated that May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. There are guidelines for adults, seniors, teens, and children. I’m willing to try the Physical Activity Guidelines, just so long as no on makes me do pull-ups ever again.

Happy National Nurses Week to All of the Nurses in the LSUHSC-NO!!

National Nurses Week is celebrated every year beginning on 6 May, National Nurses Day, and ending on 12 May, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the foundress of modern nursing. Included in this week of celebration is National Student Nurses Day on 8 May.

The theme for the 2009 celebration is Nurses: Building a Healthy America

?óÔé¼?ôThis year?óÔé¼Ôäós theme reflects the commitment nurses make every day in building a healthy America for the public we serve,?óÔé¼?Ø said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. ?óÔé¼?ôANA has long advocated for meaningful health system reform and in 2008 re-released ANA?óÔé¼Ôäós Health System Reform Agenda, an ANA blueprint for reform that focuses on the basic ?óÔé¼?ôcore?óÔé¼?Ø of essential health care services, which is essential in building a healthy America for everyone.?óÔé¼?Ø

New! Rehabilitation Reference Center

A new database for PTs, OTs and rehabilitation professionals is now available.

Rehabilitation Reference Center is a clinical reference tool designed for use by rehabilitation clinicians, physical therapists, and occupational therapists at the point of care. It provides valid and relevant information intuitively and conveniently, using the best available evidence to help support clinical decisions.

FEATURES

The RRC is available to LSUHSC faculty staff & students, & can be accessed off campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find a link to the RRC from our Electronic Resources page.

Live Help now available

You can now get live help on the web with our new library chat service. Simply type us a question and get a response instantly! The library chat service is open Monday-Thursday from 8-8 and Fridays from 8-4:30. Access is available from the library homepage under the link to Help/live chat or directly from our help page.

Live help from the LSUHSC library, over the web!
http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/services/help.html

PsychiatryOnlineBook of the Month: Eating Disorders

Just in time for Mental Health Month comes PsychiatryOnline.com’s Book of the Month for May: Yager & Power’s Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders.

ACCESS NOW: Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders

Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders provides sound therapeutic advice based on current research and clinical practice. It includes detailed discussions of various aspects of assessment and treatment, featuring up-to-date evidence- and consensus-based information. Ranging from the determination of initial treatment approaches to problems posed by unique groups of patients, it marks the first APPI volume specifically directed toward the clinical management of patients with eating disorders-and the first book to focus squarely on what psychiatrists need to know about the clinical assessment and management of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders, and obesity.

You can access the Book of the Month from the home page, at www.PsychiatryOnline.com. You’ll have access to Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders as a PDF download for the month of May.

Off campus? Use this link: http://0-www.psychiatryonline.com.innopac.lsuhsc.edu/

Melanoma Monday

Today is Melanoma Monday so check those spots! See the Melanoma Monday website for more information: http://www.melanomamonday.org/. See also the National Library of Medicine’s Medline Plus web information on skin cancer: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/skincancer.html.

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month

The American Academy of Dermatology has established May as Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, and Monday, May 4th is Melanoma Monday. Please visit the AAD website and the Melanoma Monday website for more valuable information regarding skin cancers. There you will find fact sheets, a self-check guide, and printable body maps to keep track of your moles. There are also search tools to locate a dermatologist in your area and find a free screening location. So as the AAD says, “See spot, check spot!”

MENTAL HEALTH MONTH

Mental Health America (formerly known as the National Mental Health Association) is celebrating 100 Years of the Mental Health Movement. The organization developed the Live Your Life Well website to help people deal with stress and promote well-being.

Here are the 10 Tools that can help you to live your life well:
1. Connect with others
2. Stay positive
3. Get physically active
4. Help others
5. Get enough sleep
6. Create joy and satisfaction
7. Eat well
8. Take care of your spirit
9. Deal better with hard times
10. Get professional help if you need it

Burn the Midnight Oil

Remember the Isché Library is staying open until midnight on Fridays & Saturdays this weekend and next. Come get your study on.

LSU Docs & Live Chatting on NOLA.com

Earlier today, two LSUHSC physicians were featured in a Live Chat on NOLA.com regarding Swine Flu. Fred Lopez & James Aiken answered questions from participants for about an hour starting at 12 noon.

Swine Flu

Louisiana is clear for the moment, but human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control have created a Swine Influenza (Flu) page at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/index.htm

It includes incidence of U.S. Swine Flu Infection, currently at 20 cases in California, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and New York City.

More from CDC:
Interim CDC Guidance for Nonpharmaceutical Community Mitigation in Response to Human Infections with Swine Influenza (H1N1) Virus: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/mitigation.htm

Guidance for Clinicians & Public Health Professionals: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/guidance/

For international information & global statistics, see the the World Health Organization’s Swine flu page:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

For folks in Louisiana, the State Dept. of Health and Hospitals encourages “Aggressive Prevention” Against Swine Flu:
http://wwwprd.doa.louisiana.gov/LaNews/PublicPages/Dsp_PressRelease_Display.cfm?PressReleaseID=2019&Rec_ID=0

The White House also issued a press briefing on Swine Influenza:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Briefing-On-Swine-Influenza-4/26/09/

Exam Hours at the Ische Library

Because the Library Commons is not quite finished yet, the Isché Library will have Spring Exam hours and will be open until 12 midnight 7 days a week until May 14th.

Where Circle Bar and Medical History Meet

A recent inquiry to Blake Pontchartrain, New Orleans Know-It-All, revealed a very interesting link between New Orleans and Medical History.

According to Blake, “The last house standing at 1032 St. Charles Avenue. . . was once the office of Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, the first woman to practice medicine in New Orleans.”

The historic building now serves as Circle Bar.

Dr. Cohen was not only the first woman to practice medicine in New Orleans, but also the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana.

The life of Dr. Elizabeth Magnus Cohen is one with many challenges and triumphs that not only impacted the history of New Orleans, but the role of women in medicine as well.