Two classes on important library resources will be taught this week:
Thursday, March 26, Finding Electronic Journal Articles (Liz Strother)
Learn how to use library resources for locating free electronic journal articles.
Friday, March 27, PubMed Basics (Julie Schiavo)
Introduction to searching PubMed, the premier database from the National Library of Medicine, for dental/biomedical information. Tips for refining your searches and managing results will also be taught.
Both classes will be held at noon in the Dental Library conference room. Please call 941-8158 or email dentlib@lsuhsc.edu to reserve a seat.
March 24th is World TB Day. Although TB rates continue to decline in the United States (according to the CDC), the pace of that decline is slowing. Louisiana continues to have a higher than average number of cases. And while it didn’t rate a special Google logo, World TB day is featured from their search page.
The LSUHSC New Orleans campuses experienced another significant network crash this morning. Services are coming back online. Unfortunately, the Library’s catalog, INNOPAC, is not one of them yet. Stay tuned.
~Edit~ INNOPAC came back onine at 10:40 a.m.
Medlineplus.gov, the National Library of Medicine‘s consumer health information website, has created a tutorial on medical terms to assist consumers in understanding and using medical language.
The Ische Library elevator has been taken out of service.
~Edit~ The elevator was put back in service on Tuesday, March 24th at 2 p.m.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine has been digitizing many of its historic photos. While some of these are available in their online galleries, others are located on a Flickr page.
Check out this food safety poster from World War II.
Flickr is an online photo management tool. If you are having difficulty viewing this image, try switching to the firefox browser. Flickr images do not work with IE on campus.
Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match…
In this case, the matchmaker is the National Residency Matching Program. Match Day ceremonies at medical schools across the country begin at noon today.
Last year, exactly half of the 246 graduating students from Louisiana State University’s medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport stayed in Louisiana, according to a 2008 article from the Times-Picayune.
Good luck to all our medical students, we hope you get your first choice! Whether you do or don’t, you may want to pick up the book Match Day: Young Doctors in Hell for what is in store for you.
From four-leaf clover-shaped quadricusp aortic valves to Clostridium perfringens gastroenteritis associated with corned beef, here’s some St Patrick’s Day biomedical journal articles from PubMed.
Plan to indulge this evening? Check out this Cocktail Content Calculator for exactly how much you’re Irishing up that coffee, as well as tips on pacing yourself. It’s all from the website Rethinking Drinking, from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
And if you do overdo it, please remember to call a cab.
Clinicaltrials.gov offers a searchable database of clinical trials that are occuring world wide; it is provided by the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. As of today, 38,757 trials are taking place in the United States and 2,816 of those are in Louisiana according to their searchable map.
It’s that time of year again, when various agencies grade the states on a variety of social issues:
From the National Center on Family Homelessness: Louisiana ranks 46th (up from 48th in 2005) in Child Homelessness; the short report also states that 1 in 28 children in Louisiana do not know where their next meal will come from.
From the National Alliance on Mental Illness: Louisiana gets a D for our mental health care system; of course, the overall grade for the United States was also a D.
From the Pennington Biomedical Research Center: Louisiana received a D in its Louisiana Report Card on Physical Activity and Health for Children and Youth.
The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
Diagnosaurus, a free differential diagnosis tool featuring content from Current Consult Medicine 2007 is now available for iPhone.
However, it is not exactly free. You have to pay $0.99 to download it from iTunes
Download info: http://www.unboundmedicine.com/register/reg?cmd=diag&style.m=mh
We’re re-arranging the third floor to bring you more study space! There are now several tables available by the copy machine. Now you don’t have to sit on the floor the next time you need to xerox something.
FaceBook recently changed the way that the Libraries’ Pages look. Check out the new look for both the John P. Isché and Dental Libraries. And become a Fan today!
Every March the American Dietetic Association sponsors National Nutrition Month. One fun feature of their website is a fad diet timeline; I don’t think I would have wanted to try Lord Byron‘s vinegar & water diet (1820) or the sleeping beauty diet (1976) which featured heavy sedation for several days.
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