No Joke – It’s National Humor Month

Everyone knows the old adage that “laughter is the best medicine.” What better time to test this hypothesis then during National Humor Month? There are over 200 articles in PubMed related to the sense of humor.

Tobacco Tax Makes Smokers Want to Quit?

The new Federal Tobacco Tax goes into effect today. It will cost smokers over $1 more per pack as of today. In response cessation hotlines are hearing from smokers in record numbers. So if you want to quit and can’t get through on the phone, try one of these websites for assistance:

Good luck!

Happy Root Canal Awareness Week!

Sponsored by the American Association of Endodontists, Root Canal Awareness Week provides an opportunity to dispel long-standing myths about root canal treatment and increase understanding of the procedure as one that is virtually painless. The week also seeks to raise awareness of endodontics as a specialty and highlight the importance of endodontists, the dentists who specialize in root canal treatment.

http://www.aae.org/patients/pressroom/RootCanalAwarenessWeek.htm

Happy Anniversary to the Libraries’ Blog

Today is the 2nd anniversary of the LSUHSC New Orleans Libraries’ Blog. (No need for gifts, but the traditional gift is cotton and the modern gift is china.) In the last 2 years, we have published 452 posts which is a new post approximately every 1.6 days. We have had 8 authors and over 50 categories. Is there a subject that we’ver overlooked? Or something exciting/interesting/odd that you want us to focus on? Please don’t hesitate to let us know. We’re looking forward to great year 3. Thanks to all the Library Staff who have contributed.

New Orleans Dental Conference/LDA Annual Session

If you’re attending NODA/LDA on April 3 and 4, be sure to visit the dental library booth, number 711 in the Exhibits. Come with questions about library services, searching the dental/biomedical literature in PubMed, and ordering journal articles via Loansome Doc. Searching via PubMed will be demonstrated.

PsychiatryOnline Goes Mobile

This just in:
PsychiatryOnline (off campus link), an ebook provider of psychiatry textbooks, is now available for Mobile browsers. Access to the mobile site is included as an added benefit of current subscriptions.

You will be automatically redirected to m.psychiatryonline.com when visiting the main PsychiatryOnline.com site from a wireless-enabled mobile device (such as a smartphone or PDA).

OFF CAMPUS ACCESS FOR MOBILES
Before your first mobile visit, be sure to create a free personal ?óÔé¼?ôMy PsychiatryOnline?óÔé¼?Ø account. To create an account, go to www.psychiatryonline.com from a desktop or laptop computer while authenticated by your institutional subscription, click the ?óÔé¼?ôMy PsychiatryOnline?óÔé¼?Ø link from the homepage, and follow the instructions for creating an account. Your ?óÔé¼?ôMy PsychiatryOnline?óÔé¼?Ø username and password will then give you access to the mobile site. (IP-based recognition is not possible from mobile devices, and accounts cannot be created from the mobile site.) The mobile site will prompt users who haven?óÔé¼Ôäót yet created My PsychiatryOnline accounts with these instructions.

Content Available
Most mobile browsers are limited in their ability to transmit large files quickly, so only the most essential information is included in the mobile version of PsychiatryOnline. Search and navigation are simplified as well, to better suit the small mobile screen (e.g., the ?óÔé¼?ôrelated content?óÔé¼?Ø links usually seen at the left of content have been removed to unclutter the screen). Mobile site users do, however, get full advantage of PsychiatryOnline’s powerful semantic indexed search.

The mobile view content set includes:

Dental Library to teach two classes this week

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.

World TB Day

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.

Network Crash

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.

Medical Words

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.

Ische Library Elevator

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.

Historic Medical Photo Collection

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.

Good luck on Match Day!

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.

Erin go Blog

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.

Searching for a Clinical Trial

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.