Giving up coffee for Lent? Not so fast! A new study from the Journal of Investigative Dermatology reveals that caffeine may kill off some human cells damaged by ultraviolet light, one of the key triggers of several types of skin cancer.
Read the original article from the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (off campus login req’d)
News article from MSNBC
The finding could be used to develop a topical application of caffeine that could be targeted to at-risk skin cells, as it seems to make those cells more killable and because “caffeine itself is a potent sunscreen,” said Paul Nghiem of the University of Washington and a team member of the new study.
The Isché Library color copier has moved to the 5th floor.
Facilities will begin testing the fire safety system in the Isché Library momentarily.
The Isché Library will be open the following hours for Mardi Gras weekend:
| Friday, February 20th |
8 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
(Regular Hours) |
| Saturday, February 21st |
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Sunday, February 22nd |
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
| Monday, February 23rd |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Tuesday, February 24th |
CLOSED |
University Holiday |
| Wednesday, February 25th |
8 a.m. to 12 midnight |
(Regular Hours) |
The Dental Library Mardi Gras/Spring Break hours will be:
| Friday, February 20th |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
(Regular Hours) |
| Saturday, February 21st |
CLOSED |
(Regular Hours) |
| Sunday, February 22nd |
CLOSED |
| Monday, February 23rd |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Tuesday, February 24th |
CLOSED |
University Holiday |
| Wednesday, February 25th |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Thursday, February 26th |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Friday, February 27th |
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
| Saturday, February 28th |
CLOSED |
(Regular Hours) |
| Sunday, February 22nd |
1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
(Regular Hours) |
Because of maintenance in RCB, ILLiad will be offline from 5 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. on Monday, February 16th.
The Library’s Digital Projects reached a milestone today as the two-thousandth article from the historic newspaper clippings file was scanned and uploaded into our collection on the Louisiana Digital Library.
The November 1951 article is about Dr. George W. Cooper, an LSU physician and poet-hobbyist, who is pictured receiving an award from the New Orleans Poetry Forum. Dr. Cooper won second place for his poem “Witches Cauldron” that year, and in 1950 was featured as an “Orleanian who writes books“.
Do you have a book of Dr. Cooper’s poetry? We’d love to read his award winning poem!
About the Historic newspaper clippings file:
Since 1933, the library at LSU Sciences Center New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO) has collected newspaper clippings relating to the history and accomplishments of Louisiana’s first public health sciences institution. The Newspaper Clippings Collection is an ongoing project that will eventually index over 70 years of news about LSU’s professional schools of the health sciences. Primarily indexing papers such as the States-Item, Times-Picayune and other local news sources, information can be found on events and news surrounding LSU Medical Center, Charity Hospital, LSU Health Sciences Center Academic and the Healthcare Network, and LSUHSC faculty, staff, and students. Due to copyright, images from this collection are restricted to patrons on the LSUHSC-New Orleans campus. Metadata is viewable to anyone. For questions or more information, contact digitalarchives@lsuhsc.edu.
The Isché Library now has a color photocopier available for use. The costs of copies for this machine is 25¢ each. At this moment, it can only make color copies, so no 10¢ copies are available. It is currently housed on the 3rd floor.
Like all the photocopiers in the Libraries, it is administrated by Auxiliary Enterprises.
An article from the New York times discusses problems with a new colorectal cancer risk assessment tool from the National Cancer Institute that only works for whites.
A new interactive online tool can help older Americans assess their risk for developing colon cancer. The catch is that it only works for whites.
That?óÔé¼Ôäós too bad, since blacks are at higher risk than whites for colorectal cancer, developing it and dying of it at higher rates, and recent reports suggest the racial gap is widening…
N.C.I. officials said they are modifying the risk assessment tool so it will be applicable to blacks, Hispanics and Asians, but said the data they used to test the model?óÔé¼Ôäós precision were drawn from studies with mostly older white participants.
Read the full article.
The AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) summit on Translational Research is March 15-17, 2009 in San Francisco. http://summit2009.amia.org/ Conducted in close partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), this meeting will be an indispensible gathering for translational bioinformatics research and development worldwide. The abstracts to papers and posters are available for viewing.
The ILLiad email service has been restored. Thanks for your patience.
Having trouble keeping up with those journals that are piling up? Don?óÔé¼Ôäót remember where those email reports are about your committee work? Well?óÔé¼?ª..
You can set up your personal Google Reader which accepts RSS feeds to monitor your favorite journals, keep track of your own publications and get notified when someone cites you, and stay up to date with society/association announcements, and your favorite blogs.
Don?óÔé¼Ôäót know what I just said? You should contact a reference librarian reference@lsuhsc.edu immediately. She will assist you in using these 2.0 technologies. This technology will simplify your life. You can wow your kids at the same time! The drawback? Once you get the hang of 2.0 technologies it will be 3.0 technologies!
I stumbled across the Life Photo Archives this morning. The photos date from the 1750s through today and most were never published. Of course, I had to see if there were any photos relating to medicine and New Orleans. Here’s what I found:
This photo dates from June 1966 and features “Medical Technician Robert Mitchell working with the baboon that he taught to smoke for research on cancer & heart disease at the LA state Univ. medical school.” Photos are available for “personal non-commercial use.”
The FDA has a website that lists all the peanut containing products that have been recalled by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). Some PCA peanut products have been linked to the Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
We’ve just learned that the ILLiad (interlibrary loan service) emails have not been going through for th last week or so. We are working to correct this problem. And apologize for the inconvenience.
~Update~ It should be repaired by tomorrow.
Did you know:
1. You can save your PubMed search.
2. Run the same search each week (or month) for updated articles (My NCBI).
3. Store your PubMed citations (and the full-text) in RefWorks.
4. Use Write-N-Cite to insert your citations into your Word document.
5. Create a bibliography for your paper.
Contact the library?óÔé¼Ôäós reference department reference@lsuhsc.edu where one of the librarians can assist you in setting up these available services. You can take it one step at a time.
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