The City of New Orleans has finally put the survey about reinstatement of curbside recycling online. Please take a minute to fill it out if you are interested in the return of curbside recycling.
http://www.cityofno.com/pg-123-7-sanitation–survey.aspx
What happens if the LSUHSC Libraries doesn’t own what you need to conduct your research or write a paper? You can borrow it through the Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan Service, ILLiad.
ILLiad allows electronic submission, tracking, and notification. It’s easy, so set up your account today!
Researchers at the Imperial College London found that theobromine, a chemical commonly found in cocoa, may help patients with a persistent cough. Theobromine works by suppressing vagus nerve activity, which is responsible for causing coughing. A 2004 study in FASEB journal found that the concentration of capsaicin (a chemical a substance used in clinical research to cause coughing) required to produce a cough in those people given theobromine was around one third higher when compared with the group receiving a placebo.
The team also discovered that unlike standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no adverse effects on either the cardiovascular or central nervous systems.
This is great news for us humans, but I wonder, is it in time to help the smoking pigs?
Happy April Fool’s day, everyone.
No, I’m not talking about the Wii. This summer Nintendo will introduce a new program for the DS system. My Weight Loss Coach comes with a pedometer, mini quizzes and challenges designed to motivate and reward users for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
The legibility of doctor’s handwriting has been an established source of humor . According to the Annals of Improbable Research, there have been 4 studies on physician handwriting in the last 30 years (really there have been many more). They even go so far as to recommend a penmanship book from 1843. However, according to Quality & Safety in Health Care, physician’s handwriting is as good (or bad) as anyone else’s.
Happy April Fool’s Day!
Get a leg up on your classmates and check out www.getbodysmart.com. Created by an anatomy teacher, this website is a great resource for learning about the skeletal system, muscle tissue physiology and the nervous system among other subjects. The animated drawings, diagrams and interactive quizzes will help you ace your next exam.
The Libraries’ News Blog will be one year old tomorrow. And this post will be number 194 which adds up to a post about every 2 days. The bloggers have strived to find interesting and pertinent information for the LSUHSC community. Please let us know if there is something you would like to see more of. We’ll see you in year 2, next week.
Today is Tennessee Williams birthday. Unlikely as it seems, one of Louisiana’s greatest playwrights appears seven times in a search for “Tennessee Williams” in PubMed! Check out the articles here, and if you’re in New Orleans this weekend, check out the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival’s annual STELLA! Shouting contest this Sunday in Jackson Square.
Here’s nifty tool that can help you stay current on medical news and topics. MedWorm is a web-based program that takes thousands of RSS feeds from medical journals, websites, blogs, and more, and sorts them into categories so you can quickly get up to date news on the topic of your choice.
Whether you want to know the latest on Alzeheimers or need to stay up to date with consumer health news, MedWorm wriggles its way through the internet to bring you a comprehensive and current snapshot. You can even subscribe to it through your RSS reader. Now that’s a parasite I don’t mind having on my computer.
LINKS:
MedWorm: http://www.medworm.com/
Dr. Charles Brown, a medical doctor and professor in the school of Public Health, was featured in the Gambit Weekly’s “Bouquets & Brickbats” column this week. He has been presented with the 2007 St. George National Award, the highest honor the American Cancer Society gives to volunteers, for his work with ?óÔé¼?ôCoalition for Tobacco Free Louisiana?óÔé¼?Ø.
Congrats Dr Brown!
The Library will be open regular hours today and tomorrow (Wednesday, March 19th & Thursday, March 20th from 8 a.m. until 12 midnight) and will be closed on Friday, March 21st, Saturday, March 22nd, and Sunday, March 23rd.
Are you the new owner of a shiny new iPhone or other handheld device? Before you chuck your old phone or PDA in the garbage consider Palm’s Take Back and Recycling Program.
The Palm Take Back and Recycling Program strives to keep Palm Handhelds and Treo smartphones out of landfills- and they gladly take other companies’ devices and all related accessories.
Just place your handhelds, mobile phones and related accessories (chargers, headsets, memory cards) into a box large enough for you to safely send in all your retired mobile devices, apply the postage-paid mailing label, and put it in a mailbox or bring it to the post office. It’s free and a great way to reduce your carbon footprint.
From the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan comes GENOME PROJECTOR, an awesome new tool for those interested in molecular biology.
Genome Projector, a searchable database browser with zoomable user interface, currently allows 4 different views: Genome map, Plasmid map, Pathway map, and DNA walk. It’s based on the same software concepts that run Google Maps, so the interface is pretty intuitive.
Check it out:
Genome Projector
The National Library of Medicine and the Office of Research on Women’s Health announced a new web resource yesterday. Women’s Health Resources aims to be a one-stop location for “consumers, health care providers, and researchers will be able to more quickly access the latest information available on scientific developments for important issues related to women.”
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