The Dental Library has re-opened! The Library has been closed to the public since mid-August for HVAC & ceiling work.
The Dental Library hours are:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed
INNOPAC, the LibrariesÔÇÖ Online Catalog, will be down this afternoon for up to 2 hours for a scheduled systems upgrade. Thanks for you patience.
*Edit* @ 5:10 pm – the upgrade did not complete. Completion/downtime may occur on Thursday, Dec. 8th in the morning.
*Edit* @ 7:30 pm – the upgrade has been postponed due to hardware issues.
The Dental Library will re-open on Sunday, December 11th! The Dental Library hours will be:
Sunday 11:30 am – 8 pm
Monday – Thursday 8 am – 8 pm
Friday 8 am – 5 pm
Saturday Closed
*Edit* All systems were back up by 10:15 am
Because of scheduled maintenance the PayPaw & PayPerPrint systems will be down across campus from 7 am – 10 am on December 1st.
The full-text of the complete run (1941-2001) of the Star, a bimonthly newsletter published by the patients of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville, Louisiana is now available via the Louisiana Digital Library. This collection was created with the cooperation of the National Hansen’s Disease Museum.
The Stay Healthy, Louisiana! blog (from the Louisiana Public Health Institute) posted that a gumbo z’herbes recipe from the New Orleans School of Cooking was featured in Shape magazine. Who says Louisiana food can’t be healthy?
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The Isché Library is closed today through Saturday. It will re-open on Sunday, November 27th at 1:30 pm. The Dental Library remains closed for repairs. |
Chancellor Hollier announced a brief Veteran’s Day Ceremony on Friday, November 11th via email today.
“We will have a brief ceremony on Veterans Day to honor veterans and current military at LSU Health Sciences Center. So, weÔÇÖre asking LSUHSC vets and service men and women to gather at 10:15 a.m. in front of 2020 Gravier Street this Friday, November 11, 2011. Vice Chancellor Ron Gardner, a Vietnam veteran, will say a few words, and weÔÇÖll take a photo.
LSU Health Sciences Center is grateful for your sacrifice and your service, and we are proud that you have chosen to carry it forward to a lifetime of service as academic and health professionals.”
Royal Society Publishing has opened their archive to the public free of charge. This archive includes “all articles from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, first published in 1665 and officially recognised as the world’s first ever peer-reviewed journal.” The archive covers 250 years of scientific discovery and includes covers all the publishers journals. Only articles more than 70 years old will be accessible. My favorite from the first volume (1665) is “A Relation of Persons Killed with Subterraneous Damps.”
LSUHSC Libraries do have access to the most recent content that is not free to the public. Access to recent matieral is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.
A new study in the December 1st issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases exams the spread of the Norovirus among NBA players in the 2010-2011 season.
Let’s blame the Saints loss last Sunday to the Rams on a stomach bug and hope they’re better this week for their game against the Buccaneers.
Link to the pdf of the article is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an update last week on the health hazards of eating too much black licorice.
From the update: If youÔÇÖre 40 or older, eating 2 ounces of black licorice a day for at least two weeks could land you in the hospital with an irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.
FDA experts say black licorice contains the compound glycyrrhizin, which is the sweetening compound derived from licorice root. Glycyrrhizin can cause potassium levels in the body to fall. When that happens, some people experience abnormal heart rhythms, as well as high blood pressure, edema (swelling), lethargy, and congestive heart failure.
I wonder if this applies to black jelly beans too?
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) issued a clinical alert on Friday, October 21, 2011:
Clinical Alert: Commonly Used Three-drug Regimen for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Found Harmful
NIH Stops One Treatment Arm of Trial; Other Two Treatments to Continue (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html)
One arm of a three arm multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) was stopped for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.
The former St. Charles General Hospital is the new location for the LSU Healthcare Network Clinics. It is located at 3700 St. Charles Ave with free parking at 3715 Prytania St. The offices officially opened on Monday, October 10th. This is also the location of the New Orleans Muscian’s Clinic. WWL-TV featured the opening on it’s nightly broadcast.
| In case the slew of robo-calls hasn’t alerted you, there is a state-wide election in 11 days in Louisiana. To assist in learning where to vote & what the complete ballot is in your precinct, the Office of the Secretary of State created the Geauxvote.com website, which has been around for several years. Now there is also a GeauxVote mobile app. It is available for both Android & iPhone. The sample ballot on your handheld device is a great help in making/remembering your decisions. |  |
Congratulations to School of Medicine faculty, Judd Shellito, who has been awarded approximately $9 million in grant funding to develop a vaccine against Pneumocystis.
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