70 years end on a high note
Monday night at Alex Box Stadium was a wonderful ending to the 70 years of LSU’s old baseball stadium. The Tigers trounced the UC-Irvine Anteaters 21-7, to advance to the NCAA College World Series in Omaha. LSU will play North Carolina in the opening round of the 2008 NCAA College World Series at 6 p.m. Sunday. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN 2.
No pain, no gain
According to NCAA injury surveillance data for men’s baseball from 1998-2004, college baseball has a relatively low rate of injury compared with other NCAA sports, but 25% of injuries are severe and result in 10+ days of time loss from participation. Injuries can include everything from tearing the cartilage in your shoulder to taking a ball in the face. In fact, there’s 130 articles in PubMed on college baseball alone.
A healthy Tiger is a happy Tiger
This article from the Journal of Athletic Training gives an overview of collegiate injuries for 15 sports, along with recommendations for injury prevention.
And if you’re interested in how the new baseball stadium is coming along, click here for LSU Sports Net.
According to Scientific American, Blogging is good for you, as are most types of expressive writing. Now we know why the blogosphere is exploding.
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.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has issued the first clinical guidelines in the United States for the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand Disease (VWD), the most common inherited bleeding disorder.Typically milder but more common than another bleeding disorder, hemophilia, VWD affects 1 out of every 100 to 1,000 people – both males and females.
The guidelines include recommendations on screening, diagnosis, disease management, and directions for future research. An extensive article on the guidelines is available for free in the March 08 issue of the journal Haemophilia.
?óÔé¼?ôThese are the first guidelines on von Willebrand Disease published in the United States and we are pleased to offer clinicians science-based recommendations in the evaluation and treatment of patients,?óÔé¼?Ø said NHLBI Director Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D. ?óÔé¼?ôThe disease can be difficult to diagnose, especially in women of child-bearing age and in children, and the danger of excessive bleeding is often under-recognized.?óÔé¼?Ø
Read the Full Report from the NHLBI
Pocket Guidelines from the NHLBI
Using the physical description statistics from Marvel’s Web site , researchers Karen Healey (M.A. University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and Terry D. Johnson (M.S. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley) created a tongue-in-cheek study comparing the mean and normalized distribution of the Body Mass Index of women and men in the Marvel Universe, and with women and men in the ?óÔé¼?ôreal?óÔé¼?Ø world.
Click to read “Comparative Read Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the ?óÔé¼?ôReal?óÔé¼?Ø World.”
(Eds Note: I do not think this is indexed in PubMed!)
A new meta-analysis published in PLoS Medicine questions the efficacy of Prozac and similar anti-depressants in treating all but the most serious forms of depression. “Using complete data sets (including unpublished data) and a substantially larger data set of this type than has been previously reported, we find the overall effect of new-generation antidepressant medication is below recommended criteria for clinical significance,” wrote researchers.
The study, entitled “Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration” involved researchers from the UK, US and Canada. “Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless alternative treatments have failed,” says Prof Irving Kirsch, the study’s Principle Investigator and Professor of psychology at Hull University. “This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported.”
Read the article from PLoS Medicine
News article from Guardian Online
The latest issue of the Library’s Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
According to the January issue of the European Heart Journal, moderate drinkers (1-14 drinks per week) who engage in leisure-time physical activities lower their risks of fatal heart disease. So, get off that streetcar and walk to the parades and don’t forget the key words: moderate drinkers.
If you want to read the whole article we have it available full-text online through our card catalog, INNOPAC.
A new study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine this month states that honey works better to soothe nighttime coughs than cough syrup (ingredient dextromethorphan). The story was picked up my many major news organizations and can be read on the MedlinePlus news feed.
…may break your bones, but words are just as damaging.
In September 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened a panel of experts to discuss issues related to the emerging public health problem of electronic aggression by adolescents. Aggression ranges from embarrassment to threats of real world violence.
A special issue of Journal of Adolescent Health summarizes the data and recommendations of this panel.
The United Health Foundation recently released its 2007 state health rankings.
The good news:
Louisiana has improved from last year!
The bad news:
We’re still number 49.
Today’s Times-Pic takes a look at Louisiana health care quality. You can also read the UHF report, which offers state health snapshots and other statistical information here.
An article on the History of Charity Hospital appears in this quarters Louisiana Cultural Vistas, a publication of the Louisana Endowment for the Humanities; check it out online.
A recent article in the Australian Family Physician recently gave this librarian a myocardial infarction.
Meet Dr Q.
When a patient asked his advice regarding the discontinuation of warfarin after an episode of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), he used Yahoo.com to find an answer PDF.
You might be thinking, “what’s so wrong with that?”
Two words: Ellen Roche
In 2001, Ellen Roche, a healthy, 24-year-old volunteer in an asthma study at Johns Hopkins University, died because a chemical she inhaled led to the progressive failure of her lungs and kidneys. In the aftermath, it came out that the researcher who conducted the experiment and the ethics panel that approved it allegedly overlooked numerous clues about the dangers of the chemical, hexamethonium, given to Roche to inhale.
So what resources did this researcher allegedly search?
Look no further than Google, Yahoo!, LookSmart, and GoTo.com.
As a health care professional, you should AT LEAST conduct a cursory search in PubMed. It’s free. It’s authoritative. And on the LSUHSC Library homepage, you can use our customized PubMed link to get ALOT of added content and full text that you’ll never see using Yahoo! or Google.
Plus, if you kill anyone you can at least testify during the malpractice suit to having searched the biomedical literature. In fact, the reference librarians here can even do a mediated search for you. All you have to do is pick it up…and use it.
Check out the latest issue of the Library Newsletter. It’s hot off the html editor!
Check out this week’s JAMA for a commentary from Drs. Kevin Krane, Richard DiCarlo and Marc J. Kahn on medical education in post-Katrina New Orleans. This piece includes a table comparing the numbers of medical students, residents & faculty before and after the storm, which is available to download as a PowerPoint slide.
And for you old school researchers, here’s the citation:
Krane NK, DiCarlo RP, Kahn MJ. Medical Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Story of Survival and Renewal. JAMA. 2007 September 5; 298(9):1052-1055.
TIP: JAMA is available full-text from the library catalog. Use WAM to login off campus.
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