| Someone mentioned on twitter this morning how much they loved the Google Uncle Sam search. Intrigued I did a little investigating. Turns out the advanced search feature has been around for at least a decade. The advantage is that it searches .gov and .mil domains which may only be used by the US government. |  |
Louisiana Go Local officially launched on Wednesday, October 28, 2009! This online service lists thousands of services across the state. Users can find doctors, hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, support groups, diabetes care, cancer services, home health care, weight management services, and much more.
Governor Bobby Jindal proclaimed October 28, 2009 Go Local Day in Louisiana to recognize the launch of the site. The proclamation notes that ÔÇ£knowing how to locate health services in the community can aid in the prevention of disease and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.ÔÇØ
Louisiana Go Local is produced by Baton Rouge GeneralÔÇÖs Health Sciences Library in collaboration with the LSU School of Library and Information Science, and the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. Additional thanks go to the Louisiana Go Local Advisory Board, East Baton Rouge Parish Library, and Pennington Library and Information Center.
With over 1,544 medical apps in the iTunes App Store, it can be difficult to decide which is worth the money. Luckily, Houston Neal over at Software Advice has done the work for you. Head over to their site to check out The Best Medical iPhone Apps for Doctors and Med Students.
Nurses & Dentists are not forgotten in this long list, and they’ve even included study guides and games. Here’s a couple that I’d not yet heard of:
BoardReview ÔÇô Free ÔÇô Busy students can prep for their board exams by reviewing electronic drug information on their iPhone or iPod Touch. nursing students can study electronic nursing review cards to prep for the NCLEX-RN, on their iPhone or iPod Touch so they can test their nursing knowledge anytime, anyplace.
Speed Bones Lite ÔÇô Free ÔÇô A must have game if you are tackling anatomy for high school, university or medical school. It is more captivating than flashcards and practice mode allows you to learn specific regions without doing all the previous levels. Review mode lets you replay all the mistakes youÔÇÖ made in the last game to facilitate learning.
Orasphere ÔÇô Free ÔÇô Using Orasphere dental educational videos saves you time, reduces liability and increases patient case acceptance for your dental practice. Easily view Orasphere dental videos on your iPod or iPhone and start educating your patients.
The National Library of Medicine has launched a beta version of PillBox, its new “aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticals.” It contains over 5,000 records with over 750 illustrations.
This week’s issue of JAMA features an article entitled “Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students.” Sixty percent of reporting medical schools “reported incidents of students posting unprofessional online content.” MSNBC has already picked up the story.
Time to quickly vet all online sources.
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.
Influenza: Evidence Based Resources is a FREE database offered by EBSCO Publishing (from whom the Libraries purchase a number of databases). It is comprised of selected resources from a number of its health related databases. And includes information for clinicians, nurses and patients.
The latest issue of the Library?óÔé¼Ôäós Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
With all this talk about immunization in the second year medicine groups and flu season just around the corner, here’s a timely iPhone app.
ShotRecs is a rapid reference guide to the 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s available from the App Store on iTunes.
It features:
– 2009 Childhood, Adolescent and Adult Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Catch-up Immunization Schedules
– 2009 Vaccine schedule for adults based on medical and other indications
more info & screenshots
Interestingly enough, ShotRecs was designed by a medical student (now an intern in Family Medicine) at Georgetown University. Any Tigers out there designing iPhone apps?
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (a new favorite blog of mine) has a nice review on a recent article from the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine by Langdorf & Hayden called “Turning your abstract into a paper: academic writing made simpler.” Lots of good tips (& a link to the free full text of the article) if you are considering turning a research abstract into a paper.
Once a year, New Orleans Magazine publishes a list of the Top Doctors in the greater New Orleans area; this list is compiled from a database created by Best Doctors in America. This year there were 564 listings from 66 specialties; the list is created by asking area physicians who they would want to treat an ill family member. Two LSUHSC physicians were featured Kim Edward LeBlanc and Cleveland Moore. Congratulations to everyone on the list!
Allergy & Immunology
Luis R. Espinoza
Cleveland Marvin Moore
Ricardo Sorenson
Cardiovascular Disease
David Lucas Glancy
Critical Care Medicine
Christopher C. Baker
Carol M. Mason
Steve Nelson
Warren Richard Summer
Dermatology
Brian David Lee
Lee T. Nesbitt, Jr.
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Alfonso Vargas
Family Medicine
Kim Edward LeBlanc
Herbert L. Muncie, Jr.
Infectious Disease
Rebecca Adair Clark
Michael Edward Hagensee
David H. Martin
Charles V. Sanders
Internal Medicine
John R. Amoss
David M. Borne
Angela M. McLean
Medical Oncology & Hematology
Lowell Anthony
Neurology
John D. England
Anne L. Foundas
Amparo (Amy) Gutierrez
Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak
Austin John Sumner
Nuclear Medicine
Richard J. Campeau, Jr.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Martha Johnston Brewer
Ralph R. Chesson, Jr.
Felton L. Winfield, Jr.
Orthopaedic Surgery
Andrew G. King
Otolaryngology
Rohan Walvekar
Pain Medicine
Alan David Kaye
Stephen Kishner
Pathology
Randall Douglas Craver
Gary E. Lipscomb
William Proctor Newman III
Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Cleveland Marvin Moore
Ricardo Sorenson
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Stanley Martin Hall
John Frederick Heaton
Pediatric Cardiology
Robert Joseph Ascuitto
Nancy Tamara Ross-Ascuitto
Aluizio Roberto Stopa
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Raynorda F. Brown
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Renee V. Gardner
Tammuella E. Singleton
Maria C. Velez
Lolie Chua Yu
Pediatric Nephrology
V. Matti Vehaskari
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Andrew G. King
Pediatric Pathology
Randall Douglas Craver
Pediatric Rheumatology
Abraham Gedalia
Pediatric Specialist/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Charles C. Coleman
Debra DePrato
Martin J. Drell
Humberton Quintana
Pediatric Specialist/Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Brian Barkemeyer
Staci Olister
Duna Penn
Dana Rivera
Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, General
Stephen Russell Deputy
Ann Henderson Tilton
Maria Weimer
Pediatric Specialist/Neurology, Neuromuscular Disease
Ann Henderson Tilton
Pediatric Surgery
Charles Baker Hill, Jr
Pediatric Urology
Joseph Ortenberg
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Stephen Kirshner
Psychiatry
James G. Barbee
Jose Calderon-Abbo
Charles C. Coleman
Erich J. Conrad
Debra Deprato
Howard Joseph Osofsky
Mark Harold Townsend
Pulmonary Medicine
Juzar Ali
Carol M. Mason
Steve Nelson
Judd Ernest Shellito
Warren Richard Summer
David Allen Welsh
Rheumatology
Luis R. Espinoza
Sleep Medicine
Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak
Surgery
Christopher C. Baker
J. Philip Boudreaux
John Patrick Hunt III
Surgical Oncology
Eugene A. Woltering
Urology
Sean Collins
Harold Anthony Fuselier, Jr
Jack Christian Winters
Vascular Surgery
Larry Harold Hollier
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts ?óÔé¼ÔÇ£ elemental mercury and a powder alloy?óÔé¼ÔÇØused in dental fillings. While elemental mercury has been associated with adverse health effects at high exposures, the levels released by dental amalgam fillings are not high enough to cause harm in patients.
Read the Press Release here.
The FDA’s website on dental amalgam has more information on the subject.
If you would like to read more about the subject, here are some citations from PubMed.
NOLAReady is a service provided by the City of New Orleans Office Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness. “NOLAReady is an alert system that allows City Officials to contact you during an emergency by sending text messages to your:
* E-mail account (work, home, school, etc.)
* Cell phone, pager
* Smart phone or hand held device”
Alerts can be viewed at their webpage and you can select alerts by zipcode.
Caveats: They seem to ask for a lot of personal data and under universities neither LSUHSC or Tulane Med are listed which is odd.
Love to dye your tongue fun colors with New Orleans snowballs in the Summer? Look closer at the FD&C blue dye no.1 in your bubble gum flavored treat.
Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have discovered that the food additive may protect nerves in the event of spinal cord injury. The report was published in the early edition section of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences yesterday.
The only side effect was that the rats turned blue.
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.
From Abbot’s tube (A long double-channel intestinal tube inserted through a nostril) to Zimmermann-Laband syndrome (an extremely rare inherited syndrome of gingival fibromatosis), whonamedit.com has it covered.
A biographical dictionary of over 8294 medical eponyms (people after whom something is named) and counting, whonamedit.com was created by a Norwegian group, and has been around since 1994.
What I really like about this site is the ease of use. Eponymns are listed alphabetically and by category, so if you want a list of all epoynms associated with the brain, it is quickly accessible.
There are also a fair number of biographical entries, which can be browsed by country and last name. There is a separate list of female entries. Many biographical entries also include bibliographies, which makes my little librarian heart flutter.
BOTTOM LINE:
Whonamedit.com is a great source to check synonyms and definitions of medical conditions, and offers a fair number of biographical entries for physicians. It’s layout makes it very easy to use as a quick reference source.
Here’s an anatomy site that is fun and educational at the same time.
WinkingSkull.com is an online study aid for anatomy. It’s provided through Thieme publishing, which also provides online atlases to our library users.
Offering several levels of access (my personal favorite is FREE), Winking Skull features stunning illustrations from Atlas of Anatomy, based on the work of Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, and Udo Schumacher. Once you’ve created a user name and password, it’s fast and easy to create exams based on region of the body. There’s a self study mode as well as a timed assessment feature, and your statistics are saved so you can see what you need to work on.
246 images are offered at the free level, but if you personally own either Atlas of Anatomy or Anatomy Flash Cards: Anatomy on the Go, you get access to the “Plus” version: 363 images from Atlas of Anatomy. For those who really want an extra anatomy study aid, there is a “Pro” account available for a monthly subscription. Freaking out about that anatomy exam? There’s even a 24 hour “Panic Package”
BOTTOM LINE
Winkingskull.com features a witty name, a 246 free anatomy images, and a great interface with wonderful pictures. Next time you’re bored in lecture, check out this game instead of MineSweeper.
DETAILS
-Requires creation of user profile (free)
-Free version offers 246 images
This post is simply an FYI and should not be taken as a product endorsement.
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