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The Book Club will gather on Monday, May 7th from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in MEB Lecture Room 4 for a ÔÇ£brown bagÔÇØ discussion of the book and its relevance for the work we all do. A distinguished panel featuring Drs. Corey Hebert, Cassandra Youmans, and John Estrada will lead this important discussion.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor, black tobacco farmer whose cellsÔÇötaken without her knowledge in 1951ÔÇöbecame one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. HenriettaÔÇÖs cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family canÔÇÖt afford health insurance.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Broadway Paperbacks 2011), by Rebecca Skloot, is an enjoyable read that delves into issues of health care disparities and medical ethics. An award winning piece of non-fiction, this book was featured on over 60 criticsÔÇÖ best of the year lists and was awarded the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceÔÇÖs Award for Excellence in Science Writing, the 2011 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Audiobook, and a Medical JournalistsÔÇÖ Association Open Book Award.
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This weekend, ProQuest has scheduled a Maintenance Window that will affect all RefWorks services for a few hours.
The Maintenance Window is scheduled to start at 11pm CST, ?áSaturday, May 5th.
The work should take about 5 hours, ending at ?á4:00 AM CST, Sunday, May 6th.
While this work takes place, RefWorks services including RefMobile, RefAware, and Write-N-Cite will be unavailable.?á In their place, we will post a message that will be updated with any changes to the Maintenance Window schedule.?á There will be a short period of up to one hour when even this message will not be available.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Check out our updated LibGuides, which are our subject and course specific research aids.
You can browse by tag, subject or even by a specific librarian. So far the 9 subjects covered are:
ÔÇó Allied Health
ÔÇó Basic Sciences
ÔÇó Course Specific
ÔÇó Dentistry
ÔÇó Medicine
ÔÇó Mobile
ÔÇó Nursing
ÔÇó Public Health
ÔÇó Technology
When in doubt, use the Need Help? option, during listed operating hours, and get live assistance.
As the “locavore” movement continues to blossom across the country, it’s no longer only rural citizens who have access to less-industrialized food options: even residents of cities are finding ways to grow their own produce, or at least acquire it from nearby sources. This provides more economical and healthy options for cooks. A part of this movement has been the choice of some urban homesteaders to raise their own poultry.
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) currently has a page on its website with helpful information about Keeping Backyard Poultry. The major point that the CDC addresses is the prevention of the spread of Salmonella, an illness that is transmitted in a variety of ways. It can be spread through contact with poultry (or any birds), including?áchickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
Salmonellosis is an infection with the bacteria called?áSalmonella.?áMost persons infected with?áSalmonella?ádevelop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment. However, in some persons, the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. In these patients, the?áSalmonella?áinfection may spread from the intestines to the blood stream, and then to other body sites and can cause death unless the person is treated promptly with antibiotics.
The elderly, infants, and those with impaired immune systems are more likely to have a severe illness. The CDC highly recommends hand-washing and careful hygiene to anyone handling live poultry or poultry products such as meat or eggs. All poultry and poultry-related equipment and supplies should be considered contaminated even if the animals look healthy.
Interestingly enough, the?áTimes-Picayune?ápublished an article?álast year that examined troubles with feral chicken populations which have grown since Hurricane Katrina. Recently, local ABC affiliate WGNO-TV covered a story about the difficulties in catching feral chickens in the city. New Orleans has its own special set of issues when it comes to the cosmopolitan bird.
When searching PubMed, CINAHL, or any other database, have you ever wished there was a better way to get from the citation to the article you want without having to look here and there to find it? We’re happy to report today we’re releasing the Library’s WebBridge Link Resolver that will give you the opportunity to check for the available full-text or print version of an article right there at the citation.
The key to this new feature is this icon: 
. Look for it in all EBSCOhost databases (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, etc.), ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source, PubMed, RefWorks, Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Web of Science. When you click on the icon a new tab or window will open with available resources for the citation:
If there are no full-text or print resources available for a resource, you will be able to request the article, book, or chapter through the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system. Additionally, off-campus access requires a Library barcode and PIN.
The link resolver also lets us provide better access to our subscriptions and various other resources we have access to, and searchers of PubMed will benefit the most. The LinkOut feature in PubMed covered some but not all of our subscriptions, and those limitations are removed with the link resolver. To use this new feature when searching PubMed, you will need to follow one of these links (and be sure to update your PubMed bookmarks as well!):
As with many things electronic these days, there are some caveats to keep in mind when using the link resolver. A tremendous amount of information is passed between websites and systems to not only display available sources for a citation but also to get you to that source. Consequently, there are occasionally hiccups along the way due to misinterpretation of information or incorrect bits of data passed from one site to another. If you encounter any troubles with any citation, there is a link at the bottom of the page displaying sources for each citation that will allow you to contact someone from the Library for help.
If you need additional information about the WebBridge Link Resolver, you can refer to this handout. You can also view the online help file available on the Library’s other new resource, LibGuides, on the Link Resolver Help page.
The 2 year anniversary of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill?á(pdf) was earlier this week.?á There are a number of studies being performed to determine the long term issues relating to the spill and it’s clean up.?á
LSUHSC is a member of the Deepwater Horizon Research Consortium, a network of community and university partnerships that will conduct research on the gulf coast over the next 5 years. Specifically, the LSUHSC School of Public Health is conducting the Women and their ChildrenÔÇÖs Health (WATCH) study, which will investigate the short and long term physical, mental and community health effects resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Additionally, LSU Baton Rouge is involved in measuring the economic and ecological impact of the spill.
The Isch?®?áLibrary and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) are?ácelebrating April as Occupational Therapy Month. The Library 
has a group of important books on the subject of OT currently displayed on the third floor next to the Library elevator.
These titles include:
- Cole, MB. Group dynamics in occupational therapy: the theoretical basis and practice application of group intervention (2005; 2012 edition is also available on Reserve).
- Stein, F, & Cutler, SK. Psychosocial occupational therapy: a holistic approach (2002).
- Hemphill-Pearson, BJ. Assessments in occupational therapy mental health: an integrative approach (2008).
- Willard, HS, & edited by EB Crepeau, ES Cohn, BA Boyt Schell; 104 contributors. Willard & Spackman’s occupational therapy (2003; 2012 edition is also available on Reserve).
- Christiansen, CH, CM Baum, & J Bass-Haugen. Occupational therapy: performance, participation, and well-being (2005; 2009 edition is also available on Reserve).
- Law, M, C Baum, & W Dunn. Measuring occupational performance: supporting best practice in occupational therapy (2005).
- Letts, L, P Rigby, & D Stewart. Using environments to enable occupational performance (2003).
- Law, L, & MA McColl. Interventions, effects, and outcomes in occupational therapy: adults and older adults (2010).
- Moyers, PA, & LM Dale. The guide to occupational therapy practice (2007).
- Wilcock, AA. An occupational perspective of health (2006).
- McCormack, GL, EG Jaffe, & M Goodman-Lavey. The occupational therapy manager (2003).
- Jacobs, K. Ergonomics for therapists (2007).
- Fazio, LS. Developing occupation-centered programs for the community (2008).
- Kielhofner, G. A model of human occupation: theory and application (2002).
- Radomski, MV, & CA Trombly Latham. Occupational therapy for physical dysfunction (2008).
Don’t forget to also investigate the Library’s occupational therapy eBooks: an assortment is available through online resources such as the R2 Digital Library, Stat!Ref, and Books@Ovid.
More info about Occupational Therapy Month and the OT profession is available on the Association’s website at www.aota.org.
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Interested in the history of anatomy? Or just want to see some cool old anatomical illustrations? Take a look at the National Library of Medicine‘s Historical Anatomies on the Web collection digitized for your enjoyment.
The collection covers the 15th through 20th centuries and currently includes over 40 titles.
We are sorry to inform all you late night cram session fans that AccessMedicine will be down for maintenance the early morning of Thursday, 12 April, during a migration of all sites to new, upgraded servers. The migration is scheduled to start at 11pm on the 11 April 2012. Expect AccessMedicine, AccessSurgery and AccessEmergencyMedicine to be unavailable during that time.
From the press release:
We want to inform you of scheduled downtime that AccessMedicine will experience in the early morning of Thursday, 12 April, during a migration of all sites to new, upgraded servers. The migration is scheduled to start at midnight (12:00am EDT 12 April 2012).
This upgrade is being undertaken to ensure that the testing and live environments for all McGraw-Hill sites are enhanced and synchronized for maximum performance.
Due to this upgrade, AccessMedicine will be unavailable to users, possibly for up to 2 hours, but we do not expect the process to exceed 2 hours. Users who visit the sites during this time will be presented with a page alerting them that the site is undergoing scheduled maintenance and to check back soon.
During downtime, please check our list of ebook providers?áfor alternative resources.
edit: as of today, Weds. April 11, the video has been removed. Sorry!
The Occupational Therapy students have created a video and posted it on YouTube to get the attention of Ellen Degeneres and promote OT Awareness. April is OT Awareness Month.
Enjoy!
A color reproduction of a 17th Century map by Jean Baptiste Louis, Franquelin entitled Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle.
On April 9, 1682, explorer
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
made it to the mouth of the Mississippi River, named the territory Louisiana and claimed it in the name of France.
Happy Name Day to the entire former Louisiana Territory.
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Both the Isch?® and Dental Libraries are closed for Easter today, tomorrow and Sunday (April 6th – 8th). Both will reopen on Monday morning at 8 am.
Eight new articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the Library’s Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the Library’s Faculty Publications Database.
The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 – present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a PDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.
LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:
- Ballif B, Rosenfeld J, Traylor R, Theisen A, Bader P, Ladda R, Sell S, Steinraths M, Surti U, McGuire M, Williams S, Farrell S, Filiano J, Schnur R, Coffey L, Tervo R, Stroud T, Marble M, Netzloff M, Hanson K. ÔÇ£High-resolution array CGH defines critical regions and candidate genes for microcephaly, abnormalities of the corpus callosum, and seizure phenotypes in patients with microdeletions of 1q43q44.ÔÇØ Human Genetics. 2012; 131(1): 145-156.
- Cole L, Polfus L, Peters ES. ÔÇ£Examining the incidence of human papillomavirus-associated head and neck cancers by race and ethnicity in the U.S., 1995-2005.ÔÇØ PLoS One. 2012; 7(3): e32657.
- Fitzgerald-DeJean D, Rubin SS, Carson RL. ÔÇ£An application of the experience sampling method to the study of aphasia: A case report.ÔÇØ Aphasiology. 2012; 26(2): 234-251.
- Geisz-Everson MA, Bennett MJ, Dodd-McCue D, Biddle C. ÔÇ£Disrupted by disaster: Shared experiences of student registered nurse anesthetists affected by Hurricane Katrina.ÔÇØ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing. 2012; 50(1): 32-38.
- Hsieh M-C, Velasco C, Wu X-C, Pareti LA, Andrews PA, Chen VW. ÔÇ£Influence of socioeconomic status and hospital type on disparities of lymph node evaluation in colon cancer patients.ÔÇØ Cancer. 2012; 118(6): 1675- 1683.
- Martin DH. ÔÇ£The microbiota of the vagina and its influence on women’s health and disease.ÔÇØ American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 2012; 343 (1): 2-9.
- Zolochevska O, Xia X, Williams BJ, Ramsay A, Li S, Figueiredo ML. ÔÇ£Sonoporation delivery of interleukin-27 gene therapy efficiently reduces prostate tumor cell growth in vivo.ÔÇØ Human Gene Therapy. 2011; 22(12): 1537-1550.
Also Featured: Conference abstracts of the February 2012 Southern Regional Meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research, which was held in New Orleans. Various LSUHSC authors.
A feature on WVUE Fox 8 News last night featured Dr. I. C. Turnley. At 85, he’s the most senior elected official in the state, serving as coroner for Lasalle Parish since 1959.
Dr. Turnley is a graduate of LSU School of Medicine in 1956. In fact, it’s indisputable. You can see his name in the graduation record – it’s part of our digital collection of Graduation Programs in the Louisiana Digital Library. Wondering what the life of a medical students was like in that era? Peruse our digital collection of Tiger Rag student newspapers, and you may happen upon his name as well.
The Library is looking for a part-time student worker for evenings and weekends. Pick up an application at the Circulation Desk.
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