William Osler
All medical residents can thank Dr. Osler for their extended training. Today would be his 163rd birthday.
The Libraries own over 40 works by Osler if you want to read up and discover why he is considered one of the father’s of modern medicine.
School of Medicine’s ?áfirst Senior & Junior block of the year for the began on Monday, July 9th. Before you head off on clinical rotations, download these free clinical apps ?áand feel a little more prepared.
Dynamed
Clinical summaries on over 3200 disease and conditions and over 800 drugs. Search by symptom. Email reference@lsuhsc.edu for a Serial number and installation instructions
Natural Standard
Evidence based information and comparative effectiveness for foods, herbs, supplements, health & wellness and integrative medicine. Search by brand name. Email reference@lsuhsc.edu?áfor a serial number and installation instructions
For the previous apps, download the free?áSkyScape?áapp on your phone, then insert your serial numbers from the library in Skyscape’s settings to download & access the resource.
Micromedex -?áMicromedex has 3 apps available for Android and Apple.
Micromedex?« Drug Information app?áis free for anyone and offers over 4500 drug search terms.
Micromedex?« Drug Interactions is a free-to-LSUHSC app requiring a quarterly password. You can find the password on our MicroMedex page under mobileMicromedex or email reference@lsuhsc.edu?áand we can send it to you. This app provides insight into: ?áwhy the drugs in question interact, how the results of those interactions will present in the patient and recommendations for monitoring patient outcomes.
Micromedex?« IV Compatibility?á?áis a free-to-LSUHSC app requiring a quarterly password. You can find the password on our MicroMedex page under?ámobileMicromedex?áor email?áreference@lsuhsc.edu?áand we can send it to you.?áThis app identifies?ápotentially dangerous combinations,?áassists in interpreting conflicting compatibility results by identifying contributing factors such as the physical compatibility, storage, study period, container and chemical stability, and includes drug-solution compatibility results as well as drug-drug compatibility results when creating an admixture or administering via Y-Site. (APPLE DEVICES ONLY)
To find and install Micromedex apps, search for Micromedex in your smartphone’s app store.?áYou can find the quarerly password via our MicroMedex page under?ámobileMicromedex,?áor email?áreference@lsuhsc.edu?áand we can send it to you.
Find more mobile apps on our Mobile LibGuide.
Update: As of July 17th, this problem is now fixed but if you have any troubles please do not hesitate to contact us.
Access to articles from Slack titles through the WebBridge Link Resolver is not working correctly. The publisher changed the web address for all of their journals, and as a result if you attempt to follow the link for “Slack Incorporated” from the link resolver, you will see a 404 Page not Found error and will be unable to proceed. A note next to these links indicating the problem has been added.
The affected titles are:
Access to these titles through INNOPAC, the Library’s catalog, or the Electronic Journals List is unaffected by this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are in contact with the publisher and hope the problem will be resolved soon.
For those who use Web of Knowledge or Web of Science, you have the ability to check if an article is available either electronically or in print through the Library’s subscriptions or other resources. Look for the “Check Full Text” icon that is the gateway to the Library’s WebBridge Link Resolver.
When you perform a search, you will see this icon with each citation in the search results screen:
You will also see the link resolver icon when you view the abstract or summary of a citation:
Additionally, if you have created a personal account for Web of Science/Web of Knowledge you will see the link resolver icon for all citations on your list of marked records.
When you click this “Check Full Text” icon, a new tab or window will open showing your options to retrieve that article. If it is not available, you will have the opportunity to request the article through the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system.
If you’re looking for any more information about the WebBridge Link Resolver, you can refer to this handout or check the LibGuides link resolver page.
Available for checkout in the library
Do patients have rights to revenue streams should their tissue hold value for biomedical research? Science Journal’s Policy Forum discusses the ethics of tissue research as examined in Rebecca Skloot’s book?áthe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which was LSUHSC’s first book club selection ealier this year. Physician-investigators weigh in on property rights in human tissue and investigators’ obligations to individuals from whom they seek tissue for research.
Full citation: Science 6 July 2012:
Vol. 337 no. 6090 pp. 37-38
DOI: 10.1126/science.1216888?á(barcode & PIN?árequired?áoff campus)
POLICY FORUM -?áRESEARCH ETHICS
Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Robert D. Truog -?áChildren’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA,?áAaron S. Kesselheim?áBrigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA, Steven Joffe -?áDana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
**Edit 1:45pm**?á?áAccess to PsychiatryOnline has been restored.
The Library has placed the latest round of featured faculty publications on display for the month of July. Eight recent articles authored by LSUHSC-NO researchers have been added to the display in the LibraryÔÇÖs Reference area (near the Library elevator) on the third floor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.
The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New Orleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô 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?áPDF?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:
1.?áAtkinson E, Miklowski M, Lopez F, Klibert D. ÔÇ£Clinical Case of the Month: A 23-Year-Old Man with Fever and Malaise.ÔÇØ Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2012; 164(3): 164-175.
2.?áCrombet O, Lastrapes K, Zieske A, Morales-Arias J. “Complete morphologic and molecular remission after introduction of dasatinib in the treatment of a pediatric patient with t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and ABL1 amplification.” Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2012; 59(2): 333-334.
3.?áHomer MA, Rubin SS, Horowitz TD, Richter E. “Linguistic testing during ON/OFF states of electrical stimulation in the associative portion of the subthalamic nucleus.” Neuromodulation. 2012; 15(3): 238-245.
4.?áLanson NA, Pandey UB. “FUS-related proteinopathies: Lessons from animal models.” Brain Research. 2012; 1462: 44-60.
5.?áLarzelere MM, Williams DE. “Promoting smoking cessation.” American Family Physician. 2012; 85(6): 591-598.
6.?áGoldstein BD, Osofsky HJ, Lichtveld MY. “Current concepts: The gulf oil spill.” New England Journal of Medicine. 2011; 364(14): 1334-1348.
7.?áOsofsky HJ, Osofsky JD, Hansel TC. “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Mental Health Effects on Residents in Heavily Affected Areas.” Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness. 2011; 5(4): 280-286.
Also Featured This Month: LSUHSC-NO Participants in the 35th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism, June 23-27ÔÇöSan Francisco, California. Published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. 2012; 36(s1): 1A-398A.
Is your doctor a technophobe? A recent article from the Minneapolis StarTribune asked that question while discussing physician use of social media.
There’s a stereotype that says doctors shun technology that might threaten patients’ privacy and their own pocketbooks. But a new breed of physicians is texting health messages to patients, tracking disease trends on Twitter, identifying medical problems on Facebook pages and communicating with patients through email.
Most physicians are comfortable using technology enough to communicate with their peers and manage patient care, but avoid online communication with patients. Indeed, the American Medical Association advises that when it comes to social media, “physicians must maintain appropriate boundaries of the patient-physician relationship in accordance with professional ethical guidelines just, as they would in any other context.” However, a new breed of physician might be bucking that role:
The famed Mayo Clinic holds “Tweet camps” to train its doctors how to use Twitter appropriately, said Lee Aase, director of Mayo’s Center for Social Media in Rochester, Minn.
Says Aase, “If we can trust doctors with sharp instruments and narcotics, we can trust them with Twitter and Facebook.”
Pictured: Rowena Spencer, Cruz Hernandez, infant patient – July 1964
Happy Birthday to former/retired faculty member, Rowena Spencer on her 90th birthday.
A recent brief interview with her was published on the American Medical Student Association Blog.
The Isché Library has two copies of her 2003 monograph, Conjoined twins: developmental malformations and clinical implications.
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) last week (full text of decision here) has major implications for the US health care system. Over 32 million newly insured individuals could conceivably enter the health care system due to ACA, expanding and affecting programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal joined the health care debate on MSNBC’s Meet the Press this past Sunday, suggesting Louisiana would not fully implement the changes brought about by ACA (video here). Whether you call it Obamacare or Health Care Reform, it is important to be aware of the Affordable Care Act and the potential impact on the US health care system. Here are some informational sources and reactions from health associations:
Patriotic Quill and Inkwell - released by USPS Feb. 2011
The Isch?® and Dental Libraries will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th in honor of Indepence Day. Additionally the Isch?® Library will close at 8 pm on Tuesday, July 3rd instead of 10 pm. The Dental Library will be open until 8 pm as usual on Tuesday.
Both Libraries will re-open on Thursday, July 5th at 8 am.
A recent video making the Internet rounds is the first MRI of a baby being born.
The images were shot during a normal birth at Charit?® University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, in November, 2010, researchers say in a report published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Still MRI pictures of the birth were previously published, but this is the first look at the video, made with time-lapsed images over the last 45 minutes of labor.
The MRI is of a baby boy in the final moments in utero and his mother, a 24-year-old woman with two younger children. The last moments of birth (the “money shot” if you will) are not included. Physicians shut down the MRI machine slightly before delivery because they did not want to expose the baby’s ears to the common thumping sound associated with MRIs.
Reports USA Today, “The doctors don’t say how they convinced a woman to go through the final stages of labor in an MRI machine — but do say she weathered the experience just fine.”
Citation
Bamberg C, Rademacher G, G??ttler F, Teichgr?ñber U, Cremer M, B??hrer C, Spies C, Hinkson L, Henrich W, Kalache KD, Dudenhausen JW.?áHuman birth observed in real-time open magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2012 Jun;206(6):505.e1-6. Epub 2012 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 22425409.
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NPR has a report on their health blog about an innovative (and inexpensive) way to teach laproscopic surgical technique using clementines.?á I’m sure satsumas would work just as well in Louisiana.
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Are you or your patients having strange symptoms after taking an new herbal supplement??á Natural Standard can help!
Natural Standard, a source for?á high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative medicine, announced today the release of their new Adverse Effects Checker.
Simply check off the symptoms and the Adverse Effects Checker will provide a list of dietary supplements that may be causing those symptoms.
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