The Isché Library will begin Winter Break hours on Monday, December 21st. The Library will close at 6pm from the 21st through the 23rd. The Dental Library will maintain its shorter Phase 3 hours.
Both the Isché and Dental Libraries will be closed December 24th through January 3rd. Both Libraries will resume Phase 3 hours when we reopen in January.
UPDATE: The problem appears to be resolved and all journals are available as usual.
A platform that provides access to multiple journals is currently undergoing maintenance, so the journals hosted by Atypon are unavailable.
This maintenance is affecting journals from the American Chemical Society, ASHA, the American Physiological Society, Mary Ann Liebert, New England Journal of Medicine, and multiple others.
We were not notified of this maintenance but will update as soon as we have more information
If you need help with this or any Library resources, please contact us.
The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) today adopts the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recently updated guidance that allows people who may have been exposed to COVID-19 to shorten their quarantine period from 14 days to 10 days, or as few as 7 days with a negative test.
Still, the shorter quarantine periods do come with a risk that a person may be infectious when he or she leaves quarantine, and should be carefully evaluated when weighing options.
The full news release can be read HERE on the Louisiana Department of Health website.
LSU Health researchers used ADI (Area Deprivation Index) to study the relationship between poverty and COVID in Louisiana, finding that people in deprived neighborhoods had as much as a 40% increased risk of COVID-19 compared to people in less deprived neighborhoods, in an article published last week.
The research was taken on to find answers about Louisiana’s high per capita rate of COVID this past summer, with highest COVID rates among African Americans.
The authors explain that risk factors “exist not only at the individual or biological level; neighborhood-level factors and their interactions with individual-level factors are also responsible for the observed disparities. Lack of access to health care, unemployment, less education, and poor housing conditions significantly increase the risk of COVID-19 infection.”
The authors hope the study can be “utilized to promote public health preventions measures besides social distancing, wearing a mask while in public and frequent handwashing in vulnerable neighborhoods with greater deprivation.”
You can read the article and see the findings at PLOS ONE. The LSUHSC Newsroom has also published a piece on the article.
This brand new publication was developed in partnership with LSU Health – New Orleans School of Public Health and the Louisiana Public Health Association and will focus on public health initiatives throughout the state.
Editors-in-Chief: Kari Fitzmorris Brisolara, ScD & Donna L. Williams, MS, MPH, DrPH
Managing Editors: Amber M. Brown. MPH, Martha L. Cuccia, MPH, Laura Ricks, MPH & Edward J. Trapido, ScD
You can find the link to the issue on our website here [https://sph.lsuhsc.edu/jlpha/ ] and find the library’s record of the journal here [https://innopac.lsuhsc.edu/record=b1153574~S6].
“Arab and Middle Eastern women aren’t heard enough in this space. But they’re living and breathing the region, reporting on it from the front lines in Sana’a and Mosul and from Riyadh and Cairo—even from their living rooms in Raqqa.” – Zahra Hankir, Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
This month the Diversity and Inclusivity Book Club, hosted by the School of Public Health’s Diversity and Inclusivity Committee, will discuss Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, edited by Zahra Hankir, as its December read.
The Book Club will discuss Our Women on the Ground on Zoom on Wednesday, December 9th at 12pm.
If you’d like to read the book or take part in the event, the Library provides access to an eBook version through EBSCO, with one user at a time.
For more about the Diversity and Inclusivity Book Club, including information on next month’s Book Club pick and meeting time, email sphdiversity@lsuhsc.edu.
The Collection Development Department is pleased to offer a new online book request form here.
The form is also available on the Collection Development web page where you can find more information about reserves and donations. Feel free to reach out and let us know how we can help you!
As a result of changes in subscription options and lack of funding, we will be losing all access to the following three sections of JoVE as of January 1, 2021:
We will still keep access to JoVE Biology, Immunology & Infection, Medicine, and Neuroscience.
If you need any assistance with this or other Library resources please contact us.
The 3D Printing/Scanning equipment at the Dental Library has stopped working. Because of a parts shortage, it doesn’t appear that the units can be repaired.
If 3D printing resumes, funding for new equipment will need to be found.
The New England Journal of Medicine Group, in partnership with the Skin of Color Society Foundation and VisualDx, is hosting a webinar series on The Impact of Skin Color and Ethnicity on Clinical Diagnosis and Research, with the aim of reducing health disparities of underrepresented minority populations.
The fourth and last session in the series “Covid-19 Comorbidities and Cutaneous Manifestations of Systemic Diseases in Adults and Children” will be held Wednesday, December 2, 1:00-2:15 PM ET (12-1:15 CT).
From the event page: “Panelists will focus on the challenges physicians face in recognizing systemic diseases in melanin-rich skin types. There can be delays and misdiagnosis of life-threatening diseases when color changes related to the disease are not recognized. The skin signs of Covid-19 comorbidities (i.e., diabetes and pulmonary disease) will be discussed in adults and children.”
To register, fill out the registration form on NEJM’s website.
If you can’t attend the live webinar, register anyway and NEJM will send you a link to the recorded event.
A final selection of articles for this year has been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16. With the currently changes, we’ve decided to post the publications digitally. Check out the display below:
Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. The PDF for this selection should be available soon, For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions, click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.
The Libraries (both Dental and Isché) will be closed Thursday-Saturday, November, 26-28. Additionally, the Isché Library will be closing at 6pm on Wednesday, November 25. The Isché Library will be open on Sunday, November 29.
The Libraries continue to be in Phase 3 for our regular hours. Also, the Libraries continue to be open to badge holders only.
The following are changes to the ebooks offered through the ClinicalKey database:
Books Added:
Atlas of Diagnostic Hematology (Salama, Mohamed)
Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography (Kucera, Filip)
Clinical Cases in Tropical Medicine (Rothe, Camilla)
Dermatology: An Illustrated Colour Text (Gawkrodger, David)
Diagnostic Ultrasound for Sonographers (Kamaya, Aya)
Diastology (Klein, Allan L.) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780323640671; New edition
Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Metabolic Disorders (Pyeritz, Reed E.)
The Eye (Forrester, John V.)
Imaging in Abdominal Surgery (Federle, Michael P.)
Imaging in Gastroenterology (Federle, Michael P.)
Imaging in Neurology (Osborn, Anne G.)
Imaging in Otolaryngology (Gurgel, Richard K.)
Imaging in Pediatrics (Merrow, A. Carlson)
Imaging in Spine Surgery (Ross, Jeffrey S.)
Imaging in Urology (Tublin, Mitchell)
Interventional Management of Chronic Visceral Pain Syndromes (Pak, Daniel J.)
Neuro-Oncology for the Clinical Neurologist (Strowd, Roy E.)
Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology (Klatt, Edward C.)
Sobotta Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy (Hombach-Klonisch, Sabine)
Books Removed:
Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Theroux, Pierre) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9781416049272
Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) (McKenna, Robert) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781416062639
Atlas of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS (Morse, Stephen) 4th ed; ISBN: 9780702040603
Cerebral Revascularization: techniques in extracranial-to-intracranial bypass surgery (Abdulrauf, Saleem) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437717853
Comprehensive Treatment of the Aging Spine, The (Yue, James Joseph) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437703733
Endovascular Surgery (Moore, Wesley) 4th ed; ISBN: 9781416062080
Netter’s Correlative Imaging: Musculoskeletal Anatomy (Major, Nancy) 1st ed; ISBN: 9781437700121
Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Peri-Operative Pain Relief (Harmon, Dominic) 2nd ed; ISBN: 9780702031489
The New England Journal of Medicine Group, in partnership with the Skin of Color Society Foundation and VisualDx, is hosting a webinar series on The Impact of Skin Color and Ethnicity on Clinical Diagnosis and Research, with the aim of reducing health disparities of underrepresented minority populations.
The third session in the series “Pigmentary Disorders and Keloids” will be held Wednesday, November 18, 1:00-2:15 PM ET (12-1:15 CT).
From the event page: “Pigmentary disorders and keloids can be signs of systemic disease and can cause significant psychological impact and social ramifications. Panelists will discuss the breadth of pigmentary disorders, including vitiligo, melasma, and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, and utilize global scientific literature to update the audience on newer therapeutic options.”
To register, fill out the registration form on NEJM’s website.
If you can’t attend the live webinar, register anyway and NEJM will send you a link to the recorded event.
If you are attempting to log into EZproxy by entering your LSUHSC-NO username and password in the barcode and PIN field, we are currently experiencing issues with that system.
You can log in using your LSUHSC-NO full e-mail address and password by clicking the first link on the EZproxy login page:
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