Swine flu is a type of virus. It's named for a virus that pigs can get. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. The virus is contagious and can spread from human to human. Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/swineflu.html
CDC Swine Flu
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/whatsnew.htm
World Health Organization Swine Flu
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html
CDC Twitter Updates on Swine Flu:
http://twitter.com/cdcemergency
RSS feed on Swine Flu :
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/rss/?s_cid=tw_epr_54
UH Emergency Information: Swine Flu
http://www.hawaii.edu/emergency/
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
ScanGrants
ScanGrants is a public service listing of grants and other funding types to support health research, programs and scholarship.
http://www.scangrants.com/About.aspx
http://www.scangrants.com/About.aspx
Monday, April 13, 2009
DDX Generators
The Health Sciences Library has the following differential diagnosis resources available to you:
Online Resources
(Licensed for UHM use only)
Access Medicine
http://www.accessmedicine.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/diag.aspx
eMedicine
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=46884
First Consult
http://www.mdconsult.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/das/pdxmd/lookup/131592186-2?type=ddx
On the Shelves
Differential diagnosis in internal medicine : from symptom to diagnosis / [edited by] Walter Siegenthaler
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 S571 2007a
Differential diagnosis of common complaints, 5th ed. / Robert Seller
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 S467d 2007
French’s index of differential diagnosis., 14th ed. / edited by Mark T. Kinirons and Harold Ellis.
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 F8742 2005
Online Resources
(Licensed for UHM use only)
Access Medicine
http://www.accessmedicine.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/diag.aspx
eMedicine
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=46884
First Consult
http://www.mdconsult.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/das/pdxmd/lookup/131592186-2?type=ddx
On the Shelves
Differential diagnosis in internal medicine : from symptom to diagnosis / [edited by] Walter Siegenthaler
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 S571 2007a
Differential diagnosis of common complaints, 5th ed. / Robert Seller
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 S467d 2007
French’s index of differential diagnosis., 14th ed. / edited by Mark T. Kinirons and Harold Ellis.
Location:
UHM: School of Medicine Reserve
Call Number:
WB 141.5 F8742 2005
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