*NLM Technical Bulletin, Sep-Oct 2009, Preview of PubMed Redesign Coming

*NLM Technical Bulletin, Sep-Oct 2009, Preview of PubMed Redesign Coming http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_update_on_redesign.html

September 11, 2009 [posted]

Preview of PubMed® Redesign Coming

The redesign of the PubMed interface was announced in May (see: PubMed® Redesign 2009). Very soon a link on the PubMed homepage will connect to a preview version. The preview version will enable users to try out the new interface and is expected to run for at least two weeks after which PubMed will exist in the redesigned version. No changes to URLs will be necessary.

One aspect of the redesign affects display formats. There will be three of interest to most users: Summary, Abstract, and MEDLINE. The AbstractPlus and Citation formats will be retired as the Abstract format will combine aspects of both, e.g., Related Articles titles and MeSH® vocabulary. Any saved searches or links that were created with the Citation or AbstractPlus formats will eventually default to the new Abstract format.

A number of changes will be made to Advanced Search and My NCBI as a result of the redesign.

Watch for an upcoming article with more information about the redesign.

By Annette M. Nahin
MEDLARS Management Section

Nahin AM. Preview of PubMed® Redesign Coming. NLM Tech Bull. 2009 Sep-Oct;(370):e9.

ScienceDirect Down - Sat., Sep. 19th

ScienceDirect, the online platform for Elsevier journals, will be down for scheduled maintenance this Saturday, Sept. 19, starting at 2 a.m. until 3 p.m. Hawaii time.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa currently has access to approximately 2,000 journals via ScienceDirect.

University of California, San Francisco: Drug Industry Document Archive

Drug Industry Document Archive from University of California, San Francisco

http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/

This archive will be of particular importance to those with an interest in public health, public policy, and the general activities of pharmaceutical companies.

The Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA), created by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), contains over 1500 documents related to pharmaceutical industry clinical trials, publication of study results, pricing, marketing,and relations with physicians. Many of these documents were previously secret and were only made public as a result of lawsuits filed against a number of prominent pharmaceutical companies. First-time visitors may wish to start by clicking on "TheDocuments" link on the homepage. Here they can read about some of the crucial lawsuits that generated the documents featured in this archive.

HHI (Healthy Hawaii Initiative) Data Warehouse

Hawaii Health Matters

http://www.hawaiihealthmatters.org/

Hawaii Health Data Warehouse

http://www.healthyhawaii2010.org/

Library Closed on Labor Day

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public and not staffed on Monday September 7, 2009 in observance of Labor Day.

Kakaako Green Days Initiative

Beginning next Tuesday, September 1st, the Medical Education Building will have new hours of operation. The purpose for closing the building during low use time is to save energy costs.

The new building hours will be:

M-F: 5 AM - Midnight
Sat: 7 AM - 8 PM
Sun: Noon - 8 PM

Around a year ago the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Green Days Initiative was introduced to UHM’s community. JABSOM, as member of UHM’s ohana, began its participation in UHM’s Green Days efforts in the Spring 2009, naming our initiative, Kakaako Green Days.

At least 60% of our buildings’ electricity and chilled water consumption costs are related to providing air conditioning for the Medical Education (MEB) and Basic Science (BSB) buildings. To start our initiative, the Facilities team raised the cooling temperatures in the MEB a few degrees (75° to 78°) in the evenings around 5 PM until 6 AM the next day. Further review, resulted in the discovery that the need for the MEB building to remain open dropped significantly around 10 PM Monday through Friday and around 5 to 8 PM on the weekends and holidays.

By aligning the MEB open hours with our faculty, staff and student occupancy needs, JABSOM has an opportunity to save approximately $400,000 on an annual basis. The impact of these savings equates to covering close to two months of JABSOM’s electric bills. Reducing the MEB hours from 24/7 to the new schedule will directly reduce JABSOM’s facilities expenses. Given JABSOM’s most recent State General Fund reductions, these savings will be used to continue to fund faculty who train and teach our JABSOM students and residents.

Hawaii Health Information Corporation

http://hhic.org/general-health-data.asp

This site provides answers to simple healthcare questions and“commonly asked questions”. Our focus is Hawaii, so where possible we provide links that are specific to Hawaii and Hawaii’s people.

Library Closed on Statehood Day

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public and not staffed on Friday, August 21, 2009 in observance of Statehood Day.

Health RSS Feeds

Health RSS Feeds
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of Web feed
formats used to publish frequently updated works—such
as blog entries, news headlines, audio and video—in a
standardized format.

APHA Public Health News

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/6794502.rss

MedlinePlus Health News

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/feeds/news_en.xml

Google Health News

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=en&topic=m&output=rss

New York Times Health

http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Health

National Institutes of Health News Releases

http://nih.gov/news/feed.xml

White House on the Issues: Health Care
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/health_care/

World Health Organizationhttp://www.who.int/about/licensing/rss/en/

Public Health News from Johns Hopkins University
http://www.jhsph.edu/rss/index.html

What's On My Food?

What’s On My Food? is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable.
http://whatsonmyfood.org/index.jsp

"Find It" button down Fri, 7/31, 3pm-9pm

Because of a systems upgrade, the "Find It" button, which you see in PubMed and other library databases, will not work on Friday, July 31 from 3pm to 9pm. You can use the Library's e-journal gateway to see if a journal is online. Please contact the Library if you need assistance or have questions.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

HIV/AIDS Atlas

The National HIV/AIDS Atlas provides a powerful new tool to the public, health care professionals, policy makers and elected officials to access and map local, state and national data in order to see how HIV/AIDS is impacting their community.

The Atlas presents county-level prevalence rates (based on the reported number of people living with HIV (non-AIDS) and AIDS in 2006) in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, depicting the intensity of the disease, rather than the magnitude.

The Atlas allows users to focus on HIV/AIDS statistics by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, where available. It also allows users to see their congressional and state legislative districts overlaid on top of the county-level data.

http://www.maphiv.org/

Voyager Library Catalog Undergoing Upgrade This Week

To improve its services to the University of Hawai’i community, the Voyager Library online catalog for the libraries of the University of Hawai’i system will be in the process of upgrading the current system during the week of July 13-19, 2009.

During this time, some regular online services such as renewing items or requesting library materials for pick up and/or delivery through Voyager, will be unavailable. Account information will be a snapshot of the July 13 information. Until the update is completed on July 19, no additional transactions will be displayed during that time (holds, renewals, fines, fees, etc.).

If you need to renew a book or request an article, please contact the Health Sciences Library at 692-0810 or hslinfo@hawaii.edu.

The UH library system apologizes for any inconvenience at this time and looks forward to better serving you in the future.

Breast Cancer Numbers Dip Most in Wealthy, Urban Areas

Breast Cancer Numbers Dip Most in Wealthy, Urban Areas

Cases of invasive breast cancer in the United States have declined overall, but the decrease is significantly less marked in poor women who live in rural areas, possibly due to differences in the use of hormone therapy (HT), a new study suggests.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_86147.html

For UHM use only:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/7/31/abstract

Library Closed Independence Day Weekend

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public:

Friday, July 3rd
Saturday, July 4th,
Sunday, July 5th

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Health Literacy

Health literacy is a growing concern in the United States, especially given the increase in the age of the population and of people with limited English proficiency. The following resources are for health care practionaers, adult literacy teachers and health care consumers.

Harvard School of Public Health: Health Literacy Studies
www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/

Health Information Partners: Connect for Health
http://www.connectforhealth.gwu.edu/

Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA): Health Literacy
www.hrsa.gov/healthliteracy/

Institute of Medicine (IOM): Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion
www.iom.edu/?id=19750

National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM): Health Literacy
www.nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/hlthlit.html

Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC): Health Literacy

Federal Health Care Reform and Hawaii

Congressman Neil Abercrombie's Community Forum
Federal Health Care Reform and Hawaii
Date: July 1, 2009
Time: 6:00PM-7:30PM
Location: The Queen's Conference Center - Mabel Smyth Auditorium
510 South Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/hi01_abercrombie/morenews/spot09healthcare_forums.shtml

Health Sciences Library Summer Hours

Summer Hours for the public are as follows:

June 29 -July 10 2009-
Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00 pm

Medical Mnemonics Database

Medical Mnemonics
A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details.

http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/

Library will be closed to Public Patrons on Kamehameha Day June 11th

The Health Science Library will be closed and unstaffed to the public on Thursday Kamehameha Day June 11th.

Value of Taking Aspirin to Cut Heart Risk Varies

Value of Taking Aspirin to Cut Heart Risk Varies
MedlinePlus:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_84939.html


Aspirin in the primary and secondary prevention of vascular disease: collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised trials

For UHM use only:

The Lancet May 30 2009:

Summer Parking Hours

Parking Lot C has changed it's hours for the summer. Effective May 27, 2009 through August 2009, Lot C hours will be:

Monday-Friday
6:00am-5:00pm

Saturday & Sunday
Closed

Library Closed to Public Memorial Day, Monday May 25

The Library will be closed to the Public on Monday May 25, 2009 for Memorial Day.

Library Closing Early on Mon, May 18th, 5pm

The Health Sciences Library will be closing at 5pm on Monday, May 18th, because of scheduled maintenance that will shut down the air-conditioning and Internet.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Surgeon General's Family Health History Initiative

Surgeon General's Family Health History Initiative

http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/

To help focus attention on the importance of family history, the Surgeon General, in cooperation with other agencies with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has launched a national public health campaign, called the Surgeon General's Family History Initiative, to encourage all American families to learn more about their family health history.

My Family Health Portrait Tool
The Web-based tool helps users organize family history information and then print it out for presentation to their family doctor. In addition, the tool helps users save their family history information to their own computer and even share family history information with other family members. Access the My Family Health Portrait Web tool at https://familyhistory.hhs.gov/.

Health Sciences Library Closing Early Saturday May 16 2:00 pm

Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public on Saturday May 16 at 2:00 pm.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Consumer Health Information in Languages Other than English

The 24 Languages Project
Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages
Sound recordings also available.
http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/

Spiral
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
http://spiral.tufts.edu/

MedlinePlus
Health Information in Multiple Languages
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

National Network of Libraries of Medicine
nnlm.gov
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/multi.html

Swine Flu MedlinePlus

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/

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

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

Bill in Legislature pushes to put Hawaii medical records online

State lawmakers want to tap stimulus aid for electronic records plan

A system linking all hospital, patient and physician records via an online database would cut medical costs in Hawai'i and improve patient care by giving doctors immediate access to key information.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090318/NEWS02/903180405

JABSOM Researchers find New Use for Clofazimine

An old anti-leprosy drug might provide an effective treatment for three devastating autoimmune diseases -- multiple sclerosis, psoriasis and type 1 diabetes -- say two Hawaii researchers and mainland colleagues.

The finding is reported in the Public Library of Science by Drs. Reinhold Penner and Andrea Fleig of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Queen's Medical Center, and researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University.


Clofazimine Inhibits Human Kv1.3 Potassium Channel by Perturbing Calcium Oscillation in T Lymphocytes
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2602975

Star Bulletin Article 2/23/2009
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090223_Isle_doctors_find_new_use_for_1890s_drug.html

American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009-Grant Opportunities

*American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at the National Library of Medicine (NIH/HHS)

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law by President Obama on February 17th, 2009. It is an unprecedented effort to jumpstart our economy, create or save millions of jobs, and put a down payment on addressing long-neglected challenges so our country can thrive in the 21st century.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will invest more than $84 million from the Recovery Act, by September 2010, into basic and applied research in biomedical informatics through grants. Click the link below to learn about these grant opportunities.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/recovery/index.html

JABSOM has created its own website to help its researchers with this new funding opportunity: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/research/arra2009/

USMLE QBank for Step1 and Step 2 Exams

WikiTestPrep
Founded by students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, WikiTestPrep has served tens of thousands of medical students worldwide.


http://www.wikitestprep.org/

Medical Applications on the iPhone

Some Uses for Mobile Phones in Medicine
While Palm Pilot and Pocket PC are the more common handheld devices, the iPhone is gaining in popularity. To find medical applications for the iPhone, simply browse the "medical" category of the iTunes app store.

Medical Student Education-Over the next two years, each Ohio State College of Medicine student will receive a standard iPod Touch, equipped with specific medical software programs planned by the OSU College of Medicine.

Drug Information-Lexi-Comp is available on BlackBerry, Window Mobile and iPhone. Epocrates and many other drug information resources are available on various smartphone platforms.

Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring- iPhone Telemedicine Application which allows physicians to monitor vital signs of ambulant and home care patients at any time from their phone. Patients are given a small device which transmits their vitals to a secure server. Physicians can connect to the server with their iPhone to monitor the vital signs.

Medical Imaging-Well IBM and Merge Healthcare have decided to join together to provide a method to deliver medical images to an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Several articles have been written about radiology using iPods as a portable storage and viewing device.
http://www.rsna.org/publications/rsnanews/dec04/ipod-1.html

Global Shortage of Medical Isotopes

BMJ
(Letters:2008)
For UHM use only

Global shortage of medical isotopes threatens nuclear medicine services

http://www.bmj.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/cgi/content/full/337/sep05_2/a1577?view=long&pmid=18775947

Reactor Shutdown Causing Medical Isotope Shortage from New York Times (Dec 2007)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/business/worldbusiness/06reactor.html

PubMed Tutorial - Redesigned

The National Library of Medicine® is pleased to announce a new look for the PubMed Tutorial. The tutorial was reorganized to give searchers a better understanding of what is in PubMed and the controlled vocabulary before going on to build a search and manage the results. The tutorial is available from the PubMed homepage sidebar from the Tutorials link.

The tutorial update includes changes to PubMed through October 2008 including the My NCBI redesign released in September. A version incorporating the latest changes including the Advanced Search page and revised Summary display is in process.

Formation of American Board of Hospital Medicine

American Board of Physician Specialties

Announces Formation of

American Board of Hospital Medicine

Hospital Medicine Recognized as a Growing Medical Specialty

http://www.informz.net/aapsga/archives/archive_709904.html

Doctors Will Make Web Calls in Hawaii

The system, which links patients with doctors online, is available to all Hawaii residents


http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20081204_HMSA_set_to_launch_24-hour_Web_alternative_office_visit_in_January.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/technology/internet/06health.html


Doctors Express Concern About Online Care :
Download mp3Runs: 3:55

http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hpr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2867&Itemid=166

Community Health Fair - Fri, Jan 9th, 12p-3p

Medical students have assembled health screenings and information from all over O'ahu to offer at this year's "Celebrate Health" Community Health Fair from 12-3 p.m. this Friday, January 9.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and Hawai'i Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona have accepted invitations to speak as the health fair kicks off at 12 p.m., in the school's Medical Education Building Lobby.

New to the islands, food retailer WHOLE FOODS will offer nutritional samples, VITAMIN SHOPPE will have its experts on hand.

A blood drive will be held simultaneously. At the fair's self-help corner, you can receive free screenings for:

• blood pressure
  
• glucose
  
• body mass index
• flu shots

Other planned activities include featured motivational speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani, Associate Professor of Medicine at UH's medical school and author of "The Hawaii Diet," and "Eat More, Weigh Less Cookbook". Shintani is also a trained healer in Native Hawaiian medicine.

Specialists from the on campus "Wellness Center" will discuss treatments in complementary and alternative medicine which are offered to the public by appointment at the Center. Those services include acupuncture, massage therapy and ayuverdic (traditional Indian) medicine.

The "Celebrate Health" community health fair is open to everyone, and will run from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., Friday January 9, at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Library computers will be unavailable for public use.

Origin of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus

Origin of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus: a comparative genomic analysis.
Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2008 Jun;47(3):1100-10. Epub 2008 Feb 14.

For UHM use only


Title: The devil’s flu : the world’s deadliest influenza epidemic and the scientific hunt for the virus that caused it / Pete Davies.
Publisher:
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2000
Location:
UH Manoa: Hamilton
Call Number: RA644.I6 D38 2000

Happy New Year!

Everyone at the Health Sciences Library sends their wishes for a happy and safe New Year's!

The Global Library of Women's Medicine

http://www.glowm.com/index.html?p=glowm.cml/publishers

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is published by Sapiens Global Library Limited (an associated company of Sapiens Publishing Limited).
The website has been developed from the highly-acclaimed, six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, that was first published in 1934 and that has been edited for the last 30 years by Professor John J. Sciarra.
An essential feature of this site is that all elements within it can be updated at any time, so that whenever significant new developments take place they should almost immediately be reflected in updates in the text. The site is also designed to be entirely flexible so that new chapters and other contributions can be seamlessly added whenever appropriate.
A second essential feature of the site is that nothing should appear on it unless is has been peer-reviewed. Because the site does not publish original research the Peer Review process undertaken is not as detailed as that undertaken by good research journals. Nevertheless everything that appears on the site, regardless of the expertise of the author, must have been reviewed by at least one other medical specialist. Every effort will be made to try to ensure the continued quality and currency of the materials provided.
Nurses, midwives, other medical professionals and medical students also have the option of free registration – and they will also gain certain specific benefits from doing so.

Happiness: It Really Is Contagious

Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338

The paper on BMJ that has received the widest coverage this week shows that happiness is contagious and can spread from person to person. It is the most read article on our website this week, with 12,327 viewers (see also below). Authors James H Fowler and Nicholas A Christakis followed 4739 participants from 1983 to 2003. By studying social networks, the researchers found that happy people are more likely to be connected to other happy people. They also found that people at the centre of their social network were more likely to be happy than those on the periphery of it.

-Fiona Godlee
Editor, BMJ


NPR Story: Happiness: It Really Is Contagious

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97831171

How the New NIH Public Access Law Affects University of Hawaii Researchers

NIH Public Access Policy
(Effective May 25, 2008 )

Who:All researches who receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant monies and who publish the research results in a peer-reviewed journal.

What:Required by law to submit an electronic copy of their accepted publication to PubMed Central (PMC), the NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Importing PMCIDs into EndNote: EndNote has created instructions for importing PubMed Central ID numbers (PMCIDs) into your EndNote library. For more information, visit the EndNote FAQ page.

For more information about the NIH policy:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/nih.html

Library Holiday Hours

The Health Sciences Library will maintain the following Holiday Hour Schedule:

Tuesday, Dec. 16 - the Library will be closed from 11am - 2pm, but will be open regular hours otherwise on that date (8am - 11am, 2pm - 10pm)

December 2008/January 2009
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
21 12-5p	22 8a-5p	23 8a-5p	24 8a-5p	25 closed	26 8a-5p	27 closed
28 closed	29 8a-5p	30 8a-5p	31 8a-5p	1 closed	2 8a-5p	3 closed
4 closed	5 8a-10p	6 8a-10p	7 8a-10p	8 8a-10p	9 8a-5p	10 9a-5p

Web data predict flu

Published online 19 November 2008 | Nature 456, 287-288 (2008) :

Two new studies hint at the public-health and research potential of mining the data created as people search the web. Both teams have successfully detected the onset of US seasonal flu epidemics, by extracting patterns of flu-related search terms from the billions of queries stored by Google and Yahoo.

For UHM use only
http://www.nature.com.eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/news/2008/081119/full/456287a.html

Dietary Supplements Labels Database Fact Sheet

from the National Library of Medicine

The Dietary Supplements Labels Database http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov includes information from the labels of over 2,000 dietary supplement products in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dietaryfs.html

Improving the Odds for Title Searching in PubMed

Improving the Odds for Title Searching in PubMed

Searchers often copy an article title from another source then paste it into PubMed for a search. If a phrase in the title matches with an author name it can cause the search to fail. To improve title searching, PubMed now ignores phrases that match with author/investigator names that are made up only of stopwords (e.g., During A, May BE, Just BY). For example, in the search for the title, Prediction of performance level during a cognitive task from ongoing EEG oscillatory activities, the phrase, during a, is ignored and the search retrieves the expected citation. This special effect occurs when the phrase is part of a string of other words, none of which have search tags. When a name is entered by itself, e.g., just by, it is interpreted as a name search. To search for an author name (that matches with stop words) plus other terms, use an author search tag, e.g., just by [au] AND seizure.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so08/so08_pm_title_searching.html

Library Closed to the Public Sundays and Some Evenings for the Next 5 weeks

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public on the following dates and times:

Sunday, Oct. 19
Monday, Oct. 20, 5p-10p
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 5p-10p
Sunday, Oct. 26
Monday, Oct. 27, 5p-10p
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 2
Tuesday, Nov. 4 (ELECTION DAY HOLIDAY)
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 9
Tuesday, Nov. 11 (VETERANS' DAY HOLIDAY)
Wed, Nov. 12, 5p-10p
Sunday, Nov. 16
Monday, Nov. 17, 5p-10p

Asian American Health

The Asian American Health web resource, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to increase public awareness of the health concerns of these important minority groups, who are major contributors to our society's economy, innovation, and vibrancy. Links are provided to an assortment of documents, web sites, databases, and other resources.

Asian Americans represent a large and rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population. A recent U.S. Census estimate puts their combined numbers at over 11 million people and predicts a better than tripling in population by 2050. They are exceedingly diverse, coming from nearly fifty countries and ethnic groups, each with distinct cultures, traditions, and histories, and they speak over 100 languages and dialects. Asian American diversity extends to socioeconomic indicators, with members found throughout the spectra of poverty to wealth, and illiteracy to advanced education (U.S. Census Bureau Facts for Features).

Although Asian Americans in the United States suffer from the same health problems as the population at large, certain illnesses predominate. There is a particularly high rate of liver cancer among Asian Americans, while lung cancer is their leading cause of cancer death. Vietnamese women's cervical cancer rate is five times that of Caucasian women. Asian Americans have among the highest rates of tuberculosis and hepatitis B in the United States. Asian Indians have an unusually high rate of coronary artery disease, and parasitic infections are particularly widespread among Southeast Asian refugees (Cancer Facts on Asians & Pacific Islanders).

http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

Directory of Info Resources (DIRLINE)

DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.

DIRLINE contains over 8,000 records and focuses primarily on health and biomedicine, although it also provides limited coverage of some other special interests. These information resources fall into many categories including federal, state, and local government agencies; information and referral centers; professional societies; self-help groups and voluntary associations; academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems and research facilities. Topics include HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, most diseases and conditions including genetic and other rare diseases, health services research and technology assessment.

Database/journal access restored

Hamilton Library was able to restore remote access to the online resources. Please notify us if you have any difficulties accessing the online resources.

Phone: 692-0810
email: hslinfo@hawaii.edu

Thank you for your patience while we investigated the problem.

Remote access to databases down; however, if you're in the library. . .

The server that allows UHM folks to access journals and databases from outside of the library is having some technical difficulties. However, if you are in the Health Sciences Library or computer lab, you will be able to access the following resources by clicking the links below:


PubMed MEDLINE

AccessMedicine

eMedicine

MDConsult

Stat!Ref

UptoDate


You can also try this from inside the Library or Computer Lab:

Once you get to that brownish page, and instead of clicking on the link to go to the resource, right-click and select "Copy Link Location" (wording may vary slightly depending on your browser), then pasting that into the address bar and deleting everything the " http://eres.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/login?url= " (everything before the second http://)

Women's Health Resources

Women's Health Resources was created in a partnership between the National Library of Medicine Office of Outreach and Special Populations and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The purpose of this page is to present topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine information products to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.


www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/womenshealthoverview.html

US FDA :Office of Women's Health

From the U.S. Food and Drug Admininistration:

OWH Science Program
The Office of Women's Health established its Science Program in 1994 with three specific goals in mind:
-To address gaps in current scientific knowledge
-To encourage new directions in research
-To set new standards of excellence in women's health


www.fda.gov/womens/

The Prescribing Guide for Hawaii

Created by University of Hawaii JABSOM Faculty Member Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng.

The Prescribing Guide is a free resource for Hawaii’s providers so that they can easily find which drugs are covered (and more affordable) for their patients.

The Website provides the following links to…

• 4 major formularies in Hawaii
• HMSA
• HMSA Quest
• AlohaCare
• Medicaid FFS
• Walmart $4/$9 generic list , Costco, and Longs Drugs
• Medicare.gov - to look up Part D health plan formularies
• Rxassist.org - to look up pharmacy assistance programs
• Online search for ICD-9 codes

http://www.prescribingguide.com

OrganDonor.Gov

Access to U.S. Government information on organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

http://organdonor.gov/

The Minority Health Archive

From the University of Pittsburgh
Center for Minority Health, Graduate School of Public Health

The Minority Health Archive, created in collaboration with the Center for Minority Health and the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, is an online archive of print and electronic media related to the health of the four nationally recognized minority groups: Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders . The Minority Health Archive provides the opportunity not only to research and gather documents in a variety of subject areas, but also serves as a resource to deposit other related materials not already posted to the archive.

http://minority-health.pitt.edu/

Natural Standard - New Database!

The Health Sciences Library has started a new subscription to the database, Natural Standard.

Natural Standard provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. A grading scale is used to indicate the level of scientific evidence available for a given therapy or indication. Written in varying reading levels to accommodate professionals and consumers in making informed therapeutic decisions.

A link to Natural Standard can be found on the Library's More Databases page.

A Student's Guide to Medical Literature

This site has been designed especially for medical students, but it can be used by anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. If you are having trouble researching a medical question, or want an easy guide to critical appraisal of journal articles, this is the site for you!


http://grinch.uchsc.edu/sg/

Women's Health Resources

This resource was created in a partnership between the National Library of Medicine Office of Outreach and Special Populations and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health. The purpose of this page is to present topics pertaining to women’s health collected by National Library of Medicine information products to support the mission of the Office of Research on Women’s Health to promote research in the field.

www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/womenshealthoverview.html

Wiley & Blackwell Online Journals Down June 27-29

Wiley has acquired Blackwell Publishing and is migrating all journals from the Blackwell Synergy site to Wiley Interscience. As of Monday, June 30th 2008, Blackwell journal content—including full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.

Blackwell Synergy will close at the end of business (Pacific Standard Time) on Friday June 27th, and we anticipate that the migration will be completed by Monday June 30th. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while the they transition and re-index data.

NIH Launches Undiagnosed Diseases Program

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced a new clinical research program that will aim to provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis. Called the Undiagnosed Diseases Program, the trans-NIH initiative will focus on the most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., by physicians across the nation.

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/may2008/nhgri-19.htm

Library Summer Hours

The Health Sciences Library will observe the following Summer Hours:

Monday, June 23 - Thursday, July 3, 2008:

Mon - Fri	8am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

The Library will be closed on Friday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day.

Why Don't We Do it in our Sleeves?

The Maine Medical Association, along with Central Maine Medical Center and St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, created this entertaining video about coughing and sneezing into your sleeve rather than hands. It's funny and educational!

Google Video (flash):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8574515984097771637

Windows Media:
http://www.coughsafe.com/mplayer.html

Quicktime:
http://www.coughsafe.com/quick.html

NIH Drug Information Portal

The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies, including drug inserts. At the top of the page are links to individual resources with potential drug information, including summaries tailored to various audiences. Resources include the NLM search systems useful in searching for a drug, NLM research resources, resources organized by audience and class, and other NIH and government resources such as FDA and CDC.

http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

Disaster Information Management Research Center

The National Library of Medicine® (NLM) is pleased to announce a new Website about its Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC). The DIMRC Website seeks to provide access to quality disaster health information at all stages of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery.

DIMRC is tasked with the collection, organization, and dissemination of health information for natural, accidental, or deliberate disasters. The Center is committed to providing this information as part of the federal effort to help prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the adverse health effects of disasters. It will work with federal, state, and local government, private organizations, and local communities.

DIMRC will focus its efforts on providing disaster health information resources and informatics research that will be directly beneficial for public health officials, healthcare providers, special populations, and the public.

NLM Health Disparities Webpage

There is a new Health Disparities webpage from the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus website. The webpage has links to specific disease conditions, statistics, journal articles, and more.

Hamilton Library Closed March 28th

Hamilton Library will not have electricity this Friday (March 28) because its
power line will be down to enable repairs to a leaking transformer at
Mid-Pacific Institute.  Therefore, Hamilton Library will be closed all day on
Friday.  It was scheduled to be  open from 8 am - 5 pm, but without
electricity, the Library cannot provide safe and secure facilities for users
and staff.

There is a possibility that the power outage will also disable the Library's
server, which would also shut down the Library web access to holdings and
electronic resources. Campus Services, Mid-Pacific Institute, and the Library
apologize for this inconvenience.

IF YOU ARE IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY (including the computer
lab), you will be able to access the following resources by clicking
on the links below:

PubMed MEDLINE
AccessMedicine
eMedicine
MDConsult
Stat!Ref
UpToDate

Soap & Water vs. Alcohol-based Hand Wash

The CDC has created an interactive Hand Hygiene website to review standard precautions and key concepts in hand hygiene when working with patients.

Do you know which is better? Soap and water or alcohol-based hand rubs? Visit the Hand Hygiene website to find out the answer and more!

TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network Fact Sheet

TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network Fact Sheet http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxnetfs.html

TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It is managed by the Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP) in the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Intro to Health Services Research: A Self-Study Course

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is offering an online self-study course on Health Services Research.

This e-learning course is made up of seven modules and provides a description of several research scenarios to enlarge your health services research skills (case studies). The modules offer information on the content and history of health services issues, describe an introduction to the NLM health services research databases, and to literature analysis and study design.

This course is presented by the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

E-Resources Down 8 - 8:30am on Sat, March 1st

The Library has been informed that there will be a power outage at Hamilton Library on Saturday, March 1st, from 8am - 8:30am. Unfortunately, this means that remote access to the online resources will be unavailable during the power outage.

IF YOU ARE IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY (including the computer lab), you will be able to access the following resources by clicking on the links below:

PubMed MEDLINE

AccessMedicine

eMedicine

MDConsult

Stat!Ref

UptoDate

National Center for Health Statistics Data Briefs

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Briefs

Data briefs are statistical publications that provide information about current public health topics.  Each report takes a complex data subject and summarizes it into text and graphics that provide readers with  easily comprehensible information in a compact publication.  So far, four have been published:

No. 1. Obesity Among Adults in the United States—No Statistically Significant Change Since 2003–2004. 8 pp. November 2007.

No. 2. High Serum Total Cholesterol—An Indicator for Monitoring Cholesterol Lowering Efforts: U.S. Adults, 2005–2006.

No. 3. Hypertension Awareness, Treatment, and Control—Continued Disparities in Adults: United States, 2005–2006.

No. 4. HIV Infection in the United States Household Population Aged 18–49 Years: Results from 1999–2006. 

Citation of the source is appreciated when using quotations from National Center for Health Statistics’ publications. Please see How to Cite NCHS Publications for examples.

New Books at the Health Sciences Library

Title	Edition	Location	Call Number
Basic atlas of sectional anatomy with correlated imaging	4th	Reserve	QS 17 B311 2007
Anatomy histology and cell biology : PreTest self assessment and review	3rd	Reserve	QS 18.2 A53603 2007
Pharmacology : PreTest self assessment and review	12th	Reserve	QV 18.2 P536 2007
Sanford Guide to antimicrobial therapy 2007	37th	Reserve	QV 250 S224 2007
A to Z drug facts	8th	Reserve	QV 39 A111 2007
Cancer epidemiology and prevention	3rd	Reserve	QZ 200 C215127 2006
Biology of cancer		Reserve	QZ 202 W423b 2007
Robbins and Cotran review of pathology	2nd	Reserve	QZ 4 K63r 2005
Rubins Pathology : clinicopathologic foundations of medicine	5th	Reserve	QZ 4 R896 2008
First aid for the obstetrics and gynecology clerkship	2nd	Reserve	W 18.2 F297f 2007
How to excel in medical school	3rd	Reserve	W 18.2 S159h 2007
Doctors communication handbook	5th	Reserve	W 62 T217d 2007
Delivering health care in America : a systems approach	4th	Reserve	W 84 AA1 S512d 2008
Wallace Maxcy Rosenau Last public health and preventive medicine	15th	Reserve	WA 100 M4635 2008
Oxford textbook of public health	4th	Reserve	WA 100 O98 2002
Introduction to public health	2nd	Reserve	WA 100 S359i 2006
Health change in the Asia Pacific region : biocultural and epidemiological approaches		Reserve	WA 105 H4342 2007
Health matters : a pocket guide to working with diverse cultures and underserved populations		Reserve	WA 300 Y43h 2005
Culture health and illness	5th	Reserve	WA 31 H478c 2007
Using and interpreting statistics : a practical text for the health behavioral and social sciences		Reserve	WA 950 C831u 2007
Behavioral sciences and health care	2nd revised and updated	Reserve	WB 103 B419 2007
Mayo Clinic internal medicine review 2006-2007	7th	Reserve	WB 18.2 M473 2006
Blood banking and transfusion medicine : basic principles and practice	2nd	Reserve	WB 356 B7873 2007
Complementary and alternative medicine sourcebook : basic consumer health information about complementary and alternative medical therapies including acupuncture ayurveda ...	3rd	Reserve	WB 39 C73752 2006
Little black book of primary care	5th	Reserve	WB 39 O58L 2006
Oxford handbook of clinical examination and practical skills		Reserve	WB 39 O9865 2007
Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine	6th	Reserve	WB 60 J81c 2006
Dr Rosenfelds guide to alternative medicine : what works what doesnt and whats right for you		Reserve	WB 890 R813d 1997
Samoan herbal medicine : o laau ma vai fofo o Samoa		Reserve	WB 925 W576s 1996
Principles of pulmonary medicine	4th	Reserve	WF 600 W423p 2004
ECG in 10 days	2nd	Reserve	WG 18.2 F399b 2007
Essential haematology	5th	Reserve	WH 120 H698e 2006
Lymphomas	2nd	Reserve	WH 525 L9852 2006
Brady urology manual		Reserve	WJ 39 B812 2006
Fundamental neuroscience for basic and clinical applications	3rd	Reserve	WL 101 F981 2006
Essential neuroscience		Reserve	WL 102 S571e 2006
Current diagnosis and treatment in neurology		Reserve	WL 140 C976 2007
Neuroanatomy through clinical cases		Reserve	WL 141 B658n 2002
Neurology and neurosurgery illustrated	4th	Reserve	WL 141 L748n 2004
Neuroanatomy : an atlas of structures sections and systems	7th	Reserve	WL 17 H153n 2008
High yield neuroanatomy	3rd	Reserve	WL 18.2 F566h 2005
Neurology	2nd	Reserve	WL 18.2 J83b 2007
Intensive neurosurgery board review : neurological surgery Q and A		Reserve	WL 18.2 P474i 2006
Handbook of neurosurgery	6th	Reserve	WL 39 G789h 2006
Blueprints radiology	2nd	Reserve	WN 18.2 D264b 2006
Obstetric anesthesia handbook	4th	Reserve	WO 231 D234o 2006
Atlas of pelvic anatomy and gynecologic surgery	2nd	Reserve	WP 17 B144a 2006
Lewiss child and adolescent psychiatry : a comprehensive textbook	4th	Reserve	WS 350 C53502 2007
Fundamentals of geriatric medicine : a case based approach		Reserve	WT 100 F9812 2007
Principles of ambulatory medicine	7th	Reserve	WX 205 P957 2007
Culture and clinical care		Reserve	WY 107 C967 2005
How to report statistics in medicine : annotated guidelines for authors editors and reviewers	2nd	Reserve	WZ 345 L271h 2006
Health care regulation in America : complexity confrontation and compromise		Main	W 32.5 AA1 F4566h 2007
How doctors think		Main	W 61 G876h 2007
Silent victories : the history and practice of public health in twentieth century America		Main	WA 11 AA1 S582 2007
Public health ethics : theory policy and practice		Main	WA 21 P9752 2007
How everyday products make people sick : toxins at home and in the workplace		Main	WA 30.5 B638h 2007
Healthier societies : from analysis to action		Main	WA 31 H442 2006
Narrative matters : the power of the personal essay in health policy		Main	WA 540 AA1 N106 2006
Clinical epidemiology : the study of the outcome of illness	3rd	Main	WA 950 W431c 2006
HIV	3rd	Main	WC 503.6 H6755 2007
Immunology and immunopathogenesis of malaria		Main	WC 750 I33 2005
Molecular approaches to malaria		Main	WC 750 M7178 2005
Injury epidemiology : research and control strategies	3rd	Main	WO 700 R651i 2007
Global health and global aging		Main	WT 104 G5615 2007
Health professions : career and education directory 2007-2008	35th	Reference	W 22 AA1 A436 2007-2008
State medical licensure requirements and statistics : 2008	2008	Reference	W 40 AA1 U58 2008

New Look for ClinicalTrials.gov

In September 2007, NLM's ClinicalTrials.gov launched a new web interface http://ClinicalTrials.gov/beta , which represents the first significant change to the interface since February 2000. A live link to the beta site (http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/home) is available from the clinicaltrials.gov site. The new interface will run in parallel with the previous version, and after appropriate testing, the new user interface will permanently replace the previous version, approximately two to four weeks after launch.

A Technical Bulletin article describing the features and improvements included in the new interface is available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so07/so07_clinical_trials.html. To summarize, the new features include the ability to highlight search terms, more display options, and additional capabilities for viewing studies and search results by topic. Also, improvements were made to "Advanced Search" mode and the display by location on the world map.

ClinicalTrials.gov is the NLM(r)-developed Web-based registry of clinical research studies. It provides patients, clinicians, researchers, and members of the general public with access to information about interventional and observational studies including clinical trials of drugs, devices and other interventions. As of August 2007, ClinicalTrials.gov contained over 44,000 clinical research studies in all fifty states and in 150 countries.

What Does this Journal Abbreviation Stand for?

1. Click on the JOURNALS DATABASE in PubMed Medline.
2. Type the abbreviation you have into the search box.

3. Choose the journal from a list of titles that appear. Note the list of other suggested titles.

If the journal title abbreviation is not indexed in PubMed it might be found at the University of British Columbia’s Journal Title and Abbreviation List.