OutbreakNet Foodborne Outbreak Online Database

OutbreakNet
Foodborne Outbreak Online Database

The Foodborne Outbreak Online Database has been designed to allow the public direct access to information on foodborne outbreaks reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most outbreaks are reported to the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS) by the state, local, territorial, or tribal health department that conducted the outbreak investigation. Outbreak reporting is voluntary. Multi-state outbreaks are generally reported to NORS by CDC.


http://wwwn.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/

Library closing at 8pm, Thurs, Mar 4th

The Health Sciences Library will be closing at 8pm on Thursday, March 4, 2010, because of short-staffing issues.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

iPhone Medical Apps

iPhone Apps available on the Subject Guide on HSL page

Anatomy, Bioterrorism , Calculators , Cardiology , Clinical Tools , Coding and Classification Databases , Drug Information , Eye Care , Lab Tests , Mental Health , Nursing , Pediatrics , Study Guides , Terms and Definitions

http://www.hawaii.edu/hslib/subjguides/iPhoneapps.html

NIH Education and Awareness Campaign materials

NIH Education and Awareness Campaign materials:
Clear Communication: An NIH Health Literacy Initiative

NIH Education and Awareness Campaign materials are available for a variety of public health marketing campaigns, including health literacy, healthy eating, clinical trials, heart disease, asthma, and enhancing children's activity and nutrition, among others.

http://nih.gov/icd/od/ocpl/resources/campaigns/

MedWatch

MedWatch from the FDA:

An FDA Gateway for finding clinically important safety information and reporting serious problems with human medical products.

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/default.htm

Library Closed Monday, Feb 15 for Presidents' Day

The Health Sciences Library will be closed on Monday, February 15th in observance of Presidents' Day.

Revised Pubmed homepage, advanced search, and limits page.

PubMed Advanced Search, Limits, and Homepage Revised

Changes include:

• Advanced search page was streamlined
• a link to Clipboard was added to the homepage
• a new Limits page with additional limits for dates and search field tags

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf10/jf10_pm_advanced_search.html

NLM grant to digitize "Medical Heritage" works dating back to 17th century

*National Library of Medicine Receives Grant to Digitize "Medical Heritage" Works Dating Back to 17th Century
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/digitize_grant.html

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Funding Opportunity Announcement

The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), part of NIH, has announced a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit exploratory and developmental research project grant (R21) applications that propose innovative and transdisciplinary interventions on health disparities, social determinants of health, health behavior and promotion, and disease prevention, that is jointly conducted with faith-based organizations or faith-motivated programs and the research community. The full funding announcement is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-10-004.html.

The total amount of funding that NCMHD expects to award through this FOA is approximately $2.5 million. The anticipated number of awards is up to 8. Letters of intent to apply for funding are due by February 9, 2010, and the application deadline is March 17, 2010. Direct costs are limited to $275,000 over a two-year period, with no more than $200,000 in direct costs allowed in any single year. Applications for this award should describe projects distinct from those supported through the traditional R01 mechanism. For example, long term projects, or projects designed to increase knowledge in a well-established area, will not be considered for this R21 award. Applications submitted under this mechanism should be exploratory and novel, involving studies that break new ground or extend previous discoveries toward new directions or applications. Projects of limited cost or scope that use widely accepted approaches and methods within well established fields are better suited for the R03 small grant mechanism.

Haiti earthquake health information links

A new web page of Haiti earthquake health information links is now available at http://disaster.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/haitiearthquake.html. This information was compiled by the Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services, US National Library of Medicine. The page includes resources about the Haiti earthquake situation from both government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). There is also a section of Haitian Creole and French-language materials. Links to background information on earthquakes and subsequent health issues, such as public health assessments, emergency surgical care, and management of dead bodies, are also included.

The page will continue to expand and will add a section on hazards from concrete dust and other airborne particulates from the collapsed buildings and subsequent clean-up activities. Please send comments and any additional suggestions about health information content to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov.

Sciencedirect down Sat, Jan 23

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 12 hours from 3am to 3pm on Saturday, January 23, 2010.

Guide to Tropical Disease Motion Pictures and Audiovisuals

The Tropical Disease Motion Picture and Audiovisual Collection is comprised of films, videorecordings, and digital videocasts produced from the 1920s through 2009, with the majority shot prior to the 1960s. An estimated 120 titles are in the collection. All are devoted to health concerns and include material on medicine and public health. Materials range from ideological, documentary, educational, and training films to American war propaganda. The intended audience is diverse and includes military personnel, health professionals, and the general public. The collection will be of particular interest to scholars concerned with the social, economic, and political implications of health disparities in a world where epidemics travel with great rapidity across national and regional borders.

*Guide to Tropical Disease Motion Pictures and Audiovisuals
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films/tropicalguide/index.html

Community Health Fair @ JABSOM, Fri, 1/8, 12pm

Community Health Fair
12 noon - 3pm
Friday, January 8, 2010
UH School of Medicine

The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) will sponsor a free community health fair this Friday, January 8, at the medical school’s Kaka‘ako campus from 12 noon until 3 p.m.

Highlights:

• Free blood pressure, BMI, glucose, and other health screenings
• Door prizes & free samples of nutritional items
• Acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, Native Hawaiian healing, Chinese & herbal medicine, and massage demonstrations and nutrition counseling by Med School faculty
• Keynote speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani, will give a talk at 2pm. He is the author of the popular books "THe Hawaii Diet" and "Eat More, Weigh Less."
• Yoga demonstration at 1pm
• Over 50 vendors, such as Whole Foods, YMCA, American Cancer Society, National Kidney Foundation.
  

The fair is organized annually by the school’s first and second year medical students.

For more information: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/about/news.php?categoryid=4&articleid=823

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: New Patient Information and Enhanced Navigation

In November 2009, the National Library of Medicine released a new version of the A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia on MedlinePlus. The encyclopedia now includes hundreds of new Patient Instruction pages in English and Spanish. These pages cover pre-operative information, discharge instructions, self-care instructions, and questions to ask your doctor. Users can find links to Patient Instructions and related MedlinePlus topics in the right side-bar of many encyclopedia articles.

For more information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd09/nd09_mplus_encylclopedia.html

Library Closed 12/21/2009 - 1/3/2010

The Health Sciences Library will be closed from Monday, Dec. 21- Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010, because the entire Medical Education Building will be closed as a part of the UH Manoa Green Days Initiative. Hamilton and Sinclair Libraries will also be closed during this time, as all UH System libraries will be.

Access to Online Resources
During the interim access to online resources should be available. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, the Voyager online catalog will be down while equipment is being moved but this should not affect e-journals, PubMed, MDConsult, etc.

Access to Study Space
Medical students will have access to the Ancillary Building Study space--normal MEB building hours are to be observed.

Hawaii Medical Library (547-4300) will be open Mon, 12/21-Thurs, 12/24/09, 9am - 4pm.

Checking Out Reserve Books for the Break:
Beginning at 12 noon on Friday, 12/18/09, we will allow the checking out of Reserve Books for the two week break. They will be due on Monday, Jan. 4, by 10 a.m. with no exceptions. If you misplace any library book during the break, you will be charged for a replacement copy. There will be the same three-book limit.

Online Journals Available while Library Catalog Down on 12/22

The previous message regarding the Library System outage on December 22, 2009 was erroneous.

The online journals and databases WILL BE available on December 22, 2009. Only the Voyager Library Catalog (where you search for books and journals on the library shelves) will be unavailable from approximately 6am to 6pm on 12/22.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

WHO Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

World Health Organization (WHO)
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009
Global Alert and Response

WHO continues to track the evolving infectious disease situation, sound the alarm when needed, share expertise, and mount the kind of response needed to protect populations from the consequences of epidemics, whatever and wherever might be their origin.

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/

ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Down Sat-Sun, 12/12-12/13

The Interlibrary Loan online ILLiad system will be unavailable 12/12 12pm to 12/13 12pm for document request and retrieval due to system maintenance, with apologies for inconveniences.

Urgent requests may be submitted via email to libill@hawaii.edu during that time.

Reporting on Cancer Research

Reporting on Cancer Research, a Web site for science writers and the public with definitions of terms and brief overviews of how things work in the world of oncology research.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Oxford Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jnci/resource/reporting_on_cancer.html

Library Book Transfers Inactivated Until January

Because all UH System Libraries will be closed during the Winter Interim, book transfers and recalls have been temporarily turned off from December 7, 2009 until Jan 4, 2010. This is the online process within the Voyager Catalog that allows you to request a book to be transferred from one UH library to another.

This service was turned off now in order to allow sufficient time for books in transit to reach the destination library in a timely fashion. We wanted to be sure that the requester has enough time to pick up the book before the library closes.

Remember that that you can go directly to any UH library and check out books yourself between now and when the library closes for the break. Be sure to check the library hours before going.

Library Catalog & Online Journals Down on 12/22

The Voyager Library Catalog and access to online journals and databases will NOT be available on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 from 6am until the evening.

The Library servers and other equipment are being moved from Sinclair Library (where they have been since the 2004 Flood) to the newly constructed server room in Hamilton Library.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Healthy People 2020

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Since 1979, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives to meet a broad range of health needs, encourage collaborations across sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of our prevention activity. Currently, Healthy People 2010 is leading the way to achieve increased quality and years of healthy life and the elimination of health disparities.

Objectives
http://www.healthypeople.gov/hp2020/Objectives/TopicAreas.aspx

http://www.healthypeople.gov/hp2020/

"Expanded Access" in ClinicalTrials.gov

*NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2009, "Expanded Access" in ClinicalTrials.gov

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd09/nd09_ct_faq2.html

Expanded access is a means by which manufacturers make investigational new drugs available, under certain circumstances, to treat a patient(s) with a serious disease or condition who cannot participate in a controlled clinical trial.

UH Voyager Library System Outage

UH Voyager Library System Outage - The Library catalog will be unavailable from November 25th (4pm) to November 27th (6pm).

Access to other resources should be available; however there is a chance that those will be down as well.

Thanksgiving Holiday Hours

The Health Sciences Library will be closed as follows over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend:

Wednesday, Nov. 25th the library will close at 5pm through Sunday, Nov. 29th. The Library will reopen on Monday, Nov. 30th

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms

Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
http://www.genome.gov/glossary/

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to related terms.

Library Closed on Veterans' Day, 11/11/09

The Health Sciences Library will be closed to the public in observance of Veterans' Day on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Medical Games for your iPhone/iPod Touch

http://mededlit.blogspot.com/2009/08/medical-games-for-your-iphoneipod-touch.html

-thanks to Josephine Tan from UCSF for this information

Figuring out where to publish your paper

http://biosemantics.org/jane/

JANE-Journal/Author Name Estimator

JANE gives you a way to identify possible journals that have published on a specific topic. In addition to giving you a list of journals publishing on your topic, it will list the Article's Influence (based on Eigen Factor analysis).

Search by just the title or also include the abstract. JANE http://biosemantics.org/jane/ pulls its data from MEDLINE and gives you information on the 50 articles that are most similar to your article. JANE is a new(ish) tool from the Netherlands Bioinformatics Group, and provides
other finding tools like finding similar articles and authors who write on your topic. For more details, you check check out their FAQ page. http://biosemantics.org/jane/faq.php

"Find It" Button Down Friday, 9pm - Midnight (Oct 23)

Due to a system upgrade, the "Find It" button that you see in most Library databases will not function this Friday night, October 23, from approximately 9PM to Midnight.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

USFDA Pillbox

http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov

Pillbox Beta Version Released

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), with support from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has released a beta version of Pillbox, a resource intended to enhance patient safety via an identification and reference system for solid dosage medications. http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov

Pillbox combines pharmaceutical data from the FDA and NLM with high resolution images, enabling rapid identification of unknown medications. This system is designed for use by emergency physicians, first responders, other health care providers, Poison Control Center staff, and concerned citizens.

Pillbox allows users to identify solid dosage medications based on several physical characteristics: imprint (characters or number printed on a medication), shape, color, size, and scoring. Users are shown thumbnail images of possible matches which are continually updated as additional information is entered. Once a medication has been identified, further information is provided, including brand/generic name, ingredients, and DEA schedule. Links to NLM drug information resources are also offered.

NLM has made a great effort to verify the authenticity of each image. However, the Pillbox images are not part of the Structured Product Label (FDA-approved drug label) and have not been verified by each manufacturer. For this reason, Pillbox is not currently intended for clinical use.

This fall, NLM and the FDA will initiate a pilot program working with manufacturers to have images submitted for inclusion with the FDA-approved drug label. This will increase the number of images in Pillbox and help to create a resource appropriate for clinical use.

Pillbox Beta has two versions: the Adobe Flex version is designed for rapid identification of an unknown medication; the Pillbox screen-reader version has advanced search functionality, including drug name.

Questions about Pillbox should be addressed to David Hale, Biomedical Files Implementation Branch, Division of Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, david.hale@nih.gov

2009 Flu Prevention PSA Contest

Public Service Announcements, YouTube Style

- In July of this year, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius invited all Americans to create videos about preventing the spread of seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus. Contestants were to post their entries on the video sharing site YouTube. This article highlights the winning entry and posits some interesting reasons why YouTube is a good vehicle for Public Service Announcements.

New PubMed Interface Preview

For a look at the new PubMed interface preview:

http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

JAMA Sees Drop in Industry Financed Research

September 13, 2009

Medical Journals See a Cost to Fighting Industry-Backed Research

By Paul Basken

The Journal of the American Medical Association saw a 21 percent drop in industry-financed research after it began requiring that data in company-sponsored medical trials be independently verified by university researchers, a study has concluded.

The study, by a team of medical researchers in England and Florida, found that two of JAMA’s competitors saw their proportions of industry-backed research grow after JAMA decided to impose the requirement in 2005 to deter companies from shading descriptions of medical-test results to favor their products.

The findings suggest JAMA could face significant financial pressure to abandon the policy, given the reliance of medical journals on corporate dollars, said one of the study’s authors, Benjamin Djulbegovic, a professor of medicine and oncology at the University of South Florida.

http://chronicle.com/section/Home/5

Search The Chronicle website using the Article Title:

*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/