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