"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