Happy 4th of July! The staff of Preston Medical Library wish everyone a happy holiday weekend.
The library will be closed from Friday, July 3-Sunday, July 5. It will reopen on Monday, July 6 at 8:30 a.m.
Be sure to make this a safe holiday! Check out these sites for information on fireworks safety and injuries:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/outdoor/fireworks.html
http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Fireworks/fire_spot.html
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
DailyMed from NLM
Have you used DailyMed yet? According to the home page today, it contains entries for 4,604 approved prescription drugs. It has the package inserts, as well as a pill identifer, called the Product Information System.
With this tool you can determine what kind of pill you have based on the color, shape, imprint, size, and scoring. This can be handy if pills have been transferred from their original containers.
This posting from the NLM Technical Bulletin describes the Product Information System in more detail.
With this tool you can determine what kind of pill you have based on the color, shape, imprint, size, and scoring. This can be handy if pills have been transferred from their original containers.
This posting from the NLM Technical Bulletin describes the Product Information System in more detail.
Friday, June 12, 2009
UT System-Wide Library Access
For UT employees/students...in case you missed the memo, it's copied below.
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June 3, 2009
To: All System employees
From: Dr. Bonnie Yegidis, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success
Re: System-wide Library Access
I am pleased to announce that faculty, staff and students at University of Tennessee campuses across the state can now borrow library materials at any UT campus by presenting the identification card from their home institution.
Previously, borrowers needed to obtain a special card at their home institution's library circulation desk before visiting another UT campus for materials.
This is another step in current system-wide efforts toward overall efficiency and increased resource sharing between campuses and resulted from employee feedback.
Thank you.
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June 3, 2009
To: All System employees
From: Dr. Bonnie Yegidis, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Success
Re: System-wide Library Access
I am pleased to announce that faculty, staff and students at University of Tennessee campuses across the state can now borrow library materials at any UT campus by presenting the identification card from their home institution.
Previously, borrowers needed to obtain a special card at their home institution's library circulation desk before visiting another UT campus for materials.
This is another step in current system-wide efforts toward overall efficiency and increased resource sharing between campuses and resulted from employee feedback.
Thank you.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Changes to MDConsult
There will be a few changes to the e-book collection within MDConsult. The provided this list to reflect the new titles and soon-to-be-removed titles:
June 22, 2009
Titles Added: Walsh: Palliative Medicine; Shannon: Haddad and Winchester’s Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose
Titles Removed: Noble: Textbook of Primary Care Medicine; Ford: Clinical Toxicology
September 30, 2009
Title Added: Stern: Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry
Title Removed: Moore & Jefferson: Handbook of Medical Psychiatry
December 1, 2009
Titles Added: Keane: Nadas’ Pediatric Cardiology; Bradley: Neurology in Clinical Practice
Titles Removed: Park: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioner; Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology; Cohen & Powderly: Infectious Diseases; Gershon: Krugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children
June 22, 2009
Titles Added: Walsh: Palliative Medicine; Shannon: Haddad and Winchester’s Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose
Titles Removed: Noble: Textbook of Primary Care Medicine; Ford: Clinical Toxicology
September 30, 2009
Title Added: Stern: Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry
Title Removed: Moore & Jefferson: Handbook of Medical Psychiatry
December 1, 2009
Titles Added: Keane: Nadas’ Pediatric Cardiology; Bradley: Neurology in Clinical Practice
Titles Removed: Park: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioner; Goetz: Textbook of Clinical Neurology; Cohen & Powderly: Infectious Diseases; Gershon: Krugman’s Infectious Diseases of Children
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Swine Flu Update
Much has been publicized in the media about the swine flu, or H1N1 flu. It quickly went from just a few cases to thousands.
Current information is always easy to access on the CDC's site. Their map and table of locations is handy as well, and is updated daily. As of today, 7,927 cases have been confirmed by the CDC in the United States, and 11 people have died. Of the reported cases (no deaths), 95 are from Tennessee.
Current information is always easy to access on the CDC's site. Their map and table of locations is handy as well, and is updated daily. As of today, 7,927 cases have been confirmed by the CDC in the United States, and 11 people have died. Of the reported cases (no deaths), 95 are from Tennessee.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Bike Safety
Bike-to-Work Day was Friday, May 15. Some of you may have started a new habit! As with all exercise, biking is beneficial because it helps improve your energy level, improves quality of sleep, and helps reduce the risk of stroke. Although riding bikes is beneficial, it can be dangerous. According to the Center for Disease Control, more than 500,000 people will be treated in emergency rooms each year as a result of bicycle related injuries and of those treated 700 will die. Use the following tips to help keep you safe as you bike.
- Wear a helmet. Tennessee requires anyone under the age of 16 to wear a helmet but it is a good idea for all ages to help prevent brain injuries.
- Always ride with traffic and follow the rules of the road. By riding with traffic you are much more visible and predictable to traffic.
- Don’t ride on the sidewalk. You have a much greater risk of being hit by a car in driveways and intersections if you are riding on a sidewalk. Pedestrians also will thank-you.
- Be predictable and visible. Signal before making turns so others know where you are turning. Also, wear light colored clothing and preferably a bright colored helmet so you can be easily seen.
- Watch for turning vehicles. Surprisingly, few bicycle accidents happen from behind. Most happen at intersections or at driveways so be aware of turning vehicles. They may not realize how fast you are traveling or simply not paying attention.
Be safe and happy biking riding!
For more information:
Tennessee Department of Health - Healthy Kids
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Center for Disease Control - Home and Recreational Safety
post by Alisa Greene
Memorial Day closing
Preston Medical Library will be closed Saturday-Monday, May 23-25, 2009 for the Memorial Day holiday. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, May 26.
Have a safe holiday weekend!
Have a safe holiday weekend!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Calculators on DynaMed
Have you used the interactive clinical calculators, decision rules, and statistics built into DynaMed yet? You can find a link to them on the upper right hand corner of the page. There are currently over 500 calculators available.
You can choose a calculator from an A-Z list, or from one of the categories on the side of the calculators page. These were designed for ease of use at the point of care.
You can choose a calculator from an A-Z list, or from one of the categories on the side of the calculators page. These were designed for ease of use at the point of care.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Poetry & Medicine: Exploring the Connection
Rafael Campo, a poet and practicing physician at Harvard Medical School, believes care-giving and poetry writing share attributes of witnessing, healing, naming, and bringing about wholeness, if not a cure. Campo often shares poems with patients by slipping them in with patient education packets; frequently the poem is what patients want to discuss during their next visit.
According to Campo, “A poem says to a patient that I want to know more than just my own biomedical narrative of her illness--that I want to take care of her as a whole person, with attention to both the blood sugar results and also her struggles to maintain them in our target for treatment--that slice of birthday cake she couldn’t eat at her child’s party, the sting each time she must administer her insulin, are just as important. Such an approach, I think, not only has practical value--because the patient who trusts me will confide in me the detail of a symptom that helps me reach the correct diagnosis more expeditiously--but also is more rewarding on a personal level. So many docs these days feel alienated from their own work and from their patients. I think that’s largely due to all the obstacles to caring for patients, really caring for them, that poetry can help short-circuit: the burdens of such a rapidly expanding knowledge base, the constraints imposed by managed care on the time we can spend with our patients, the challenges of caring for increasingly diverse, multicultural patients. Poetry gets us past all the machines, literally to the heart of the matter; poetry expands the interaction with a patient to a space without time limitations; poetry bridges those cross cultural gaps by speaking in the most elemental and mutually understood form of language we have.”
For an example of how Campo’s poetry is informed by the practice of medicine read his poem “Living with Illness” .
Post submitted by: Donna Doyle
According to Campo, “A poem says to a patient that I want to know more than just my own biomedical narrative of her illness--that I want to take care of her as a whole person, with attention to both the blood sugar results and also her struggles to maintain them in our target for treatment--that slice of birthday cake she couldn’t eat at her child’s party, the sting each time she must administer her insulin, are just as important. Such an approach, I think, not only has practical value--because the patient who trusts me will confide in me the detail of a symptom that helps me reach the correct diagnosis more expeditiously--but also is more rewarding on a personal level. So many docs these days feel alienated from their own work and from their patients. I think that’s largely due to all the obstacles to caring for patients, really caring for them, that poetry can help short-circuit: the burdens of such a rapidly expanding knowledge base, the constraints imposed by managed care on the time we can spend with our patients, the challenges of caring for increasingly diverse, multicultural patients. Poetry gets us past all the machines, literally to the heart of the matter; poetry expands the interaction with a patient to a space without time limitations; poetry bridges those cross cultural gaps by speaking in the most elemental and mutually understood form of language we have.”
For an example of how Campo’s poetry is informed by the practice of medicine read his poem “Living with Illness” .
Post submitted by: Donna Doyle
Monday, May 4, 2009
FDA Warning on Hydroxycut
As stated in a recent CNN story, "Hydroxycut products, popular dietary supplements used for weight loss, have been linked to liver damage and are being recalled, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
Dietary Supplements can have powerful affects on the body, but are not regulated as stringently as prescription or over the counter drugs. For more information on dietary supplements, see the Dietary Supplements page in Medline Plus. In addition, the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed and online database of supplement ingredients, the Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database, detailed in this article. Medline Plus is also a great destination for learning more about Weight Control, and the Food and Drug Administration has a brief article on Losing Weight Safely that is also worth reading. There are a number of products that the FDA has declared warnings on that include "undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients", detailed here.
Periodically, we'll include information on recalls and FDA warnings on our News Feed. Subscribing to that is another good way of keeping aware of this information.
Dietary Supplements can have powerful affects on the body, but are not regulated as stringently as prescription or over the counter drugs. For more information on dietary supplements, see the Dietary Supplements page in Medline Plus. In addition, the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed and online database of supplement ingredients, the Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database, detailed in this article. Medline Plus is also a great destination for learning more about Weight Control, and the Food and Drug Administration has a brief article on Losing Weight Safely that is also worth reading. There are a number of products that the FDA has declared warnings on that include "undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients", detailed here.
Periodically, we'll include information on recalls and FDA warnings on our News Feed. Subscribing to that is another good way of keeping aware of this information.
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