Blogging mla 2008
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Looks like I *will* be blogging in the month of May, but only from Chicago.
To my surprise, I was approved as an “official conference blogger” for MLA 2008.
All MLA 2008 conference bloggers:
Stewart Brower - Professional Notes
A’Lyn Ettien - The Creature from the Health Informatics Class
Marie Kennedy - Organization Monkey
Maureen ‘Molly’ Knapp - LSUHC New Orleans Health Sciences Center
Michelle Kraft - The Krafty Librarian
Leigh Mihlrad - Leigh’s Little Corner of the Web
Emily Molanphy (Emily has 2 blogs!) - Emily’s Journal - and - Eponymous Blog about Libraries
Bryan Nugent - T...
Source: davidrothman.net - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: For Medical Libraryfolk Medical Librarianship Blogs Shameless Self-Promotion MLA2008 Source Type: blogs
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The Internet Archive won their fight against a National Security letter from the FBI, and can now talk about it: http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=192021 . (Source: User Education Resources for Librarians)
Source: User Education Resources for Librarians - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Source Type: blogs
I’m an omnivore without a dilemma
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the pew internet & american life project quiz says i’m an omnivore. i believe the report. take the quiz yourself to see how you fit into the techno-world.
brief description of an omnivore:
Omnivores embrace all this connectivity, feeling confident in how they manage information and their many devices. This puts information technology at the center of how they express themselves, do their jobs, and connect to their friends.
only 8% of the american public are omnivores. if you take the quiz and find that you are an omnivore, please leave a comment on this blog. we should friend each other on facebook, follow each o...
Source: Organization Monkey - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: social networking Source Type: blogs
Additional musings on the oklahoma abortion ultrasound law
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Demarcationville wins the internet today, with this piece inspired by Oklahoma’s new law requiring ultrasounds prior to abortion.
As someone who was raised Conservative and Southern Baptist, she explains that although she is “still innately Pro-Life:”
…I reject the idea that any state, government, leader, court, man or woman has authority over the area beyond my bloomers.
You know, as a woman, there are few things I control in this world, but I’d damn well consider my reproductive “parts” among them - so you’re out of your jurisdiction. Seriously, ya’ll don’t know me like that.
“Y...
Source: Women's Health News - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Ethics Laws, Legislation, & Courts Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Government response to the joint committee on human rights: a life like any other? human rights of adults with learning disabilities
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights (the Committee) published its report ‘A life like any other? human rights of adults with learning disabilities’ on 6 March 2008. This memorandum sets out the government response response to the conclusions and recommendations in that report. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature Human Rights Learning Disabilities Legislation Source Type: blogs
Evaluation of early medical abortion (ema) pilot sites - final report
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Conclusions
Subject to the fairly considerable limitations of the current study, and from a range of
sources, including medical records, and staff and client views, there are no discernible
differences between the pilot sites and their matched comparator sites in terms of the safety,
effectiveness or acceptability of non-traditional sites for the administration of early medical
abortions.
Detailed protocols and guidelines should be developed to cover staffing requirements as well
as clinical aspects of care.
Given the importance of reassurance and support throughout the process, the centrality of
suitably motivated a...
Source: Fade Library - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Abortion Grey Literature Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Code of practice mental health act
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The revised Code of Practice Mental Health Act has been prepared in accordance with section 118 of the Mental Health Act 1983 by the Secretary of State for Health after consulting such bodies as appeared to him to be concerned, and laid before Parliament. The Code will come into force in November 2008. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature Mental Health Codes of Practice Legislation Source Type: blogs
Slidesonline.org : health & medicine & google custom search for ppt's!
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I had not seen this before, somehow, but it looks really nice. And some reputable organizations and staff show up on the listings on the featured slides!
www.slidesOnline.org is a "web resource designed to facilitate educational process of medical professionals. ... Academic faculties and clinicians in practice from worldwide have contributed to the web portal. We would like to invite you to share and enhance the sharing and collaborative development of this educational resource."
The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) is really added value and offers a quick way to find presentations that are NOT f...
Source: DigiCMB - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Buzzards and ducklings
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Saturday 3rd May - two buzzards circling over the house then flying off to the East. And, on the river, the first ducklings I have seen.Sunday 4th May - starlings feeding young in next door's roof?Posted this on Sunday 4th and it ended up dated 20th April, for some reason.Later edit: baby thrush in nest outside office, and blackbirds busy nest building in back garden. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: birds Source Type: blogs
The role of healthcare workers in mrsa transmission
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Conclusions (looking quickly) seem to be that they are important as a vector, but possibly not as a source.I think I am a little worried by the search strategy, which doesn't seem to include alternative terms for "MRSA", just "MRSA" (does this matter, I wonder?), and doesn't seem to include specific healthcare workers, only the phrase "healthcare worker(s)". The authors did however use the Outbreak Database, http://www.outbreak-database.com/, which was new to me. Not sure if this is a current database - it seems to have started with information from a Medline search done up until 2002. The search page doesn't seem to be...
Source: Browsing - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: mrsa Source Type: blogs
House of commons health committee: modernising medical careers: third report of session 2007–08: volume i report, together with formal minutes
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The House of Commons Health Committee: Modernising Medical Careers: Third Report of Session 2007–08: Volume I Report, together with formal minutes states the government had provided “inadequate leadership” however it also idenitfies that doctors were more concerned with factional interests than the common good.
This follows publication of the Tooke Report Aspiring to Excellence: Final report of the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers which we posted about earlier in the year with the final report, the draft report and the government response. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature Medical Education Medical Specialties Medical Staff Employment Modernising Medical Careers Postgraduate Medical Education Quality Source Type: blogs
City of hogs
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When Gatha Snowmoss, roving photojournalist, spent some time with the band in Memphis this spring, she showed her appreciation (no other reporter has been afforded the kind of no holds barred inside look at the Pigs that she got) by giving each of us a book -- a pig-related book, of course. Each one perfectly tuned (or so it seemed to me) to our individual personalities. I'm sure her ability to size her subjects up so quickly accounts for much of her recent success.
I'll leave the others to comment on their own books, but for me it was The Pig and the Skyscraper (Chicago: A history of our future) by Marco d'Er...
Source: T. Scott - May 8, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
When a global gag rule’s not enough, bring it on home
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If you’re not familiar with the “Global Gag Rule” (or “Mexico City Policy”), it’s a rule that the U.S. will not provide any family planning funds to organizations that (use their own money to) provide abortions, make referrals for abortion, or lobby to make abortion legal in their own country - see globalgagrule.org and this section from the International Women’s Health Coalition for further background.
Now, “nearly 80 conservative groups” have signed on to a letter asking Bush to revise a “Domestic Family Planning Gag Rule,” which would essentially create G...
Source: Women's Health News - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Adolescent Health Contraception Government Sex & Sex Education Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Obos post: women veterans health care improvement act of 2008
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Today at Our Bodies Our Blog: Some estimates suggest that 30% or more of women in the military are sexually assaulted. Head on over to find out a bill proposed by Sen. Patty Murray to improve VA healthcare for women, including PTSD and sexual assault. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abuse, Rape, & Safety Laws, Legislation, & Courts Mental Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Summary care record early adopter programme: an independent evaluation by university college london
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Summary Care Record Early Adopter programme: An independent evaluation by University College London (Executive Summary) has found found that although the SCR offers real benefits for treating patients in emergency and unscheduled care settings, the ‘complicated’ technical system needs to be refined before being rolled out. NHS staff and patients are positive in regards to the programme, with most people valuing the benefits of instant access to medical records over the small risk of data loss or breach. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature Information Technology Patient Records Source Type: blogs
Widgetbox : taking widgets further ...
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So far I have made a few widgets via Widgetbox.com. First just to test, but more and more I see they offer nice and growing possibilities to distribute widgets.
Catalogus Bibliotheken RuG by Namro De Catalogus van de Bibliotheken van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Source: DigiCMB - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Capital development programme for inpatient and residential rehabilitation substance misuse (drug and alcohol) services 2007/08 and 2008/09 - addendum guidance notes april 2008
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The addendum guidance sets out the process for assurance of the delivery of the capital development programme for inpatient and residential substance misuse (drug and alcohol) services 2007/08 and 2008/09, including guidance on the reallocation of funds. The National Treatment Agency (NTA) via Regional Forums is managing this process. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: tracyjulia Tags: Alcohol Drugs of Abuse Grey Literature NHS Estates Rehabilitation Source Type: blogs
Of camels and beauty queens
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"But what are you doing about her hair?" seemed to be the question uppermost on the minds of my female colleagues when they found out that I had Josie to myself for a week while Lynn & Marian were off at a convention in Seattle.
Actually, I'm pretty good with her hair. And Marian left me clear instructions -- each day's outfit was in a separate plastic bag on which was written "ponytail" or "hair down" so I'd know what to do.
Marian has complete confidence in my ability to care for Josephine -- she has less confidence in my ability to pick out the appropriate clothes to enha...
Source: T. Scott - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: T Scott Source Type: blogs
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
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A study by the Sanger Institute makes the papers today, including the front page of "Metro", which I don't usually read, but which did catch my eye.This microbe ("new hospital superbug"), also known as pseudomonas maltophilia, likes wet areas like shower heads and taps, and IV drips, and can affect hospital patients who have lung diseases, cystic fibrosis, or who are on chemotherapy. It usually colonises, rather than infects, and to infect must bypass normal host defences. Here are some links:The story in the GuardianEmedicineBritish Society for Antimicrobial ChemotherapySanger Institute project to sequence genome of S. m...
Source: Browsing - May 7, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
Ala’s e-government services wiki
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this is mainly a note to myself to explore later, but i don’t want to be greedy. you may also like to have a look at the american library association’s e-government services wiki. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - May 6, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: social networking Source Type: blogs
Mla 2008 blogging
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Do you ever wonder what goes on in a conference exhibition area, other than all the free pens and t-shirts? Acquisitions librarians use national conferences like this to meet with vendors, see new products, and connect with business colleagues. Follow this blog during MLA 2008 (May 17, 18, 19) to learn what I’m learning. I’ll point you to new publications and products that satisfy an academic medical library’s needs. I may upload photos of swag also, so get ready.
During MLA I’ll be writing as an Official MLA Conference Blogger. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - May 6, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: MLA 2008 Source Type: blogs
Mla 2008 - coming soon to a theatre near you (or to chicago)
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I’m rather glad that MLA is hiring bloggers to cover MLA because this year I already have about forty times the number of commitments as last year, so I’m not sure how much time I’ll spend typing. (I am obviously not going to be an official blogger as I didn’t really cherish the idea of applying for it and revealing my name, and since I already have wireless all taken care of, that wasn’t really an incentive.) This year, I will in fact have a cell phone with an unlimited data plan, so I will likely be twittering like crazy instead. Whether I choose to twitter as Ratcatcher or not…well, w...
Source: omg tuna is kewl - May 6, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: tunaiskewl Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Feelimage makes me a little bit sad
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i came across feelimage while browsing mashupawards. the site claims to search flickr for “feeling words”. i looked into the site with interest, as the practical implementation of a search engine using high-semantic tags to retrieve an image hasn’t been done yet, as far as i’m aware. after reviewing the site i see that it still hasn’t. the thrust of this search engine is that it indexes colors (a physical feature), not feelings. too bad.
another mashup i found while at mashupawards is pure eye candy enjoyment: twistori. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - May 6, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: images metadata Source Type: blogs
Forced ultrasounds for abortion in oklahoma - because your government can demand that an object be inserted into your vagina
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I’ll admit that I haven’t been furiously blogging about every single anti-woman bit of legislation to roll through each of the 50 states this year, because there’s simply too much of it, and I generally assume that the most ridiculous of them will never make it out of committee. I also have a bit of fatigue from all of the proposed bills which seem to have as their underlying premise the notion that women are somehow intellectually deficient as a sex, and I think many of the arguments I would make have been reasonably hashed out elsewhere.
There is one recent state law, however, that I feel compelled to p...
Source: Women's Health News - May 6, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Government Laws, Legislation, & Courts Uncategorized Vaginas & Vulvas Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Obos post: laughing gas for labor
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Over at Our Bodies Our Blog today, we’re wondering why nitrous oxide (”laughing gas”) isn’t a more widely available option for labor pain relief in the United States, given its availability in Europe and Canada. Come on over to find out more and share your thoughts! (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - May 5, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Access, Rights, & Choice Birth Source Type: blogs
Sunday stories - i don’t want to know
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I stopped at McKay’s this morning, and hit the ladies’ room prior to getting my browse on. The two stalls were full, and the woman in the first stall kept sniffing and kind of grunting. She flushed a few times. A line formed and grew, and I eventually gave up (we weren’t quite to “take over the men’s room” emergency stage).
I went back later, and she was finally gone, but that stall had been completely emptied of toilet paper and there was a Vagisil package in the trash. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - May 4, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: blogs
A monkey for your iphone
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i’ve had the flu for the past few days (i’m doing much better now, thanks) so i parked myself in front of the mac and played around with a bunch of blog themes and extenders. coding has a calming effect on me. i found that i prefer the current orgmonkey theme to other downloadable options out there, so this little guy will stay as is for the time being. i waded around in extenders and activated two treats for my fellow iphone users.
if you view this site on your iphone you’ll now see it has a different look, and loads without a bunch of graphics. if you miss the old version, fear not. scroll to the botto...
Source: Organization Monkey - May 4, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: monkeys/bananas organization tips Source Type: blogs
From widgetbox into facebook
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I just made 2 two widgets via Widgetbox to :
make our library initiative of the search & news widgets on our Netvibes Universe more public via social networks that accept widgets from Widgetbox. They currently offer more options, for instance the instant Facebook- integrationexplore how easy it is to make a Facebook application via Widgetbox.
Search & News Widget: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/search-news-widgets-for-you-from-your-library
(In Facebook)
NLM Search Solutions:
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/nlm-search-solutions
Yes, this is also avaliable as Netvibes UWA widget. It uses the same source url, but th...
Source: DigiCMB - May 4, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Marketing to bloggers
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I was highly amused to receive the following comment on one of my posts about MLA 2008:
Stop by the Epocrates booth at MLA; #239, and enter to win a FREE Centro!
Our team looks forward to meet[sic] you!
I approved it just because I was so tickled that medical library vendors are starting to market to bloggers. And, to boot, a blogger who hasn’t actually posted anything in ages. (Source: omg tuna is kewl)
Source: omg tuna is kewl - May 3, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: tunaiskewl Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Common core principles to support self care
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The Common core principles to support self care have been developed by Skills for Health and Skills for Care with key stakeholders, including service users and carers, to develop a set of common core principles to support self care. The principles capture best practice in order to enable service reform and encourage choice, control, independence and participation of those using health and social services. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 3, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature NHS Self Care Social Services Stakeholder Engagement Health Services Source Type: blogs
Friday free-for-all
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Why don’t you go ahead and tell me in the comments what women’s health/repro rights-related things you’ve been blogging about, whose blogs I should be reading, and the like? Just don’t spam the comments with “I’m selling crazy diet supplements” junk, because I will remove that crap mercilessly. When I get around to it.
I have several things saved up that I want to blog about later, including breastfeeding rates, POPLINE (yes, again), abstinence-only sex ed, and I might even go back and talk about that Yale/art business, because I think the reactions were pretty interesting. Heck, ...
Source: Women's Health News - May 2, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: blogs
Making the connections: using healthcare professionals to deliver organisational improvements
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aims to help the NHS understand how Non-Medical Prescribing can help to deliver services, the Department of Health commissioned Primary Care Contracting to produce 6 Nurse Prescribing and 6 Pharmacist Prescribing case studies. Many nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers manage their own caseloads including in dedicated clinics - helping patients to manage long-term conditions’ or by treating one-off episodes of care in GP Practices or in Walk-in Centres and in Accident and Emergency Departments. (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - May 2, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Grey Literature NHS Non-Medical Prescribing Nurse Prescribing Pharmacist Prescribing Pharmacy Prescription Writing Source Type: blogs
Photographs added to sidebar
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i realize that most of you follow this blog via a feed reader, and as a result you’re missing the new flickr badge (rotating photo goodness!) in the sidebar of my main blog page. so sad! find the photographs at http://www.flickr.com/photos/orgmonkey. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - May 1, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: MK Tags: images Source Type: blogs
Safety lesson of the day - cosmetic procedures
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Just as a precaution, you may wish to avoid having unlicensed persons inject stuff into your @$$.
In case you’re asking yourself, “But why might I want to avoid having unlicensed persons inject stuff into my @$$? What could possibly go wrong?” you might want to check these bizarre reports from the CDC out of a facility in North Carolina.
From one of three cases, all of which are quite similar: “According to facility records, 300 mL of ‘dermal silicone/saline solution’ were injected into each buttock… The woman experienced headache and vomiting…and noted that her urine looked...
Source: Women's Health News - May 1, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Advertising/Marketing Body Image & Eating Disorders Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The global war in your pants - the daily show on the recent abstinence hearing
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Monday’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart features highlights from the recent hearings on abstinence-only sex education that I mentioned on Friday. I don’t want to spoil the punchlines, so just watch [stupid WordPress won't let me embed it]. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - May 1, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Adolescent Health Funny Government Sex & Sex Education Source Type: blogs
Complete listing of (my medical) search widgets and others.
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Making widgets is as easy as making web-content, once you know how to do it. It is great fun to see how much use it is to many.
Please let me know if you would like some kind of widget for your library or resource, and we will work something out.
Universal Widget API's ( Add to Netvibes, iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Vista beta, Windows Live beta)
Search PubMed (+RUGLinks) (324 installs)Search PubMed (85 installs)MedlinePlus Search (159 installs)NLM Search Solutions (88 installs)Search UpToDate (63 installs)LiveTrix Search (51 installs)Search Catalogue Libraries of the University of Groningen (50 ...
Source: DigiCMB - May 1, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Blogging vacation extended
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Too buried to write much about it, but I suspect I’ll blog very little between now and the end of May. I decided today that rather than feeling guilty (as I have for the last couple weeks) about not blogging, I would consider this a well-deserved vacation after averaging about 1.5 posts per day for the last two years.
Hope you feel the same way and will be here when regular posting resumes.
Thanks!
-David (Source: davidrothman.net)
Source: davidrothman.net - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: David Rothman Tags: Personal Source Type: blogs
Obos post: revisiting depression, and abortion
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Today at Our Bodies Our Blog:
“A new study in BMJ Public Health examines depression in women and the relationship of past abortions to the condition. This new report is particularly interesting because it attempts to control for the effects of sociodemographic factors and considers the women’s experiences of intimate partner violence, recognizing that multiple factors may impact a woman’s mental health.”
Head on over for details. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Revised guidance: primary care dental contracts advice on managing end of year issues
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Guidance provided in January 2007 (Gateway reference 7719) has been updated to reflect comments from the NHS and to clarify expectations for the end of the financial year. The guidance is now generic and does not relate to any one year in particular.
This note provides advice for SHAs to share with PCTs on year end performance issues, including:
arrangements for carrying forward any under-delivered services within the 4% tolerance allowed for within dental contracts
working with dental providers to ensure, as far as possible, that an even pattern of service is delivered throughout the contract year, and any early completi...
Source: Fade Library - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: tracyjulia Tags: Dental Health Grey Literature Source Type: blogs
Full service gynecology!
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I saw a bus bench ad this morning for a gentleman offering “Full Service Gynecology.” My own bus went by too quickly to read the name or the details of what “full service” includes exactly, but I’m not sure I want to know. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Advertising/Marketing Uncategorized Vaginas & Vulvas Women's Health Source Type: blogs
How you know the people who wrote the press release are not from here (a breastfeeding study)
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The headline as it appears on Yahoo! Health refers to “cot death” instead of SIDS. Yep, the researchers were British. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Scopus affiliation identifier
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It's always a problem identifying work from particular institutions, when searching the literature, as institutions' names are never standardised and are wildly inconsistent. Scopus' way to get round this is the new Scopus Affiliation Identifier.Basically each institution is given a unique number. I am not sure you can search for this, but there is an "affiliation" search available. I tried this, putting in Leicester. This found eleven institutions:University of LeicesterLoughborough UniversityLeicester Royal InfirmaryDe Montfort UniversityLeicester General HospitalGlenfield HospitalUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS T...
Source: Browsing - April 30, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
Mental health act 2007 (commencement no. 5 and transitional provisions) order 2008 - guidance on transfers between places of safety
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Guidance on transfers between places of safety provides information on the use of SI(2008)800 Mental Health Act 2007 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2008. Which brings section 44 of the Mental Health Act 2007 (the 2007 Act) on places of safety into effect on 30 April 2008.
Under sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (the 1983 Act) a police officer may remove a person who is believed or appears to be suffering from a mental disorder to a place of safety. Section 44 of the 2007 Act amends these sections of the 1983 Act to allow a person to be taken from one place of safety to one or more o...
Source: Fade Library - April 29, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: tracyjulia Tags: Grey Literature Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Second life on your mobile!
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Vollee has just released a video demonstrating its Second Life application running on an actual mobile phone.
Check it out as a Resident explores, chats and interacts through out the Virtual World. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwRnjbkljnc The service will be made available for free to anyone with a 3G phone who signs up for the Beta trial by visiting http://www.vollee.com/secondlife.
The open Beta is starting end of May and will be rolled out through the month of June. If you have a compatible phone you will be contacted at that time to get your free download of our Second Life client. The full list of supported phones ...
Source: DigiCMB - April 29, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs
Because eating food is important, too
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I apologize for the lack of posts over the last few days - I had two sets of out of town visitors this weekend, and am currently recovering from the festivities. And you know what? I spent too much money, and it’s looking like most folks I know are increasingly experiencing higher gas and food prices and having less room to blow the budget. Many people were already feeling the pinch, and by no means do I want to suggest that I only care because I’m starting to notice it in my own pocketbook - I’m just surprised by what I’m hearing from other people with ostensibly “good” jobs, and how pa...
Source: Women's Health News - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Miscellaneous Web Resources Source Type: blogs
Obos post: on increasing rates of diabetes in pregnancy
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Today at Our Bodies Our Blog, a bit of information on a new study of diabetes rates in pregnancy. It seems like it’s kind of a no-brainer that as the rate of diabetes rises in women, more women having babies will already have diabetes. (Source: Women's Health News)
Source: Women's Health News - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Pregnancy Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Swallows
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Drove this morning from Lubenham (Leicestershire) to Mowsley, and, crossing the canal on that road, saw swallows - my first of the year. And, at the junction of that road and the A5199, more similar birds, couldn't make out if they were swallows or swifts - possibly some of each. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
Gene therapy
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Coverage on BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning about treatment at Moorfields Eye Hospital involving gene therapy for Leber's congenital amaurosis. The BBC website reports it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7369740.stm. The trial itself is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine - an editorial is here, linking to two reports, one of the effect of the therapy, and one on the safety. There is information about Leber Congenital Amaurosis in Gene Reviews. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
Influenza exercise
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Another report on the Today programme was about an exercise taking place now in Bali to test plans for dealing with an avian influenza pandemic in humans (if you see what I mean).Have now found things about this in the Jakarta Post and on Radio Australia, as well as on Flutrackers. (I couldn't find anything earlier).Have tested my Google Custom Search engine (see http://www.le.ac.uk/library/clinical/influenza/index.html) on this to no avail. I did wonder if this was because there was nothing there at all, but now that there is, I think it is because I am not searching the right kind of site. The CSE only searches specific...
Source: Browsing - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
Google custom search
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I have added Flutrackers to the Google Custom Search at http://www.le.ac.uk/library/clinical/influenza/index.html, so it now searches that alongside DEFRA, Department of Health, Health Protection Agency, NaTHNaC; and ProMed Mail. It will now pick up things about the Bali influenza simulation (see earlier posting). (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - April 28, 2008 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Keith Nockels Source Type: blogs
