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Webinars and Conferences

BHIC — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:46:03 +0100

4th Biennial Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit http://www.healthliteracywisconsin.org/ Registration is now open for the 4th Biennial Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit on April 12-13, 2011 in Madison, WI. This event will feature Keynote Speaker Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, a number of distinguished plenary presenters and 36 breakout session options within five conference tracks: Health Care Providers, Adult Literacy Providers, Patient Education, Vulnerable Populations and Organizational Change. [HealthLiteracy listserv] Connecting HIV Prevention Professionals through Social Media Conference and Call for Papers http://bit.ly/gPq6ef The 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference (NHPC) will be held in Atlanta, August 14-17. The conference will contribute to achieving the three major g...

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Attributes Of A Health Literate Organization

BHIC — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:07:25 +0100

Check the Health Affairs’ web site for a new paper on health literacy and health policy by HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, Howard Koh, and other HHS colleagues. You should be able to access this article for another week or so without a Health Affairs’ subscription. The article will appear in their print journal in early February – http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2012/01/18/hlthaff.2011.1169 Last week, the Institute of Medicine Health Literacy Roundtable also released a discussion paper on the Attributes of a Health Literate Organization. This brief paper is based on the Roundtable’s November 2011 workshop on the same topic. To access the paper, visit the Institute of Medicine web site: http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/HealthLiterac...

Integrative Therapies in Lung Health and Sleep

Springer Medicine titles — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:15:05 +0100

series:Respiratory MedicineIntegrative Therapies in Lung Health and Sleep provides an overview of integrative therapies to assist clinicians caring for patients with acute or chronic lung diseases and sleep disorders--emphasizing the scientific bases for these therapies; and their implementation into clinical practice. This volume focuses on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments, modalities, and ... (Source: Springer Medicine titles)

Images in Urology

Springer Medicine titles — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:11:11 +0100

Diagnosis and ManagementImages in Urology is a unique book that integrates images of urological conditions within their clinical context. Improvements in imaging techniques have meant greater diagnostic power and a dramatic rise in the number and quality of images obtained and viewed by practicing clinicians. None more so than in the field of urology, where static and dynamic images are fundamental to the diagnosis ... (Source: Springer Medicine titles)

David Etzwiler Named Executive Director of Minnesota Partnership's Decade of Discovery

News from Mayo Clinic — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:41:43 +0100

David Etzwiler has been named executive director of the Decade of Discovery, an initiative dedicated to preventing, treating and curing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. This collaboration, also known as the Decade, is led by the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics. (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)

Plastic Surgery

Springer Medicine titles — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:17:26 +0100

A Problem Based ApproachPlastic Surgery, A Problem Based Approach provides a problem-based approach to solutions for common scenarios in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and serves as a practical guide to managing a plastic surgical case.This book outlines a pathway through management for the clinician, consisting of six phases:1) Recognition of the condition: facilitated by high quality images.2) ... (Source: Springer Medicine titles)

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Images for the Taking

Midcontinental Region News — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:51:05 +0100

The National Institutes of Health has a web page that lists all of their image libraries. Most of the images are not copyrighted, and just require attribution. So, if you are creating a presentation, and the clip art in Microsoft Office doesn’t have what you need, you might try the NIH. http://www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm [rb] (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

Health Literacy Plain Language Guides

Midcontinental Region News — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:04:25 +0100

Harvard’s School of Public Health has 4 plain language guides/glossaries posted on their web site for download. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/resources/glossaries/index.html [rb] (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

New Topic Page on Obesity

BHIC — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:30:55 +0100

http://phpartners.org/obesity.html The topic page links to obesity information and resources including government, professional and research organizations that focus obesity issues; reports, publications and guidelines; obesity programs and campaigns; child obesity information; data and statistics; legislation and policy issues; grants and funding opportunities; training and continuing education; and upcoming conferences and events. The Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, http://PHPartners.org, is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries. The mission of PHPartners is to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively to improve and protect the public’s health. (Source: BHI...

New descriptive analysis of more than 22,000 Cochrane meta-analyses published in BMC Medical Research Methodology

The Cochrane Collaboration - Current news at The Cochrane Collaboration — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:00:33 +0100

A new descriptive analysis of more than 22,000 meta-analyses within Cochrane Reviews has just been published in an open access article in BMC Medical Research Methodology. External link for more information: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/11/160 Contributor's Information Contributor's name: Rebecca Turner Email address: rebecca.turner@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk read more (Source: The Cochrane Collaboration - Current news at The Cochrane Collaboration)

Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Springer Medicine titles — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:15:02 +0100

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2011 National HIV Prevention Conference Call for Abstracts

BHIC — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:38:43 +0100

http://www.2011nhpc.org/abs_submission_info.asp The 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference will be held August 14-17 in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and the Marriott Marquis hotels. Visit the website http://www.2011nhpc.org/ to learn more about the conference and consider submitting an abstract. The 2011 National HIV Prevention Conference is taking place just a little more than a year after the release of President Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The conference organizers are committed to ensuring that this conference contributes to achieving the three primary goals defined in that plan: Reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV; Increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for people living with HIV; and Reducing HIV-related health disparitie...

Webcasts from the International AIDS Conference

BHIC — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:04:18 +0100

http://globalhealth.kff.org/AIDS2010 The Kaiser Family Foundation concluded its daily online coverage of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010). In partnership with the International AIDS Society, Kaiser was the official webcaster of AIDS 2010, and provided worldwide access to the daily developments that took place in Vienna, Austria. Kaiser webcast more than 50 conference sessions with speakers including former President Bill Clinton, South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, philanthropist Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, singer Annie Lenox and more. Podcasts (in English and Russian) and transcripts for many sessions a...

Color Atlas of Chemical Peels

Springer Medicine titles — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:11:07 +0100

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How to set up an Acute Stroke Service(Grunwald et al.)

Springer Medicine titles — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:15:02 +0100

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Head and Neck Cancer Imaging

Springer Medicine titles — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:04:07 +0100

series:Diagnostic ImagingImaging is crucial in the multidisciplinary approach to head and neck cancer management. The rapid technological development of recent years makes it necessary for all members of the multidisciplinary team to understand the potential applications, limitations, and advantages of existing and evolving imaging technologies. It is equally important that the radiologist has sufficient clinical ... (Source: Springer Medicine titles)

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Professional Development Awards – looking for hospital librarians – how about you?

Midcontinental Region News — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:04:42 +0100

Is there something you want to attend – before April 31, 2012 – a conference where you might gain information you’d like to share with other MidContinental Region members? Funding is available up to $1500 for travel costs/conference registration. Learn more and apply at: http://nnlm.gov/mcr/funding/ (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

Men with Strokes Call for Help Quicker Than Women, Mayo Clinic Study Says

News from Mayo Clinic — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:45:46 +0100

A Mayo Clinic study, presented at the American Stroke Conference in New Orleans in early February, says that men experiencing a stroke call for emergency help quicker than women, especially if they are married. (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)

New NLM Webpage: Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Pages

Network News — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:18:34 +0100

The Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) recently launched a new web page titled “Disaster Apps and Mobile Optimized Web Page”: http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disasterapps.html . This page includes links to various mobile tools and apps that have been selected based upon utility in a disaster or emergency context and which adhere to NLM’s Selection Guidelines for non-NLM resources. The page is organized into three sections based on the type of information provided by the app or web site: Disaster Medicine Tools – tools which provide medical or health information that might be useful in preparing for, responding to, or recovering from a disaster or emergency. Disaster Resources: tools that provide information on resources that may be needed in a ...

The Parental Brain

Karger Publishers — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:55:28 +0100

Perinatal Influence on Mental Health (ISBN: 978-3-8055-9980-1) (Source: Karger Publishers)