With the continuing economic downturn, the health sciences library is taking a number of steps to reduce expenses.
In addition to eliminating duplicate resources and canceling lesser used resource subscriptions, effective March 1, 2009 the Health Sciences Library Hours of Operation will be as follows:
Sunday Noon – 8:00 PM
Mon- Thur 7:45 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday 7:45 AM – 8:00 PM
Saturday 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Categories: Administration
Here are a few more additions to the Henry Stewart talks:
‘Pain and the Control of Pain‘
‘Obesity – Latest Developments in the Field’ (updates to ‘Obesity‘ series)
List of talks available in ‘Pain and the Control of Pain‘:
1. Primary afferent nociceptors
Prof. Hermann Handwerker – University of Erlangen, Germany
2. Sodium channels and pain
Prof. Stephen Waxman – Yale University, USA
3. Pain mechanisms in the spinal cord
Prof. Fernando Cervero – McGill University, Montreal, Canada
4. Central sensitization
Prof. Clifford Woolf - Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
5. Thalamo-cortical pain mechanisms
Prof. Frederick Lenz – Johns Hopkins University, USA
6. Opioid receptor pharmacology and pain
Prof. Margarita Puig – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona at Hospital del Mar, Spain
7. Spinal drug delivery: technology, biology and toxicology
Prof. Tony Yaksh – University of California, San Diego, USA
8. Forebrain mechanisms of pain modulation
Prof. M. Catherine Bushnell – McGill University, Montreal, Canada
9. Visceral pain and visceral hypersensitivity
Prof. Gerald Gebhart – University of Pittsburgh, USA
10. Cortical spreading depression and translational mechanisms in migraine headache
Prof. Michael Moskowitz – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,, USA
11. Functional pain disorders
Prof. Emeran Mayer – University of California, Los Angeles, USA
12. Psychological approaches to pain
Prof. Jennifer Haythornthwaite – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
13. The genetics of pain
Prof. Jeffrey Mogil – McGill University, Montreal, Canada
List of talks available in ‘Obesity – Latest Developments in the Field‘:
1. Body composition
Dr. Steve Heymsfield – Global Director, Scientific Affairs, Merck & Co, USA
2. Adipose tissue metabolism and obesity
Dr. Max Lafontan – INSERM, Paul Sabatier University, France
3. Energy expenditure in the lean and obese
Prof. Dale Schoeller – University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Categories: Uncategorized
The Health Sciences Library provides access through its web page to an online bookstore https://www.medbooksdirect.net/store/home.jsp.
Although the titles listed on the bookstore home page are the textbooks used by the medical students, other medical and non-medical books are also available. Just use the search bar on the upper right of the screen to locate titles. The bar on the left side of the screen provides links to bestsellers and recently released titles. Many of the titles are available at a 10% discount.
Categories: Acquisitions & Cataloging
For most users, searching basic PubMed is the most effecient and effective way to find articles on any biomedical topic. However, some questions are best answered using one of PubMed’s topic specific Special Query searches. The link to Special Queries is located on the left-hand blue navigation bar. The Special Queries are:
Categories: Databases
Tagged: PubMed, PubMed Special Queries
Besides providing access to Medline, PubMed has many other services available to users. On the left hand side of the main PubMed Screen on the blue side bar you will see a list of these services.
• Journal Database – Search here to find a list of journals for a specific specialty.
• MeSH Database – Search the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.
• Single Citation Matcher – Search to verify or complete a known citation.
• Clinical Queries – Search here to find Evidence Based Medicine articles or Systematic Reviews.
• Special Queries – Click here to find a list of special searches including clinical queries, health services research, cancer topics, healthy people 2010, AIDS, Bioethics, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, Health disparities, etc.
• LinkOut – LinkOut allows the user to link directly from PubMed to Loyola’s full text collection.
• My NCBI – as a user, you can save your searches and data here.
Categories: Databases
Tagged: PubMed Services
Searching PubMed and retrieving hundreds of citations? Want to make your search more relevant. Try the Advanced Searching mode. Advanced searching in PubMed offers a variety of limits that will help users pare down their search to the most relevant citations.
One of the most used options is limit to English and human. However, other options are available. Limiting to Core clinical journals allows the user to see their topic only in major clinical journals like JAMA, Lancet, and New England Journal of Medicine. A complete list of these journals is available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/aim.html.
You also can limit to evidence-based medicine articles by choosing Randomized Controlled Trials or Meta-Analysis. For those users who are interested in pediatric or other age -related literature, there are age group limits including Infant, Child, and Aged. For more on PubMed limits, go to the PubMed help pages by clicking here or talk to a reference librarian.
Categories: Databases
Tagged: PubMed Limits, Searching PubMed
Added to Henry Stewart talks:
Cancer Therapy: Latest thinking in efficacy and toxicity
Click here for access http://frallc.msgfocus.com/c/11Q74nAPizIJFrLlo
List of talks:
1. Understanding cancer trends
Prof. Michael Thun – American Cancer Society, USA
2. Early detection of lung cancer
Prof. Stephen Lam – University of British Columbia, Canada
3. Principles of cancer treatment: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy,
immunotherapy
Dr. Theodore Yaeger – Wake Forest University, USA
4. Therapy in cancer 2008: quo vadis?
Dr. Jeffrey Clark – Harvard Medical School, USA
5. Bevacizumab: the first FDA-approved angiogenesis inhibitor in the
treatment of non-small cell lung cancer
Dr. Tracey Evans – University of Pennsylvania, USA
6. Changing paradigms in anticancer drug development: inhibiting
angiogenesis in colorectal cancer
Prof. David Kerr – University of Oxford, UK
7. Phase I study design for non-cytotoxic agents
Dr. Wendy Parulekar – Queen’s University, Canada
8. Phase III trials
Prof. Martin Edelman – University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center,
USA
9. Surrogate endpoints of efficacy
Dr. Maurie Markman – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
10. Biomarkers in oncology: overview
Prof. Joe Duffy – St. Vincent’s University Hospital and University
College Dublin, Ireland
11. Pharmacogenomics
Dr. Sharon Marsh – Pharmacogenomics Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12. Gene profiling in breast cancer
Dr. Enrique Espinosa – Hospital La Paz, Spain
13. Genetic polymorphism of thiopurine methyltransferase and thiopurine
therapy: from molecular genetics to clinical medicine
Dr. William Evans – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
14. UGT1A1 polymorphisms and irinotecan toxicity in colorectal cancer
patients
Prof. Tae Won Kim – Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, South Korea
15. EGFR inhibitors in NSCLC and the role of biomarkers for selection of
patients
Prof. Fred Hirsch – University of Colorado Cancer Center, USA
16. Germline pharmacogenomics as a tool to individualize therapy in
breast cancer
Dr. David Flockhart – Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Categories: E-Resources
Have you tried the advanced search mode in PubMed? If you haven’t, give it a try. The advanced search mode has some very useful searching features especially if you wish to narrow your search. You can search by author, journal, and publication date. You can apply multiple limits including limiting to humans, gender, and languages. One of the most important limits is limiting to type of article. This feature includes limiting to clinical trials, meta-analysis, practice guidelines, randomized controlled clinical trials, and reviews. Over the next few days, we will present search examples for some of these features. For more information about searching PubMed, contact a reference librarian at researchservices@lumc.edu.
