MedlinePlus goes Multilingual

MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) consumer health website that provides links to authoritative sites on hundreds of health topics, interactive tutorials on health and disease issues, and directories to local healthcare providers and services. MedlinePlus has been bilingual (English/Spanish) for years. On May 7th, NLM introduced a new multilingual feature. [...]

National Library of Medicine Releases Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the release of the NLM Drug Information Portal. The site is at http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM Drug Information Portal gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.
More than [...]

Electronic Book Survey

The Health Sciences library is conducting a survey on patron awareness and use of electronic books. The results of the survey will be used to gain a better understanding of the digital content needs of the Loyola Health Sciences community and further develop our electronic collection.
Click on the following link to take the survey: http://www.formsite.com/ABCD/Ebooks_Survey/index.html
So, [...]

Faculty Publications Database

The Health Sciences Library is pleased to announce the launch of its Faculty Publications Database (http://tinyurl.com/4lfhbs). Using RefWorks, a database has been created that consists of articles, books and book chapters written by Faculty from SSOM, Niehoff School of Nursing, the Graduate School and other Institutes here at the Medical Center. The citations, culled from [...]

Updated Books & E-Books

New editions recently added to the library’s reserve collection include Molecular biology of the cell, 5thed. (QH 581.2 M717.9 2008); Janeway’s immunobiology, 7thed. (QW 504 M978j7 2008); Trauma, 6thed (WO 700 T775a6 2008). The Trauma textbook is also available electronically and the electronic version has been updated to the 6th ed., 2008, as well.
Harrison’s online [...]

Henry Stewart Talks

Are you interested in calcium signaling, genetic epidemiology or apoptosis? Then you might want to listen to one of the many seminars available on the Henry Stewart Talks website on these and many more topics. The Henry Stewart Talks are audio visual talks presented by leading experts. These seminars will keep you [...]