One of the most important databases available at UNLV Libraries for search scientific literature is Web of Science. Simon Pratt from Thomson Reuters has written an interesting piece on how you can use Web of Science to identify important research on past influenza epidemics. Take a look at "Swine influenza - Lessons from history identified by the Web of Science" at http://sciencewatch.com/ana/hot/whatshot/04302009hot/
If you drink a lot of sports drinks you might want to check out this news item at Science Daily -- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403122016.htm
An interesting bit of information about portable medical records -- now available to clients of Southwest Medical Associates here in Las Vegas. The full story is at http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/southwest-medical-associates-launches-new/story.aspx?guid=%7B7AF3D7F5-1197-4356-B1CC-8F420BF06B22%7D&dist=msr_1
In not so good news, Men's Fitness magazine lists Las Vegas as 4th "fattest city" in America. Read the entire story at http://www.mensfitness.com/lifestyle/216 and see the others in the top 25.
An announcement in the Chronicle of Higher Education that PubMed would begin indexing the Journal of Visualized Experiments piqued my interest. I had not heard of this open-access video journal before. If you go to the journal site at http://www.jove.com/ you can view videos of experimental techniques. The categories they list are: Basic Protocols, Neuroscience, Developmental Biology, Cellular Biology, Plant Biology, Microbiology, and Immunology.
