July 2008 Archives

A News 3 report, "West Nile Virus returns to Las Vegas", aired on July 29. Jesse Corona reported on the discovery of the West Nile Virus in the wetlands near Sam Boyd Stadium and the use of a fish, Gambusia Affinis, to eat mosquito larvae in an effort to prevent the spread of the virus.

Here are some resources about the West Nile Virus:

Southern Nevada Health District. "Mosquito Control."
Nevada Dept. of Agriculture. "West Nile Virus."
U.S. Centers for Disease Control. "West Nile Virus." Includes data on number of cases nationwide.
Medline Plus. "West Nile Virus." This page includes links to many valuable resources on topics such as prevention, screening, clinical trials -- as well as journal articles and images.

KVBC did a recent story on mall teeth-whitening.

Some useful links on this topic:
From the American Dental Association -- "Tooth Whitening Treatments."
From Medline Plus -- "Cosmetic Dentistry"

If you are a regular user of PubMed you might want to take a look at an alternative search interface -- HubMed at http://www.hubmed.org It makes it easy to export citations to RefWorks and provides links to the Scopus database (to which we subscribe).