Health Sciences Information at UNLV Libraries http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/ This blog is a communication tool to provide information about health sciences resources to UNLV students and faculty. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:56:20 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Journal of Visualized Experiments 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.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/08/journal-of-visualized-experime.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/08/journal-of-visualized-experime.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:56:20 -0800 West Nile Virus 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.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/west-nile-virus.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/west-nile-virus.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:27:24 -0800 Mall teeth-whitening 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"

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/mall-teethwhitening.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/mall-teethwhitening.html Dentistry Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:00:48 -0800 HubMed 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).

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/hubmed.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/07/hubmed.html Journals Medicine pubmed searching Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:26:30 -0800 Nursing Student at UNLV gets Ph.D. Friday's issue of the Las Vegas Sun noted that a Nevada resident, Lara Carver, is one of the first two students to earn a Ph.D. in Nursing at UNLV.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/05/nursing-student-at-unlv-gets-p.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/05/nursing-student-at-unlv-gets-p.html Nursing Mon, 19 May 2008 09:01:38 -0800 Joint Commission reports The Joint Commission, which accredits health care organizations and programs, has valuable information on standards and measures on its website. The Patient Safety section includes a "Do Not Use" list among its resources. A new report on the site is "One Size Does Not Fit All: Diverse Populations Pose Special Health Needs."

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/joint-commission-reports.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/joint-commission-reports.html Medicine Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:50:25 -0800 NHQR State Snapshots The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has a site called NHQR State Snapshots that shows how your state ranks in health care. You can look at the different states by clicking on a map.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/nhqr-state-snapshots.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/04/nhqr-state-snapshots.html Medicine Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:35:52 -0800 Hepatitis C and Las Vegas Here are some resources pertaining to the recent Hepatitis C investigations in Las Vegas endoscopy clinics:

"Hepatitis C Investigation in a Las Vegas, Nevada, Endoscopy Clinic" from the Centers for Disease Control.

"Hepatitis C Investigation" from the Southern Nevada Health District.

"SNHD Hepatitis C Investigation" from the Nevada State Health Division.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/03/hepatitis-c-and-las-vegas.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/03/hepatitis-c-and-las-vegas.html Public Health Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:48:07 -0800 March of Dimes Distinguished Nurse of the Year Luzviminda Banaria, a nurse at University Medical Center, was named Distinguished Nurse of the Year by the March of Dimes, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/march-of-dimes-distinguished-n.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/march-of-dimes-distinguished-n.html Nursing Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:44:17 -0800 You Tube and surgical videos A colleague pointed out to me the wealth of surgical videos on You Tube and I found this interesting collection from ORLivedotcom It lists 403 videos.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/you-tube-and-surgical-videos.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/you-tube-and-surgical-videos.html Technology Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:43:30 -0800 Reporting Test Results by Video Email The January 7, 2008 issue of AMNew contains an article titled "Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups." It describes how Dr. Loring Jacobs, an internist in Las Vegas, sends a video e-mail so that he can provide routine test results in a more personal way, as well as provide details about the results.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/reporting-test-results-by-vide.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/reporting-test-results-by-vide.html Technology Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:10:40 -0800 Joint MLA Chapter meeting There will be a Joint Chapter Meeting of the Northern California/Nevada Medical Library Group and the Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona in Las Vegas February 6-9, 2008. One of the plenary session speakers is Dr. Mary Guinan, from UNLV's School of Public Health. Her topic will be "Public Health Experiences in Nevada: From Cancer Clusters to Hanta Virus."

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/joint-mla-chapter-meeting.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2008/01/joint-mla-chapter-meeting.html Conferences Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:03:13 -0800 Belen Gabato appointed to Nevada Board of Nursing The Asian Journal Online noted that Belen Gabato, one of the founders of the Philippine Nurses Association of Las Vegas, has been appointed by Governor Gibbons to the Nevada Board of Nursing.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/12/belen-gabato-appointed-to-neva.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/12/belen-gabato-appointed-to-neva.html Nursing Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:54:31 -0800 Nursing faculty shortage A story appeared in yesterday LVRJ about the shortage of nursing faculty. UNLV and UNR have received a $ 710,000 grant to fund an accelerated nursing doctoral program. Dr. Candela of the School of Nursing is quoted in the article.

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/09/nursing-faculty-shortage.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/09/nursing-faculty-shortage.html Nursing Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:11:05 -0800 New Health Sciences Resources At the end of the fiscal year the University Libraries was able to add the following health sciences resources:

Blackwell Synergy Backfiles
Over 2.7 million pages and access to 191 journal titles, this backfile collection contains the full-text journal issues going back to the first volume of each journal through 1996. Includes a broad scope of disciplines covering medicine and health care, sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Elsevier Health Sciences Encyclopedias
This 15 title collection includes: Encyclopedia of Cancer, Encyclopedia of Endocrine Disease, Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition, Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Encyclopedia of Hormones, Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Encyclopedia of Immunology, Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, Encyclopedia of Toxicology, Encyclopedia of Virology, Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs.

Sage Premier Online Journals Deep Backfile Collection
Sage Deep Backfiles includes perpetual electronic access to the deep backfile of 301 journals, 357,000 issues, and approximately 4,284,000 articles. The majority of Sage's peer-reviewed scholarly journals are in the subject areas of: business, education, engineering, fine arts, health sciences, hotel, liberal arts, sciences, and urban affairs. Coverage includes back to Volume 1, Issue 1, through the last issue of 1998. Content from January 1999 to present is included in the Premier subscription.

Science Direct Backfiles Medicine and Dentistry package and Lancet
17 specialty subjects with over 340 titles and over 600,000 full text articles, going back to 1823:
Allergology, Rheumatology and Immunology
Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Medicine
Clinical Neurology
Dentistry, Oral Surgery and Medicine
Forensic Medicine, Pathology and Medical Technology
Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
General Medicine
Hematology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
Oncology
Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
Perinatology, Pediatrics and Child Health
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Public Health and Health Policy
Radiology and Imaging
Respiratory, Pulmonary and Infectious Diseases
Surgery

]]> http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/07/new-health-sciences-resources.html http://blogs.library.unlv.edu/healthscience/2007/07/new-health-sciences-resources.html Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:37:49 -0800