Important News Regarding the Micromedex Drug Information Mobile App

Do you currently have the Micromedex® Drug Information mobile app installed on one or more of your Apple® devices?

Effective March 31, 2014, the Micromedex Drug Information app, which was previously free to any Apple device user, will be retired.

In its place, you're invited download the new version of the app, Free Micromedex Drug Reference for Internet Subscribers, available now in the iTunes® store. It functions exactly the same, and has the same content as the prior app. Access to the new Free Micromedex Drug Reference for Internet Subscribers is included with your online subscription to Micromedex 2.0, and provides the same evidence-based clinical decision support content you've come to rely on from our entire portfolio of mobile apps. This valuable tool is now available without charge exclusively to Micromedex Internet Subscribers only. Download the new app today! (The old one will no longer work.)

Directions to Install

1. To get started, you'll first need your password. Follow the simple steps below to find this information:
   Login to your online subscription to Micromedex 2.0 (via micromedexsolutions.com)
2. Click on the mobileMicromedex link near the top of the application
3. Write down your password; you'll need this later (the password is case-sensitive)
4. Search for Free Micromedex Drug Reference for Internet Subscribers on the iTunes Store & download the app to your device. Download from iTunes here
5. Launch the app, enter your password, and you are on your way!

Micromedex is here to help!
For more information about this change, see Frequently Asked Questions or contact
Micromedex at 800-525-9083, option 3, or by clicking on the link below to generate a support request:
http://support.micromedex.com/support/mobile/freedrugreference/

Android & Windows phones - the old app is still free & available on Google Play & Windows Store.

Faculty Publications Update

Rats are a common carrier of leptospirosis
image courtesy NLM IHM

Over 70 publications were added to Matas Faculty Publications in March. Stories that caught our eye this month include: cooking as preventive medicine with TU's culinary medicine program, the reemerging zoonotic infectious disease leptospirosis visits New Orleans, and a systematic review on "impermeable" dust mite covers (apparently they're not so impermeable).

Links, lists and a special award for most authors on a publication (95!), after the jump.

Mobile spotlight: iMedicalApps top 10 iOS apps for February

iMedicalApps recently released a new ‘top 10’ list of medical apps for iPhone. The site, which provides physician reviews of medical & healthcare apps, is trying to find the best medical apps on a monthly basis. (there's also one for January) There's several more on the list, but the four below are all A) free and B) received the best reviews. Click through for screenshots, links to iTunes & the other apps.

• ASCVD Risk estimatorby the American College of Cardiology (ACC): risk stratification tool from the ACC and the American Heart Association to help providers estimate 10 year and life time risks for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).
• UBC Med Formulary: "must have for medical students, but it can also be used by residents and practicing physicians." Includes quiz feature. 
• BabelMesh: a cross-language tool for searching MEDLINE/PubMed. More here
• Pediatric BP calculator: blood pressure calculator for Pediatrics, based on WHO & CDC's growth chart data 

Full list:
http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/03/top-10-iphone-medical-apps-february/

Grand Rounds Reading List Now Available: Meseteric Artery Ischemia, Submersion injuries

No references were available during the Medicine Ground Rounds on March 26, 2014: "Morbidity & Mortality Conference: Meseteric Artery Ischemia". However a PubMed Clinical Queries search on Meseteric Artery Ischemia can be found at:
 http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4716839

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for March 27, 2014: "Morbidity & Mortality Conference: submersion injury" are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519385#16583614

Each week librarians at the Matas library attend grand rounds for the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. Articles and resources mentioned during the presentation are recorded and presented for your perusal via the subject guides above.

Web of Science meets Google Scholar

Web of Science now offers a link-out to Google Scholar to enable another way to find full-text. This is helpful if you are using Web of Science behind a firewall, which can prevent off-campus log-on. In addition, Google Scholar results now include a link to the cited articles in the Web of Science core collection:

 

Google Scholar now displays the number of times Web of Science cites the article.

The links from Google Scholar to Web of Science only appear for subscribers, so off-campus friends should select the Google Scholar @ TU link from the Matas Home Page (upper right hand corner) to see this functionality.

Learn more:
http://wokinfo.com/googlescholar/?elq=18d998ce949743b38e049fa2357a4bf0&elqCampaignId=8679

 

AMA Citation Generator

Looking to cite an article in AMA format but don't have the energy or motivation to look up the proper format? Jump over to Mick Schroeder's Citation Generator. All you need is a PMID and your citation will be generated for you.

For example, putting PMID 24639726 into the Citation Generator gives you:

Nasri K, Chehrei A, Manavi MS. Evaluation of vaginal group B streptococcal culture results after digital vaginal examination and its pattern of antibiotic resistance in pregnant women. Iran J Reprod Med. 2013;11(12):999-1004.

Copy, paste, generate, DONE.

New book spotlight: Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation

Added to the Matas library collection in December, Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade is a study from the World Health Organization (WHO), World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

This study was prepared as a capacity-building resource for policy-makers. The contents mirror the evolution of multilateral policy debate over the past decade, recognizing that innovation and access are inevitably intertwined.

The contents of the study are broken up into four chapters:

1. Medical technologies: the fundamentals
2. The policy context for action on innovation and access
3. Medical technologies: the innovation dimension
4. Medical technologies: the access dimension

This book is currently on the new books rack in the Matas Commons area.

Call Number: W 82 W92711p 2013

The full publication is also available for download from the WTO website at http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/publications_e/who-wipo-wto_2013_e.htm.

Grand Rounds Reading List Now Available: surfactant disorders and genetics; kidney stones

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for March 12, 2014: "Kidney Stones from NOLA" are now available:  http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4716839

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for March 13, 2014: "Kathy Newman Memorial Lecture: Genetic Regulation of Surfactant Deficiency"" are now available:  

http://libguides.tulane.edu/aecontent.php?pid=417190&sid=4519385

Each week librarians at the Matas library attend grand rounds for the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. Articles and resources mentioned during the presentation are recorded and presented for your perusal via the subject guides above.

Filming in 1500 block of Canal Street

Hollywood Truck alert!

T5Productions, LLC will be filming 'VISTA'  on the Uptown side of the 1500 block of Canal between S. Villere and LaSalle Streets from today through March 31st  all day (6am - 11:59 pm). You may have already seen them and the associated NO PARKING  signs.

They will return on Monday-Wednesday, April 21-23; Tuesday-Wednesday, April 29-30; and again on Tuesday May 13 (weather permitting) to film interior and exterior scenes of 1500 Canal St. between 5 pm and 7:00 am.

Find out if you matched today!

T-4s find out today if they have matched with a program for their residency next year, and will find out where they matched on Friday. Match results will be released into the R3 system starting at 12pm Friday.

The Match Week Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) also starts today by releasing a list of unfilled programs. SOAP closes at 4pm Thursday.

Congratulations to everyone who matched from the Matas Library!

Mobile spotlight: Figure 1

Healthcare professionals: looking for a way to share photos of interesting cases with automatic face blocking and an easy way to remove personally identifying patient information? Check out Figure 1, an app for both iOS and Android operating systems.

With Figure 1, you can share and access medical images categorized by anatomy or specialty, and discuss case presentation, diagnosis, and treatment with other healthcare professionals. This app also features an easy consent to use form.

Check out Figure 1 for free from the Apple app store or from Google Play.

No smartphone? You can still check it out for free at https://figure1.com/.

Happy sharing!

A preview of what you'll find on Fig. 1

Grand Rounds Reading List Now Available: The pediatric "g-nome"; the internal medicine safety net

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for March 12, 2014: "Innovations in the Safety Net: What's Happening at Hennepin?" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4716839

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for March 13, 2014: "How a couple of “g-nomes” will transform pediatrics: the promise a healthier future child" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519385


Each week librarians at the Matas library attend grand rounds for the Department of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. Articles and resources mentioned during the presentation are recorded and presented for your perusal via the subject guides above.

Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine in Bon Appetit!

The nation's first culinary medicine program, the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine focuses on giving medical students a more in-depth understanding of nutrition and cooking, and how it can affect their patients' health.

The Goldring Center is currently featured in the March issue of Bon Appetit. Pick up a copy and check out the Good Health: Doctors in the Kitchen section.