What's new in Faculty Publications

124 references were added to Matas Faculty Publications in June.

This month we feature a new publication from members of Tulane's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine:

Drury SS, Mabile E, Brett ZH, et al. The association of telomere length with family violence and disruption. Pediatrics. 2014. 

This study examined the association between family interpersonal violence and disruption and telomere length in youth, finding that telomeres are sensitive to adversity within the overarching family domain. These findings suggest that the family ecology may be an important target for interventions to reduce the biological impact of adversity in the lives of children.

Dr Stacy Drury is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the the director of Tulane's Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Laboratory (BANGL). The laboratory includes both a molecular genetics basic science “wet” laboratory and a translational research program. BANGL's research focuses on how the interaction of genetic and epigenetic factors with early experience shapes child neurodevelopment and long term health outcomes in children.

Emily Mabile, MPH is Research Program Coordinator for the Neighborhood Stress and Physiology Among Children (NSPAC) Study at the Mary Amelia Women’s Center (MAC) at Tulane University and a member of the Department of Global Community Health at TU School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

About Matas Faculty Publications
This fully searchable online database collects publications by Tulane University faculty members in the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and the Tulane National Primate Research Center. The database will be updated monthly with fresh citations from PubMed, EMBASE and Web of Science. To add a pubcliation to our database contact Maureen Knapp mknapp2@tulane.edu or Laura Wright lwright6@tulane.edu

Medical Education Grand Rounds: Teaching with Technology now available

Presentation materials and references from the Office of Medical Education Grand Rounds are now available:

Teaching with Technology Presentation by Molly Knapp & David Akirtava, June 26, 2014 (PDF)

Instructional technology resources via Tulane Office of Medical Education

References were unavailable this week for Medicine Grand Rounds. Pediatric Grand Rounds will resume September 2014.

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 links.

BrowZine for iPhone now available

Via our friends at Browzine, Tulane's free app for literature surveillance & table of contents delivery: 

BrowZine for iPhone is now available, dramatically expanding the ways you can engage with BrowZine to find, read and follow your favorite journals!

With this new release, you have the option to create a BrowZine Account. If you have BrowZine installed on your iPhone and iPad, you may now “sync” your My Bookshelf contents. If you add a journal to My Bookshelf or clear a new article notification from your iPad, it will automatically appear on your iPhone. 

      

 

More improvements after the break

Don't forget about Interlibrary Loans!

Are you looking for a book but the library doesn't have it? What about a journal article that we don't have access to?

Don't forget about Interlibrary Loans (ILL) through the Matas library. If we don't have a book or journal article that you want or need, we can get it from a different library for you for no cost. To order a book or journal article through ILL, go to the Matas library webpage, look under the Ask Us! We Can Help box, and click Interlibrary Loan. We can get it!

If you are using ILL for the first time, just click First Time Using ILLiad? and fill in the form. It's quick and easy, and if you need help, just come up to the library desk and we will help you navigate through the system.

If you have any questions about interlibrary loans, you can contact the ILL department by calling (504) 988-5156 or e-mailing medlib@tulane.edu.

Medicine Grand Rounds reading list now available: Iron Deficiency Anemia

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for June 18, 2014: "Iron Deficiency Anemia in GI Disorders" are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4948630

Pediatrics Grand Rounds will resume September 2014. 

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 links.

Mobile Spotlight: CDC Vaccination Schedule App for iOS available

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a smartphone version of the 2014 adult & child vaccination schedules.

2014 CDC Vaccine Schedules app for clinicians and other health care professionals offers you immediate access to CDC’s latest recommended immunization schedules. See childhood, adolescent, adult and catch-up vaccine schedules and footnotes on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch devices. Download this free app from the iTunes App Store.

While it's a great app, some limitations exist, specifically:

•  "No functionality to input a child’s age and current vaccines to get a personalized catch-up vaccine list." (the CDC web-based interactive vaccine catch-up site does offer personalized catch-up lists)
• No "ability to print, email or open the links and embedded PDFs in any other app."
• "...while the app has a useful list of contraindications and precautions to commonly used adult vaccines, there is no analogue for pediatric vaccines — users have to look within each vaccine individually to find that data, which is not available for every vaccine."

Overall, it's about time the CDC came up with a mobile version of their vaccine schedules. It remains to be seen how fast it will update when new schedules are issued, which as you know, change every year. 

Read a full review by Dr. Eli Specher at imedicalapps:
http://www.imedicalapps.com/2014/06/cdc-vaccine-immunization-schedule-patients/

eBook spotlight: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18e

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18e, is available as an e-book through AccessMedicine.

To access Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine on AccessMedicine, go to the Matas library website*, hover over the Resources tab, and select AccessMedicine under Quick Links. Once on the AccessMedicine webpage, scroll through the books under Read, and select Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine.

Another easy way to access this e-book is to search for it in the Matas library catalog. On the Matas library webpage* select the Catalog tab and enter "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine". Select the web resource from 2012 (the one with *INTERNET* underneath it) and click through on the AccessMedicine link.

*If you are not on campus, use the Off-Campus Login in the upper right-hand corner of the screen to sign-in to our site.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Ethics and Big Pharma; Nephon Number

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for June 11, 2014: "Ethical Interactions with the Pharmaceutical Industry" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4948630


References from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for June 12, 2014: "John E. Lewy Memorial Lecture: Nephron Number: Development, Determinants, and Diagnostics." are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4967849

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 links.

June is National Safety Month

From the National Safety Council website:

Each June, the National Safety Council celebrates National Safety Month as a time to bring attention to key safety issues. As you plan your 2014 safety calendar, please join the Council and thousands of organizations across the country to reduce risk of the following safety issues:

Week 1: Prevent prescription drug abuse
Week 2: Stop slips, trips and falls
Week 3: Be aware of your surroundings
Week 4: Put an end to distracted driving
Bonus week: Summer safety

For more information about National Safety Month and for free resources, check out the National Safety Council website.

OFF CAMPUS PROBLEMS WITH SCIENCE DIRECT

Tulane University is currently experiencing difficulties accessing Science Direct from off-campus. Please contact the Matas library by phone 504-988-5155 or email medref@tulane.edu with the article you are trying to access and we will email it to you.

Thanks for your patience as we work to resolve this problem.

New from VisualDX: Competitive Quiz Feature

From the VisualDx Blog:

New VisualDx Mobile Quiz for iOS
VisualDx Quiz for the iPhone and iPad tests your knowledge of visual presentations of disease. Select a specialty area such as Infectious Disease, Dermatology or Pediatrics, or select “All Specialties” to begin. For each question, VisualDx Quiz shows you an image, asks you to identify the correct diagnosis from a multiple-choice list, and tracks your score. Practice on your own, or play competitively against colleagues, with scores posted to iOS Apple Game Center leaderboards. Quiz histories are stored privately on your mobile device, allowing you to review diagnoses you missed. Look up diseases in VisualDx to see more images and access expert information on diagnosis and management. More info

To play, just update or download your VisualDx app, or stop by the reference desk & take it for a spin on one of our Matas iPads.

VisualDx is a dermatology resource + mobile app oriented for problem solving: search by symptoms, visual clues and other patient factors, by diagnosis, or by medication. VisualDx clinical decision support provides instant access to concise disease information and high-quality medical images to assist in diagnosis, to direct testing, and to guide management and therapy decisions.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Hypertension Guidelines; Sleep Disorders in Children (Wasserman Lecture)

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for June 4, 2014: "New Hypertension Guidelines and Blood Pressure Targets" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4948630

References from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for June 5, 2014: "Wasserman Lecture: Kids, Clocks, Circadian Timing, and Consequences of their Disruption by Light at Night" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4967849

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 links.

Historical book spotlight: Guinea Pig Doctors: The Drama of Medical Research Through Self-Experimentation

Published in 1984, Guinea Pig Doctors: The Drama of Medical Research Through Self-Experimentation is a collection of stories about doctors who used themselves as "guinea pigs" for testing their theories about diseases and testing out new medications.

Chapter titles include:

• How the Ghouls Got John Hunter's Heart
• The Sad Tale of Laughing Gas
• The Riddle of the Rimac Valley
• The Last of the Miasmatists
• The Forgotten Hero of Yellow Fever
• A Brave But Tarnished Prussian
• A Dangerous Transfusion
• The Fastest Man on Earth

Call Number: WZ 112 F832g 1984