New Platform for OMMBID: The Online Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease

OMMBID is an online resource with comprehensive coverage of the genes and genetic mechanisms underlying human disease states.  The content is updated continually to reflect new developments in the field and to provide information on the metabolic and molecular underpinnings of  inherited diseases along with pathophysiology and treatment.  Unique features include high quality color images and complex illustrations.  The complete four-volume text of the definitive resource on the causation and treatment of inherited diseases, The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Diseases is included in OMMBID.


The OMMBID Blog with a board of vetted researchers post upwards of 10 entries a month, regarding the latest findings across a variety of fields.  

Journals licensed by the Matas Library

All journals are licensed electronically  for use of the Tulane Community.  Generally print subscriptions are no longer purchased by the Matas Library.  Licensing is based on availability for site license, need to support Tulane research and the educational curriculum and available funding.  The new journals licensed for the Tulane Community by the Matas Library for 2012 are listed below:

AJNR, American journal of neuroradiology (Highwire Press)
American journal of clinical pathology (Highwire Press)Archives of environmental & occupational health (Taylor & Francis Group)
Cell host & microbe (ScienceDirect-Elsevier)Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology (ScienceDirect-Elsevier)
Endoscopy (Thieme)
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy (Informa Healthcare)Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) Coming Soon to E-Journals @ Tulane!Journal of hospital medicine (Wiley Online)
Journal of inherited metabolic disease (SpringerLink)Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (Highwire Press)Laboratory animals (Highwire Press)Medical teacher (Informa Healthcare)Pharmacotherapy (EBSCOhost Journals) or Look for issues from 2012 in Wiley

ProceduresConsult - new apps for iPhone &iPad

Try the new apps for iPhone & iPad in addition to the Procedures Consult mobile application. Try this URL (m.proceduresconsult.com) from your Smartphone on the Tulane network.

Clinical Alert: Commonly used three-drug regimen for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis found harmful

Clinical Alert
NIH stops one treatment arm of trial; other two treatments to continue.

The trial found that people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) had worse outcomes than those who received placebos or inactive substances.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/2011_nhlbi_ifp.html

Find more information about this clinical trial at - http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00650091

SearchAll@Matas: A Discovery Tool which includes all the current library systems!

Link to SearchAll @ Matas

SearchAll allows you to search for physical items in the Tulane libraries, licensed full-text electronic articles, and archival digital collections all at once. You can also choose the collection or a quick set to search a group of licensed databases, show only books or only articles. Users then may use the “Refine my results” area to narrow the scope or to discover related materials. The Howard-Tilton Library and Matas Library of the Health Sciences have unique views refined for their users. SearchAll @ Matas is designed for health sciences users and researchers wishing to search with broad coverage. The sign in option allows advanced researchers to save queries for future use.

There are some differences between the "search view" and record detail displays between Howard-Tilton and the Matas Library but the total of the resources searched are the same.

A Mobile view is available for SearchAll @ Matas.

Check out the books for Medical Humanities

Available in the Matas Commons.

Making the Neighborhood Connections - Matas Library receives grant funding from the National Library of Medicine (NLM)

The Matas Library has just received a NN/LM SCR Resource Library Outreach Award. The specific award is titled, “Making the Neighborhood Connections: Matas Library Links the Community to Health Literacy”. This award, funded by the National Library of Medicine(NLM), for up to $15,000 will be used to conduct community outreach in the New Orleans area and is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

In this effort the library will be promoting health literacy initiatives to the community in activity partnership with: Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), Dr. Mark Alain Dery, via Covenant House and the NOSIDA project, New Orleans City Hall, and the Neighborhood Partnerships Network (NPN). These activities include training some public health professionals, clinical professionals, community leaders, and youth to use basic health information resources provided through the National Library of Medicine in order to spread a wider use of credible and authoritative health information tools among the communities. MedlinePlus, a consumer health information tool, will be one of the key resources.

Matas Library, through Neville Prendergast, Matas Library Director, and Elaine Hicks, Matas Education Librarian, will spearhead a number of planned activities, and a community health information needs assessment, using the funds awarded to conduct community outreach in the New Orleans area.

The National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity

This Office of Minority Health (OMH) report outlines a common set of goals and objectives for public and private sector initiatives and partnerships to help racial and ethnic minorities -- and other underserved groups -- reach their full health potential. -
http://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/

Check out mobileMICROMEDEX 2.0!

Micromedex is an evidence-based clinical drug reference.
Learn More about Micromedex 2.0 by watching a brief tutorial video

The new Micromedex® Drug Interactions app for iPhone/iTouch and iPad is NOW AVAILABLE for FREE to all Micromedex users. With the Drug Interactions app, clinicians can check a patient's entire list of medications for potentially harmful interactions. Warnings include severity, onset, evidence, adverse effects, and more. Micromedex customers can activate the app using the password included with the instructions on the MOBILE webpage. (Scroll down until you see the "Simple instructions for installation")

More information about THE POWER OF MICROMEDEX TO EVALUATE THERAPEUTIC USE.

The Therapeutic Use section within our in-depth drug content is a wealth of valuable information. Within each drug monograph, this section includes a complete list of FDA-labeled indications, as well as an extensive list of off-label indications. Click here for more information.

Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse?

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example.
That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e.


You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

June 1st marks the official first day of the 2011 hurricane season. Its time to make a plan on how to prepare for a huurricane and possible evacuation.

Disaster Management (A Matas Library Subject Guide):
http://libguides.tulane.edu/disasters

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/

http://emergency.cdc.gov

IMPORTANT CLINICAL ALERT on Angioplasty combined with stenting!

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Issues New Clinical Alert on Angioplasty Combined with Stenting Plus Aggressive Medical Therapy vs. Aggressive Medical Therapy Alone for Intracranial Arterial Stenosis: NINDS Stops Trial Enrollment Due to a Higher Risk of Stroke and Death in the Stented GroupLink: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/alerts/clinical_alerts.html

There is new subscription key for embase.com

There is new subscription key for embase.com for Tulane University. Contact the Matas Library, medref@tulane.edu, with your tulane email account to request a new key. You may also stop by the Library desk to request the new embase.com key. You will need to be on the Tulane network to add the new key to your embase.com account. You should still be able to access your personal account on the Tulane network. In the top right hand corner (Login) there is an option for “Profile”. You will have an option to add the new key to your account after the log in under the Profile option. Please let us know if you have problems. The Matas Library regrets any inconvenience. The subscription key will allow off campus access to embase.com. Do not share or publicize this key.

Historical T-Waves and Jambalayas are online!

Historical Tulane yearbooks have been scanned for online access. These past yearbooks are available in the Internet Archive. This digital collection contains the complete run of the Jambalaya yearbook (1896-2008), as well as issues of the T-Wave, the yearbook of the Tulane University School of Medicine which began publication in 1982.

Thanks go to the University Archives for the planning and implementation of this scanning project. University Archives is a department within Tulane University's Special Collections Division of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library which preserves the official records of Tulane University.

Search T-Wave to find the School of Medicine yearbooks since 1982. Search within the volumes for your kin that graduated in years past.

Embase.com has conference abstracts! - MEDLINE alone is not enough to find abstracts and posters.

Keep up to date with the latest biomedical research with the conferences coverage provided in the Embase database licensed by the Matas Library. Embase now covers more than 800 conferences with over 270,000 conference abstracts. Embase has over 7,500 peer-reviewed journal titles with over 60 topic area, 30 core clinical and pharmacology topics that represent 70% of Embase content. Embase has over 24 million records with PubMed having 20 million citations. A quarter of the Embase content is unique.

With conference coverage in over 30 drug, clinical and device-related topics, Embase is a resource that must be included in your literature searches.
View the list of conferences covered.

THANK YOU for your support of the Matas Library Heart Walk Team!

Thank you for covering the Matas Library glass wall with hearts!

NIH Roadmap initiative has a focus on health economics

Applications for exploratory and developmental research projects that will lead to increased efficiency in the production of health and delivery of health care are bein solocited. Specifically, research sought under this announcement should inform 1) the identification of specific, modifiable causes of high and increasing health care costs related to the structure, organization, and production of health care; and 2) the development and refinement of interventions, practices, or policies that can address these causes while maintaining or enhancing outcomes.

This initiative is part of the Health Economics Common Fund Program http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/healtheconomics/.

Please see http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-10-016.html

Letters of intent are due September 26, applications due October 26.

Salmonella Infections in the News

Be a good egg and learn how to protect yourself and your family from salmonella infections. Read all about it at MedlinePlus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/salmonellainfections.html.

Read more about Salmonella from the Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (a licensed Tulane Resource).

• MMWR News Synopsis for September 2, 2010

1.Multiple-Serotype Salmonella Gastroenteritis Outbreak After a Reception — Connecticut, 2009

2.Use of a Self-Assessment Questionnaire for Food Safety Education in the Home Kitchen — Los Angeles County, California, 2006–2008 ...

MacBaby Embryology Resource: Technology update

MacBaby is an older program that was written for 32 bit computers. It will not work on any Apple or Windows 7 (64 bit computers). It is installed on the Matas Library computers running Windows XP, which are all the computers in the back room of the 24/7 area, and all computers on the mezzanine. There is a link to additional anatomy resources on the Learning Portal.

Our Technology Department is seeking a solution for the newer computers.

Welcome our new Educational Services Librarian, Elaine Hicks.

Elaine Hicks will be the Educational Services Librarian at the Matas Library of the Health Sciences.

Elaine received her B.S. from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Southern Illinois University; her Master of Public Health—Community Health Sciences—from Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM); and her MSLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Most of her career has been spent in the Cook County (Chicago) Department of Public Health as Emergency Preparedness Education Coordinator and prior to that Director of Community and School Health Education. Her library and information science work experience has taken place in the University of Illinois-Chicago Health Sciences Library; the National Library of Medicine; the Medical Library of St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, IL, and the Health Learning Center of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Since 2004 she has served on the Tulane University SPHTM Alumni Board; she is President-Elect of that body

Disaster Information Specialist Meeting - Thursday, July 15 at 12:30 CT

On Thursday, July 15 at 12:30 CT, the National Library of Medicine’s regularly scheduled Disaster Information Specialist Meeting will include a guest speaker from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) who will discuss the ongoing oil spill.

The guest speaker, Joseph “Chip” Hughes, MPH has been deployed since April to the Gulf region where he has been working with Coast Guard and BP officials as well as local and state officials, academic institutions and other federal agencies to provide worker safety training. He will share his insights on the ongoing situation and talk about the information needs related to the oil spill.

The Disaster Information Specialist monthly meetings are open to everyone and may be attended in person or by conference call. If you only want to listen in to hear the guest speaker, just sign off the call after that portion of the meeting.

To join by phone, please call 1-888-813-8477 and enter passcode 394248.