New Book: "Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family"

Added to the Matas Library collection this past June, Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family tells the story of members of the Landry family and their time spent at the leprosarium in Carville, LA in the early part of the 20th century.

In 1986, the Carville site was renamed the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Center, and was moved to Baton Rouge in the 1990s. In 1996, the National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Museum was founded in Carville.

Check out this book to learn more about the lives of individuals who lived at Carville.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Hepatitis C, pediatric myocarditis

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for November 13th: Hepatitis C are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4364415

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for November14th: Morbidity and Mortality Update: myocarditis and encephalitis are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519355

Mobile Spotlight: LifeArmor

Created by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2), a component center of the Defense Centers for Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, housed under the Department of Defense, LifeArmor is a mobile app designed to provide information on 17 topics of importance to members of the US military and veterans, including depression, life stress, mild traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, and post-traumatic stress.

Under each of the topic areas, four menu options are available for further information: Learn, which provides details about the topic; Assess, which provides an assessment in that topic area; Tools, which provide techniques to self-manage problems and symptoms in the topic area; and Videos, which provide testimony from members of the military community about their struggles and triumphs in the topic area.

LifeArmor is available for both iOS and Android. LifeArmor and other apps for military members and veterans, as well as for the health-care professionals who serve them, can be downloaded at the National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) website.

Featured e-book: Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine

Thompson & Thompson's Genetics in Medicine has been established as a favorite textbook on the field of genetics. The Matas Library currently has a copy of the 2007 edition of this book on General Reserve behind the circulation desk and several older editions in our stacks downstairs.

Want to look at the 2007 edition but it's already checked out? Thompson & Thompson's Genetics in Medicine is also available online through ClinicalKey. To access ClinicalKey, go to the Matas Library website and select ClinicalKey under the Resources tab. Sign-in to your account, select Books from the menu bar at the top of the ClinicalKey screen, and search for Thompson & Thompson's Genetics in Medicine in the "T" section.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Melanoma; Tuberculosis

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for November 6th: Melanoma: New Tools for Diagnosis and Personalized Therapy are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4364415

References from Pediatrics Ground Rounds for November 7th: Updates on Tuberculosis are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519355

November is American Diabetes Month

1. Nearly 26 million children and adults in the U.S. have diabetes.
2. An additional 79 million Americans have prediabetes and are at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes.
3. The American Diabetes Association estimates that the total national cost of diagnosed diabetes is $245 billion in the U.S.

These are just a few statistics from the American Diabetes Association, the sponsors of American Diabetes Month. The American Diabetes Association's vision is a life free from diabetes and its complications, and American Diabetes Month is designed to focus on the nation's attention on the issues surrounding diabetes and the many people impacted by the disease.

For more resources about diabetes, visit the CDC's diabetes awareness page, the American Diabetes Association website, or search for articles in PubMed through the Matas Library homepage.

Mobile Spotlight: CDC Contraception 2010 (Free App)

Created by the CDC with guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use 2010 (CDC Contraception 2010) is an app that allows health care professionals to review different types of contraceptives and the factors that may influence the individual suitability of each type of contraceptive for each of their individual patients.

For example, if a patient would like to switch from a barrier method of contraception to combined hormonal contraceptives, this app allows a doctor to review risk factors and evaluate the suitability of that switch for the patient. These factors include age, smoking status, current reproductive tract infections and disorders, and obesity and history of bariatric surgery, among others.

This app is a free download from iTunes, and is designed for both iPhone and iPad. Click here to download this app now.