February is American Heart Month

Although knowledge and awareness of heart disease has grown dramatically in the last few decades, physicians and public health workers know that there is always more that can be done. February is American Heart Month, so why not take some time to think about heart disease and what steps you can take to help your patients and clients (and yourself) live healthier lives?

For more resources about American Heart Month, visit the CDC's feature page, the American Heart Association website, or search for articles in PubMed through the Matas library homepage.

New! Matas Faculty Publications Database

Matas Library is proud to announce a new local resource: Matas Faculty Publications Database

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 and Web of Science.

Quick stats

• Over 17,000 references from 1910 - present
• Oldest reference: "The Cultivation of the Leprosy Bacillus and the Experimental Production of Leprosy in the Japanese Dancing Mouse" by Dr. CW Duval in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1910 Sep 1;12(5):649-65. Read here
• Newest reference: "Blood pressure responses to dietary sodium and potassium interventions and the cold pressor test: the GenSalt replication study in rural North China." by Dr Q Zhao, et al, in the American Journal of Hypertension 2014 Jan;27(1):72-80. View in PubMed
• Tulane scholars published over 780+ articles in 2013, 660+ articles in 2012, and 830+ articles in 2011 

Some of the more highly cited journal articles of 2013*

Cited 12 times since June 2013

Bourin P, Bunnell BA, Casteilla L, Dominici M, Katz AJ, March KL, et al. Stromal cells from the adipose tissue-derived stromal vascular fraction and culture expanded adipose tissue-derived stromal/stem cells: A joint statement of the international federation for adipose therapeutics and science (IFATS) and the international society for cellular therapy (ISCT). Cytotherapy. 2013 Jun;15(6):641-8 View in PubMed

 

 Dr Bruce A. Bunnell is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Director of the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy

 

Cited 10 times since March 2013

Ruutiainen T, Miller S, Caplan A, Ginsberg JP. Expanding access to testicular tissue cryopreservation: An analysis by analogy. American Journal of Bioethics. 2013 Mar;13(3):28-35. View in PubMed

Tuua Ruutiainen is a second year medical student in the School of Medicine.

Cited 9 times since January 2013

Zhang R, Oyajobi BO, Harris SE, Chen D, Tsao C, Deng H, et al. Wnt/beta-catenin signaling activates bone morphogenetic protein 2 expression in osteoblasts. Bone. 2013 JAN;52(1):145-56. View in PubMed

Rongrong Zhang is a Graduate student in the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

*based on a Tulane affiliation search in Web of Science on January 22, 2014.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Patient Outcomes

Medicine Ground Rounds for January 22, 2014 was cancelled.

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for January 30, 2014: "Optimizing Patient Outcomes: The Human Factor" are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519372

New book spotlight: World Health Statistics 2013

Looking for current information on world health statistics? Check out World Health Statistics 2013, a WHO publication added to the Matas collection in December 2013.

The statistical information in this book is divided into three sections: Part I. focuses on health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Part II. gives information on topics highlighted by the WHO, and Part III. displays charts with data about the following global health indicators:

• Life expectancy and mortality
• Cause-specific mortality and morbidity
• Selected infectious diseases
• Health service coverage
• Risk factors
• Health systems
• Health expenditure
• Health inequalities
• Demographic and socioeconomic statistics

Check out this book, and other new additions to our collection, on the New Books book cart in the Commons area of the library.

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Brain amoebas; what our trainees do when we’re not teaching them

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for January 22, 2014: "What do our trainees do when we’re not teaching them? Characteristics and Behaviors of Successful and Unsuccessful Trainees"
are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4535345

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for January 23, 2014: Morbidity and Mortality of Naegleri Fowleri: brain eating amoeba are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519372

Grand Rounds Reading Lists Now Available: Asthma Phenotypes; Gun Violence

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for January 15, 2014: Asthma Phenotypes in the Child, Adolescent, and Adult are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=4535345

Reference from Pediatrics Grand Rounds for January 16, 2014: Role of Pediatricians in Preventing Gun Violence are now available:
http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=417190&sid=4519372

SAS 9.3 now available in 24/7 area of Matas Library

The updated version of SAS is now available on the 10 computers in the back room of the 24/7 area of the Matas library.