Medicine Grand Rounds reading list now available: Menopausal Hormone Therapy in 2014

References from Medicine Ground Rounds for July 3, 2014: "Menopausal Hormone Therapy in 2014" are now available: http://libguides.tulane.edu/content.php?pid=288978&sid=5022685

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.

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/