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 ...