University hospitals wins multiple national IT awards for electronic patient data bank
...ion, continuing medical education (CME), research, library resources, e-mail, medical staff administrative applications and policies and procedures. UH also is developing a patient offshoot of the Physician Portal so that patients can access their own medical information....E/Tablet technology may provide benefits to patients, researchers
...n also be used to provide information -- such as a library of educational content tailored for the needs of cancer patients, or video clips of survivors telling their stories -- to patients as they sit in waiting rooms, kind of like personal laptop computers, Abernethy said. The researchers also expect the...UCLA Nobel Laureate honored with membership in the American Philosophical Society
...rly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources and community outreach. Currently, there are 900 members. Ignarros groundbreaking discovery of the importance of nitric oxide in cardiovascular health secured him the 1998 Nobel Prize. He found that nitric oxide is produced in the blood...Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic institutes worldwide
... In addition, they no longer have to rely on inter library loans because their users will have immediate access to all full-text articles on ScienceDirect right when they need it. ScienceDirect ArticleChoice is a low risk offer for everyone who wishes to extend access to full-text articles without having to ...Navigating legal minefields of drug industry addressed at UH talk
...contact Nelda Cervantes, the College of Pharmacy's library supervisor, at lib10@mail.uh.edu or 713-743-1242. WHAT: "Today's Health" series Topic: "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Law" WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 3 WHERE: University of Houston Science & Research Building Two, Room 128 Ent...Launch of Queens Library Healthlink initiative
...ds. Conduct surveys within the 20 participating library neighborhoods throughout the five-year project in order to measure the impact of Queens Library HealthLink programs....Forget basal body temperature -- check out her clothes
...interview to go to or whether they're going to the library to study for an exam or what they have planned after school," Haselton said. "Just one of them is a somewhat subtle event that changes their biochemistry. And yet this change manifests itself in an observable and pretty dramatic difference in how wom...Bioethics program in predictive health established at Indiana University
...hat will give public access to a bioethics digital library to be created by the IU Center for Bioethics. "Dr. Meslin and his team already have begun working with us on these issues. As research advances into personal health areas, their contributions will be invaluable," said Douglas K. Miller, M.D., princi...Study identifies potential drug target for Huntington's disease
...irst ran a computer search of their small-molecule library for potential novel inhibitors of PARP1, searching for those with structural similarities to known inhibitors. "Safety and efficacy of human drugs depends on many factors, so it's hard to predict which inhibitor would be most effective against a spe...Springer acquires Obesity Surgery from FD-Communications
...ut also increased visibility through international library consortia. In addition, Springer will bring enhanced online features and state-of-the-art medical publishing expertise to the journal." Mervyn Deitel, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Obesity Surgery, said, "We are delighted to have a publisher capable of pre...Patients need help finding medical information, U-M study finds
...pace to write comments. The PERC is a full service library with a comprehensive collection of print and audiovisual resources on all aspects of cancer, from disease and treatment information to coping and support resources. More than 4,000 people visited the PERC last year. A librarian can access resources n...$500,000 grant launches health literacy project to benefit older adults
...igators Dr. Mary Stansbury, associate professor of library and information science, and Dr. Ruth Ludwick, professor of nursing, are examining the means by which older adults seek information on health issues, including healthcare options and identifying symptoms of illness. In the United States millions of p...Free access to a digital library for developing countries
...s to Research in the Environment (OARE), a digital library for developing countries. Public and non-profit institutions in underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe will have free access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of Springer and other leading int...First disease-specific (breast cancer) protein library opens new drug paths
...hat they have created the first publicly available library of reliably expressible proteins of a human diseas...1,300 protein-expressing complementary DNAs in the library into a model system mimicking cells of a human breast, allowing them to study on a broad scale how t...Mice studies illustrate potential of chimp/human antibodies to protect against smallpox
...e our arsenal of medical countermeasures." Using a library of antibodies derived from the bone marrow of two vaccinia-immunized chimpanzees, the study researchers identified a pair of potent antibodies that target and neutralize the B5 protein, one of five key proteins responsible for cell-to-cell spread of ...Leading groups offer NIH direct links to journals to make research access easy for public
...n15,000 additional free articles each month, and a library of 1.7 million full-text research articles dating to 1849. "Overnight and at no cost to taxpayers, this proposal will make it easy for the public to access vast amounts of the most accurate scientific and medical information available," said Chris Ly...New support for disabled research students
...vivas and making the transition to employment. The library has self-audit tools to help staff prepare for disabled research students before they start their postgraduate degrees, a plain English glossary of key research terms and testimonies from students to give an insight into the types of issues they face...New method rapidly detects potential bioterror agent
...ains we can identify," Fernandez said. "There is a library of strain samples available to us, though the samples are sanitized with gamma radiation and rendered inactive before analysis." To identify strains, researchers examine the appearance of biomarker proteins in samples. "In some cases, we classify a s...... National Library of Medicine, the world's largest library of the health sciences, is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.......in the space. If the fit is poor, he can explore a library of alternative molecules that might meet the chemical and configurational requirements. Ghosh will then assemble the molecules that appear to work, as if the chemicals were the sticks and spools of a Tinkertoy, to create a potential drug. Crucial to...