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April/May 2000
DENTISTRY LIBRARY NEWS:
* Employee of the Month
* Electronic Journals
* New Database
OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES
* AADS becomes ADEA
* National Facial Protection Month
* ARHQ Resource on Medical Errors
* Dental News Delivered Via E-Mail
* Drug Info: USPDI v.2 On the Web
* IOM Reports Online
* Treponema denticola genome
* Other Genetics Resources
* PubMed & MedlinePlus Upgrades (Books, Drug Info, Encyclopedia)
* World Wide Dental Events Calendar
* World No Tobacco Day
* Top Ten Advances in Dental Research 1900-2000
* AMA Guidelines for Web Sites
* Medical Expert System on the Web
* Patient Health Crisis Resource
* Statistics Information Resources
* History of the Internet Resource
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
Congratulations to Deborah Chen, the Dentistry Library's Student of the Month for April. Deborah works for the library's technical processing department, processing new journals and preparing the older ones for binding. Time and again, when the library has had a staffing shortage or a special project has come up, Deborah has stepped in and filled our needs with competence and grace. In particular, she has been been instrumental in performing the Dentistry Library's ongoing serials inventory and reorganization. Her extraordinary ability and versatility has been a great asset to the library.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (Ottawa, Canada)
http://www.cda-adc.ca/jcda/
Medicina Oral (Valencia, Spain)
http://www.uv.es/medicina-oral/index.html
Health and Medical Informatics Digest
http://144.92.205.41/hmid/home.htm
NEW DATABASES
We now have access to the NORD database. This is from the National Organization for Rare Diseases and includes clinical summaries of several hundred diseases with craniofacial involvement. In the summaries, it also include recommended web sites for patient information, and does a particularly nice job of this. It requires a username and password to get all the information. Contact the Taubman Medical Library Reference Desk at 763-3071 for the password.
http://www.rarediseases.org
THE AADS BECOMES ADEA
In case you haven't heard yet, the American Association of Dental Schools (AADS) have changed both their name and their web site. Their new name is American Dental Education Association (ADEA), and their new web site is at:
http://www.adea.org/
NATIONAL FACIAL PROTECTION MONTH
April 2000 marks the inaugural "National Facial Protection Month." The AAOMS is sponsoring this national campaign and is providing information to the media and the public on protection against facial injury. For more information, please see the web site:
http://www.aaoms.org/facpromonth.htm
AHRQ RESOURCE ON MEDICAL ERRORS
You have probably already heard a great deal in the news about the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's initiative to explore the issue of diagnostic and therapeutic errors in health care. Their supporting web site is at:
Research on Medical Errors
http://www.ahrq.gov/errors.htm
The site includes such resources as:
Medical Errors: The Scope of the Problem
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors: Patient Fact Sheet
Reducing Medical Errors in Health Care: Fact Sheet
AHCPR ... to Improve the Safe and Effective Use of Medical Products
See also in the article in this newsletter on Institute of Medicine Reports:
To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
DENTAL NEWS DELIVERED VIA E-MAIL
Want recent news delivered to your e-mailbox? Sign on at:
E-Dental.com Newsletter
http://www.e-dental.com
IOM REPORTS ONLINE
The Institute of Medicine has made all their published reports also available in fulltext on the Web through the National Academy of Presses, which also provides many (but not all) publications from several university presses. To test out this service, go the the following URL:
http://www4.nas.edu/IOM/IOMHome.nsf/Pages/Recently+Released+Reports
Select the title you wish to examine, then click on "Open Book - Read - Searchable", or click on HTML or PDF button. Some examples of interesting titles currently available include:
To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9728.html
State Programs can Reduce Tobacco Use
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9762.html
Rational Therapeutics for Infants and Children: Workshop Summary
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9816.html
The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation's Elderly: Evaluating
Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9741.html
Survey Measure of Work Disability
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9787.html
The Future of Public Health (1988)
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/1091.html
TREPONEMA DENTICOLA GENOME
The first release of sequence for the Treponema denticola genome is now available at the TIGR web site:
http://www.tigr.org ("unfinished genomes")
http://www.tigr.org/cgi-bin/BlastSearch/blast.cgi?
The strain is ATCC 35405 as discussed and agreed to by the majority of Td genome advisory group. Comments can be directed to George Weinstock, Ph.D., email: georgew@utmmg.med.uth.tmc.edu
OTHER GENETICS & BIOTECH INFORMATION SOURCES
Ion Channel Web Ring
http://www.geocities.com/ionchannels/
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
http://www.onlineethics.org
A Guide to Molecular Sequence Analysis
http://www.sequenceanalysis.com
Multi-dimensional Human Embryo, Home Page
http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/index.html
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
http://www.nuffield.org/bioethics/publication/modifiedcrops/index.html
PUBMED & MEDLINEPLUS UPGRADES
NLM has enhanced MEDLINEplus (http://medlineplus.gov), its consumer health web site, with the United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information (USP DI), Volume II, Advice for the Patient. USP Drug Information is a guide to over 9,000 brand name and generic prescription and over-the-counter drug names. It provides information about side effects, dosing, drug interactions, precautions and storage for each drug. Because the articles are intended for the use of patients, they are written in non-technical language.
NLM has also added a medical encyclopedia , with over 4,000 articles and extensive images. The original provider of the encyclopedia is adam.com.
In collaboration with book publishers, NCBI is adapting books for the web and linking them to PubMed. The first book, Molecular Biology of the Cell by Alberts et al., is now available.
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
The book: http://www.garlandpub.com/SCIENCE/316194.html
WORLDWIDE DENTAL EVENTS CALENDAR
Your one stop shop to find all the dental meetings going on around the world:
http://www.fdi.org.uk/calendar/index.htm
WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY
The WHO's Special Committee on Tobacco has a number of suggestions for activities and ways to spread the news about the importance of Tobacco and prevention in Oral Health. World No Tobacco Day is May 31, 2000. Plan ahead.
http://www.fdi.org.uk/about/abtob.htm
TOP TEN ADVANCES IN DENTAL RESEARCH 1900-2000
Another millenium review. See if you agree with their top ten discoveries in dentistry.
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