posted by Ann Celestine @ 9:47 AM
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To celebrate National Library Week, ProQuest® is extending free, open access to many of its popular resources, for the duration of this week ~ April 12 ~ 18, 2010!Labels: journal databases, medical database, online resources, ProQuest
posted by Ann Celestine @ 1:15 PM
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"The enemy of disease is knowledge!"
~ Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer, NHS.
In a short video interview, Sir Muir Gray likens knowledge to water by stating that just as 'clean, clear water' is crucial to good health, so today's 'water' is 'clean, clear knowledge'. He maintains that this 'knowledge' is even more important than any drug or technological healthcare innovation.
1) knowledge
2) the internet
3) patients
Labels: 6S model, evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary healthcare, knowledge transfer, patient education, patient-physician communication, Web 3.0
posted by Ann Celestine @ 10:55 AM
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The World Health Organization estimates that chronic infectious diseases cause more than 20 percent of all cancers in the world, including liver, cervical and gastric malignancies. Given that infection-related cancers are more frequent and often more severe in people infected with HIV, in resource-poor Uganda, the HIV epidemic is fueling a 20,000-fold upsurge in Kaposi’s sarcoma in adults and Burkitt’s lymphoma in children! Both are disfiguring cancers with abysmal survival rates due to lack of access to early diagnosis and treatment."Up to one-quarter of the world’s cancers are attributable to chronic infections,” Hutchinson Center physician-scientist Corey Casper, M.D., M.P.H., scientific co-director of the Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases, explained. “Better understanding the link between infectious disease and cancer provides a unique opportunity to reduce cancer-related suffering and death in both resource-rich and resource-poor regions.”It is the hope of Dr. Casper and Dr. Jackson Orem, Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute, that this partnership
"will benefit the world by identifying new infectious causes of cancer, new ways to prevent infection-associated cancers such as through the development of new vaccines, and new ways to treat such cancers with nontoxic drugs, thus avoiding the need for chemotherapy."Citation: (2010). Hutchinson to Build First US Cancer Clinic and Training Facility in Africa. Cancer (0008543X), 116(7), 1618-1619. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.
Labels: Africa, Burkitt's lymphoma, cancer, chronic infectious diseases, global health, Kaposi's sarcoma, Uganda, WHO
posted by Ann Celestine @ 1:01 PM
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Now you can browse the holdings of the Anne Ross Library on your mobile device with the added feature of a new mobile-friendly interface!Labels: Anne Ross Library, Caribbean Medical School, International University of Nursing, IUON, mobile access, mobile devices, OPAC, UMHS-SK, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, web catalogue
posted by Ann Celestine @ 12:37 PM
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...facilitating communication between the Library and the Faculty, students, staff and community partners of the University of Medicine & Health Sciences (UMHS).
