Communicating with your patients who don't speak English just got a whole lot easier! The National Institutes of Health have developed an instant accurate translation tool for health care professionals with the new Canopy Medical Translator, currently with 15 languages and counting. Watch the video for an introduction on how to use the translation tool with your patient.
See the Canopy site for more details and instructions on how to download this free tool to your mobile device.
e-Source for Behavioral and Social Science Research
Putting the 'science' into the social sciences and taking aim at emerging challenges in public health, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), of the National Institutes of Health, has launched e-Source for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. "The OBSSR mission is to stimulate behavioral and social science research and integrate these areas of research throughout NIH." What does it offer? A digital anthology of key methods for developing and implementing high quality BSS research through interactive learning.
"Inside you will find 20 interactive chapters with authoritative answers to methodological questions on behavioral and social science research. With contributions from a team of international experts, this anthology provides the latest information on addressing emerging challenges in public health."
The new Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) from the NIH is now live. Replacing the CRISP system,
"RePORT provides additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). RePORTER also provides links to PubMed Central, PubMed, and the US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database for more information on research results."
The latest issue of the NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is now available. In every issue you'll find information you can use to keep you and your family healthy, including links to MedlinePlus, NLM's award-winning consumer health web site. Great for patient education too!
New Understanding of Dengue Virus Points Way to Possible Therapies for Dengue Fever NIH News ~ April 22, 2009
Doctors have no specific drugs to treat dengue fever, a viral illness spread by mosquitoes that sickens 50 million to 100 million people and causes 20,000 deaths worldwide each year. Researchers have identified the cellular components in mosquitoes and in humans that dengue virus uses to multiply inside these hosts after infecting them. Scientists are hopeful that these findings could lead to the development of anti-dengue drugs.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, funded the research, which was led by Mariano Garcia-Blanco MD PhD, of Duke University Medical Center. The research appears in the current issue of the journal Nature. Click for further information on NIAID research efforts on dengue fever.
"In the United States, nearly 13 percent of adults age 20 and older have diabetes, but 40 percent of them have not been diagnosed, according to epidemiologists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose study includes newly available data from an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)."
“These findings have grave implications for our health care system, which is already struggling to provide care for millions of diabetes patients, many of whom belong to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly or minorities,” said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of the NIDDK. “Of paramount importance is the need to curb the obesity epidemic, which is the main factor driving the rise in type 2 diabetes.”
“These findings of yet another increase in diabetes prevalence are a reminder that a full-scale public health response is in order. Re-directing the trends in diabetes will require changing the nutritional and physical activity habits of people at risk, and also creative and substantial efforts by health systems and communities," said Ed Gregg, Ph.D., epidemiology and statistics branch chief in CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation.
Click on the title to link to the NIH news release and further informational links on Diabetes.
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