-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastian.Kamps@amedeo.com [mailto:Sebastian.Kamps@amedeo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:37 PM
To: Dobbs,Arta M.
Subject: FreeBooks4Doctors Alert #19 - 23 February 2006
Dear Colleague,
We have started publishing "Influenza Report", 2006, a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive overview of epidemic and pandemic influenza. Access to the online version is free:
http://www.InfluenzaReport.com
Under certain conditions, the editors and the authors of "Influenza Report" agree to remove the copyright on their book for all languages except English and German:
http://www.InfluenzaReport.com/ir/cr.htm
Please forward this messages to your students and colleagues.
Best regards,
Sebastian
________________________________
Published Chapters:
Avian Influenza
38 pages, 230 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/ai.htm
Pathogenesis and Immunology
18 pages, 80 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/pathogen.htm
Pandemic Preparedness
18 pages, 61 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/pp.htm
Vaccines
22 pages, 82 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/vaccines.htm
Laboratory Findings
10 pages, 21 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/lab.htm
Clinical Presentation
11 pages, 53 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/cp.htm
Drugs
36 pages, 157 references
http://influenzareport.com/ir/drugs.htm
Still to be published:
- Influenza 2006
- Virology
- Treatment and Prophylaxis
- Migratory Flyways
________________________________
Bernd Sebastian Kamps, M.D.
www.bsk1.com
Flying Publisher
www.FlyingPublisher.com
Senior Editor
www.AMEDEO.com
www.AmedeoChallenge.org
www.FreeMedicalInformation.com
www.InfluenzaReport.com
www.HIVMedicine.com
www.SARSReference.com
www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com
www.GoldenLinks4Doctors.com
www.FreeMedicalJournals.com
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
NIA EXPANDS ARTS PROGRAM AIMED AT DEBUNKING NEGATIVE AGING STEREOTYPES
NIA EXPANDS ARTS PROGRAM AIMED AT DEBUNKING NEGATIVE AGING STEREOTYPES
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm
Gail Brooks, 74, created a Japanese floral arrangement to express her feelings about the Vital Visionaries, an arts-based program developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). To represent the older participants, she included a Harry Lauder Walking Stick, a twisting shrub, because "like some of us, it's gnarled but there's still plenty of life in it. The daisies symbolize the fresh attitudes of the medical students, and the variegated Aucuba leaves represent the mingling of the young students and us older people."
The mingling of young and old is at the heart of the Vital Visionaries project, which is being expanded to help rout negative stereotypes of aging. The goal of the program is to improve future doctors' attitudes towards older people and to awaken in older people awareness of their creative possibilities. It is managed for NIA by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit corporation that promotes the incorporation of the arts in health care.
Major medical schools and museums involved as 2006 Vital Visionaries partners are:
-- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
-- The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago.
-- Washington University Medical School and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
-- The University of South Florida, Florida Center for Creative Aging, in Tampa and the Tampa Museum of Art and the Salvador Dali Museum in St.
Petersburg.
-- The University of Florida and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville.
In the spring and summer of 2006, the institutions will pair first-year medical students with healthy older people for a hands-on art journey at the museums. Before and after the four, two-hour art programs, the medical students and older participants will be asked about their attitudes towards aging.
"The Vital Visionaries is one of those rare programs where everyone has a lot of fun while achieving important goals," said Judith A. Salerno, M.D., M.S., NIA deputy director. "Too often medical students only interact with ill and frail older people, so they may develop a skewed perspective. A first step towards improving care for older people is to improve how medical students see them." In the 2004 pilot, medical students from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine experienced a significant improvement in their attitudes towards aging and older people.
The Vital Visionaries program is based on research that suggests medical students who interact with older people early in their medical training develop better attitudes towards aging. A University of Oklahoma study observed that "health care professionals tend to believe that most older individuals are frail and dependent and that those who are not are atypical" despite data showing that most elders are in good health and live in the community (Marie A. Bernard, M.D.).
The Vital Visionaries program was also based on Yale University studies that indicate older people who internalize negative stereotypes of old age suffer greater stress on their hearts and live fewer years (Becca Levy, Ph.D.). Preliminary results of research at the George Washington University now suggest a possible link between arts participation and wellness in older adults (Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.).
This progressive program coincides with a decline in the number of physicians who specialize in medical problems associated with aging.
Today, there are about 9,000 geriatricians in the United States, but an estimated 36,000 geriatricians will be needed by 2030 to treat the growing numbers of older people, according to a 2004 study contracted by the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs.
"The beauty of using art as a way to communicate with my partner Elaine [Rosenbloom, 76] is that we were both new to it so we could explore it together," said Johns Hopkins medical student Cesar Briceno, 26. "I don't know if I'm going to be a geriatrician but my attitude towards geriatrics has improved tremendously."
To view a photograph of a Japanese flower arrangement by Gail Brooks, 74, of Crofton, Md., that symbolizes the National Institute on Aging's Vital Visionaries program, please visit http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm.
Editor's Note: The Vital Visionaries program overview and previous press release can be viewed at:
http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ConferencesAndMeetings/Vital+
Visionary+Collaboration.htm
http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20040727Vital.htm
The NIA leads the federal effort supporting and conducting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. For more information on health and aging, visit the NIA website, www.nia.nih.gov or call the NIA Information Center at 1-800-222-2225. More information about the Society for the Arts in Healthcare can be found at www.thesah.org.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- "The Nation's Medical Research Agency" -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
##
This NIH News Release is available online at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm.
To subscribe (or unsubscribe) from this list, go to http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihpress&A=1.
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm
Gail Brooks, 74, created a Japanese floral arrangement to express her feelings about the Vital Visionaries, an arts-based program developed by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). To represent the older participants, she included a Harry Lauder Walking Stick, a twisting shrub, because "like some of us, it's gnarled but there's still plenty of life in it. The daisies symbolize the fresh attitudes of the medical students, and the variegated Aucuba leaves represent the mingling of the young students and us older people."
The mingling of young and old is at the heart of the Vital Visionaries project, which is being expanded to help rout negative stereotypes of aging. The goal of the program is to improve future doctors' attitudes towards older people and to awaken in older people awareness of their creative possibilities. It is managed for NIA by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit corporation that promotes the incorporation of the arts in health care.
Major medical schools and museums involved as 2006 Vital Visionaries partners are:
-- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
-- The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago.
-- Washington University Medical School and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
-- The University of South Florida, Florida Center for Creative Aging, in Tampa and the Tampa Museum of Art and the Salvador Dali Museum in St.
Petersburg.
-- The University of Florida and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville.
In the spring and summer of 2006, the institutions will pair first-year medical students with healthy older people for a hands-on art journey at the museums. Before and after the four, two-hour art programs, the medical students and older participants will be asked about their attitudes towards aging.
"The Vital Visionaries is one of those rare programs where everyone has a lot of fun while achieving important goals," said Judith A. Salerno, M.D., M.S., NIA deputy director. "Too often medical students only interact with ill and frail older people, so they may develop a skewed perspective. A first step towards improving care for older people is to improve how medical students see them." In the 2004 pilot, medical students from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine experienced a significant improvement in their attitudes towards aging and older people.
The Vital Visionaries program is based on research that suggests medical students who interact with older people early in their medical training develop better attitudes towards aging. A University of Oklahoma study observed that "health care professionals tend to believe that most older individuals are frail and dependent and that those who are not are atypical" despite data showing that most elders are in good health and live in the community (Marie A. Bernard, M.D.).
The Vital Visionaries program was also based on Yale University studies that indicate older people who internalize negative stereotypes of old age suffer greater stress on their hearts and live fewer years (Becca Levy, Ph.D.). Preliminary results of research at the George Washington University now suggest a possible link between arts participation and wellness in older adults (Gene D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.).
This progressive program coincides with a decline in the number of physicians who specialize in medical problems associated with aging.
Today, there are about 9,000 geriatricians in the United States, but an estimated 36,000 geriatricians will be needed by 2030 to treat the growing numbers of older people, according to a 2004 study contracted by the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs.
"The beauty of using art as a way to communicate with my partner Elaine [Rosenbloom, 76] is that we were both new to it so we could explore it together," said Johns Hopkins medical student Cesar Briceno, 26. "I don't know if I'm going to be a geriatrician but my attitude towards geriatrics has improved tremendously."
To view a photograph of a Japanese flower arrangement by Gail Brooks, 74, of Crofton, Md., that symbolizes the National Institute on Aging's Vital Visionaries program, please visit http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm.
Editor's Note: The Vital Visionaries program overview and previous press release can be viewed at:
http://www.nia.nih.gov/ResearchInformation/ConferencesAndMeetings/Vital+
Visionary+Collaboration.htm
http://www.nia.nih.gov/NewsAndEvents/PressReleases/PR20040727Vital.htm
The NIA leads the federal effort supporting and conducting research on aging and the health and well-being of older people. For more information on health and aging, visit the NIA website, www.nia.nih.gov or call the NIA Information Center at 1-800-222-2225. More information about the Society for the Arts in Healthcare can be found at www.thesah.org.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- "The Nation's Medical Research Agency" -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov.
##
This NIH News Release is available online at:
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-22.htm.
To subscribe (or unsubscribe) from this list, go to http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihpress&A=1.
Monday, February 13, 2006
Adobe Reader upgrades to version 7.0.7
Adobe Reader 7.0.7 update - English, French, German, and Japanese
The Adobe Reader 7.0.7 update adds new functionality, fixes a number of bugs, and is more secure.
Adobe recommends that all Adobe Reader 7.0x users apply this update.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3312
New features/improvements in Adobe Reader 7.0.7
Support for new 3D content:
Reader 7.0.7 allows you to view, interact with, annotate, and measure 3D content embedded in PDF documents created with Adobe Acrobat 3D.
Form improvements:
Static and dynamic PDF forms created or enabled by Adobe LiveCycle products now work more efficiently.
New direct Internet search textbox:
You can search the web directly from Reader by entering text into the search textbox. Search results are provided by Yahoo.
The Adobe Reader 7.0.7 update adds new functionality, fixes a number of bugs, and is more secure.
Adobe recommends that all Adobe Reader 7.0x users apply this update.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3312
New features/improvements in Adobe Reader 7.0.7
Support for new 3D content:
Reader 7.0.7 allows you to view, interact with, annotate, and measure 3D content embedded in PDF documents created with Adobe Acrobat 3D.
Form improvements:
Static and dynamic PDF forms created or enabled by Adobe LiveCycle products now work more efficiently.
New direct Internet search textbox:
You can search the web directly from Reader by entering text into the search textbox. Search results are provided by Yahoo.
Friday, February 10, 2006
Three new titles and one new edition in the Thieme ElectronicBook Library
http://www.thieme.com/ebooklibrary/
We are pleased to announce the addition of three new titles and one new edition into the Thieme ElectronicBook Library.
Thieme's highly popular Flexibook Atlases & Textbooks systematically cover every course in the medical school curriculum
and includes basic science volumes of interdisciplinary interest.
Pocket Atlas of Oral Disease, 2nd edition
Based on the best-selling hardcover edition, the new edition of the Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases
provides complete information on the diagnosis and treatment of oral disease. Featuring 367 vivid color photographs, this Thieme Flexibook is the indispensable pocket reference
for otolaryngologists, dentists, dermatologists and primary care practitioners.
Optho Notes
Practical and easy-to-read, this point-of-care reference provides a succinct, clinical overview of eye anatomy, disease, and treatment.
Unlike many ophthalmic handbooks, OPHTHO NOTES classifies disease based upon etiology, rather than presenting signs and symptoms.
This classification helps to compartmentalize diseases of the eye, and ensures quick and effortless reference.
Pocket Atlas of Nutrition
With obesity and diabetes assuming alarming epidemic proportions, diet and nutrition are in the spotlight more than ever before.
The Pocket Atlas of Nutrition is an accessible guide to all aspects of nutrition, from basic chemistry to the most recent dietary guidelines.
New Edition
Color Atlas of Pharmacology, 3rd edition
Updated with the most important new substances and scientific developments, the third edition of the Color Atlas of Pharmacology
makes it easier than ever for students, nurses, and practicing physicians to keep up with the latest developments in this constantly changing field.
Featuring a user-friendly layout, jargon-free language, and more than 160 spectacular color charts and illustrations.
We are pleased to announce the addition of three new titles and one new edition into the Thieme ElectronicBook Library.
Thieme's highly popular Flexibook Atlases & Textbooks systematically cover every course in the medical school curriculum
and includes basic science volumes of interdisciplinary interest.
Pocket Atlas of Oral Disease, 2nd edition
Based on the best-selling hardcover edition, the new edition of the Pocket Atlas of Oral Diseases
provides complete information on the diagnosis and treatment of oral disease. Featuring 367 vivid color photographs, this Thieme Flexibook is the indispensable pocket reference
for otolaryngologists, dentists, dermatologists and primary care practitioners.
Optho Notes
Practical and easy-to-read, this point-of-care reference provides a succinct, clinical overview of eye anatomy, disease, and treatment.
Unlike many ophthalmic handbooks, OPHTHO NOTES classifies disease based upon etiology, rather than presenting signs and symptoms.
This classification helps to compartmentalize diseases of the eye, and ensures quick and effortless reference.
Pocket Atlas of Nutrition
With obesity and diabetes assuming alarming epidemic proportions, diet and nutrition are in the spotlight more than ever before.
The Pocket Atlas of Nutrition is an accessible guide to all aspects of nutrition, from basic chemistry to the most recent dietary guidelines.
New Edition
Color Atlas of Pharmacology, 3rd edition
Updated with the most important new substances and scientific developments, the third edition of the Color Atlas of Pharmacology
makes it easier than ever for students, nurses, and practicing physicians to keep up with the latest developments in this constantly changing field.
Featuring a user-friendly layout, jargon-free language, and more than 160 spectacular color charts and illustrations.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Access to Journal of Periodontology has returned
Access to Journal of Periodontology has returned.
Please let me know if anyone else had access issues.
http://www.joponline.org/loi/jop
Thanks, Arta
dobbs@nso.uchc.edu
Blackwell's SYNERGY e-journal platform is back.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
Blackwell's SYNERGY e-journal platform is back.
It appears that all subcribed journal titles on the SYNERGY e-journal platform are back and the platform is responding quickly.
Blackwell's SYNERGY e-journal platform is back.
It appears that all subcribed journal titles on the SYNERGY e-journal platform are back and the platform is responding quickly.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Pediatrics Online access is back
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
-----Original Message-----
From: mywire-mailer@liontamer.stanford.edu [mailto:mywire-mailer@liontamer.stanford.edu]
Sent: Sun 2/5/2006 8:20 AM
To: Dobbs,Arta M.
Cc:
Subject: HighWire Press: Subscription Status Alert
Notice of changes in access to the online subscriptions you administer
Details of each subscription change are included below this summary
_____
The following subscription you administer is no longer expired (subscriber access is again available):
* Pediatrics
- new Expiration Date is 31 January 2007
(ISSN PRINT: 0031-4005 ISSN ONLINE: 1098-4275)
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
-----Original Message-----
From: mywire-mailer@liontamer.stanford.edu [mailto:mywire-mailer@liontamer.stanford.edu]
Sent: Sun 2/5/2006 8:20 AM
To: Dobbs,Arta M.
Cc:
Subject: HighWire Press: Subscription Status Alert
Notice of changes in access to the online subscriptions you administer
Details of each subscription change are included below this summary
_____
The following subscription you administer is no longer expired (subscriber access is again available):
* Pediatrics
- new Expiration Date is 31 January 2007
(ISSN PRINT: 0031-4005 ISSN ONLINE: 1098-4275)
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Synergy, the e-journal platform from Blackwell Publishing is unreliable
For the past 2 days, SYNERGY, the e-journal platform from Blackwell Publishing has been unreliable.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showJournals?type=1
There are several issues here.
1...The platform is very slow to respond to linking requests to individual journal articles and whole titles.
2... Access to whole volumes is being denied, when access has been subscribed to.
ex. many titles that should have access back to 1998 , are allowing access only to 2002, 2004 and 2005.
The publisher has been contacted. Updates to these issues will be posted as soon as we get some resolution.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/action/showJournals?type=1
There are several issues here.
1...The platform is very slow to respond to linking requests to individual journal articles and whole titles.
2... Access to whole volumes is being denied, when access has been subscribed to.
ex. many titles that should have access back to 1998 , are allowing access only to 2002, 2004 and 2005.
The publisher has been contacted. Updates to these issues will be posted as soon as we get some resolution.
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