Featured Book - Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System

This month's featured book from the Library's New Book list is Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections by Dr. Laura W. Lamps, UAMS College of Medicine, Pathology Dept.

This book provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathological diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist, this text combines the superior illustrations of an atlas with a carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. The text is divided into four sections covering bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic infections of the gastrointestinal tract. The descriptive sections of the each chapter are organized into short paragraphs for easy reference and include the use of tables to compare and contrast organisms and summarize differential diagnoses.

WO 142 L199s 2009
Surgical pathology of the gastrointestinal system : bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections / by Laura W. Lamps.
New York ; London : Springer, 2009.

Featured Book - Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques

The Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques, edited by V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, of UAMS presents state-of-the-art visual guidance on today's full range of breast surgery techniques. In this title, esteemed international contributors offer you expert step-by-step advice on a wide array of surgical procedures, including the newest ablative and reconstructive approaches, to help you expand your repertoire and hone your operative skills. Color surgical photos, biopsy specimens, and artists' renderings of key anatomy show you what to look for and how to proceed; and online access at expertconsult.com allows you to consult the book from any computer and watch surgical videos demonstrating how to execute key aspects of many procedures.

WP 17 At72 2010

Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques/editor, V. Suzanne Klimberg.

Surgical Techniques Atlas Series.

(Currently on New Book Shelf)

Featured Book - MRSA and Stapholococcal Infections

The Library will be featuring an item from each month's new book book list. This month's featured item is the book MRSA and Staphylococcal Infections by Hernan R. Chang.

"Despite the large amount of information available through books, Internet sites, and libraries, more and more people with staphylococcal and MRSA infections present to their primary care physicians offices, urgent care centers, and emergency rooms. The disease seems to continue to spread. Most people with history of MRSA colonization get a reassuring answer when they ask about their contagiousness. The plain truth is that they are potentially contagious. In order to understand the magnitude of this epidemic and to realize how the appearance of MRSA has and will influence our lives and our culture, consider the classic handshake. The handshake will never again me the same after MRSA. The information presented in this book is intended to provide general understanding of MRSA and Staphylococcal infections." - Amazon product description.

WC 250 C362m 2008
Chang, Hernan R.
MRSA and Staphylococcal Infections
2nd ed. [Jacksonville, Fla.]: H.R. Chang, c2008

Find this book and other timely new UAMS Library titles listed in New Books http://www.library.uams.edu/newsletter/newbooks.aspx

May issue of NIH News in Health now available

The May issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online. Health topics featured in this issue include food allergies, air pollution, asthma, and more.

New Multilingual Feature on MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus has released a multilingual feature which provides access to high quality health information in languages other than English and Spanish. This new service benefits people who prefer to read consumer health information in their native language. The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics.

Users can navigate the new collection of health information in multiple languages either by language or by topic. A page listing all of the languages covered is linked from the MedlinePlus homepage. Users can browse these languages or link to the page listing all of the topics covered. In addition, a languages box will display on the English Health Topic pages. The languages box lists the languages with links on that topic in MedlinePlus. The languages box also links users to the collection of health information in multiple languages.

An interactive world map teaches users about the number of people who speak nine of the languages in the MedlinePlus collection. The languages – Arabic, Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese – are among those most frequently spoken at home in the United States other than English, according to the U.S. census.

The MedlinePlus collection of health information in multiple languages is not meant to be comprehensive. MedlinePlus staff selects materials according to quality guidelines. Materials must be produced by the United States Federal government or a U.S.-based organization, such as a medical association or a hospital. The producer must describe the translation, review and updating process. In addition, the content must be appropriate for a U.S. consumer audience, and it must be authoritative and current. MedlinePlus staff also looks for English equivalents to the multilingual information.

ARHealthLINK - Arkansas Go Local now available

ARHealthLINK - Arkansas Go Local is a directory of health services in Arkansas. The site can be searched by zip code, county, facility or type of service, and disease or health issue. ARHealthLINK - Arkansas Go Local works in tandem with MedlinePlus: users of the ARHealthLINK – Arkansas Go Local site are linked to MedlinePlus health topics, and MedlinePlus users are directed to health services in Arkansas. Visit the site at http://www.arhealthlink.org

Tox Town now available in Spanish

Tox Town is now available in both English, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov and en español, http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/espanol. Visitors can learn in English or in Spanish about environmental health concerns and over 30 toxic chemicals in these imaginary neighborhoods: a City, Farm, Town, US-Mexico Border, and Port.

In either language, Tox Town uses neighborhood scenes along with color, graphics, sounds, and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public’s health. Tox Town’s target audience is high school, college and graduate students, educators, and the interested public.

Tox Town en español identifies Spanish-language information in a subject area – environmental health and toxicology – that currently has few Web resources. To supplement the limited Web resources in Spanish, nearly 100 pages of background information describing environmental health concerns were translated and reviewed by a team of bilingual health information specialists.

Tox Town® is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.