Lastly, when Rita is looking for that perfect current research article or disease topic to use in her lectures, she often turns to PubMed and UpToDate for great articles and background information.

• PubMed


• UpToDate


• AccessMedicine

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• PubMed interface has been streamlined
• Search functionality was basically unchanged
• Some tools & functions have been grouped and/or relocated
• Display options have been simplified
  

• PubMed
• Library Drop-in sessions to introduce you to the new PubMed
1. Tues., Nov. 10 , 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
2. Weds., Nov. 11, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
3. Tues., Nov 17, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M..
• Or contact your liaison

• MeSH Database, Single Citation Matcher and Clinical Queries links are in three columns front & center on the homepage.
• Clipboard and Send-to links are seen only when search results are displayed.
• Change view of search results (e.g., from summary to abstract) using "Display Settings" at top left of results list.
• Accessing Full Text of Articles:
  The Lane button that leads you to full text of articles (and other options) has moved to the bottom of each abstract

You can also search & browse the collection of images on the Lane Library website: Bassett Collection.

Divided into eight world regions, this portal was designed to provide targeted access to related databases, journals, ebooks and websites from around the world.

JAMA Archive:
http://laneproxy.stanford.edu/login?url=http://jama.ama-assn.org/contents-by-date.0.dtl

The Heart Center/CVICU, in collaboration with Lane Medical Library, recently
launched a website of "point-of-care" tools and resources for LPCH clinical
staff. The website, or "portal," contains links to dozens of high-value
guides, calculators, drug resources, training materials and reference
sources, and can be accessed literally at the patient's bedside via COWS
(Computers On Wheels). Links to the website are available via Lane's
webpage, the Heart Center intranet, and, eventually, as desktop icons on
Heart Center computers.

On June 11, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic of moderate severity.

Lancet has established an information website on the H1N1 flu outbreak, pulling together publications from across the entire range of Science Direct publications. There is free content as well as articles from subscription-only journals.

Swine Flu was the topic of Medical Grandrounds on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 and a video now is available on Medicine Grandrounds.

SHC and LPCH have staff advisories on their intranets. Search the intranets for "swine" to find additional protocols and information.

Stanford University has established a swine-flu website to inform students, faculty, and staff about measures being taken to try to prevent an outbreak on campus. There is also information about the university's overall plan for dealing with pandemic influenza of any type.

The CDC Swine Influenza website provides authoritative information about the spread of swine flu, its occurrence in the United States, and recommended precautions.

CDC's Traveler's Health provides additional information; the travel advisory has been lifted for those traveling to Mexico.

AHRQ has published tools and resources on influenza preparedness.

LaneConnex News page links to many sources of up-to-the-minute news, including Reuters, BBC, and more.

For the public, MedlinePlus provides relevant information.

The National Library of Medicine's Emergency Response and Preparedness Toolkit links to a variety of information sources, including Health Alert maps and CDC.

The CDC's Pandemic Flu website offers information about general precautions, use of facemasks, and more.

To keep up with the very latest changes, subscribe to Twitter or RSS updates on many of these sites.

If so, have a look at novoseek, an innovative biomedical literature search engine that performs entity identification on PubMed records, thus vastly improving filtering and understanding of search results. It also searches NIH's database of extant grants, CRISP, in a much more elegant manner than CRISP provides.

David L. Bassett was awarded his MD by Stanford University School of Medicine in 1939 and pursued a career teaching and researching anatomy at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Washington. In 1948 Bassett met photographer William Gruber, inventor of the Viewmaster system of stereoscopic imagery. Together, Bassett and Gruber collaborated on a seventeen-year project of creating three-dimensional photographic images of human anatomy using innovations in dissection pioneered by Dr. Bassett. Three artists developed detailed line drawings based on the photographs: Ruth Ogren, Harriet O'Neill, and Lorene Segal. 1,547 photographic images and accompanying drawings were compiled into a 24-volume Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy, completed in 1962. Following Dr. Bassett's death, the collection was curated by Dr. Robert Chase, professor in the Department of Surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine; and images from the collection made available for educational purposes though such venues as SUMMIT at Stanford. Recently the entire collection has been turned over to the archives in Lane Medical Library, which is now proud to make digital versions of all the images available in a free and fully searchable format on the library website, LaneConnex.

For permissions information regarding the use of these images, please contact Drew Bourn at dbourn@stanford.edu

The 1330-page textbook represents the first comprehensive treatment of vascular anatomy and disease using volumetric imaging with computed tomography and magnetic resonance. Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading causes of death in the United States, Europe, and regions of Asia. Conventional angiography has played a dominant role in the diagnosis and characterization of these disorders, however even as the backbone for the evaluation of cardiovascular diseases it has many fundamental limitations. Innovations in hardware, software, and image analysis technology have placed CT and MR angiography at the forefront of clinical cardiovascular imaging. These "noninvasive" techniques are replacing conventional angiography, and are poised to serve as a new gold standard by providing equivalent or in many cases superior characterization of cardiovascular abnormalities.

This textbook represents the culmination of 15 years of experience in the development of these technologies and their applications, which in the case of CT angiography were largely developed here at Stanford University.

The journal impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year.

To see the links to impact factors, click on this example:

American journal of cardiology

Clicking on the "Impact Factor" link provides convenient access to the latest five years' data for the selected title as well as other useful information.

The Wikipedia entry for Impact Factor explains more about the determination of this value -- one measure of a journal's importance.

So what, you might say? Our class list is highly dynamic, with new sessions or workshops added frequently. Workshops also fill quickly, so it pays to be notified, and RSS is a great way to do so unobtrusively.

Want even faster notification for Bioresearch & Biostatistics (B&B) workshops, which often fill-up in hours? Subscribe to the LaneBioresearch twitter feed and get notices via instant messaging on your computer or cell phone -- handy when you're waiting for the centrifuge to spin down. This twitter feed will let you know of B&B workshops the moment they are scheduled, giving you the earliest opportunity to register.

Questions? Contact Lane's Bioresearch Informationist.