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July 28, 2009
New Clinical and Research Resources
The Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Michigan are excited to offer the following new or returning clinical and research databases for U-M health care professionals, researchers, and students. All of the resources are available both on-campus and off-campus. For those located in the Hospital, the clinical resources will soon be accessible from the Clinical Homepage (http://www.med.umich.edu/clinical/).
Dentistry & Oral Science Sources
Covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics. This database includes full-text.
EMBASE
A biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database, which provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical and drug literature via EMBASE and MEDLINE. It contains over 19 million indexed records from 7,000+ peer-reviewed journals, covering 1947 to date, with more than 600,000 additions annually.
The ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
A database providing full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene, and the clinical laboratory sciences.
Pediatric Care Online
A point-of-care resource which integrates multiple pediatric resources including the new AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, Point-of-Care Quick Reference, Pediatric Drug Lookup, Bright Futures (comprehensive health supervision guidelines), AAP Red Book information, a Signs & Symptoms Search, AAP guideline updates, and hundreds of patient handouts with easy to read explanations for many conditions and procedures.
DynaMed
A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. It contains clinically organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics using evidence-based medicine. Unlike UpToDate, remote access (i.e., off-campus) is available.
SCOPUS
An abstract and citation database that provides access to nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed journals, 435 million scientific web pages, 23 million patent records, and "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals.
JAMAevidence
Integrates available evidence with clinical experience. It includes Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice (2nd edition) and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis. This resource is jointly offered with financial support from the University of Michigan’s Office of Graduate Medical Education.
R2 Digital Library
Offers full-text access to over 120 premier health science e-books in medicine, nursing, and dentistry.
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July 23, 2009
Dental education at UM (exhibit)
If you'd like to learn more about the nature of dentistry education at the University of Michigan, be sure to check out this new online exhibit on the HSL homepage!
The exhibit features photographs of the Dentistry Library as it evolved on North University Street, before its recent move to the Taubman Medical Library, and a series of images of the "Annual Announcement," describing the School of Dentistry and the dentistry program as they were in the year 1900.
You may also view a slideshare version of this exhibit:
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For the Kids: Dental Press from the FDA and NIDCR
NIDCR: Xylitol Syrup Helps to Prevent Childhood Tooth Decay
http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Research/ResearchResults/ScienceBriefs/CurrentSNIB/July/Xylitol.htm
In the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, researchers partially funded through NIDCR may have found the answer. It’s a soft capsule filled with 8 milliliters of strawberry-flavored xylitol syrup. Parents can pull it apart and squeeze the syrup directly into their child’s mouth. In a year-long randomized trial of 94 toddlers whose primary teeth were “coming in,” the researchers found that children who received two capsules a day could prevent up to 70 percent of decayed teeth. They found that the protection against decay was not increased with three capsules per day. The study was conducted in the Micronesian Marshall Islands, where the caries rate is two to three times that of the typical American mainland community. According to the authors, this marks the first time to their knowledge that xylitol has been shown to be “effective for the prevention of decay in primary teeth for toddlers.”
Milgrom P, Ly KA, Tut OK, Mancl L, Roberts MC, Briand K, and Gancio MJ. Xylitol pediatric topical oral syrup to prevent dental caries, Arch Pediatr Adolsc Med 2009:163: 601-607. http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/163/7/601
FDA Urges Consumers Not to Purchase or Use Certain Gel-Filled Teethers Products found to contain bacteria; voluntary nationwide recall underway
Luv N’ Care Ltd. of Monroe, La., is initiating a nationwide recall of gel-filled teethers with the brand names “Nuby,” “Cottontails” and “Playschool,” because the liquid inside the gel-filled teethers has been found to contain Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus circulans bacteria in the gel.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm172713.htm
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