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October 29, 2007

UM/UMHS Food Drive--Michigan Harvest Gathering

Michigan Harvest Gathering is a one-of-a-kind emergency food program benefiting the food bank council of Michigan’s 9 member food banks (food collected locally stays locally - for us that is Food Gatherers). Dates are Oct. 29-Nov. 11. See boxes near front doors of Taubman Medical Library.
Facts About Michigan Harvest Gathering are available at: http://www.med.umich.edu/fooddrive/

http://www.med.umich.edu/fooddrive/

Posted by schnitzr at 05:08 PM

October 25, 2007

New style guide for citing references in the Health Sciences

Available free online:

Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. 2nd edition
Patrias, Karen, author; Wendling, Dan, editor
Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US), NCBI; 2007

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books&itool=toolbar

Posted by pmartin at 02:31 PM

October 23, 2007

Collecting warm clothes and nonperishable food...

The Detroit Project, partnering with West Outer Drive United Methodist
Church and UM students, is collecting clothes, winter gear, and
non-perishable clothing. A collection box is located just inside the front
inner doors of Taubman Medical Library. Collection date is through November
20th. For further information see: www.thedp.org

Posted by schnitzr at 03:06 PM

October 14, 2007

3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Technology

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology, which allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09nobel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Posted by schnitzr at 03:21 PM