Selections from a set of Taiwanese health and hygiene posters for elementary school children are among the Chinese language posters on view in the Library Foyer. These and other posters from the Library’s historical collections will soon be available in the Medical Digital Library.
Tuberculosis Prevention—I will have a chest examination once a year.
Gift of Ira V. Hiscock 1959
Washing Face—I will use my own sink and towel to wash my face.
Gift of Ira V. Hiscock 1959
This week, one hundred years ago, Dr. Harvey Cushing performed perhaps his most famous brain surgery, or rather surgeries. The patient was General Leonard Wood, an energetic and tireless soldier, physician, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and and ultimately Governor of the Philippines. The operations resulted in Dr. Cushing removing a large meningeal tumor from Wood’s brain. Within months General Wood returned to full health and for the next seventeen years lived a productive, albeit at times tumultuous professional career.
TIMELINE:
Coming June 2010 – The Cushing Center, which will provide visitors with an opportunity to learn more about Dr. Cushing, his patients and the operations he performed.
Sources:
“Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery” by Michael Bliss
“Harvey Cushing: A Biography” by John F. Fulton
Related Information:
“Harvey Cushing: A Journey Through This Life”
Dr. Thomas P. Gariepy, Professor and Chair of Health Care Administration at Stonehill College, Easton, MA will give a lecture on “Antiscorbutics as Antiseptics” at 5 p.m. Friday, January 29, 2010.
This event is sponsored by The Beaumont Medical Club.
Location:
The Historical Library
Yale School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Now you can also text the medical library to contact a librarian for help with a research question, use of library resources, remote access, or any library question.
Text us at 66746 and start your message with ymedlib For example: ymedlib What are the hours on Saturdays?
Whenever you see AskLive@Med highlighted on the medical library homepage in one of the featured boxes or in the upper right corner of our homepage, we are available to either text or chat.
Currently the hours are:
Monday - Friday
8:30am-5:30am Rapid Response
Other Times (Evenings, Weekend): Response time varies
To receive a complete answer (e.g. citation or directions to do something), be sure you add your email address so we are able to contact you. You can also use the email form on the Ask-a-Librarian page.
The Library will be closed on Monday, January 18 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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Comprehensive, evidence-based monographs are available containing information on scientific evidence, theory, dosing, safety and interactions.
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In March 2009, PLoS introduced a new program to provide “article-level metrics” on every article. Article-level metrics provides relevant data on each article to help you determine the value of that article to you and to the scientific community in general. Importantly, they provide additional and regularly updated context to the article, including
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Beginning Wednesday, December 23 and continuing through Saturday, January 2 the Medical Library will be open limited hours. The Winter Recess schedule is as follows:
- Wednesday, December 23 … Closing at 5pm
- Thursday, December 24 … Closed
- Friday, December 25 … Closed
- Saturday, December 26 … Closed
- Sunday, December 27 … Closed
- Monday, December 28 … Open 11am to 4pm
- Tuesday, December 29 … Open 11am to 4pm
- Wednesday, December 30 … Open 11am to 4pm
- Thursday, December 31 … Closed
- Friday, January 1 … Closed
- Saturday, January 2 … Open 10am to 7pm
- Sunday, January 3 … Resume Normal hours (9:30am to midnight)
New exhibit opens in the foyer of the Medical Library
The new Smilow Cancer Hospital opened on October 20, 2009. The hospital, a partnership between Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Cancer Center, will consolidate all of the hospital’s cancer services into a single cancer hospital.
Fourteen stories tall with 168 inpatient beds, the hospital includes 12 operating rooms, radiology services, a women’s cancer center and a healing garden on the roof of the sixth floor.
The building is named after Yale alumnus, Joel E. Smilow (Yale College, ’54), former chair, chief executive officer and president of Playtex Products, Inc. who made a major gift to support the cancer hospital.
The exhibit includes the history of the hospital, construction, naming and the opening and dedication.
On display until January 22.
The complete backfiles to all the American Medical Association journals are now online, including access to JAMA starting with volume 1 from 1883.
The archive was purchased with funds from the Medical Historical Library.
JAMA & Archives Journals Backfiles collection:
History Lab 2009 is a student exhibit. It presents models inspired by early modern science or technology, made by a group of undergraduates in partial fulfillment of the assignments for the course “The making of modern science, 1400-1800.” I am proud to present them to the public.
Paola Bertucci
Assistant Professor, History of Science and Medicine
Model of Brunelleschi’s Three Speed Hoist, as designed by Leonardo Da Vinci
The hoist was used in the making of the cupola of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It converted horse power by a system of gears to lift heavy objects for architecture.
Author: Kenneth Castaneda
The collection of paintings shown in this exhibition are from Dr. Frank John Ninivaggi. Dr. Ninivaggi is an Associate Attending Physician at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, Assistant Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center. He is a member of the Yale-New Haven Community Medical Group, and Medical Director of the Devereux Glenholme School, a 100 bed residential facility for children, in Washington, Connecticut. Dr. Ninivaggi trained at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology.
He is a longstanding academic and clinical contributor to Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry edited by Sadock & Sadock, 8th edition 2005 and 9th edition 2009. He is associate editor of the International Society of Ayurveda and Health journal, Elements, and a lecturer in Ayurveda at the University of Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, Connecticut. He has published several reference textbooks on Ayurveda: An Elementary Textbook of Ayurveda: Medicine with a Six-Thousand Year Old Tradition (2001), International Universities Press; and recently (2008), Ayurveda: A Comprehensive Guide to Traditional Indian Medicine for the West, Praeger/Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut.
The Medical Library Blog and Class Calendar will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from 4:00PM to 7:00PM on Monday 30, November.
Beginning Wednesday and continuing through Saturday the library will be open reduced hours in recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Hours of Operation will be:
*no extended hours on Saturday
The Library now subscribes to Science Translational Medicine, a new journal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The journal’s mission is to promote human health by providing a forum for communication and cross-fertilization among basic, translational, and clinical research practitioners and trainees from all relevant established and emerging disciplines.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has scheduled the last update for Ovid MEDLINE for late November. As in past years, the NLM will discontinue updates in order to make the transition to the 2010 version of MeSH®. However, the MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations updates will continue through the full reload process.
NLM is expected to complete their reload in mid-December. We will keep you informed on the progress of the 2010 edition of MEDLINE.
If you currently have an AutoAlert saved on OvidSP for MEDLINE, watch for your next AutoAlert after the reload is complete.
If you have any questions, please contact jan.glover@yale.edu.
Due to the budget challenges facing the library, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the following publications for 2010. We based the decisions on a review of usage data and journal citation data using the ISI Impact Factor. Please keep in mind that our excellent document delivery services can get any article you need, often within a day, from another library. Please see our Request Materials pages for more information. You can also easily place an interlibrary loan request using Yale Links.
If you have comments or questions, please contact either your Library Liaison, or Daniel Dollar (Head, Collection Development and Management), daniel.dollar@yale.edu.
2010 Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Cancellation List Title ISSN Publisher
Acta Odontologica Scandinavia 0001-6357 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Acute Cardiac Care 1748-2941 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Addiction Research & Theory 1606-6359 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Advances in Physiotherapy 1403-8196 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Aging Male 1368-5538 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
American Journal Of Chinese Medicine 0192-415X WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE
American Nurse 0098-1486 AMERICAN NURSES ASSOCIATION
Amyloid: International Journal of
Experimental & Clincal Investigation 1350-6129 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 1748-2968 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Annals of Human Biology 0301-4460 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry 1381-3455 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Biotechnology 1073-1199 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Audiological Medicine 1651-386X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Augmentative & Alternative Communication 0743-4618 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Autoimmunity 0891-6934 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Biocatalysis & Biotransformation 1024-2422 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Biomarkers 1354-750X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Brain Injury 0269-9052 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
British Journal of Neurosurgery 0268-8697 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cancer Investigation 0735-7907 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cell Communication & Adhesion 1541-9061 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Chiropractic History 0736-4377 ASSN FOR HISTORY CHIROPRACTIC
Chronobiology 0742-0528 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical & Experimental Hypertension 1064-1963 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 0269-9206 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Neuropsychologist 1744-4144 TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Clinical Research & Regulatory Affairs 1060-1333 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Clinical Toxicology 1556-3650 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Connective Tissue Research 0300-8207 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Contemporary Pediatrics 8750-0507 ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory 1040-8363 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Critical Reviews in Microbiology 1040-841X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Critical Reviews in Toxicology 1040-8444 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Current Medical Research & Opinion 0300-7995 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Cutaneous & Ocular Toxicology 1556-9527 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Developmental Neurorehabilitation 1751-8423 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology 1748-3107 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Disability & Rehabilitation: Full Set 1748-3107 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug & Chemical Toxicology 0148-0545 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug Delivery 1071-7544 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drug Metabolism Reviews 0360-2532 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy 0968-7637 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Early Child Development & Care 1476-8275 TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Electromagnetic Biology & Medicine 1536-8378 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Endocrine Research 0743-5800 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
European Journal of General Practice 1381-4788 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Experimental Lung research 0190-2148 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Biological Therapy 1471-2598 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Delivery 1742-5247 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Discovery 1746-0441 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Metabolism & Toxicology 1742-5255 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Drug Safety 1474-0338 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Emerging Drugs 1472-8214 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Medical Diagnostics 1753-0059 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Pharmacotherapy 1465-6566 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Therapeutic Patents 1354-3776 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Expert Opinion Therapeutic Targets 1472-8222 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Free Radical Research 1071-5762 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Geriatrics - MN 0016-867X ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Growths Factors 0879-7194 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Hemoglobin 0363-0269 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection HENRY STEWART PUBLICATIONS
Historical Studies In The Natural Sciences 1939-1811 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Hospitals & Health Networks 1068-8838 HEALTH FORUM
Hypertension in Pregnancy 1064-1955 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Immunological Investigations 0882-0139 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Immunopharmacology & Immunotoxicology 1532-2513 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Informatics for Health & Social Care 1753-8157 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Inhalation Toxicology 0895-8378 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Internation Journal of Food Sciences & Nutrition 0963-7486 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Audiology 1499-2027 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Hyperthermia 0265-6736 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 1368-2822 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Neuroscience 0020-7454 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice 1365-1501 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Radiation Biology 0955-3002 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 1754-9507 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Review of Psychiatry 0954-0261 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
International Reviews of Immunology 0883-0185 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing 0146-0862 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Issues In Mental Health Nursing 1096-4673 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Addictions Nursing 1088-4602 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of AHIMA 1060-5487 AMERICAN HEALTH INFO MGMT ASSN
Journal of Asthma 0277-0903 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 1547-0679 TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder 1541-2555 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Communication In Health Care 1753-8068 HENRY STEWART PUBLICATIONS
Journal of Cosmetic & Laser Therapy 1476-4172 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Cultural Diversity 1563-5260 TUCKER PUBLICATIONS INC
Journal of Dietary Supplements 1939-0211 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Enzyme Inhibtion & Medicinal Chemistry 1475-6366 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Immunotoxicology 1547-691X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability 1366-8250 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Interprofessional Care 1356-1820 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Liposome Research 0898-2104 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Medical Economics 1369-6998 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology 0309-1902 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Mental Health 0963-8237 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Microencapsulation 0265-2048 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Musculoskeletal Pain 1058-2452 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Neurogenetics 1563-5260 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 1536-0288 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gyneology 0167-482X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Receptor & Signal Transduction 1079-9893 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of Substance Use 1465-9891 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Journal of The History of Dentistry 1089-6287 AAHD
Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine 1745-3054 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Logopedics, Phoniatrics, Vocology 1401-5439 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Medical Mycology 1460-2709 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Microcirculation 1073-9688 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies 1364-5706 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Mitochondrial DNA 1940-1736 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Nanotoxicology 1743-7390 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Neuro-Ophthalmology 0165-8107 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Notes And Records Of The Royal Society Of London 0035-9149 ROYAL SOCIETY
Nutrition And Cancer 1532-7914 TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP
Occupational Therapy in Health Care 0738-0577 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Epidemiology 0928-6586 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Genetics 1381-6810 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers & Imaging 1542-8877 SLACK Incorporated
Orbit 0167-6830 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ostomy : Wound Management 0889-5899 HMP COMMUNICATIONS
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology 0888-0018 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Pharmaceutical Biology 1388-0209 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics 0270-3181 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics 0194-2638 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Physiotherapy: Theory & Practice 0959-3985 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Platelets 0953-7104 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Prosthetics & Orthotics International 0309-3646 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Psychiatric Annals 0048-5713 SLACK Incorporated
Renal Failure 0886-022X INFORMA HEALTHCARE
RN 0033-7021 ADVANSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC
Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 1103-8128 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Healthcare 0281-3432 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Somatosensory & Motor Research 0899-0220 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Strabismus 0927-3972 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Stress: The international Journal on the Biology of Stress 1025-3890 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Substance Use & Misuse 1082-6084 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Systems Biology In Reproductive Medicine 1939-6368 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Thrombosis and Haemostasis 0340-6245 SCHATTAUER GMBH
Toxicology Mechanisms & Methods 1537-6516 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Toxin Reviews 1556-9543 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Ultrastructural Pathology 0191-3123 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences 0300-9734 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
Xenobiotica 0049-8254 INFORMA HEALTHCARE
In his message to the University, President Levin stated, “To accelerate our movement toward budget balance, we are now asking units to achieve this additional 5% reduction in non-salary expenses during the current year.”
With this recent update from the University, the Medical Library must reduce its collections budget by an additional 5% during the current fiscal year (FY 2010). You will recall that the Medical Library reduced the collections budget by 10% for FY 2010 in July. This additional 5% reduction will result in further journal and database cancellations and decreases in book and other print materials purchases. We will continue to handle these cancellations and purchases judiciously, considering the following:
Faculty input continues to be critical to this process. As the Medical Library considers changes, we will inform you about specific cost-cutting strategies likely to affect your respective areas. Librarians will work with departments to ensure that information needs are met, making purchases where necessary and drawing upon many other resources and services, including document delivery and interlibrary loan. We will continue working, individually and through consortial agreements, to negotiate lower annual increases for online databases and journals purchased in bundled packages.
I’m sure you understand the importance and the challenge of our need to observe University budget guidelines while maintaining Yale’s extraordinary research collections. If you have any requests or concerns, please contact me or your library liaison.
Sincerely,
Daniel Dollar
Head, Collection Development and Management
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
daniel.dollar@yale.edu
203/785-2883
As a student of psychodynamic developmental neuroscience, Justine Giddens, is interested in how the brain and mind work together, specifically the conscious and unconscious motivations that make up the individual. As she traveled in Europe, she was able to capture moments that were meaningful, perhaps allowing people to interact with her photographs – whether on a conscious or unconscious level.
Ms. Giddens is a second year Masters of Science student in a joint program with the University College of London and the Yale School of Medicine. She spent her first year in London.
