K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Dec 4, 2009, 7:49 am
On Dec 1 2009, the Centers for Disease Control  & Prevention issued a general alert to citizens of the United States regarding a “phishing” scam that was discovered recently.  This type ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Dec 1, 2009, 9:38 am
Today is World AIDS Day 2009 33.4 million people in the world are living with AIDS _____________________________________ Following is a brief list of statistical or factual sources for HIV/AIDS ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 26, 2009, 9:14 am
Best Wishes for a Wonderful Thanksgiving Day ~ 2009 ____________________________________ To read more about Ellen Clapsaddle, the American artist who created this postcard, click here. Tagged: Hol...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 24, 2009, 8:24 am
This year, Ebsco Publishing has created an evidence-based medicine source for current factual diagnostic or treatment information for H1N1 influenza virus, written for clinicians, nurses and the gener...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 20, 2009, 2:27 pm
Here’s The Friday Post #42 for Nov 20 2009. Found on Mental Floss.com, take a look at The Amazing Fact Generator: ________________________________ Have you heard about Google’s Opt-Out ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 19, 2009, 1:37 pm
Today, Nov 19 2009 is designated by the American Cancer Society as… The Great American Smokeout _________________________________________________ There are many excellent reasons for quitting...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 18, 2009, 2:48 pm
This world is divided in many ways:  people who grew up around snow, people who have never even seen snow… left-handed knitters with curly hair versus balding right-handed crocheters, those who...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 10, 2009, 5:29 pm
I like to read medical fiction, and believe that medical students probably do as well (although they have little time to do so).  So today a new category has been added to the EBM & Clinical Support...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 6, 2009, 7:01 pm
Happy Birthday to Sesame Street which this week celebrates its 40th season on PBS!   Here’s a video by beatboxing flutist Greg Pattillo playing the theme song: _______________________________...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Nov 2, 2009, 7:50 am
Here’s a wonderful public service announcement from American Heart Association Hands Symphony __________________________________ This is an interactive visualization… choose the style...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 30, 2009, 2:39 pm
Happy Halloween! Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which is really fine, it means that party-goers won’t be forced to drag themselves to the lecture hall at 8:00am the next day.  And, e...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 29, 2009, 11:44 am
For those interested in learning strategies for practicing evidence-based medicine, check out the latest digital subscription from UCHC Library: JAMA Evidence . Produced by American Medical Associa...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 19, 2009, 11:30 am
October 19 through 23 is… SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Consortium) is the organizer of Open Access Week.  Information about SPARC Europe is here. The concept of open-access journ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 16, 2009, 5:43 am
Here’s the Friday Post #39 for Oct 16 2009.  It snowed in Connecticut yesterday.  It was a mucho-early start to the cold weather season.  Let’s hope for no more snow for another few wee...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 14, 2009, 10:16 am
One aspect of participating in problem-based learning is that by the end of the semester, every student in the group has taken their turn at the group tasks involved, which are: The Reader narrates...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 8, 2009, 1:37 pm
Try as I might, I couldn’t make this post pithy.  Sorry. Based on some in-depth questions I’ve heard at the Reference Desk this month, this is a short long post on the structure and or...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 6, 2009, 5:44 pm
” Despite progress in many areas over the last 25 years, the disparities in people’s well-being in rich and poor countries continue to be unacceptably wide, according to the Human Development ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Oct 2, 2009, 1:27 pm
This is the Friday Post #38 for October 2 2009. Strange?  Define Strange. As a blog-administrator I get to filter all comments to the page before they are displayed publically.  The majority of th...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 29, 2009, 3:42 pm
“… LigerCat is a search tool for NCBI’s PubMed that uses tag clouds to provide an overview of important concepts and trends. LigerCat aggregates multiple articles in PubMed, summing...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 28, 2009, 12:46 pm
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has gotten much press coverage over the past 7 days, due to the G-20 Summit held there on Sept 24-25 2009.   I’ve always been interested in the city because my fath...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 23, 2009, 1:09 pm
” The goals of this study were to describe reported incidents of medical students posting unprofessional content online at U.S. medical schools, describe current policies and views of medical sc...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 22, 2009, 1:03 pm
As the new and returning medical, dental, MPH and PhD students get settled into their academic routines, including researching learning issues for PBL, there is a new E-book subscription from UCHC Lib...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 18, 2009, 7:47 am
A timely cartoon from PhDcomics.com called ” Brain on a Stick “ _______________________________________ Next: Professors may see you as a brain on a stick, but how does the Internet see ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 16, 2009, 11:53 am
Did you know that the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services has its own site on YouTube.com? You betcha! Go to http://www.youtube.com/USGOVHHS Tips for preventing the spread of influenza – ...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 11, 2009, 7:38 am
September 11, 2001 is a day – in the memory of many Americans – that is similar to the day that President John F. Kennedy was shot… your mind instantly returns to that moment in time...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Sep 9, 2009, 10:43 am
Image – H1N1 Influenza Virus ____________________________ Last week, in anticipation of the beginning of ‘regular’ flu season in the Northern hemisphere and the public health conce...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Aug 27, 2009, 10:12 am
Last month, I announced that a newsletter-blog for Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, previously entitled Update, has been refashioned into a library newsletter-blog now called Library News@UCHC.   Origin...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Aug 24, 2009, 9:49 am
Congratulations to Dan Henderson, third year medical student at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, who was the national finalist in the first “ Comment - Like

K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Aug 18, 2009, 11:10 am

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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Aug 4, 2009, 3:38 pm
Scientists: do you lay awake at night, thinking up how to Stump a Librarian with your latest inscrutable search queries? Recently I had a reference question about a patient with NASH, and I thought:...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Jul 28, 2009, 10:02 am

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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Jul 24, 2009, 9:57 am
The EBM & Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC blog just got a brand-new “relative”, with the introduction this week of our LibraryNews@UCHC Blog (also on WordPress): This week and next, I...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Jul 20, 2009, 2:35 pm
STM publishers Cell Press and Elsevier ratcheted up the technological ante this month with their announcement on Monday, Jul 20 2009, of a shared project called Article of the Future, which they are f...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Jul 17, 2009, 9:38 am
So excited about going to see the fifth movie based on J.K. Rowling’s work, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released in the U.S. on July 15th at midnight.  I’ve read eve...
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K C. posted an article on EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC - Jul 16, 2009, 11:49 am
” Tis far better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. “ ” You get the network that you deserve. “ _____________________________ Being in the li...
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