UMN: Bio-Med Library - Public Health

This symposium brings together a panel of the nation’s most prominent public health experts, each of whom has headed a major federal public health agency or office. They will explore the future of public health in America and seek consensus on solutions, address the challenges facing public health in America and strategies for improving the system, and consider key issues the policy makers must face in the coming years, including:

• What is the optimal relationship between the federal government and state and local health agencies?


• How can we build and sustain public support for a strong public health system?


• How should public health intersect with the medical care system?


• What key regulatory changes would support a stronger public health system?

Full Article: http://www.usip.edu/symposium/
* What technologies and human resources are most needed to strengthen public health capabilities?

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Did you know... NCI was recently ranked in the Top Ten "Best Places for Postdocs" in an international survey

NCI maintains a secure resume databank of applicants for available or future positions, including postdoctoral fellows. Our Investigators are able to search this databank for candidates who match their interests. If you would like to post your resume, enter Starcatcher, then choose "postodoctoral fellowship" for U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents; or "postodoctoral fellowship (foreign visiting fellow)" for all others.

You may also submit your CV directly to a specific sponsor within any of our divisions below:

Center for Cancer Research (CCR)

Conducts basic and clinical cancer research in a variety of disciplines, including molecular medicine. It encourages collaborative efforts, interdisciplinary research, and translational science. It also coordinates its activities with the Institute's intramural and extramural activities. CCR supports and trains new investigators and provides patient care, patient treatment, and education to the community.

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG)

Focuses on population-based research on environmental and genetic determinants of cancer. Interests include genetic predisposition, lifestyle factors, environmental contaminants, occupational exposures, medications, radiation, and infectious agents, as well as statistics and methods development.

Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP)

While DCP is an extramural division, it sponsors the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program. The program provides postdoctoral training in laboratory-based, clinical, epidemiologic, statistical, behavioral, policy, and ethical aspects of prevention research. Preceptors come from all NCI intramural and extramural divisions as well as from local academic institutions.

Other links that may help you in your search for fellowship opportunities:

Fogarty

The Fogarty International Center promotes and supports scientific research and training internationally to reduce disparities in global health.

PostDoc Opportunities in Cancer Research

This link is the Center for Cancer Research's most recent on-line employment opportunities for postdoctoral training positions in basic cancer, AIDS, and clinical research.

Office of Education

The Office of Education provides information about the myriad of education and training opportunities for all of the Institutes that are a part of the National Institutes of Health. From their website, you can view postdoctoral training opportunities and apply on-line.

International Services Branch

The International Services Branch provides professional guidance and immigration-related services to the NIH intramural research community, and to the visiting foreign scientists and their dependents. Follow the link above to "NIH Visiting Program."

You may wish to look at our area for Current Postdocs. Although not all the sites will be accessible to you, the page will give you an idea of the resources we can connect you to.

Full Details: http://fellowship.nci.nih.gov/beapostdoc.html

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IMPACT: The fact that the gene mutation arises naturally suggests that tolerance levels to alcohol may be genetically wired in people, too. If so, the findings could eventually help identify children and adults at higher risk of developing alcohol dependency, so these individuals can make an informed decision about whether to drink. The study results may also speed the development of new drugs that target alcohol-sensitive GABA receptors, leading to better treatments for alcohol poisoning and addiction.

Full Article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/uoc--ubs020205.php

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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- A French goat has become the first to test positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad-cow disease, the European Union said.

Full Article: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-goat29.html

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Contributed by Gina Borgsdof | 07 January, 2005 13:37 GMT

WHO Outlines Emergency Public Health Strategy to Sustain Tsunami Aid Efforts An estimated three to five million people are currently displaced, and may be without access to adequate supplies of safe drinking water, sanitation, shelter, food and basic medical supplies.

The concern of local authorities in Aceh, Indonesia, is that while the current aid effort is enormous and tremendous progress has already been made in the first days following the tsunamis, unless this is sustained, the system could collapse.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Lee Jong-wook, has praised the efforts of people in Aceh, together with national and international relief efforts, to recover from the overwhelming damage inflicted by the tsunami last week. Speaking Thursday from the Indonesian island of Sumatra, following a visit to some of the worst affected areas of Aceh, Dr. Lee described the devastation caused as "stunning," but added that he was most struck by the fact that people are now actively rebuilding their lives.

Read more...Daily News Central

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18 Jul 2004

It is one of the least edifying facts of recent American medical history that the profession's leadership so long rejected as quackish the idea that nutrition affects health (JAMA 1946 1949, 1977; Shimkin, 1976). Ignoring both the empirical dietary wisdom that pervaded western medicine from the pre-Christian Hippocratic era until the late nineteenth century and a persuasive body of modern research in nutritional biochemistry, the politically minded spokesmen of organized medicine in the U.S. remained long committed to surgery and radiation as the sole acceptable treatments for cancer. This commitment persisted, even after sound epidemiological data showed that early detection and removal of malignant tumors did not "cure" most kinds of cancer (Crile, 1956; updated by Cairns, 1985).

Source: http://gerson-research.org

Article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=10906

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JCR is a complicated but often useful database that provides bibliometric information on scholarly journals. The Libraries' now have an ongoing subscription to this and it has been controversial in the past. Learning more about it may help you as you work with users - or as you consider using it yourself for collection analysis, etc. This one-hour workshop will briefly give an overview of the database and allow time for hands-on experience in the database.

All sessions will be in room s30c Wilson. Registration is required and seating limited to 20/session.

Available sessions:

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:30 PM -- 1:30 PM

Registration is at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/registration/index.phtml#eventidXX89

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To all U of MN Public Health Faculty,

At this time I am pulling together a list of monograghs for purchase before the end of our fiscal year.

As you are the experts in your field, I would appreciate any and all reccomendations for various books to be added to our collection. Although I can't make any guarantees, I do feel that unless I get a huge deluge I should be able to add your suggested books. Please e-mail me ASAP. I am looking at a 6/10 to submit my list.

Thank you...suggestions and questions can be emailed to me at: Cindy Gruwell

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces that it is committing almost $30 million in new funding to support innovative public health research aimed at further promoting and protecting the health of Americans, with an immediate focus on producing a body of evidence that will help employers make better choices in wellness programs. The CDC’s new Health Protection Research Initiative aims to strengthen public health research by encouraging more individuals and institutions to engage in research that will result in measurable improvements in public health. The availability of funds was published in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts on April 23, 2004...

CDC Press Release: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r040427.htm

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"The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. New business models are being tested by publishers, including open access, in which the author pays and content is free to the user. This ongoing web focus will explore current trends and future possibilities. Each week, the website will publish specially commissioned insights and analysis from leading scientists, librarians, publishers and other stakeholders, as well as key links, and articles from our archive. All content is available free."

Nature

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PubMed on Tap is an application for PDAs that retrieves MEDLINE® citations directly from the PDA through a wireless connection to the Internet. PubMed on Tap features include several PubMed search limits, a history of previous queries, the ability to email citations or save them to the Memo Pad, a clustered results option, and link-out to full-text Web sites.

Please note: Your Palm device must have wireless access for this software
to work.

General Information

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The Bio-Medical Library and the Medical School have partnered to license UpToDate for the Twin Cites and Duluth campuses. UpToDate is a subscription-based electronic clinical database with searchable, up-to-date topic reviews. The topic reviews include links to related subjects, references, tables, charts, graphics, X-rays, video, and drug information.

Click on or type http://www.uptodate.com and follow the link that says "Click here to log on to UpToDate online" (ID and Password not required). Due to the terms of the license agreement with UpToDate, access will be limited to campus IP addresses and will not be accessible off-site or from home. Contact the Bio-Medical Library reference desk at 612-626-3260 or email (medref@umn.edu) with questions.

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NIH plays a major role in finding better ways to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent diseases. The practical health information in The NIH Word on Health is based on research conducted either by NIH's own scientists or by our grantees at universities and medical schools around the country.

Material published in The NIH Word on Health is not copyrighted. You may use it without permission of the National Institutes of Health.

http://www.nih.gov/news/WordonHealth/#aboutword

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Bring your lunch over to the Bio-Medical Library conference room located at 555 Diehl Hall and eat together with resident experts, guests, and peers while discussing topics such as Open Access journals, images.MD, PowerPoint: Posters and PDAs, alternative medicine, a PDA user group and more. Our informal monthly events will be your opportunity to discuss and raise questions concerning topics that concern both you and the library. Held from 11:30 - 1:00 on the third Thursday of every month.

April 15 PowerPoint: Posters and PDAs
May 20 Alternative Medicine Information Resources
June 17 PDA User Group: Questions and Updates

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"The POWER of WATER a vision for water in the 21st century."
The Kolshorn Lecture, part of the President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference Series Dr. Peter H. Gleick, President Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security in Oakland, California
Water is vital for human health, our economy, and the environment. Water also cuts across traditional lines of inquiry connecting science and economics with political and social concerns. As part of the University of Minnesota's Earth Week celebrations, world water expert Dr. Peter H. Gleick, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, will give a wide-ranging talk on water issues in the new century and how we can prepare for the future with intelligent planning and a forward-looking vision. Free and open to the public.

Bell Museum Auditorium
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
4:30 PM Reception and book signing
5:15 PM Seminar
For more information, visit the Water Resources Center web site:
http://wrc.coafes.umn.edu/.

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The University Libraries, in support of the Open Access publishing model, has paid for a trial institutional membership to BioMed Central (BMC) for 2004. We hope that this membership will encourage researchers at the University of Minnesota to consider BMC journals for submission of articles. This membership enables U of M authors to waive BioMed Central's article processing fee (typically $500). For more information, and a list of articles published in BMC by U of M authors, please see http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/20200.

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