The UT Southwestern Physician Assistant Program is holding a Children’s Book Drive to benefit Reach Out and Read, a non-profit organization that encourages literacy by providing books to at-risk pediatric populations ages five months to six years old during medical visits.
New or gently-used children’s books will be accepted until October 8, 2012, at designated drop-off boxes, which are located at:
NOTE: Effective August 9, 2013, laptops will no longer be available for check-out at the South Campus (main) Library.
The Library has acquired a new group of laptops for in-library checkout at the South Campus (main) Library. All new laptops are equipped with:
• Windows 7 and Microsoft Office
• CD-ROM/DVD Drive
• Faster Processors than previous models
Laptops are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Information Desk and may be borrowed for up to six (6) hours during staffed hours. The latest time a laptop may be checked out is two (2) hours before the Information Desk closes each day.
For more information about Library laptop checkout including take-home laptop checkout, consult the Laptops in the Library web page.
Effective September 1, 2012, the UT Southwestern Library has acquired First Consult via MD Consult and cancelled the subscription to DynaMed. This decision was made after carefully reviewing the Library’s current budget and vendor cost inflation and evaluating the features of all current, comparable evidence based resources to which the Library subscribes.
First Consult provides instant, user-friendly access to the latest evidence-based information on evaluation, diagnosis, clinical management, prognosis, and prevention. A free iPhone/iPad/iTouch First Consult mobile app includes topics with differential diagnosis that can be used with your MD Consult username and password.
If you would like more information and assistance with our current evidence-based medical resources, please request a personal consultation through the Contact Us form or at the Library during Library-staffed hours.
Your feedback and recommendations are always welcome at the Tell Us What You Think blog.
The UT Southwestern Library is hosting Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health, a traveling exhibition that highlights the role communities play in improving health at home and all around the world. The banner exhibit, which will be on display through October 6, 2012, explores the shared basic needs required for a good quality of life, including nutritious food and clean water, a safe place to live, and affordable health care.
Using historical and contemporary photographs, the banners tell stories of collaboration among families, scientists, advocates, governments, and international organizations, which all take up the challenge to prevent disease and improve medical care. The journey begins in Pholela, South Africa, where husband and wife team Sidney and Emily Kark developed a holistic approach to community health. Traveling on, the exhibition showcases the work of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee to teach mothers across the country Oral Rehydration Therapy, a lifesaving treatment for childhood diarrhea.
Other destinations include Brazil, where the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), or Landless Workers’ Movement, empowered poor citizens to begin subsistence farming on land left idle by agricultural corporations, and Central America, where the Pan American Health Organization launched Health as a Bridge to Peace to put an end to conflict and rebuild health care services.
As well as recent developments, the exhibit also focuses on historic campaigns that have changed today’s attitudes. The role of activists in the United States during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, for example, includes the work of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the battles of Ryan White, the teenager who fought to attend school after contracting HIV through a blood transfusion.
This exhibit raises awareness of the sources and effects of health inequalities and invites each of us to join the global campaign for health and human rights. The experiences described here constitute a legacy of success, often based on the simplest means. Working together, we can make a world of difference.
An online web version of the exhibition, including an audio tour, and opportunities to get involved are also available.
This exhibition is brought to you by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Anne Freeman, M.S.P.H, director of UT Southwestern’s Community Prevention and Intervention Unit and Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences in the School of Health Professions, will speak on “Changing HIV/AIDS: Reflections on 30 Years of Struggle and Hope” on Wednesday, August 22, at 12 noon in McDermott Plaza lecture hall D1.602. Professor Freeman’s presentation is free and open to the public; lunch will be served. Gordon Green, M.D., Professor of Family and Community Medicine and former director of the Dallas County Health Department, will host the forum.
Professor Freeman’s reflections are informed by a deep and varied experience of the AIDS crisis from the early 1980s, when a diagnosis was regularly followed by early death, to the present, where antiretroviral drugs have made AIDS, at least for some patients, a manageable chronic condition. For the past 26 years, Ms. Freeman has worked primarily in HIV prevention, including behavioral intervention development, research, training, and technical assistance. Previously she worked in cancer control and prevention, specifically breast, cervical, and endometrial cancer, and project management of economic program evaluation studies. Her HIV prevention work includes managing a large program that provides prevention services to persons with high risk behaviors: counseling, testing, and effective behavioral interventions. She has participated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s seroepidemiology studies and CDC’s current expanded HIV surveillance studies. She is director of the Dallas STD/HIV Prevention Behavioral Intervention Training Center, one of 5 training centers nationwide funded by CDC to offer behavioral intervention training to STD and HIV prevention agencies and health departments, and the Capacity Building Assistance Center, which provides training and technical assistance to community-based organizations and health departments on effective behavioral HIV prevention interventions.
Pre-registration for the forum is not necessary. For more information, please contact John Fullinwider, 214-648-3801 or john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu.
More than 120 art works by UT Southwestern employees and students are now on display in the South Campus (main) Library. Categories include works on canvas, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, and textiles. The art will remain on display until October 1, 2012.
Visitors to the Library may vote for their favorite art work – the “People’s Choice” award – until 3 p.m. on August 3, 2012. Ballots are available at the Library’s Information Desk from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.
Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: D1.600
On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision to uphold President Obama’s signature piece of legislation – the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Court held that the individual mandate was permissible under Congress’s taxing powers and that the Medicaid expansion was constitutional, though limited.
The law has several implications going forward, both in terms of several provisions already in effect and new provisions that will unfold over the next several years. How did the Supreme Court make its decision? What will this mean for Medicaid? What will this mean for public hospitals, private hospitals, doctors, patients, the uninsured, and our country?
Open to the public.
Participants:
Thomas Mayo, J.D.
Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Professor of Law
Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical School
Jose L. Gonzalez, M.D., J.D., M.S.Ed.
Medical Director, Cook Children’s Health Plan
Former Medical Director, Texas Medicaid/SCHIP
W. Stephen Love
President and CEO, Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council
Moderator:
Stephen Inrig, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences (History of Medicine and Health Policy), UT Southwestern Medical School
Sponsored by:
UT Southwestern Division of Outcomes and Health Services Research; UT Southwestern Program for Ethics in Science and Medicine; UT Southwestern Public Policy and Healthcare Financing elective; UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
Help is now available through “Live Chat” on the Library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad) page for individuals with questions about the interlibrary loan process. This service will be available during our office hours (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). An ILLiad account is not necessary to initiate a chat conversation.
Complex or time-consuming questions should be directed to our interlibrary loan specialists via email or phone at 214.648.2002. You may also click on the “Email/Phone” tab under the “Ask A Librarian” section on the right for other contact methods.
The National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) traveling exhibit, A Voyage To Health, explores the recent revival of the ancient arts of navigation and voyaging that first brought the people of Hawaiʻi to their island homes. Much of the valuable knowledge of voyaging was lost as a consequence of the suppression of traditional ways. As part of a wider movement to reintroduce traditional ways, Native Hawaiians are mastering the knowledge and skills of their elders. By restoring their heritage, this new generation seeks to heal the people.
A Voyage to Health explores this resurgence and its significance for health, well-being, and self-determination.
The NLM online teaching module, Healing Elements: A Native Hawaiian Perspective, explores various themes and writings on this subject.
Dr. Richard Wisdom Allen, (left) and Dr. Henry K. Leske Operating in a Home
A rare 400-page, illustrated history of medicine in Dallas from 1841 to 1900 is now available for viewing on the Library’s web site. The history was written in 1951 by a Dallas native for a master’s thesis at the University of Texas at Austin, and only four copies in print are known to exist. The author relied not only on printed source material, but also on interviews with long-time Dallas residents. The work is illustrated with portraits and photographs.
This document is housed in the Library’s History of Medicine Collection web site.