Browse the February New Book List for recent additions to the Health Sciences Libraries and the Hagerty Library collections.

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At right: War and public health / edited by Barry S. Levy, Victor W. Sidel.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is an “open collection” from Harvard’s digital library collection. It’s designed to present an historical perspective on the social and public policy of epidemiology. The collection includes digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts—a total of more than 500,000 pages—many of which contain visual materials, such as plates, engravings, maps, charts, and broadsides. Library materials and archival materials are supplemented by explanatory pages that introduce concepts related to diseases and epidemics, historical approaches to medicine, and notable men and women. Epidemics that are covered include the Spanish Influenza in North America 1918-1919, and The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.

The Step One question banks have been reorganized into two question banks: USMLE Step 1 Board Preparation (5113 questions), and USMLE Step 1 Medical Subject Review (7750 questions). The Step 1 Board preparation has been fine-tuned to better represent that board exam, and uses a content blueprint very similar to the actual exam. General Principles questions have been blended in with the clinically-based organ system and process questions.
The USMLE Step One Practice exam is also being updated to include more GI and respiratory questions. This practice exam is available by selecting the Create Exam button from the main menu, and then selecting Courses. It consists of 7, 50-question exam blocks with the same timing as the actual exam. All of the blocks can be taken together, or one at a time and then can be reviewed in study mode.

The NLM Drug Information Portal is a gateway for both health care professionals and consumers to access selected drug information. Data on 12,000 drugs comes from sources like the FDA, Medline/PubMed, MedlinePlus, and TOXLINE. Searching the drug’s trade name or generic name will retrieve the same record. A spell checker offers suggestions if the name is not found. Searches can be tailored to specific audience types and particular classes of drugs, including drugs of abuse.

is now available to download from IRT’s Computer Marketplace. You must use your full Drexel email username (with the @drexel.edu). Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac requires Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later; in addition, you will not notice any differences in performance over Office 2004 if you are using a pre-Intel Macintosh. Please contact IRT if you have any questions.

Audio summaries from selected Cochrane Library reviews are now available. Some examples of featured topics are music therapy for depression, hand washing for preventing diarrhea, and water for wound cleansing. To access these reviews’ full text, go to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

The National Limb Loss Information Center (NLLIC) is a department of the Amputee Coalitions of America and the main resource for limb loss. The website’s online catalog contains records of books, journals, and audiovisuals for both consumers and professionals. There are also fact sheets with statistics on limb loss, four years of PubMed citations on amputation and related topics, and a video series, Introductory Amputee Care for Lower-Limb Amputees.

Available through the Ebooks by Subject or Title pages:

From Access Medicine

Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Emergency Medicine, 6th ed.
Current Practice Guidelines in Primary Care.
Hurst’s the Heart, 12th ed.

From Knovel

Merck Index New Title!

From Nursing Consult

Nursing Care Planning Guide, 6th ed. New Title!

Starting February 4th, IM reference is available from 11am-9pm, Monday through Thursdays, 11 am-5pm, Fridays. Go to the Ask a Question page to find the Health Sciences Libraries’ IM name.

Duke University’s Medical Center Library has a Black History Month website dedicated to famous Black Americans in medicine and medical milestones. The exhibit highlights important firsts such as the first black physician to publish a textbook and the first black professional nurse. There is also a section on the history of medical education and blacks, the Black Hospital Movement, and even a section on folk medicine.