Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: influenza
Lecture – Forecasting seasonal outbreaks of influenza
Columbia University researcher Jeffrey Shaman, who studies environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission, will speak next month at the School of Public Health on “Forecasting Seasonal Outbreaks of Influenza”. Date: Tuesday, Feb. 5 Time: 4-5:30 Location: 1690 SPH 1 (Lane Aud.) … Continue reading
New CDC flu app!
The CDC has released a new app for clinicians and other health care professionals that let’s them find the CDC’s current influenza recommendations and influenza activity updates. It’s available for Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. The CDC Influenza App can be downloaded from … Continue reading
Closing schools to help control the flu
From the New York Times: Canadian researchers have found compelling evidence that closing schools is an effective way to control flu epidemics. Scientists at McMaster University in Ontario and elsewhere compared patterns of flu transmission with weather and school calendars … Continue reading
More on censorship & the bird flu experiments
In case you didn’t keep up with this topic over the break, here are more articles from the New York Times on the continuing controversy over the request by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity that 2 journals not publish some details of the … Continue reading
Biomedical experiments & terrorism
From the New York Times, 2 articles on science and censorship. Seeing Terror Risk, U.S. Asks Journals to Cut Flu Study Facts: For the first time ever, a government advisory board is asking scientific journals not to publish details of … Continue reading
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