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Purple Tomato Extended Lives of Cancer-Prone Mice
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Neuroscience Information Framework
The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is an information portal designed to help neuroscientists find and locate neuroscience research resources. The goals, design and operation of the NIF are...
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Web of Science New Features
Web of Science now has grant search options! “Funding Agency” and “Grant Number” can be searched from the “Search” mode and the “Advanced Search” mode.
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New Features in Journal Citation Reports 2007
The newest release of JCR 2007 provides new metrics to evaluate journals: Five-Year Impact Factor – Gives a broader range of citation activity for a more informative snapshot over time. For journals in...
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Top ten lists of journals by Article Influence™ score and Eigenfactor™ score
Eigenfactor™ and Article Influence™ are two new metrics to assess a journal’s prestige. They have been included in the Journal Citation Reports and are searchable from eigenfactor.org. See the top ten...
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PubMed URL change – We now have a new option to find full text for free!
We’ve just changed the PubMed URL to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=gaudtolib&holding=gaudtolib,deepblue to include links to free articles from the University of Michigan’s...
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NIH Challenge Grants in health and science research
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/challenge.html The application due date is April 27, 2009.
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Swine flu dashboard
The CABI Swine flu dashboard puts together swine flu information from CABI, Global Health database, Center for Disease Control, World Health Organisation, Wikipedia, and Google. It also has maps...
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NCBI BioSystems – A biological pathways database is now integrated into...
The NCBI BioSystems, a new biological pathways database is now public. The BioSystems Database currently contains biological pathways from two source databases, KEGG and the EcoCyc subset of BioCyc....
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Springer Images – Scientific photos, graphs, histograms, figures, and tables.
Springer launched SpringerImages, a collection of 1.6 million scientific, technological, and medical images including photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs, histograms, and other illustrations. It...
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March is National Nutrition Month
The American Dietetic Association campaigns every March for healthier food choices and more active lifestyles. In honor of this health observance, we are highlighting a recent publication co-authored...
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Center of Excellence on Health Disparities
On February 24, 2011, an overview will be provided of the new GSU Center of Excellence (COE) on Health Disparities as well as the “Syndemics of Disparity” at the Urban Life Building. The COE is a...
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Historical Medical Texts: Online and in Print @ GSU
Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook The National Library of Medicine (NLM) features several books from its historical collection in the online exhibit, Turning The Pages, which allows viewers to...
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Public Health Week – Safety is NO Accident
Each year, nearly 150,000 people die from injuries, and almost 30 million people are injured seriously enough to go to the emergency room. Monica Swahn, Ph.D., MPH, is an associate professor in...
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In the Eye of the Storm: Health Disparities, Environmental Health Threats and...
The Partnership for Urban Health Research presents its Annual Lecture on Monday, April 25th, 11 AM in Room 480 of the University Center. Maureen Lichtveld, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Chair of the...
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Are Cigarettes Addictive?
The CEO of Altria (aka Philip Morris) doesn’t think so. Learn more about the use of tobacco through these resources at the GSU University Library, where we used to have a “smoking floor”!...
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How to Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse
Have you considered how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse? Atlanta residents are luckier than most; we have the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention right in our city. Before the zombies...
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The Public Health Film Goes to War
The National Library of Medicine presents a collection of digitally mastered World War II-era public health films. Film topics include malaria and yellow fever control, sanitation and hygiene and the...
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Congratulations to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, new Regents’ Professor
Professor Richard B. Rothenberg, M.D., M.P.H., has been appointed Regent’s Professor, the first in the Institute of Public Health. Dr. Rothenberg conducts research regarding transmission of...
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Publishing in Health Sciences Open Access Journals
Publishing in an open access (OA) journal gets your research to more people faster. You may be concerned that OA journals don’t have comparable impact factors. In fact, many OA journals have scores...
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Paul Epstein, leader in Public Health has died
Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, co-founder and associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, died of lymphoma on November 11, 2011. Dr. Epstein’s work in...
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Respiratory Care Graduate Student Wins National Fellowship
Congratulations to Maher AlQuaimi (second from left), a graduate student in respiratory therapy, who won the Monaghan/Trudell Fellowship for Aerosol Technique Development at the 57th International...
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Global Health and Water Sanitation Resources
Christine Stauber, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Public Health, has worked in Central America, Africa and Asia to examine how lack of access to sanitation and clean water affects hygiene and...
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Diabetes Research in the Institute of Public Health
Congratulations to Ike Okosun, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health in the Institute of Public Health for several recent publications on chronic disease epidemiology, primarily in the areas...
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Urban Housing Documentary at Cinefest
Head over to GSU’s very own movie theater, Cinefest, this week to see “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of...
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Thompson’s “The Paralympic Athlete” published in advance of London Games
Congratulations to Walter R Thompson, Ph.D, Regents Professor in Exercise Science for the publication of his book, The Paralympic Athlete. Dr. Thompson is a member of both the Department of...
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Historical Health Posters from China
The National Library of Medicine’s History Division presents an online exhibition, Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Health Posters from the People’s Republic of China. The exhibit...
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Social Determinants of Health Lecture
Sir Michael Marmot will be appearing at GSU! Professor Marmot is Director of the International Institute for Society and Health, and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, at University College,...
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Dr. Brenda Pitts, Sports Management/Marketing Expert
Did you know that in 2010 licensed NASCAR products brought in over 3 billion dollars? Or that the economic impact of Super Bowl XLV was over 10 billion dollars? Dr. Brenda Pitts, Professor of...
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Prominent Epidemiologist Sandro Galea Speaks at GSU
Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.P.H., Chairperson of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health will present “The Urban Brain: How Urban Environments Affect How We Think, Behave,...
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New Article Details Ongoing Use of Eugenics Myth
Cover of the journal "The Eugenics Review", 1965 Congratulations to Paul A. Lombardo, MA, JD, PhD, for his recently published article, “Return of the Jukes: Eugenic Mythologies and Internet Evangelism”...
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Community-Based Participatory Research focus of August’s “Health Education...
Volume 27, Issue 4, August 2012 The role of Community-Based Participatory Research and its potential in reducing worldwide health disparities is described in the latest issue of Health Education...
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“The Healthcare Movie” Screening at Cinefest
The Georgia Public Health Training Center is sponsoring a premier screening of “The Healthcare Movie” at Georgia State University. This documentary, narrated by Keifer Sutherland, explores the health...
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IEEE Xplore not just for Computer Science
While IEEE Xplore is a resource mainly used by Computer Science, it is also a great resource for information on technical devices including those used in neuroscience, business, health, genetics,...
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PubMed Workshops September 16-20, 2013
PubMed is a database with over 23 million records and 5,000+ journals dating back to 1946. As a free service provided by the National Library of Medicine, it is the most important resource for medical...
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Autism Expert to Speak at Georgia State
Craig Newschaffer, PhD will speak on “Progress in Epidemiological Research on Autism and the Environment” on September 17th, 2013. Dr. Newschaffer is professor and chairman of the Department of...
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School of Public Health wins Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science Grant
Congratulations to Georgia State’s School of Public Health which just received a $19 million grant to establish one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS). This is the largest grant in...
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Remind me why I have to get IRB approval for my research…
Paul Lombardo You’ve probably heard of the shocking ethics violations of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and medical experiments by Nazi physicians but did you know that in 1946, American… Public...
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Military Veterans’ Mental Health Lecture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marine_corps/ The annual J. Rhodes Haverty Lecture will be a panel discussion on the mental health issues facing our military veterans. “Myths and Misconceptions About...
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New Research on Young Adults and Smoking
Congratulations to Dr. Kymberle Sterling for her latest research article, Exposure to Celebrity-Endorsed Small Cigar Promotions and Susceptibility to Use among Young Adult Cigarette Smokers.* Dr....
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CDC Public Health Exhibit Focuses on Healthcare Inequality
The CDC’s David J. Sencer Museum is presenting an exhibition entitled, Health Is a Human Right: Race and Place in America. Highlighting the ongoing racial inequality in healthcare, the exhibit...
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“Lives Worth Living” Screening
A screening of the documentary film, “Lives Worth Living”, will be presented in conjunction with MLK Day by GSU’s Margaret A. Staton Office of Disability Services. The Office of Disability Services...
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50 Years of Prevention – The Health Consequences of Smoking
Fifty years ago, the Surgeon General of the United States, Luther L. Terry, M.D., released the first report on the health consequences of smoking. The report helped publicize the negative health...
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Congratulations to Dr. John Lutzker, new Distinguished University Professor
John Lutzker PhD, a leading expert in child neglect and maltreatment prevention, has been appointed Distinguished University Professor in the School of Public Health. Dr. Lutzker is the Director of...
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Sort by Relevance in PubMed
PubMed has added a new Display Settings option to sort your search results by relevance. The relevance sort order for search results is based on an algorithm that analyzes each PubMed citation that...
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Contagion: Movie Screening + CDC Panel
The Atlanta Science Festival is screening the movie Contagion as part of its Science on the Screen programming. Dr. Harold Jaffe, Associate Director for Science at CDC, will moderate and a panel of...
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PubMed Workshops Rescheduled: April 1-11, 2014
PubMed is a database with over 23 million records and 5 thousand plus journals going back to 1946. As a free service provided by the National Library of Medicine it is the most important resource for...
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World Health Organization joins Europe PubMed Central
The World Health Organisation (WHO), now follows an open access policy to ensure the widespread dissemination of scientific research. The policy applies to all WHO-authored or WHO-funded research...
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Publication Retractions Take YEARS to Appear in PubMed
Performing a complex literature review can be challenging; taking into account whether the resulting articles have been retracted, have erratum or have been corrected and republished makes the task...
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Atlanta Beltline Health Initiatives Lecture
The Georgia State University Community is invited to join the School of Public Health for its’ annual Urban Health Disparities Lecture. This year, the speaker is Paul Morris, president and CEO of the...
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