It never ceases to amaze me how Science and Simplicity often work hand-in-hand.

http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/23/saving-maternal-lives-—-with-a-magic-marker/

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This info was passed my way and caught my long-time-pet-owner sensibility.

"We promote humane science by supporting the creation, development, validation, and use of alternatives to animals in research, product safety testing, and education. We seek to effect change by working with scientists in industry, government, and academia to find new ways to replace animals with non-animal methods, reduce the numbers of animals necessary, or refine methods to make them less painful or stressful to the animals involved."

Part of the CAAT philosophy is based around the, perhaps not so simple formula, that humane science is better science. Credit belongs to two British scientists William Russell and Rex Burch for that discovery.

"CAAT promotes humane science because it is the best science."

Is that a little meow-meow/bark-bark applause I hear in the background?

Here's where they are:

http://caat.jhsph.edu/about/index.html

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Registration is open for 390.675 Outcomes and Effectiveness Research

Course learning objectives:

• Develop skills needed to critically evaluate outcomes and effectiveness research

• Be able to craft a preliminary design for an outcomes or effectiveness study

• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of various experimental and observational study designs

• Recognize how various statistical approaches reflect and illuminate study aims

• Become familiar with a wide variety of approaches to outcomes and effectiveness investigation

TUesdays, 3/29/11-5/17/11, 5:30-8:30 pm in BSPH Room # TBA

Register NOW!  https://isis.jhu.edu/PNOnlineApp/start.aspx .  The course should be taken as non-credit.  The course # is 390.675.

Payment must be submitted with registration.  If using tuition remission, please fax the signed form, which is also attached, to 410-502-6966.  

This course is offered through the Science of Clinical Investigation (SOCI*) certificate program, but can be taken without enrolling in the certificate program. 

* The SOCI curriculum is intended for scientists, clinicians and support personnel fully engaged in clinical investigation.  A certificate of achievement will be presented to those students who complete the required coursework.  All SOCI program information can be found at http://www.jhsph.edu/gtpci/continuing_ed/SOCI.html

Registration Form: 

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Tuition Remission Form:

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Yes, there IS a new MESH tutorial in PubMed. Your prayers were answered.    

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/viewlet/mesh/searching/mesh1.html

Alonzo LaMont

PubMed has updated the Interface for the MESH database. Go here to see the updates:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh

If you have any questions, please contact your assigned Informationist!

http://www.welch.jhu.edu/liaison/index.html

Alonzo LaMont

Thousands of online academic books are available for reading on or offline. Very easy to access. Topics GALORE. All the specifics (how-to's) are right on the link. I already gave it a test run myself, so fellow patrons.....start your engines.

 
http://saislibrary.blogspot.com/2011/01/books-online-faq-for-ebl.html

Alonzo LaMont

We don't hear much from our "sister site," and then along comes news about their "school at work" program. Nothing beats good news in the morning.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/dome/january_2011/the_drive_to_learn

Alonzo LaMont

Pancreatic cancer has met it's (game, set!) match.....

http://gazette.jhu.edu/2011/01/31/jhu-scientists-crack-genetic-code-for-form-of-pancreatic-cancer/

Alonzo LaMont

The SpringerImages app brings …. SpringerImages to the iPhone and iPod touch. Discover photos, diagrams, graphs, figures and tables taken from Springer's ….  ebook collection and journal portfolio as well as the images.MD database. Search image captions, keywords and references to find the right image.

http://itunes.apple.com/app/springerimages/id391961074

Those Apple Wizards are just so gosh-darn clever.

Alonzo LaMont

Hopkins now subscribes to 7 American Economic Association titles

Titles:

American Economic Review

Journal of Economic Literature

Journal of Economic Perspectives

American Economic Journal of Applied Economics

American Economic Journal of Economic Policy

American Economic Journal of Macroeconomics

American Economic Journal of Microeconomics

Platform: AEA

URL: http://www.aeaweb.org/aea_journals.php

Licensed for: US Hopkins only

Alonzo LaMont