Top Ten Most Useful Websites for Personal Health

The Medical Library Association each year evaluates and lists the top ten sites for personal health use. Whether you are recommending a site to a patient, or using one for yourself, these ten are “best bets!”
(Sites are listed in alphabetical, NOT ranked, order.)

Cancer.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
familydoctor.org
healthfinder®
HIV InSite
Kidshealth®
Mayo Clinic
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From Adenoids to Zoonomia: A New Exhibit at Dana

From Adenoids to Zoonomia: Selections from Dana’s Medical History Collection is now on view in the Dana Medical Library’s exhibit case. This exhibit features instruments and books from the Medical History Collection.
Dana’s Medical History Collection contains many fine examples of medical instruments, including these curettes and forceps used to remove the adenoids, ca. 1850s-1900.

The Medical [...]

Healthy Web Surfing from MedlinePlus

Whether you are a health care practitioner who wants to help your patients find higher quality information on their own, or you just want to be more discerning in your own search for health information, look no further. MedlinePlus has developed a Guide to Healthy Web Surfing:
Consider the source–Use recognized authorities
Know who is responsible for [...]

Lunch and Learn Series Spring Schedule

Bring your lunch and your questions to the Dana Library Conference Room for our Brown Bag Lunch and Learn sessions, Wednesdays at noon.
EndNote
Learn the basics of EndNote. This demonstration could include creating a list of references in EndNote, downloading records from online databases such as PubMed, creating a bibliography, or adding citations to a paper [...]

Dana Medical Library Hours – Spring Semester 2009

The hours for the Spring 2009 semester will be as follows:
These hours are effective between Monday  January 5, 2009 and Thursday July 2, 2009.
Mon-Thu – 7:30 am – 12 midnight
Fri – 7:30 am – 9 pm
Sat – 9 am – 9 pm
Sun – 9 am – 12 midnight
Exceptions
Martin Luther King Day
Monday January 19, 2009 (University [...]