The recent news stories about a new drug resistant super-bug were ignited by “Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study“  Kumarasamy,KK; Toleman, MA; Walsh, TR et alThe Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 11 August 2010 doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70143-2  Lancet Infectious Diseases provides some Reflection and Reaction Full […]

The Medical Library is delighted to announce that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine (5th edition) is now available as an e-book to all library users.“The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties, it is a […]

 BBC Radio 4’s Inside the Ethics Committee is back since last Tuesday – you can listen again or download to your MP3 player the last series and the more recent programmes. Today’s programme looked at “When should a seriously ill child have a say in their treatment?” and last weeks at “Should a man who believes […]

With the publication of the White Paper “Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS”  there are several overviews which you might find useful: The Knowledge & Library Service at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust have created a blog post which brings together both their synopsis and also many comments from other sources, including Kings Fund, NHS Confederations, […]

The Oxford based Centre for Evidence Based Medicine have made a wide selection of powerpoints available from their website.Titles include: Introduction to EBM – Paul Glasziou RCT Appraisal – Dan Lasserson Systematic Reviews – Paul Glasziou Did you know that CEBM also have a YouTube channel?  http://www.youtube.com/user/cebmed This is just one example of the content: “A Clinical Introduction […]

http://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/interactive-learning/finding-and-appraising-the-evidence Overall introduction to critical appraisal Finding the evidence Randomised controlled trials Systematic reviews Economic evaluations Making sense of results

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2010/jun/24/sense-about-science-lecture-2010 http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412187&c=1 http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/other/297/  an independent charitable trust promoting good science and evidence in public debates Dr Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, delivers the annual Sense About Science lecture on the theme ‘It’s time to stand up for science once more’

image from Queen’s Library, Flickr UPDATE (30th June 2010): thank you for your patience – the catalogue is back, better than ever, but looking pretty much exactly the same!

Health needs of people with Learning Disabilities from the NHS Evidence – learning disabilities specialist collection  People with learning disabilities have a higher level of health needs than the general population, many of which are unmet. The Health Needs Annual Evidence Update 2010 will provide bibliographies of published research for the following key health issues: Cancer Challenging behaviour Coronary […]

Age UK National Falls Awareness Week 21st – 25th June, 2010 Falls among elderly people cost the NHS more than £4.6 million a day, new analysis found. Up to one in three (3.4 million) people over 65 fall each year in the UK, existing figures show. Almost half of all falls are among the over-80s, […]