SLCH Medical Library Blog

Communications from St. Louis Children’s Hospital Medical Library

Questions? Comments?
Please email Lauren Yaeger at yaegerl@wustl.edu.

Entries from April 2008

Diabulimia - Literature Search

April 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

While the phrase “diabulimia” may be relatively new, reducing or omitting insulin intake to lose weight is not. I have included review articles, excerpts from books, and other articles.
Books…
Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed.
Section 6 - Diabetes Mellitus In Children - Chapter 590 - Diabetes Mellitus
EATING DISORDERS.
Treatment of T1DM involves constant monitoring of food intake. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Diabetes · Eating Disorders · Literature Search Results

Skin Disease Finder - VisualDX Health

April 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The <a href=”http://www.visualdxhealth.com/myDiseaseFinder.htm”>Skin Disease Finder</a> by VisuaDX lets you search for skin presentations by patient and body location. Then provides you with real photographs of the possibilities.  

[Read more →]

Tags: DX

Killer Bib Tool - Free Online

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

A patron just showed me this…
http://www.carmun.com/
The Killer Bib Tool walks you through writing specific citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and CSE. Once you register you can keep a bibliography and download it for your paper. And it’s free. How cool is that?

[Read more →]

Tags: APA · Free Online Resources

Red Book Online

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

SLCH lost access to Red Book online via ClinDesk a couple of weeks ago. This access was lost because a license established in 2005 had expired in 2006 and the AAP caught up with it. My predecessor had established this license and I was unaware of it until a couple of weeks ago.
So that everyone [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: SLCH Online Resources

Pediatric Feeding and Dysphagia Newsletter

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

You can now access the Pediatric Feeding and Dysphagia Newsletter from the SLCH Medical Library website. In the future when this post has managed to scroll itself off the front page, you can still access the newsletter by going to the “Pages” section on the left hand side.
Thoughts, ideas, yippees? Please leave a comment!

[Read more →]

Tags: SLCH Online Resources