NCBI overview with Peter Cooper

By Re Mishra

This month, SCR connections until September 15 at 10: 30 am (CT) are the NCBI-overview by Peter Cooper, Ph.d. National Center for biotechnology information.

"This talk introduces the NCBI Entrez system and use of information and BLAST covers molecular databases. (I) to provide an overview of the databases, the data types of the molecular and cellular bases of brain function, that describe the order, SNP, genome information and BLAST searching, using the example of the gene to move to an integrated database, search tools and other resources.Talk about 45 minutes after 15 minutes for questions and answers ".

Webinar is free to all interested seated as an accessory. https://webmeeting.nih.gov/scr/, the log in screen, go to the Select Guest, and then type enter your name when you have typed. online meeting room, follow the instructions in the system call you on the phone's display.

It is recommended that you test before joining with Adobe Connect to.

Subtitles are available on request clear days ' notice.

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New Mental Health Resources for Gulf Oil oil spill response

by: Karen Vargas

The National Institute of mental health (NIMH) has posted two new mental health resource on its website the Gulf Oil oil spill response in order to survive.

Dr. Farris Tuma, Chief signs of Stress Research program NIMH, follow these steps to resolve the challenges of the mental health of the residents and health care providers in the Gulf Oil oil spill recovery this 4,5 minutes video: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/media/video/speaking-of-science/tuma-oil-spill.shtml

In addition, how to cope with the ongoing uncertainty of the Gulf oil, in order to survive was created is called continue Stress fact sheet: Gulf Oil oil spill recovery Disaster http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/coping-with-continued-stress/index.shtml

Other publications, in the context of the characters in the entries NIMH can be found at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/trauma-listing.shtml

The entry has been posted, Tuesday, 24th August 2010 at 9: 45 am and is filed under general health and consumers (all entries). you can track any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. comments and pings are currently closed.

Older Adults use Social Media for a double

by: Karen Vargas

The latest project debugging Internet & American Life report (http://pewinternet.org/) that social media is used between the ages of 50 and 64 have almost doubled among adults. Almost 1/2 Internet users under the age of 50 and 1/4 of those over 65 are Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media Web sites to users. 

Young adults (aged 18-29) will continue to be the main users of sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace for 86% of this age group, saying they use sites with Internet users.However, when young adults increased by 13% in the third party sites, or use of the previous year, adults 50-64 is increased by 88% as a result of their use and 65 years of age and above increased needs 100%!

In addition, adults 50-64 age group is the increasing use of Twitter or a similar product 5% in 2009 and 11% in 2010. it is not surprising, e-mail is still the primary way to older adults in touch online 92% of the 50-64 age and 89% of those aged 65 and older, the sending or view the e-mail a typical date.

In the previous investigation debugging discusses a variety of reasons why social media quickly extended to parents with adults:

Social network users are much more likely to connect with the past and these new connections is not in a position to provide effective support network, where the people close to retirement or from a new career. older adults are more likely to live with chronic diseases, and are more likely to support the development of these diseases are residing in the online Social media name exceeds. gaps and provides the opportunity to share information in the name of the share can be reached.

For more information about how to read the full report at http://pewinternet.org/reports/2010/older-adults-and-social-media/report.aspx

This entry was posted on Wednesday, 1st of September 2010 1: 59 pm and is filed under general health, consumers (all entries), you can track any technology; responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. comments and pings are currently closed.

PubMed health and NCBI-new site

by: Karen Vargas

  National Center for biotechnology Information (NCBI) is developing at the moment is called PubMed health and which is intended for the consumer-level, evidence-based health data focus on the new site.  PubMed, NCBI is being developed in the framework of health has published some original content, if according to the American Society of Health-system pharmacists (ASHP), may be submitted to search engines such as Google through.  NCBI currently checks for some development decisions in the PubMed Health site to determine how, in particular, the pages are turned on.When you've finished, PubMed search functionality is specific to the health, as well as links to other NLM PubMed online products in health NLM technical article is published, when you've finished creating your site is started.

PubMed Health does not replace the MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov/), NLM's premier health Web site for patients and families and friends still extends the MedlinePlus., including the full site redesign launched this July, and a new mobile interface, MedlinePlus Mobile (http://m.medlineplus.gov/), which was published in January 2010.MedlinePlus about reliable up-to-date health diseases, conditions and welfare issues in the language of the public to understand.

This entry was posted on Thursday, 19th August, 2010 2: 13 pm and is filed under general health, consumers (all entries), NLM PubMed notifications, you can track any responses. this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. comments and pings are currently closed.

The last issue of NCCAM Focus research and Care

by: Karen Vargas

September issue of complementary and alternative medicine: focus on the research and Care is now available to Read online http://nccam.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2010_september/.

This issue will be a last issue of this publication and a new monthly e-publication from NCCAM Clinical Digest publication that summarizes the health condition of science and CAM status (diabetes, pain, sleep disorders, etc.).Go to the NCCAM Clinical Digest subscribe to http://nccam.nih.gov/news/subscribe.htm.

In this issue:

Massage Therapy option provides Care in this winning custody article, massage Therapy is necessary to consider the fact that it provides one form of pain, drug treatment.

Hands-on approaches, challenges, Back Pain which is NCCAM that recent research back Pain CAM?

Entry was posted on Monday, the 30th of August 2010 at 4: 37 pm and is filed under general health and consumers (all entries). you can track any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. comments and pings are currently closed.

Wonderful World of Web Widgets

Emily Hurst,

Also known as gadgets, widgets are a great way to quickly add information or resources outside of your own website.Widgets are separate applications that can be embedded in other sites by any user of the widgets can be embedded in a Web page., a blog or a site that uses HTML code.

For example, you might have used the Haitian health resources page provided by NLM, but you may want to give these same resources link to Web site visitors. NLM create widget linking back to the resources. You can embed the widget on the page provided code to place the resource page graphic link to your own website.

Many other public bodies created widgets that can be added to the Web site.Embed on your site widgets allow you to customize the Web site but still have access to resources and information. Widgets another advantage is that all data will be managed by the original author has only little maintenance when you insert a page into a widget in addition to the coding and graphics. not so does not entail any increase in the program is.The code and copy and paste.

The Government's Gadget Gallery-usa.gov contains a wide range of gadgets and topics, including health, business, family, environment, travel, science, reference, defence and more widgets.

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