ECG Books

This week ECG Books are in high demand by our medical students -

Students may access the ONLINE version of Hampton's - ECG Made Easy by going to the Library homepage -

• Sign In - using your Student ID number and Password
• enter author and title - Hampton and ECG Made Easy
• Click on the link ONLINE RESOURCE for full text access

You can also click the link below to access the full text of this book
https://www-dawsonera-com.libgate.library.nuigalway.ie/abstract/9780702047961

Other ECG book titles available at MED LIB 616.1207547 include

• ECG at a Glance - Patrick Davey
• Pocket Reference for ECGs Made Easy - Barbara Aehlert

New study to make heart disease treatments safer

Thousands of people with heart disease suffer severe adverse reactions to some of the main drugs - statins and ACE inhibitors - that are used to treat it.

Now a new European-wide study led by the University of Dundee is set to investigate whether genetic research could be used to predict these side effects

Health Canal link to article full text

Google’s ambitious plan to extend human life

Google announces a new company, Calico, which will focus on health and aging, and will be run by Arthur Levinson, former CEO of biotech pioneer Genentech. "Medicine is well on its way to becoming an information science: doctors and researchers are now able to harvest and mine massive quantities of data from patients. And Google is very, very good with large data sets."http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130920-googles-next-plan-extend-life

TIME Magazine full article http://libgate.library.nuigalway.ie/login?url= http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=8&sid=15f79a30-3f5a-43e4-8adc-6a1ac60a5cd0%40sessionmgr15&hid=22&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ukh&AN=90310595

NUI Galway Research Finds More Children Reporting High Life Satisfaction and Being Happy, Less Children Smoke or Drink

Report on Children’s Health Behaviour launched by Minister for Health, James Reilly TD

The Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly TD, today (23 September), launched the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Ireland Trends Report 1998-2010. The survey was carried out by the Health Promotion Research Centre in NUI Galway.

Commenting on the findings, Principal Investigator Dr Saoirse Nic Gabhainn of NUI Galway stated “this report is the culmination of many years of work, and brings some good news about the health behaviours of children in Ireland over the years, with a decrease in smoking and in alcohol use for example. Yet still more needs to be done to improve their health, in particular around physical activity. Importantly, the proportion of children reporting high life satisfaction and being happy, fundamental aspects of childhood, has increased over the years, as have health and safety behaviours such as wearing a seatbelt and brushing teeth”

To view report click on title :The HBSC Ireland Trends Report 1998-2010: Child Health Behaviours, Outcomes and Contexts.

To view press release click on the link below:
http://www.healthcanal.com/child-health/43175-nui-galway-research-finds-more-children-reporting-high-life-satisfaction-and-being-happy-less-children-smoking-or-drink.html

School of Medicine reading lists now available in "e" format

Following extensive consultation with faculty (including financial support) the Library has acquired reading lists items in “e” format for the clinical years 3.2, 4, and 5, enabling multiple user access from both local and off campus locations.

Examples include 250 Cases in Clinical Medicine; Essentials of Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine and Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine.

 All items can be accessed via the Library web site by “searching the collections” http://www.library.nuigalway.ie

For more information on the enhanced features of using e-books see: http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/support/healthsciencesportal/e-books/

Phone app offers 'verbal autopsies' to improve death records

Two thirds of deaths worldwide go completely unrecorded, making it impossible to know if public health money is being spent in the right places. But could a mobile phone app be the answer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24164824

Doctors group labels 'Arthur's Day' irresponsible

 

 

 

The Royal College of Physicians has criticised "Arthur's Day", an event organised by drinks manufacturer Diageo, saying it promotes heavy drinking and is irresponsible.

Doctors are due to discuss the marketing initiative at a public meeting in Dublin later today.

• The criticism comes after singer Christy Moore wrote a song describing the event as an "alcoholiday".
• Diageo said it is a unique music event and the company discourages alcohol misuse all year round.

 

 http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0923/475856-diageo-arthurs-day/