Welcome to BiblioBlast, the newsletter of the D. Samuel Gottesman Library of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. BiblioBlast will inform you about new Library resources and keep you up to date with our classes, events and other activities. It will also highlight tips to make our online resources easier and faster to use.
Find the answer to practically anything for Senior Adults
Access High Quality Drug Information
Federal Health Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals
Workshops are held via Zoom. Click on a title to sign up.
Contact the Reference Department for more information, or to schedule an individual or small-group session.
See our full listing of events.
Culture of animal cells: a manual of basic technique and specialized applications by 
Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections by 
Basic Biostatistics for Geneticists and Epidemiologists: a practical approach by 
On March 26, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute released the 2014 County Health Rankings at http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/. County Health Rankings ranks more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their states. See what’s new; explore your county’s health, where you excel and where there is room for improvement.
Below you will see the Summary of Health Outcomes & Health Factors Rankings for Bronx, NY.
Counties receive two ranks:
-Health Outcomes
-Health Factors
Each of these ranks represents a weighted summary of a number of measures.
Health outcomes represent how healthy a county is while health factors represent what influences the health of the county.
The NIHSeniorHealth website, from the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine, offers basic health and wellness information for older adults. Users can click on a button to hear the text read aloud or enlarge the type and change the contrast to bright yellow print on a black background to help those with vision impairment.
NIHSeniorHealth also provides short, informative videos on a variety of topics.
The site includes all sorts of topics, from falls to cataracts. It now also includes a module on end of life.
The subtopics include:
Preparing For The End of Life
Addressing Pain
Addressing Other Signs and Symptoms
Addressing Mental and Emotional Issues
Types Of Care
Places Of Care
Planning For Care
Paying For Care
Handling Health Care Issues
Support For Caregivers
When The End Comes
Coping With Grief
Drug Information Portal
The Drug Information Portal from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides a search engine to help you find drug information from Web sites sponsored by the U.S. government. In addition, the site contains special features for the public, students and educators. 
Some other free drug information resources from NLM
DailyMed - NLM drug information portal that includes FDA drug labels
Dietary Supplements Labels Database - label ingredient information from over 5,000 brands of supplements
LactMed - database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed; see brochure for more information
Pillbox - users can quickly identify unknown drugs by color, shape, size, imprint, and scoring
TOXNET - portal search of a collection of databases (LactMed, ChemIDplus, TOXLINE, DART, HSDB) on hazardous chemicals, toxic releases, and environmental health
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents produced by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), in partnership with the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Health Plans (AAHP) .
The "Find" heading on the bottom of the home page directs you to the various "browse" features on the Web site that can be found in the left-hand navigation menu under the "Guidelines" button. These browses include: Browse by Topic, Browse by Organization, Browse Guidelines in Progress, Browse Guideline Index, Browse Guideline Archives, Browse Related NQMC Measures.
To find guidelines on a specific topic, type your search term in the search box accessible in the masthead of all NGC Web pages to quickly search the database. You can also browse the NGC database by Topic (Disease/Condition, Treatment/Intervention, and Health Services Administration) or Organization.
"Search," also known as "basic search" or "main search" is accessed via the search box on the home page or globally in the masthead.
You can also use Advanced Search to perform refined searches of the NGC database. This feature allows you to filter your search by one or more guideline attributes (e.g., Clinical Specialty, Intended Users, Guideline Category). The total data set is narrowed as you select filters to refine your search results.
See About Search for useful tips on how to search the NGC database for guidelines of interest.
LIVERTOX is a free database from National Institutes of Health (NIH) of drugs associated with liver injury. A source of evidence-based information for health care professionals and for researchers studying liver injury associated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and dietary supplements. LIVERTOX also includes a case registry that will enable scientific analysis and better characterization of the clinical patterns of liver injury.
Read the NIH news release here http://www.nih.gov/news/
Fundamentals of Antimicrobial Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics by 
The Einstein Book Club members have chosen The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker. “History, magic and religion braid together in old New York’s tenements…The interplay of loyalties and the struggle to assert reason over emotion keep the pages flipping.” New York Times Book Review.
The next meeting will be Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. in the Library Conference Room, Forchheimer Room 119N. All members of the Einstein community are welcome.
If you have any questions and to RSVP, please contact the Reference Department at askref@einstein.yu.edu or 718.430.3104.
