While looking through some old files recently, I ran across documents related to the 2004 WHSLA Conference, held in Milwaukee. I wasn't a medical librarian at the time, but recognize many familiar names in the schedule below.
In addition to a keynote, roundtable discussions, and CE, there was a social event at the Milwaukee Art Museum that featured kaleideoscope mania. Anyone remember this?
NEJM AI Grand Rounds, a new monthly podcast hosted by Arjun (Raj) Manrai, Ph.D., and Andrew Beam, Ph.D., features informal, expert conversations that explore deep issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and medicine.
In the first episode, Stanford University professor and cardiologist Dr. Euan Ashley shares how his team is using artificial intelligence to prevent, predict, and beat disease.
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It's time for the BMJ Christmas issue! This year, my favorite article is an extremely rigorous examination of the optimal temperature of tea and which biscuit to best accompany it.
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It was great to see so many of you at last week’s WHSLA 2022 Business Meeting. At the meeting one of the New Business items was a discussion on the WHSLA website. After a mandatory Google update earlier in 2022, the website lost some functionality that also showed the older architecture and page structure of the website. Members recommended exploring migrating the WHSLA website in 2023.
As 2022 wraps up, please join me in thanking our 2022 WHSLA Board. As we all know, professional associations like ours run on volunteers and people willing to help out.
I would be remiss if I didn't thank all our WHSLA members for playing a part in our association this year. Whether you read a blog post, attended a meeting, shared an update during a discussion, or networked with other WHSLA members, we appreciate you!
2022 WHSLA Executive Board
President
President Elect
Immediate Past President (ex-officio)
Secretary
Treasurer
Robert Koehler and Karen Hanus (Apprentice)
Members-At-Large (Two-year term, 2021-2022)
2022 WHSLA Committees
Archives
Communications
Allan Barclay (List-serv)
Brenda Fay, Annie Lipski, Michele Matucheski (blog)
Jennifer Schram (WHSLA website)
GMR Health Science Librarian Focus Group
Membership Coordinator
Midwest Chapter/MLA Representative
Professional Development and MLA webinar coordinators
Reprinted from: ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal Content Available From PubChem Only Starting December 2022. NLM Tech Bull. 2022 Jul-Aug;(447):e2.
On December 12, 2022, PubChem will serve as NLM's single source for chemical information. NLM is retiring ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal, two other chemical property information sites, to better focus our development efforts on a single, integrated source of chemical information. All of the data found in ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal is currently available and will continue to be available in PubChem.
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. A quick guide to finding ChemIDplus data on PubChem can be found at Accessing ChemIDplus Content from PubChem. In addition, About PubChem provides a wealth of information about using PubChem, including sections on:
A new self-paced PubChem tutorial (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/pubchem/tutorial/) is also available to guide users through the steps to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government, and industrial sources contribute to PubChem. It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures.
New content will continue to be added to ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal until November 1, 2022. Both ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal will remain available until they are retired in mid-December 2022. The ChemIDplus data (which includes all of the data in the Drug Information Portal) is also available as a bulk download file through the NLM Data Distribution Program and will continue to be available after both sites are retired.
If you have any questions, please contact the NLM Support Center.
Being a Telepatient is a recent comic from Dr. Nathan Gray, meant to help patients prepare for telehealth visits. He includes 10 tips for making the most of your next virtual visit.
Bonus: It's short and easy-to-digest.
May be of interest to clinical staff or anyone invested in health literacy.
When I first saw the title of this book, "Laziness does not exist", I thought maybe it had been written by a former NFL player with a go, go, go philosophy. I was pleasantly surprised to learn it isn't a celebration of working/playing until you fall down, but a reframing of the necessity and benefits of not thinking of our lives and the hours in our day in terms of productivity.
Where does Dumptruck the chinchilla come in? The author's pet inspired him. Hear more in the NPR news story embedded below.
"I think animals help us remember that we shouldn't have to earn our right to exist. We're fine and beautiful and completely lovable when we're just sitting on the couch just breathing. And if we can feel that way about animals that we love and about, you know, relatives that we love, people in our lives who we never judged by their productive capacity, then we can start thinking of ourselves that way, too."
For you MLA members, a Be Well MLA event next week will be discussing this title (Wednesday, 12/14 at 1 pm CST).
What says "December" to you? To me it's snowflakes and cookies. Happily there are two TED-Ed videos about just that!
