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National Kidney Month

detailed illustration of a kidney

March begins National Kidney Month. The IHS Library can provide you with many resources regarding this very important and vital organ. Check out some of our resources, including organizational links, eBooks, journals and articles, with regards National Kidney Month.

General Kidney Information:

To know more about kidney disease topics, check the following:

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease

National Kidney Month Toolkit via the National Institute Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/community-health-outreach/national-kidney-month/toolkit

MedlinePlus.gov: Kidney Diseases

https://medlineplus.gov/kidneydiseases.html

Chronic Kidney Disease by the numbers (CDC):

Kidney diseases are a leading cause of death in the United States.
About 37 million US adults are estimated to have CKD, and most are undiagnosed.
40% of people with severely reduced kidney function (not on dialysis) are not aware of having CKD.
Every 24 hours, 360 people begin dialysis treatment for kidney failure.
In the United States, diabetes and high blood pressure are the leading causes of kidney failure, accounting for 3 out of 4 new cases.
In 2019, treating Medicare beneficiaries with CKD cost $87.2 billion, and treating people with ESRD cost an additional $37.3 billion.

https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/basics.html

Anatomy Resources

Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy

https://aclandanatomy.com/multimediaplayer.aspx?multimediaid=10528651

Anatomy TV powered by Primal Pictures (Kidney 3D View)

https://www.anatomy.tv/anatomytv/html5uihap/#/product/fluid/type/Index/displayType/displayFlash/id/166/layer/5/angle/4/structureID/0

AccessMedicine Human Anatomy Modules

AccessMedicine

Anatomy Books

https://library.shu.edu/Phase1/anatomy

Books

The IHS library has a large of collection of eBooks pertaining to the kidney. Below are just some examples of eBooks that are available to view:

AccessMedicine Collection of McGraw Hill books on Nephrology

Additional eBooks

Front cover image for Methods in kidney cell biology. Part A, Volume 153

Methods in kidney cell biology: Part A

Front cover image for Methods in kidney cell biology. Part B

Methods in kidney cell biology: Part B

Front cover image for National Kidney Foundation's primer on kidney diseases

National Kidney Foundation’s primer on kidney diseases

Front cover image for Heptinstall's pathology of the kidney.

Heptinstall’s pathology of the kidney

Front cover image for Biomarkers of kidney disease

Biomarkers of Kidney Disease

Front cover image for Renal nursing : care and management of people with kidney disease

Renal Nursing

Clinical Overviews and Evidence-Based Information

Critically Appraised Topical Information and Clinical Overviews can be found here:

Databases

Guidelines

ClinicalKey Guidelines

NKF KDOQI clinical practice guidelines

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

PubMed

Images (multimedia)

IHS library resources regarding images and kidney’s

Infographics

Journals

Check here to see the following journals that are present in the IHS library holdings through BrowZine. The IHS library subscribes to some core Nephrology journals including the American Journal of Nephrology and American Journal of Kidney

Nephrology Journals Via BrowZine

Contact your IHS Librarian!

For more information regarding library resources and services reach out to your IHS librarian to set up a consultation or a quick chat!

ihslibrary@shu.edu

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Are you searching PEDro effectively?

The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) is the largest physical therapy-specific research database, containing well over 40,000 records ranging from clinical trials, systematic reviews, and clinical practice guidelines (Jr et al., 2019). As a student or a clinician, it is understood that finding timely and appropriate evidence is important for your research or practice. So below we are going to list some helpful steps that will make your searching more optimized and efficient.

Simple and Advance Searching

There are two main interfaces to search within PEDro; either the simple or advance search engine.

Simple Search:

The simple search has one free text field where you can input terms or phrases. This search will only match the search terms or phrases to the text in an article’s title or abstract.

Advanced Search:

The advanced search option gives the user 13 fields to use to develop a search. These fields include: four free-text fields, which are similar to the simple search. These type-in fields contain; Abstract & Title, Author/Association, Title Only and Source. Six fields have drop down menus that include: Therapy, Problem, Body Part, Subdiscipline, Topic and Method. Lastly, the three remaining sections are like filters you would see on a database like PubMed. These options include Published Since (YYYY), New Records added since (DD/MM/YYYY) and Score of at least (/10).

Advanced Searching: AND, OR

There are ways to combine your searches in PEDro. To do so you will need to be on the Advanced Search page. To search for all the search terms in a record, use the AND operator located at the bottom of the page. This has PEDro search for all those records with only those terms that have been typed in. This will make your search much more precise, but also reduced in number.

To search for any of the search terms that have been typed in, use the OR operator instead, again located at the bottom of the page. This will have the database search for trials, reviews or guidelines that contain any of the search terms that have been specified.

Truncation/Wildcards

To enhance a search users can use truncation or wildcards. These options allow the user to do a search using several variations for a specific word. By using an asterisk (*) at the end of a word, the database will locate multiple variations of that word in its records. For example, to find records related to Parkinson’s, typing in Parkinson* will search for records containing, Parkinson Disease or Parkinson’s Disease or Parkinsonism.

Phrase Searching

A user can also search by a phrase. PEDro automatically puts an AND between keywords, so as a user you may want to combine your terms into a phrase so that the search is more relevant. For example, instead of just typing in low back pain, you may want to use it as a phrase and type it as, “low back pain”. Doing a phrase search may eliminate irrelevant records from your search results.

Further Assistance

These are just some basic steps in order for you to effectively search PEDro. For further assistance in learning how to search PEDro, or any other library database, reach out to your librarian here at the IHS Library!

Also, visit the PEDro Search Help website for more tips on how to navigate and search PEDro.

References

Jr, Z., Am, M., Mr, E., & Cg, M. (2019). PEDro searching has improved over time: A comparison of search commands from two six-month periods three years apart. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.10.011

Search help. (n.d.). PEDro. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://pedro.org.au/english/learn/search-help/

Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us: Banned Books Week 2022

Fire graphic September 18 – 24 is Banned Books Week, which “celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.” For over 40 years, Banned Books Week has brought people together in “shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”

Banned Books Week is both a reminder of the unifying power of stories and the divisiveness of censorship, and a call to action for readers across the country to push back against censorship attempts in their communities.

Below is a sampling of books available in our library collection that have been challenged or banned in the United States. Click on the book title to be taken to the eBook.

To learn more about books that have been challenged or banned, visit “Frequently Challenged Books” page from the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom

Fun Home Alison Bechdel

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: a Novel by Jesse Andrews

Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Autobiography of Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley

CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023 Now Available on AccessMedicine

Image Source: McGraw Hill

The 2023 Edition of CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment has launched on AccessMedicine. As a reminder, you have full access to this text and much more through the library at Seton Hall.

For 60+ years, CURRENT Medical Diagnosis & Treatment has been delivering the authoritative information that students, residents, and clinicians need to build their medical knowledge, expertise, and confidence. Written by top experts in their fields, this unmatched guide enables you to find the answers you need quickly and easily.

This edition provides:

Coverage of more than 1,000 diseases and disorders
Comprehensive approach to patient care, focusing on diagnostic tools for day-to-day practice
Hundreds of drug treatment tables for quick access to indexed trade names and updated drug prices
Diagnostic and treatment algorithms to present important information at a glance
Carefully curated, updated references to provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information, and PMID numbers for quick online access
Annual update on dynamic viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS
Hundreds of full color photographs, illustrations, and algorithms
Integration directly into Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment summaries

Credit to Susan Pluta for the original posting

Information about Monkeypox

Symptoms of monkeypox illustration — Image Source: CDC

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking an outbreak of monkeypox that has spread across several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox, including the United States.[1] Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.[2]

As of July 25, 2022 there are 5,189 confirmed cases of monkeypox is the United States.[3] As of July 29, 2022, there are 22,485 confirmed cases of monkeypox globally across 79 countries.[4]

Here are some resources to keep you informed about this outbreak:

Agencies:

Evidence Summaries:

Information for patients/general public:

Medline Plus

Statistics and Data:

Relevant MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for searching at PubMed.gov:

References:

1.CDC. 2022 U.S. Monkeypox Outbreak. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 28, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html

2. CDC. About Monkeypox. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 22, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/about.html

3. CDC. 2022 U.S. Map & Case Count. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 29, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html

4. CDC. 2022 Monkeypox Outbreak Global Map. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published July 27, 2022. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html

So, what’s the difference between PUBMED and MEDLINE?

Do you ever wonder what the difference is between PubMed and MEDLINE? We will try to break it down for you so that you have better understanding between the two.

So, what exactly is Medline? Medline is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. It contains 29 million references from approximately 5,200 biomedical, biology and health journals dating back to 1946. Articles that are indexed within Medline are assigned Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) based on their content. Scholarly journals make up much of the content found in Medline, however there are also newspapers, magazines and newsletters that have been indexed into the database as well. Medline can be searched through various platforms such as through OVID, ProQuest and EBSCOhost interfaces.

Okay so what does PubMed have then? PubMed is a free database maintained by the National Center of Biotechnology information at the National Library Medicine. PubMed contains over 34 million references that cover topics on medical, biomedical and life sciences. Although PubMed is a way of accessing the Medline database, it contains more content including books, in-process and ahead of print citations and citations to non-medical journals.

PubMed and Medline have very similar content. In fact, approximately 98% of PubMed’s content is from Medline. The biggest difference between the two is its availability as PubMed is accessible freely online without a subscription, while Medline is only available to institutions that subscribe to the database.

PubMed may be free, but it is always recommended that you should access it via the library website in order to have access to many free full text along with the ability to request an interlibrary loan of an article we may not have.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?otool=njshuwllib

References

“MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How Are They Different?” FAQs, Help Files, Pocket Cards. U.S. National Library of Medicine. Accessed August 1, 2022. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/difference.html.pubmed/?otool=njshuwllib

Rickman, Karen. “LibGuides: Research Tips: What’s the Difference between PubMed, Medline & Embase?” Accessed August 1, 2022. https://kemh.libguides.com/library/search_tips/faqs/difference_between_pubmed_medline_embase.

Data Services offering new Statista subscription and summer data training workshops

Research Data Services is excited to announce the new data subscription “Statista” free for all SHU faculty, students, and staff. The SHU community can access over 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics through this subscription. University Libraries, where Research Data Services resides, is grateful to the Office of Grants & Research (OGRS) who funded this subscription as part of a $1.5 million grant from the State of New Jersey through its Opportunity Meets Innovation (OMI) Challenge Grants program.

The data in Statista are collected from over 22,500 data sources such as government databases, trade publications, scientific journals, and over 170 different industries and over 160 countries and presented to users in charts, tables, and infographics. Statista is one of the reliable data sources for Market Data, Market Research, and Market Studies. With over 200 data and research specialists, all published data and reports must pass a tested-multi-stage peer-review process. The platform of Statista supports the following languages: English, Spanish, German, and French.Seton Hall faculty, students, and staff can access their accounts using

Seton Hall University Libraries Databases. Under the “Find” tab, there will be the Seton Hall University Libraries A-Z Databases list. Logging to the Statista platform through SHU institutional subscription grants users access to free pdf, PPT, XLS, and PNG files. Users should see :Welcome, Seton Hall University!” on the upper-left side of their screen to ensure full access to the subscription.

Research Data Services will host a “Find Data for Your Research: workshop featuring the newly added subscription, Statista. Participants will learn how to navigate the platform and download and cite Statista data. Registration for the workshop is through RDS’s Calendar.

Interested in more Research Data Services Workshops?

A photo of students with laptops

Research Data Services at University Libraries will be holding Data Summer Workshops online from June 21 to August 30. The RDS data classes provide students, faculty, and staff with hands-on training sessions in data management, analysis, and visualization using different quantitative and qualitative software. These data workshops are beneficial in preparing students for research methods and data analysis classes. Moreover, these data classes help students with their thesis and dissertations. This Summer training will cover Stata, Atlas.ti, ArcGIS, RStudio, Jupyter, Qualtrics, SPSS, and PowerBI.

As mentioned above, in addition to software training, the RDS will introduce the newly added data subscription “Statista.” featured in the workshop “Find Data for your research in ICPSR, Statista, PolicyMaps, and The Living Atlas of The World.” In this workshop, the RDS team takes you on a journey to discover meaningful datasets suitable for your research interests. The SHU community has free access to ICPSR, PolicyMap, The Living Atlas. of The World, and Statista.

To see the full schedule and to register, please visit The RDS Calendar or email data.services@shu.edu.

Categories: Science and Technology

For more information, please contact:

Samah Alshrief
(973) 275-4805
data.services@shu.edu

Preparing Drugs Ahead of Viral Disease Outbreak

Last month’s announcement^[1] from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease that it was funding 9 research consortia – called “Antiviral Drug Discovery Centers for Pathogens of Pandemic Concern”, was welcome news. The idea that a concerted effort will be made to create COVID-19 antivirals, as well as ones targeting a range of (viral) families in anticipation of the next outbreak, is inspired. Bringing together academic researchers with pharmaceutical/industrial partners focused on multidisciplinary approaches is a real strength of the envisioned program. Congratulations to Dr. David Perlin (from the Hackensack Meridian Health Research Institute’s Center for Discovery and Innovation) and his collaborators for being selected as part of the program’s drug development initiative.^[2]

Complementing the power of antivirals and their ability to alter the course of disease and/or reduce and prevent viral spread, are vaccines – designed to prevent infection altogether. The following discussion focuses on steps to accelerate development of just such antiviral vaccines.

Let us be clear – viruses have long been, and will continue to be, a plague on human health and well-being. Whether they be extant (e.g., SARS-CoV2, Ebola, West Nile), newly mutated variants, or recently developed from zoonotic (i.e., animal to human) transmission – infectious viruses will continue to do what they have done for thousands of years – copy and spread their genomes and compromise human health. How do we get out in front of this incoming and indeed ever-present onslaught? The answer is to prepare now.

Dr. Florian Krammer at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggests that some 50-100 viruses should be identified and targeted for vaccine development.^[3] Choice of which viruses to pursue would be based on infective potential, transmissibility, and accompanying symptoms/pathology. Such a curated list of potentially dangerous pathogens could be informed by recently developed approaches involving machine learning/artificial intelligence. Georgetown University researcher Dr. Colin Carlson and team have been working on just such approaches and have launched VIRION, a database (still in alpha testing) that is designed to help with the curation process. Powerful algorithms coupled with predictive modeling and detailed analytics allow, for the first time, an ability to predictably identify viruses with enhanced potential to infect humans.

Vaccine development in response to the COVID-19 pandemic proceeded at a pace unseen in modern medicine. Vaccine platforms are now in place such that even tighter timelines between virus identification and vaccine production may be realized. But every day – especially early in an outbreak – is critical and could mean the difference between life and death; so how can the program be maximally accelerated? Perhaps, as Dr. Krammer suggests, once viruses (and viral families) are identified, the process of vaccine development could commence. Not waiting for an actual viral outbreak across human populations is crucial.

mRNA-based vaccine development, which worked so well in the context of SARS-CoV2, could once again be brought to bear. Moderna’s mRNA Access program^[4] would be particularly helpful here – assisting in the identification of appropriate antigen(s), the design of relevant mRNA coding sequences, and other stability, expression, and production parameters associated with its (mRNA) vaccine platform. Once candidate vaccines were developed and tested pre-clinically, they could be evaluated in FDA-approved phase 1 and 2 (drug) testing protocols. Having the results of such clinical trials would position the vaccines for rapid deployment in phase 3 testing when circumstances warranted. Once it is clear a (related) virus has been identified and an outbreak is imminent, scaled up production, distribution, and inoculation efforts would be rapidly initiated. What might have taken years in the past and took roughly a year for the COVID-19 vaccine, could now be accelerated to, Dr. Krammer predicts, 3-4 months (after identification of the relevant viral strain). The value of such preparedness in terms of reducing and/or eliminating the disease burden is incalculable. There are many hurdles (e.g., regulatory, monetary, coordination) that would need to be overcome to effect such a strategy – but the impact could truly be life-saving on a world-wide scale.

SRT – June 2022

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-antiviral-drug-development-awards
[2] https://njbiz.com/65m-grant-funds-joint-academic-pharma-drug-accelerator/
[3] Krammer, F. (2020). Pandemic vaccines: how are we going to be better prepared next time? Med, 1(1), 28-32.
[4] https://mrna-access.modernatx.com

IHS Librarians receive grant, award

The IHS Library is pleased to congratulate Health Sciences Librarians, Kyle Downey and Peggy Dreker, on recent honors.

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Kyle Downey was awarded the “Opportunity Meets Innovation (OMI) Challenge Grant” through Seton Hall University along with co-researchers, Dr. Lauren Snowdon and Dr. Angela Lis of the Physical Therapy program. This grant was designed to create interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities among faculty and students from different academic disciplines.

Their project, “Assessing the integration of evidence-based practice skills into clinical practice following curricular redesign” will look directly at outcomes of the embedded library curriculum Kyle has developed with the Dr. Snowdon and Dr. Lis.

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Peggy Dreker was awarded “University Libraries Faculty Researcher of the Year” through Seton Hall University. Peggy received this honor at a March 31st Faculty Researcher and Teacher of the Year Awards luncheon presented by the Office of the Provost.

Peggy’s scholarship this past year was robust. She published 5 systematic reviews in scholarly medical journals, two book chapters on systematic review work, and an article on the innovative work done in the SOM’s PPPC curriculum. A listing of her scholarship can be found on her ORCID page.

New Journals available via the IHS Library!

The IHS Library is pleased to announce the following high-impact journals have been added to our collection:

- - - - Annual Reviews Immunology
      - Blood
      - Blood Cancer Discovery
      - Cancer Discovery
      - Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
      - Cancer Immunology Research
      - Cancer Prevention Research
      - Cancer Research
      - Clinical Cancer Research
      - Genes & Development
      - Genome Research
      - Immunity
      - JAMA Dermatology
      - JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
      - JCO Global Oncology
      - JCO Oncology Practice
      - JCO Precision Oncology
      - Journal of Clinical Oncology
      - Journal of Immunology
      - Journal of Investigative Dermatology
      - Molecular Cancer Research
      - Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
      - Nature Aging
      - Nature Biomedical Engineering
      - Nature Cancer
      - Nature Microbiology
      - Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
      - Science
      - Science Immunology
      - Science Translational Medicine

You can access articles from these and thousands of other journals in our collection via the IHS Library website and searching databases such as PubMed and Scopus, or searching for individual journals via the main library search bar. You will then be prompted to enter your Seton Hall University ID and Password. If you do not have your SHU ID/Password, please reach out to the IHS Library at ihslibrary@shu.edu.

We also encourage you to install the LibKey Nomad Chrome Extension, which automatically links to full-text content from websites such as PubMed, Wikipedia, Google Scholar and publisher websites. This extension is especially helpful if you find an article while searching outside the IHS Library website.