NLM Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine recently released the NLM Drug Information Portal at http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/ . This tool provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies.

The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information, with links to individual resources with drug information and summaries tailored to various audiences. General drug categories from MeSH are also included in the Drug Portal records.
* More than 15,000 drugs are available for searching.
* The search interface requires only a drug name.
* A spellchecker is provided.
* Information buttons and balloon pop-ups guide the user by providing helpful hints or a description of the resource and links to the source website.
-- by The Liaison on NLM Announcements

You will find links to The NLM Drug Information Portal (and other helpful tools) on The Affinity Libraries website under

Find Drug Info for Health Professionals

Drug Info for Patients & Families

Innovations in Medical Education (IME) Video Library

from UW-Madison’s School of Medicine
http://videos.med.wisc.edu/

View cutting edge lectures from UW-Madison at your computer. Topics cover nursing, pharmacy, public health, family medicine, pediatrics and more.

The IME Video Library offers free, high-quality, streaming videos of educational events that have taken place at UW-Madison’s Health Sciences Learning Center.

Who can access the Video Library?
All presentations are open to the public through a simple (no cost) sign in.

Key users include :
* Physicians
* Nurses
* Health Professionals
* Health Consumers

What else can I expect to find?
* Biographies of presenters
* Research links selected by health science librarians
* Downloadable audio-only version of the presentations – MP3s
* Notification features such as email and RSS Feeds

What software do I need to view these presentations?
Videos are either in Windows Media or QuickTime format.

Both players are available as free downloads.

What types of presentations are in the Video Library?
* Expert lectures from the University of Wisconsin

* Invited guest lectures from around the world
* Seminar series including : Cultural Diversity in Healthcare, Population Health Sciences
* Department Grand Rounds including :
* Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, and Pediatrics
* Professional Development Seminars

Database of the Month: Evidence-Based Medicine Resources via the Affinity Library Website

If you are looking for Evidence Based Medicine resources to guide your practice, please check out the “Find the Best Evidence: Evidence-Based Practice Tools” on the Affinity Library Services website.

Use the “Best Evidence Pyramid Diagram” to see the range of available tools and their descriptions.

Link directly to Affinity’s Evidence Based Practice resources from the pyramid.

For more information about these resources, or for help with your research, please contact your Affinity Librarians,
Michele Matucheski at MMC or Margo Lambert at SEH.