Journals and Videos Received in July 2007:

New Journal Issues

Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons

The American journal of cardiology plus Supplement

The American journal of managed care (N)

The American journal of medicine

American medical news

Annals of long-term care (N)

Archives of internal medicine

CA : a cancer journal for clinicians (N)

Cardiometabolic journal club (N)

Cardiology Review

Clinical advances in hematology and oncology (N)

Clinical Geriatrics

Community oncology

Consultant

Cortlandt forum

Cutis

Formulary (N)

Geriatrics

ICT

Internal medicine news

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA

Journal of clinical outcomes management : JCOM

The journal of family practice plus Supplement

New Multimedia

ACMG basics [CD-ROM] [electronic resource] : genetics for providers / produced American College of Medical Genetics
2007
Donated.

Cancer Conference Update : 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 14th to 17th, 2006
2007
Donated.

Colorectal Cancer Update : Conversations with oncology investigators : Bridging the gap between research and patient care.
2007
Donated.

Lung Cancer Update : Conversations with oncology investigators : bridging the gap between research and patient care
2007
Donated.

Renal Cell Cancer Update : conversations with oncology investigators : bridging the gap between research and patient care
2007
Donated.

Thanks to Dr. Cruz, Dr. Kahn, and Dr. Lee for their journal donations.

New CME on Medscape

Medscape recently announced a CME topic that may be of interest to the staff.

Appropriate Blood Pressure Control In Hypertensive and Normotensive Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Summary of the ABCD Trial (link)

• From: Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
• CME Credits: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians
• Release Date: July 19, 2007
• Expiration Date: July 19, 2008
• Summary: Patients with type 2 diabetes will experience multiple microvascular and macrovascular complications. This activity identifies the benefits of intensive blood pressure lowering in type 2 diabetes.

Related items:

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With thanks to Medscape CME Alert.

Human antibodies that block SARS identified

From a NIH Press Release dated 2 July 2007:

"An international team of investigators has identified the first human antibodies that can neutralize different strains of the virus responsible for outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). "

The team included members of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and other organizations. The findings are said to appear in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (Citation: Zhu Z, Chakraborti S, He Y, Roberts A, Sheahan T, Xiao X, Hensley LE, Prabakaran P, Rockx B, Sidorov IA, Corti D, Vogel L, Feng Y, Kim J, Wang L, Baric R, Lanzavecchia A, Curtis KM, Nabel GJ, Subbarao K, Jiang S, Dimitrov D. Potent cross-reactive neutralization of SARS coronavirus isolates by human monoclonal antibodies. "Proc Natl Acad Sci USA". Vol. 104, No. 27. July 3, 2007).

See the full press release here.

Other websites of interest:

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)