New HSL Resources

Over July and August, while everyone else was relaxing by the pool, the Health Sciences Library was busy adding books!

The 2008 report of the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada is the first since the Public Health Agency of Canada became a legal entity in 2006. It provides both a snapshot of Canadians' current health status and a benchmark against which we can measure future progress.

The report indicates that the overall health of Canada's population is considered very good, but a closer inspection of disease, disability and death rates shows that some groups of Canadians are less healthy and have a lower quality of life than others.

For more information and a complete copy of the report, visit: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2008/cpho-aspc/index-eng.php

This major contribution to the field of cell signalling by one of the world's leading experts, Professor Sir Michael Berridge (Cambridge), provides researchers, teachers and students alike with an essential online resource describing the biology of cell signalling. Emerging information on cell signalling pathways is integrated and presented within the context of specific cell types and processes.

You can access this new resource here: http://libaccess.mcmaster.ca/login?url=http://www.cellsignallingbiology.org/

Status Epilepticus, Mechanisms and Management,

Edited by Claude G. Wasterlain and David M. Treiman

Interest in status epilepticus--the most extreme form of epilepsy, involving continuous seizures--has surged in the last 20 years. The book focuses on the two areas in which progress has been most rapid: basic mechanisms and treatment. After an overview of history, classification, and epidemiology, the contributors consider clinical phenomenology, biological markers, pathophysiology, brain damage, epileptogenesis, therapeutic principles, pharmacology, and therapeutic management.

About the Editors:
Claude G. Wasterlain is Chief of the Department of Neurology at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at UCLA.
David M. Treiman is Director of the Epilepsy Center at the Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix.

Available on Journals@Ovid, the LWW Journal Legacy Archive contains older volumes of many popular medical journals that previously were only available in print. Online access makes this content much more usable and widely available to the McMaster community, both on and off campus.

Coverage of each journal spans Volume 1, Issue 1 through the final issue of 1999.

Click here for a list of titles.

The Health Sciences Library has added three new resources from Wiley:

Health Economic Evaluation Database
HEED contains information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines and other treatments and medical interventions. HEED also includes, in bibliographic detail, entries from the Wellcome and Battelle databases of economic evaluation literature.

Current Protocols in Neuroscience (eBook)

Current Protocols in Neuroscience is a one-stop resource for finding and adapting the best models and methods for all types of neuroscience experiments. It brings together hundreds of core techniques in all branches of neuroscience from top scientists around the world. It also
draws from molecular neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and behavioral neuroscience, CPNS includes both in vitro and in vivo models, prepared, edited, and tailored especially for neuroscience research.

Evidence based child health (eJournal)

Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review Journal will present new or substantively updated systematic literature reviews from The Cochrane Library that are relevant to child health. These reviews will be of interest to practitioners, parents, patients, and other child health advocates. The aim of the journal is to allow readers to inform their clinical decision-making and policy development with the highest-quality research evidence available. Each issue of Evidence-Based Child Health will highlight 4-6 Cochrane reviews on topics that are controversial, that recommend a change in practice, or for which particularly strong evidence exists. These reviews will be fully published in the journal, accompanied by their structured abstract. An expert commentary or editorial will accompany 2-3 key reviews that deserve particular attention. To promote greater appeal to parents, patients, and policy makers, concise, easily understood and interesting synopses will also accompany each key review.

Current Protocols in Neuroscience is a one-stop resource for finding and adapting the best models and methods for all types of neuroscience experiments. It brings together hundreds of core techniques in all branches of neuroscience from top scientists around the world. It also draws from molecular neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and behavioral neuroscience, CPNS includes both in vitro and in vivo models, prepared, edited, and tailored especially for neuroscience research.

Evidence based child health: A Cochrane Review Journal will present new or substantively updated systematic literature reviews from The Cochrane Library that are relevant to child health. These reviews will be of interest to practitioners, parents, patients, and other child health advocates. The aim of the journal is to allow readers to inform their clinical decision-making and policy development with the highest-quality research evidence available. Each issue of Evidence-Based Child Health will highlight Cochrane reviews on topics that are controversial, that recommend a change in practice, or for which particularly strong evidence exists. These reviews will be fully published in the journal, accompanied by their structured abstract. An expert commentary or editorial will accompany key reviews that deserve particular attention. To promote greater appeal to parents, patients, and policy makers, concise, easily understood and interesting synopses will also accompany each key review.

Health Economic Evaluation Database
HEED contains information on studies of cost-effectiveness and other forms of economic evaluation of medicines and other treatments and medical interventions. HEED also includes, in bibliographic detail, entries from the Wellcome and Battelle databases of economic evaluation literature.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) CHEMpendium is now available online to McMaster University staff and students.