Recall Notice for USP

The United States Pharmacopeia 33 – National Formulary 28 (USP 33–NF 28) has been recalled. Read more here.

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

Communication skills for the biosciences : a graduate guide
R119 .D58 2009

Biopharmaceutics applications in drug development
RM301.4 .B536 2008

Handbook of stability testing in pharmaceutical development : regulations, methodologies, and best practices
RS424 .H36 2009

Hepatitis C methods and protocols
RC848.H425 H467 2009

Integrated cardiopulmonary pharmacology
RM388 .C635 2008

Medicine, religion, and health : where science & spirituality meet
BL65.M4 K648 2008

Novel anticancer agents : strategies for discovery and clinical testing
RS431.A64 N68 2006

The politics of personalised medicine : pharmacogenetics in the clinic
RM301.3.G45 H435 2004

Critical issues in rural health
RA771.5 .C75 2004

As well as:
Building healthy communities through medical-religious partnerships
RA564.8 .H35 2009
Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise R727.36 .L96 2008
Community pharmacy handbook RS92.W38 2008
Contraception : a history RG136 .J8813 2008
Critical care intravenous infusion drug handbook
RM170 .A445 2010
Cultural competence in health education and health promotion RA418.5.T73 C853 2008
Drug-related problems in the elderly
RC953.7 .D78 2009
Happy pills in America : from Miltown to Prozac
RM315 .H52 2009
How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine
R118.6 .G74 2006
Lexi-Comp's pharmaco-genomics handbook
RM301.3.G45 H86 2005
Managed care pharmacy practice
RS100.3 .M356 2009
Pharmaceutical economics and policy
HD9666.5 .S385 2007
Pharmaceutical price regulation : public perceptions, economic realities, and empirical evidence
HD9666.6 .V47 2008
Physicochemical principles of pharmacy
RS403 .F59 2006
Prescribing in pregnancy
RG528 .P74 2008
Social and behavioral aspects of pharmaceutical care
RS92 .S638 2010
Strong medicine : creating incentives for pharmaceutical research on neglected diseases RS122 .K74 2004
Suppositories
RS201.S85 A45 2008
Transdermal and topical drug delivery from theory to clinical practice
RM151 .W55 2003

"The text-only world of scholarly publishing no longer suffices in the age of Internet video and social media."

Scivee: It's YouTube for scientists!!

There are currently 342 videos in the Pharmacy subject section. Upload YOUR podcast or postercast for free.

New Books for COPHS @ Swilley

The following titles are now available at the Swilley Library for checkout:


Clinical Trials of Drugs and Biopharmaceuticals
RM301.27 .E37 2006

Biopharmaceutical Drug Design and Development
RS380 .M65 2008

Short Protocols in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery: A Compendium of Methods from Current Protocols in Pharmacology

RM301.25.S49 2007

Introduction to Statistics in Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
R853.C55 D961 2008

Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Health care: The Step-by-step Guide for Cultural Competence Training
RA418.5.T73 C878 2008

Essentials of Cultural Competence in Pharmacy Practice
RS92 .E77 2008

The Generic Challenge: Understanding Patents, FDA & Pharmaceutical Life-cycle Management
KF3894.G45 V64 2008

Pharmacogenomics in Drug Discovery and Development

RM301.3.G45 P424 2008

Strategies for Organic Drug synthesis and Design
RS403 .L386 2009








Minor Illness or Major Disease? The Clinical Pharmacist in the Community
RS92 .E38 2006

Not Sure Where to Submit Your Paper?

Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator) is a free web-based application. Based on sample text, such as the title or key words of an article Jane can suggest journals that have published similar articles. Test Jane for yourself here.

Learn more about how it works here: Martijn J. Schuemie and Jan A. Kors, Jane: Suggesting Journals, Finding Experts, Bioinformatics, January 28, 2008.

New Books for COPHS at Swilley

Meyler's side effects of cardiovascular drugs
Ref RM302.5 .M487 2009

Meyler's side effects of drugs used in anesthesia
Ref RD82.7.S53 M49 2009

Meyler's side effects of endocrine and metabolic drugs
Ref RM302.5 .M495 2009

Meyler's side effects of psychiatric drugs

Ref RM315 .M479 2009

(More in the series arriving later in 2009)

Gibaldi's drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical care
RS199.5 .G53 2007

Vaccine protocols
QR189 .V2513 2003

FYI - Swine Influenza and Micromedex

From Thomson regarding Micromedex:

"In response to the recent outbreak of Swine Influenza (H1N1), Thomson Reuters has updated the MICROMEDEX drug, disease, and patient education content to reflect the most recent CDC guidelines published on 4/27/09.

The MICROMEDEX content already includes detailed information on the treatment of influenza. We continue to closely monitor the guidelines provided by the CDC specific to the swine influenza outbreak and will update this information accordingly."

New books for COPHS in the Swilley Library

Ethics and professionalism: a guide for the physician assistant
R697.P45 E84 2008

Litt's drug eruption reference manual including drug interactions
RL803 .D78 2009

Antibiotics, simplified
RM267 .G27 2009


The pharmacy informatics primer
RS122.2 .P44 2009

ImmunoFacts: vaccines and immunologic drugs
RM281 .G73 2009


Biochemistry: the molecular basis of life
QD415 .M36 2009

Meyler's side effects of psychiatric drugs
RM315 .M479 2009


The pharmacist's guide to evidence-based medicine for clinical decision making
RS92 .B765 2008

Applied therapeutics: the clinical use of drugs
RM262 .A65 2009

New from the National Library of Medicine

"The Dietary Supplements Labels Database offers information about ingredients in more than 3,000 selected brands of dietary supplements. Ingredients of dietary supplements in this database are linked to other National Library of Medicine databases such as MedlinePlus and PubMed to allow users to understand the characteristics of ingredients and view the results of research pertaining to them, including the following characteristics:

• Uses in humans
• Adverse effects
• Mechanism of action

The Database can be searched by brand names, uses noted on product labels, specific active ingredients, and manufacturers."

New Books for Check Out @ Swilley

Drug delivery systems
RS199.5 .D77 2008

Essential clinical procedures
R697.P45 C56 2007

Macromolecular drug delivery : methods and protocols
QH506 .M45 2009

Antimicrobial resistance : problem pathogens and clinical countermeasures
QR177 .A588 2008

Vaccine adjuvants and delivery systems
QR189 .V232 2007

Physician assistant : a guide to clinical practice
R697.P45 P48 2008

AIDS vaccine development : challenges and opportunities
QR189.5.A33 A34 2007

Alternative medicine? : a history
R733 .B58 2007

Pneumococcal vaccines : the impact of conjugate vaccine
QR189.5.P58 P54 2008

Case studies in pharmacy ethics
RS100.5 .V43 2008


Presentation zen simple ideas on presentation design and delivery
HF5718.22 .R39 2008

Medicinal natural products : a biosynthetic approach
RS160 .D48 2009

Evidence-based medical ethics : cases for practice-based learning
R724 .S585 2008

Modified-release drug delivery technology
RS201.C64 M63 2008

Palliative medicine : a case-based manual
R726.8 .M23 2005

McMinn's clinical atlas of human anatomy
QM25 .M23 2008

Comprehensive pharmacy review & Comprehensive pharmacy review practice exams
RS97 .P49 2010

The SAGE handbook of curriculum and instruction
LB2806.15 .S24 2008

Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles
R726.8 .S3384 2008

RefWorks Training

Swilley Library provides you with access to RefWorks, an "online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies."

Similar to EndNotes, training for RefWorks will be held during three walk-in classes at Swilley Library in the Hendricks Classroom (downstairs).

Wednesday, March 25, 1PM to 1:45PM
OR
Thursday, March 26, 11AM to 11:45AM
OR
Tuesday, March 31, 4:15PM to 5PM

These sessions are for staff, faculty and students. For further information contact Librarian Peter Otto at 678-547-6256 or otto_pj@mercer.edu.

New Science Direct Titles Available

We now have numerous health sciences titles available through Science Direct. Just log in with your MUID. (Note that the holdings may not be "through present" on all titles.)

Here are some sample titles:

-Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
-Advanced Powder Technology
-American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy
-Atherosclerosis
-Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
-Clinical Nutrition
-Disease-a-month
-Evidence-based Healthcare
-Fertility and Sterility
-International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes
-International Journal of Medical Informatics
-Journal of Controlled Release
-Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
-Journal of Voice
-Kidney
-Lancet, Infectious Diseases
-Metabolism
-Patient Education and Counseling
-Pharmacological Research
-Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
-Seminars in Integrative Medicine
-Stem Cell Research
-Women's Health Medicine

BUT WAIT, there's more!

-Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
-Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms
-Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models
-European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
-Food and Chemical Toxicology
-Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation
-Journal of Pediatrics
-Legal Medicine
-Menopause
-Seminars in Integrative Medicine
-Surgical Clinics
-Tetrahedron
-Vaccine
-Vascular Pharmacology

And even more on the website - check it out!

Online Access to AHA Circulation Journals

Swilley Library has joined with the Mercer School of Medicine to present the full Circulation journals package.

• Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
• Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
• Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
• Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions
• Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
• Circulation: Heart Failure

Access them through the Swilley journals home page.

"World's highest drug levels entering India stream"; rise of antibiotic bacterial resistance a concern

from the AP.

"Last year, The Associated Press reported that trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals had been found in drinking water provided to at least 46 million Americans. But the wastewater downstream from Indian plants contained 150 times the highest levels detected in the U.S."

U.S. News calls Pharmacists AND Physician Assistants a "Best Career" in 2009

Check out the career profiles of the pharmacist and physician assistant professions. These are 2 out of 30 being reviewed as "Best Careers" in 2009 (as is Librarian!). The reader comments sections are especially interesting; many varied views and opinions.

The Latest on Drug Makers Ethical Wrong Doing

"Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Article"

Wyeth has been implicated in ghostwriting positive reviews of their own products. Again.

Thoughts? Anyone?

Free Online Anatomy Site

WinkingSkull.com from Thieme Publishers is a free online resource you can use for brushing up on your anatomy identification skills. The site lets you study anatomy, then test yourself against a timer and see your test results instantly. WinkingSkull.com has even more features available with free registration.

Changes to PubMed Summary Display

PubMed has changed the way it displays the summary of your searches. Go here for the full press release.

Science Direct - Freedom Collection (trial ends 11/30/08)

Mercer University currently has access to a trial of the Science Direct Freedom Collection of online journals for your preview. The title list consists primarily of science and health science titles, but business and economics journals are also well represented.

This trial is relatively short, so please make it a priority to preview and evaluate this database.

Thank you!

Receive notification of new research from PubMed

By signing up for "My NCBI" through NLM's PubMed you can tailor searches to your own criteria and have periodic automatic updates sent to yourself via email.

Use this link to find out how.