If you’re a regular JSTOR user, or if you’re new to the database, the Institution Finder is an easy way to access content available to MSKCC users. Skip to 00:53 in the tutorial above to hear about the Institution Finder feature.

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Mobile patient portals, organ donation on Facebook, what those stats were really saying, open access news and baby sea otters…in the brave new fuzzy world of blog buzz.

Kaiser Permanente rolled out a patient EMR app for Androids (with over 99,000 downloads!!) last week and has now introduced an iOS app, reports MobiHealthNews.

What did the stats behind news reports of infections causing 16% of cancers really mean? A great explanation of population attributable fractions from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science.

Dr. Bertalan Meskó over at Science Roll was underwhelmed by the response to the Facebook organ donor drive, but one might wonder if Facebook profiles are the place for any medical or legal information.

The publisher of PLoS One is leaving to work on a new Open Access project, PeerJ, launching in Fall 2012.

And some very cute videos are waiting for you in Joanne Manaster’s review of Otter 501 at Scientific American’s blogs.

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Librarians Christine Beardsley and Sylvie Larsen recently won the Earth Day “Green Ideas Contest” with their idea to convert the MSKCC shuttles to bio-diesel or hybrid. Congratulations, Christine and Sylvie!

They are part of an eco-conscious team in the Library that attempts to implement environmentally friendly practices wherever possible. If you are an MSKCC Library patron with a suggestion for how we can improve current practices, please let us know!

You can also read more about sustainability activities at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where an organization-wide “Green Team” committee was established in 2009.

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Formally recognized as National Nurses Day (May 6th) by the American Nurses Association in 1982, then National Nurses Week in 1990, every year the celebration begins on May 6 and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.

Please join MSKCC in thanking our nurses for their dedication to  providing the best quality care to our patients. Some of  the events on campus include

• Rudin Awards Ceremony and Reception on May 9th in RRL Auditorium from 8am-10am
• Guest Speaker Pat Polansky, RN, MS:  IOM Report: “The Future of Nursing – Leading Change, Advancing Health” in M107 on May 9th from 1pm-2pm
• Nurses Week Night Dinner on May 10th in the West Dining Room from  6pm-8pm and 10pm-12am.

Congratulations to all our nurses!

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• Racial disparities exist between black and white children with cancer.
• A cancer bioinformatics series has published its first set of articles.
• Weight loss has been shown to reduce inflammation, which affects cancer risk.
• Some patients may be able to avoid surgery by adding chemotherapy to radiation therapy.

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The month of May is Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month! The American Academy of Dermatology sponsors this awareness program and spreads the word of the importance of early detection and prevention of skin cancers by providing helpful information for both consumer and healthcare professional alike at Melanoma Monday.

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