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Do You Know: Lung Exercises with Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson of MSKCC’s Integrative Medicine Service has a series of online videos explaining breathing techniques and exercises for patients with lung cancer and other breathing problems.

The following video teaches you how to calm and control your breathing, and is just one of several that Donna leads on YouTube.

Healing Breath: For shortness of breath, pain or coughing

For more information and services for patients, visit Integrative Medicine Service.

Do You Know: About Secondhand Smoke?

Secondhand smoke is dangerous. Take this quiz to test your knowledge and learn more.
Quiz About Secondhand Smoke >>

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Do You Know? Timeline of Modern Medical Advances

Do you know when the stethoscope was invented? The Diptheria Vaccine? Penicillin?

In honor of their 200th anniversary, the New England Journal of Medicine has created an interactive timeline of modern medical discoveries.

The timeline is illustrated with photos and ephemera and lets you browse from the journal’s early years of horseback delivery to today.

Do You Know? Quiz About Handwashing Revisited

For National Handwashing Awareness Week, we are revisiting our: Quiz About Handwashing

 Take the quiz! Or find out more at:

 

 

Do You Know… About Food Safety (Poultry)?


Used with permission from Microsoft
There’s a lot to know when it comes to the safe preparation of raw food, particularly poultry. Check out these fact sheets, brought to you by the USDA, for safe handling of your turkey this year:

For more information about food preparation and safety, see Safe Food Handling or call the USDA Meat & Poultry Hotline at 1-888-MPHotline. Happy cooking!

Do You Know? October is National Medical Librarians Month

Come help us celebrate!  This month is National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) and a wonderful opportunity to highlight the fact that medical librarians can be your best resource when searching for health or medical information. This year’s theme is “Medical Librarians: Your Ultimate Search Engine.”

If you’d like to share a story of how one of the MSKCC Library staff helped you to find needed medical or scientific information, please drop me an email.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

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