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Prepping for a Nursing Exam? Nurse Practitioner Certification to the Rescue!

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Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation is all new to the MSK Library! The latest edition of this award-winning resource by Dr. Margaret A. Fitzgerald, is must read for anyone taking the NP certification exam.  This 5th edition delivers the latest guidelines, recommendations, diagnostic and treatment protocols, and procedures – everything critical to passing the NP boards.

Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation may be accessed through our eBook A-Z listing or in TriCat, our library catalog.

Old Cancer Case, Human Missions to Mars and More…

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The latest in Cancer Research News

  • The Smithsonian.com recently reported on the discovery of the oldest cancer case in Central America. The bones of the young teen, who died 700 years ago, were excavated in the province of Bocas Del Toro in Panama in 1970.  Recently, a bioarchaeologist and a postdoctoral fellow took a closer look at the bones and noticed a lumpy calcified mass.  See the featured story here.
  • Researchers at the Australian National University are working on a new treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) that outperforms standard chemotherapies. The compound under observation is CX-546. The full report has been published in the journal Blood.
  • A study conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas concludes that human missions to Mars poses a risk of cancer to astronauts exposed to cosmic rays. Read more on their findings in Scientific Reports.
  • New research coming out of Ohio State University found that changes among proteins that relay information from one immune cell to another are weakened in the blood of brain cancer patients within five years before the cancer is diagnosed. That information could one day lead to earlier diagnosis of brain cancer. Read more about this in ScienceDaily.

Finding Content on Men’s Health from the Summon Search

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In honor of National Men’s Health Week (June 12 – June 18), here is a quick tip for finding men’s health-related content (scholarly articles, books, newspaper articles, etc.) using the search box (Summon) on the Library’s homepage.

  1. Type a simple phrase (or any search terms) into the Summon search box like follows: men’s health
  2. Use the filters in the left sidebar to limit the search results to newspaper articles and magazine articles. Hint: click More… below the CONTENT TYPE filter section
  3. Click APPLY at the top of the page
  4. Limit to content published from 2010-present

The filters built in to Summon are a good way of reducing the overall number of results, especially when searching for a general or broad topic. The remaining set of results for a search on men’s health should now be focused to relatively recent newspaper/magazine sources. You can easily change the filters to retrieve any publication type depending on your needs.