New Database: STAT+

STAT+ includes exclusive reporting about the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, the health tech industry, science, and coverage at the intersection of health and policy. This resource also tracks advancements in CRISPR, breakthrough medical devices, and drug pricing policies. STAT+ is a premium subscription service of Stat News. 

MSK users can create an account onsite/remotely/on VPN/off VPN to view articles on STAT+. Access just requires that a user have a valid @mskcc.org email address. To sign up for an account, visit www.statnews.com/subscribe, and enter an MSK email address and create a password.

New Nursing eBook: 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook

A new nursing eBook has been added to the Library collection, entitled the 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook. This text, specifically for nurses caring for patients with cancer, details drug therapy in terms of the nursing process: nursing diagnoses, etiologies of toxicities, and key points for nursing assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Major topics and information include effective symptom management, patient education, chemotherapy administration, cellular communication pathways disrupted by cancer, immunotherapy, new drugs and their indications, and updated indications and side effects for recently FDA approved drugs.

New Open Access eJournal: Data Science Journal

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data and databases across all research domains. 

Main topics include descriptions of data systems, their implementations and their publication, applications, infrastructures, software, legal, reproducibility and transparency issues, the availability and usability of complex datasets, and a focus on the principles, policies and practices for open data.