New Title: Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases

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The Library has recently added a comprehensive resource on tropical conditions: Hunter’s Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases. This 9th edition, which can be found on ScienceDirect and was purchased by request, features:

  • the latest maladies seen in returning travelers
  • the most up-to-date information on emerging and re-emerging diseases (such as H1N1)
  • a new skills-based section which includes dentistry, neonatal pediatrics and ICMI, and surgery in the tropics
  • a service-based section covering transfusion in resource-poor settings, microbiology, and imaging
  • infrequently encountered tropical drugs and their practical application in the clinical setting

With this key resource, users can better understand the common characteristics and methods of transmission for each disease, and learn all the applicable diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention techniques.

Use OneSearch to access this new title today!

2018 AACR Cancer Report Highlights

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its 2018 report on September 12. The comprehensive report provides a summary of the past year’s accomplishments in cancer early detection, prevention, precision medicine, immunotherapy, and more. Engaging graphics from the Report are also available, like the one on health disparities shown at the bottom of this post.

Highlights and Challenges from the Report include:

  • The U.S. cancer death rate declined by 26 percent for adults from 1991 to 2015, a reduction that translates into almost 2.4 million lives saved.
  • The number of new cancer cases in the United States is predicted to rise from more than 1.7 million in 2018 to almost 2.4 million in 2035, due largely to the increasing number of people age 65 and older.
  • Advances against cancer have not benefited everyone equally. Cancer health disparities are some of the most pressing challenges posed by the disease.

 

Beyond Citations: View the Impact of Your Work on Social Media with Altmetric

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Altmetric tracks the shares and mentions of your work across a wide-variety of online sources and collects them into a single, unified display.

The Altmetric “donut” is embedded into each publication in Synapse, allowing MSK authors to easily visualize and link out to the public’s interactions with their research. From within Synapse, click on the donut on the right side of the article and then use the tabs to explore each category in detail.

Take a look at the online attention from these MSK Publications added to Synapse in July 2018: