Tag Archives: Health

Labor Archives receives grant to digitize labor organizer’s papers

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Traci Drummond

In advance of Labor Day, Georgia State University Library’s Southern Labor Archives announces an Access to Historical Records grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission in the amount of $48,865 to digitize the M. H. Ross papers. The … Continue reading →

David Sackett, “Father” of Evidence-Based Medicine

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Sharon Leslie

David Sackett, MD, OC, FRSC, MSc, FRCP, clinical epidemiologist, and founding Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration, has died. In 1967, Dr. Sackett founded the world’s first department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at McMaster University in Ontario. He founded and … Continue reading →

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Atlanta Beltline Health Initiatives Lecture

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Sharon Leslie

The Georgia State University Community is invited to join the School of Public Health for its’ annual Urban Health Disparities Lecture. This year, the speaker is Paul Morris, president and CEO of the Atlanta Beltline, Inc. Mr. Morris will speak … Continue reading →

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Publication Retractions Take YEARS to Appear in PubMed

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Sharon Leslie

Performing a complex literature review can be challenging; taking into account whether the resulting articles have been retracted, have erratum or have been corrected and republished makes the task even more difficult. Researchers in Lyon, France found that the time-lag … Continue reading →

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World Health Organization joins Europe PubMed Central

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Sharon Leslie

The World Health Organisation (WHO), now follows an open access policy to ensure the widespread dissemination of scientific research. The policy applies to all WHO-authored or WHO-funded research published in external journals and books. From the WHO website: Journal articles … Continue reading →

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PubMed Workshops Rescheduled: April 1-11, 2014

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Sharon Leslie

PubMed is a database with over 23 million records and 5 thousand plus journals going back to 1946. As a free service provided by the National Library of Medicine it is the most important resource for medical literature in the … Continue reading →

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Contagion: Movie Screening + CDC Panel

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Sharon Leslie

The Atlanta Science Festival is screening the movie Contagion as part of its Science on the Screen programming. Dr. Harold Jaffe, Associate Director for Science at CDC, will moderate and a panel of three CDC scientists will discuss the movie. … Continue reading →

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