“Give Kids a Smile” at UM Dental School April 18, 2011
Posted by marvelwoman in Consumer Health, Dental Public Health, Local Resources.Tags: children, dental school, free program
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Ann Arbor, MI — February 14, 2011 — Dental students and other volunteers who participated in the annual Give Kids a Smile program at the U-M School of Dentistry on Feb. 5 said they enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to give back to the community. The event at the School was sponsored by a student volunteer group, the Jonathan Taft Society, and the Washtenaw District Dental Society. Give Kids a Smile was started by the American Dental Association in 2002.
More than 90 volunteers from the School, including dental and dental hygiene students, clinical faculty, and residents participated in providing oral exams and cleanings to children between the ages of 5 and 12. Joining them were staff from the dental school who provided behind the scenes support along with oral health care professionals from the Washtenaw District Dental Society and the Michigan Dental Association.
Forty-seven youngsters from Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and surrounding communities received free dental screenings and cleanings. Thirty-five children who were examined also received restorative work.
article at: http://www.dent.umich.edu/news/2011/february/students-volunteers-laud-give-kids-smile
Pubmed–Changes to the Clinical Queries Page July 1, 2010
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The Clinical Queries page now lets you preview the first five citations of your search results for three research areas, Clinical Study Categories, Systematic Reviews, and Medical Genetics. Clinical Study Categories and Medical Genetics now have drop-down menus for Categories, Scope, and Topic. You can make changes to these menus at any time to modify the results of your search. To see all your results, use the “See all” links under each column.
For more information, follow this link.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj10/mj10_clin_query.html
Dental education at UM (exhibit) July 23, 2009
Posted by pfanderson in Education, History, Local Resources.1 comment so far
If you’d like to learn more about the nature of dentistry education at the University of Michigan, be sure to check out this new online exhibit on the HSL homepage!
The exhibit features photographs of the Dentistry Library as it evolved on North University Street, before its recent move to the Taubman Medical Library, and a series of images of the “Annual Announcement,” describing the School of Dentistry and the dentistry program as they were in the year 1900.
You may also view a slideshare version of this exhibit:
Dental Patent #1: 1876, Dental Articulators February 5, 2009
Posted by pfanderson in Biomaterials, Dental Patent Series, History, Local Resources, News and Announcements.add a comment
We are beginning a new series which we hope you will enjoy. Some years ago the Dentistry Library had the opportunity to acquire a collection of historic dental patents covering the late 1800s through the early 1900s. The collection is intriguing for several reasons. Most important, the collection includes copies of patents award to such notables of dental history as Claudius Ash, Samuel S. White, and William Taggart.
The collection is of patents from the United Kingdom, but includes a great many American inventors. The reason for this is that it was more difficult to gain patents in the USA, so a common strategy was to first apply for a UK or European continental patent, and to use that patent to establish precedence in the American patent application process. You can find patents from New York, Florida, South Carolina as well as Austria, France and of course England.
The variety of careers represented is also curious. Many of the dental patents actually came not from dentists, but from engineers, jewelers, and people who identified themselves as Gentlemen or Gentlelady.
We have a partial finding aid available:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/dentalpatents/
Currently we are seeking support to complete the finding aid and find new ways to make this unusual collection more available to the public. As we begin this process, for the next few weeks we will highlight one patent per week, illustrating some of the more interesting aspects of the collection.
Our first highlighted patent is the earliest one in the collection, from 1876 on dental articulators.
CLASS: Dental Articulators.
ADDRESS: 415 Old Kent Road, Lambeth, UK
PROFESSION: Dentist
APPLICATION DATE: January 5, 1876
AWARD DATE: April 19, 1876
ACCESS NUMBER: PATENT-UK-1876-45
Here is an image of the key innovation.
Here are other images from this patent.
Let us know what you think of this project. You can send email to the Health Science Libraries at hslibraries@umich.edu, or add comments to this blogpost or the images in Flickr. We look forward to your feedback.
Bootcamp Podcasts Available in Open.Michigan May 25, 2008
Posted by pfanderson in Information Skills, Local Resources, News and Announcements, Podcasts, UM School of Dentistry.add a comment
I just discovered that selections from the podcast series I’ve been doing for the School of Dentistry have been released as collection in the Open.Michigan initiative. Here is more information.
https://bezak.umms.med.umich.edu/blog/2008/05/20/it-bootcamp-podcasts/
Explore other entries in the above blog for more materials from the School of Dentistry. Some very cool resources being made available!
MI-Info: Public Health Informatics May 15, 2007
Posted by pfanderson in Dental Public Health, Information Skills, Local Resources, News and Announcements, Statistics.add a comment
MI-Info is an NIH grant funded project to bring core information and informatics skills to the public health workforce in Michigan through skills building tutorials and highlighted resources. Major tutorial topics include:
* Evidence Based Public Health
* Finding Health Statistics Online
* Searching the Internet
* Searching the Public Health Literature
* Staying Informed
* Health Education Resources
While the primary focus is on the public health workforce, these clear and easy-to-follow tutorials cover information skills much need by all health care workers and highlight both free resources as well as those limited to residents of the state Michigan. Highly recommended.
Michigan Informatics (MI-Info): informatics for the public health workforce: http://www.sph.umich.edu/mi-info/
Avian Influenza Resources December 24, 2006
Posted by pfanderson in Clinical, Consumer Health, Dental Public Health, Disaster Planning and Response, General, Information Skills, Local Resources.add a comment
The Health Sciences Libraries (Dentistry, Taubman Medical, and Public Health) have partnered to provide the following collection of online resources about avian flu and pandemic response / preparedness.
Health Sciences Libraries: Guides: Avian Influenza Resources: http://www.lib.umich.edu/hsl/guides/avianflu.html
The links on the page above take you to sections within a collection of resources in del.icio.us — a free bookmarking and productivity tool. The main sections we are highlighting for you are these:
- Major Avian Flu Portals
- Overviews of Avian Flu
- Disaster Planning
- Personal and Family Planning
- Local Michigan Information
- News and Travel Information
- Research
You can either go directly to one of those sections and browse the links available there, or you can browse the entire collection of over 40 recommended links. Each link includes a brief note describing why the resource is useful as well as terms (called “tags” in Del.icio.us) that you might think of as subject headings. The tags or subject headings describe the resource in a little more detail, and help you decide if you want to visit that site.
There is additional information on how to use Del.icio.us at their help page.
Del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/
Del.icio.us: Help: http://del.icio.us/help/
Omics in Michigan (Omics Series, 10) July 21, 2006
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Where do you go with a quick question or how do you find an expert partner to extend your area of inquiry? There are amazing researchers all over the world, but there are also amazing researchers right next door. Today we are looking at the range of omics resources and research centers within the state of Michigan, at academic and corporate institutions, and within the University of Michigan. Let’s explore what our neighbors are doing.
* MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT, ASSOCIATIONS, & OTHER
Michigan Genetics Resource Center: http://www.migeneticsconnection.org/
INCLUDES:
- Michigan Genetics Connection: Genetic Literacy: http://www.migeneticsconnection.org/geneticliteracy.shtml
- Michigan Genetics Connection: Michigan Genetics Support Group Directory: http://www.migeneticsconnection.org/supportdirectory.shtml
- Michigan Genetics Connection: Michigan State Genetics Plan: http://www.migeneticsconnection.org/stateplan.shtml
Michigan Proteome Consortium: http://www.proteomeconsortium.org/
Michigan Public Health Genomics* Program (PHGP): http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2942_4911_4916-85137–,00.html
State of Michigan: Public Health Genomics Program: http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2942_4911_4916-85137–,00.html
Michigan SmallTech Association (MISTA): http://www.michigansmalltech.com/
Michigan.org: Life Sciences Corridor: http://www.michigan.org/medc/ttc/LifeSciences/
Nanotechnology International: Usa/Michigan: companies, profiles and links: http://www.nanovip.com/directory/International/Usa/Michigan/index.php
* MICHIGAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS
EMU: Bioinformatics@emich.edu: http://www.emich.edu/bioinformatics/
MSU: Bioinformatics Services: http://genomics.msu.edu/bioinformatics/Bioinformatics.html
MSU: Genomics: Research Technology Support Facility (RTSF): http://genomics.msu.edu/index.html
MSU: Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT): http://nirt.pa.msu.edu/
MSU: Proteomics Database: http://genomics.msu.edu/cgi-bin/proteomics/login.cgi
MSU: Proteomics: http://proteomics.msu.edu/
MSU: The Nanotechnology Site: http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/csc/nanotech/
Michigan Technological University (MTU): Nanotechnology: http://nano.mtu.edu/
UM: Bioinformatics: http://www.bioinformatics.med.umich.edu/
UM: Center for Computational Medicine and Biology: http://www.ccmb.med.umich.edu/
UM: Center for Integrative Genomics: http://www.med.umich.edu/cig/index.html
UM: Center for Proteome Studies: http://www.proteomecenter.med.umich.edu/
UM: Michigan Center for Genomics & Public Health: http://www.sph.umich.edu/genomics/
UM: Michigan Nanofabrication Facility: http://www.mnf.umich.edu/
UM: Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences (M-NIMBS): http://nano.med.umich.edu/
UM: Microbial Genomics: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/microbial_genomics
UM: National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (Nanotech at UM): http://www.mnf.umich.edu/NNIN/
* WANT MORE?
Google: (omics OR genomics OR proteomics OR nanotechnology OR bioinformatics) (site:umich.edu OR site:msu.edu OR site:michigan.gov)
Google: (omics OR genomics OR proteomics OR nanotechnology OR bioinformatics) michigan -site:umich.edu -site:msu.edu -site:michigan.gov
Financial (and Related) Resources for Patients April 24, 2006
Posted by pfanderson in Clinical, Consumer Health, Dental Public Health, FAQs, Local Resources.add a comment
General Information about Financial Resources for Health Treatment and Care
- GovBenefits.gov: Your Benefits Connection: http://www.govbenefits.gov/
- MedlinePlus: Financial Assistance: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/financialassistance.html
- National Human Genome Research Institute / genome.gov: Financial Assistance Information: http://www.genome.gov/11008842
- Volunteers in Health Care: http://www.volunteersinhealthcare.org/
General Information about Financial Resources for Michigan Residents
- The DRM Regional Resources Directory (States): Michigan – The Wolverine State: http://www.disabilityresources.org/MICHIGAN.html
- Health Insurance Consumer Guide for Michigan / A Consumer’s Guide to Getting and Keeping Health Insurance in Michigan: http://www.healthinsuranceinfo.net/mi00.html
- NonProfitExpert.com: Helping People in Michigan Find Help: Individual Assistance: http://www.nonprofitexpert.com/states/mi.htm
- The Women’s Center of America (Ann Arbor): Resources: Community Resources: Women-Friendly Resources, Southeast Michigan: http://www.thewomenscenterofamerica.org/resource_cr.php
See also our Guide to Online Drug Information Resources, which includes a section on Patient Assistance Programs and Compassionate Use.
Dental Highlights from Deep Blue March 9, 2006
Posted by pfanderson in Local Resources, News and Announcements, Research.add a comment
Have you heard about Deep Blue, the online institutional repository from the University of Michigan?
Deep Blue: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/
Deep Blue: Dentistry: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/simple-search?query=dentistry&start=0
Representative examples of work from faculty of the School of Dentistry include:
- Major Ash: Calibration of six-channel intraoral occlusal forces transmitters : final report
- James Avery et al: Nerve conduction in human teeth : progress report
- James Hayward et al: Bone induction with lyophilized bone and additives : final progress report and Studies of fracture healing : annual progress report
- William O’Brien: Capillary penetration of liquids between dissimilar solids
- Floyd Peyton: Dental materials : terminal technical report and Shell casting of partial denture frameworks and universal aqueous acrylamide duplicating gel : final report
