Library Update no.33
Published each week, the Library Update lists recent library acquisitions such as books, journals, audiovisual material, reports, statistics, and any other items of interest.
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- News this week
- Recent staff publications
- Books, reports, statistics, other media
- Journals in print
- Health and science news
News this week
Safari Business Books
These online books provide a complete business skills and professional development electronic reference library, with titles from top business publishers.
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Current titles
- The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late.
- 30 days to a more powerful memory.
- 50 one-minute tips for retaining employees: building a win-win environment.
- 2600 phrases for effective performance reviews: ready-to-use words and phrases that really get results.
- Absolute beginner's guide to project management.
- Alpha teach yourself management skills in 24 hours.
- Alpha teach yourself project management in 24 hours.
- Becoming an extraordinary manager: the 5 essentials for success.
- A class with Drucker: the lost lessons of the world's greatest management teacher.
- Disagreements, disputes, and all-out war: 3 simple steps for dealing with any kind of conflict.
- The first-time manager's guide to team building.
- Fundamentals of project management.
- Goal setting: how to create an action plan and achieve your goals.
- Going lean: how the best companies apply lean manufacturing principles to shatter uncertainty, drive innovation, and maximize profits.
- How to negotiate anything with anyone anywhere around the world.
- The language of success: business writing that informs, persuades, and gets results.
- Living rich by spending smart: how to get more of what you really want.
- The new human capital strategy: improving the value of your most important investment - year after year.
- The performance management revolution.
- The practice of leadership: developing the next generation of leaders.
- Preparing for your interview: getting the job you want.
- Spiral up: … and other management secrets behind wildly successful initiatives.
- A survival guide for working with bad bosses: dealing with bullies, idiots, back-stabbers, and other managers from hell.
- The team-building tool kit: tips and tactics for effective workplace teams.
- The truth about thriving in change.
- Your job survival guide: a manual for thriving in change.
Recent staff publications
About these links: article citations are linked to full text where available, or to information about ordering documents.
Byrne, S., Wake, M., Blumberg, D. and Dibley, M.[Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, University of Melbourne, Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Identifying priority areas for longitudinal research in childhood obesity: delphi technique survey', International Journal of Pediatric Obesity 2008; vol.3(2), pp.120-122 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Coman, D., Bacic, S., Boys, A., Sparrow, D. B., Dunwoodie, S. L., Savarirayan, R. and Amor, D. J. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Spondylocostal dysostosis in a pregnancy complicated by confined placental mosaicism for tetrasomy 9p', American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 2008; vol.146A(15), pp.1972-6 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Foley, S., Quinn, S., Dwyer, T., Venn, A. and Jones, G. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Measures of childhood fitness and body mass index are associated with bone mass in adulthood: a 20-year prospective study', Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2008; vol.23(7), pp.994-1001 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Fosang, A. J. and Little, C. B. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Drug insight: aggrecanases as therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis', Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology 2008; vol.4(8), pp.420-7 (full text via Interlibrary loan)
Ho, M. H. K., Wong, W. H. S., Heine, R. G., Hosking, C. S., Hill, D. J. and Allen, K. J. [Department of Allergy and Immunology, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Reply', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2008; vol.121(6), pp.1517-1518
O'Connell, M. A., Gilbertson, H. R., Donath, S. M. and Cameron, F. J. [Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Centre for Hormone Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Optimizing postprandial glycemia in pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes using insulin pump therapy: impact of glycemic index and prandial bolus type', Diabetes Care 2008; vol.31(8), pp.1491-5
Patton, G. C. [Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.] 'Weighing an ounce of prevention', Journal of Adolescent Health 2008; vol.43(1), pp.3-5
Snyder, A. M., Maruff, P., Pietrzak, R. H., Cromer, J. R. and Snyder, P. J. [Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Effect of treatment with stimulant medication on nonverbal executive function and visuomotor speed in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)', Child Neuropsychology 2008; vol.14(3), pp.211-226 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Srinivasan, J., Escolar, D., Ryan, M., Darras, B. and Jones, R. H. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Pediatric sciatic neuropathies due to unusual vascular causes', Journal of Child Neurology 2008; vol.23(7), pp.738-741
Tibballs, J. and van der Jagt, E. W. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Medical emergency and rapid response teams', Pediatric Clinics of North America 2008; vol.55(4), pp.989-1010
Voon, H. P., Wardan, H. and Vadolas, J. [Cell and Gene Therapy Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'siRNA-mediated reduction of alpha-globin results in phenotypic improvements in beta-thalassemic cells', Haematologica 2008; vol.93(8), pp.1238-42
Wong, N. C., Novakovic, B., Weinrich, B., Dewi, C., Andronikos, R., Sibson, M., Macrae, F., Morley, R., Pertile, M. D., Craig, J. M. and Saffery, R.[Epigenetics Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Methylation of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene in human placenta and hypermethylation in choriocarcinoma cells', Cancer Letters 2008; vol.268(1), pp.56-62 (full text via Interlibrary Loan)
Yong, E. X., Huynh, J., Farmer, P., Ong, S. Y., Sourial, M., Donath, S., Ting, A. Y., Chow, Y. and Hutson, J. M. [F. Douglas Stephens Surgical Research Laboratory, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Calcitonin gene-related peptide stimulates mitosis in the tip of the rat gubernaculum in vitro and provides the chemotactic signals to control gubernacular migration during testicular descent', Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2008; vol.43(8), pp.1533-9
Books, reports, statistics, other media
- 610.736 INT
- International practice development in nursing and healthcare
- Edited by Kim Manley, Brendan McCormack and Val Wilson. Blackwell, 2008.
- This book explores the knowledge base for practice development work, its practical application and outcomes; sets practice development into an international context, demonstrating how strategies and frameworks can be transferred between cultures; examines the role of practice development in the modernisation of healthcare services; explores collaborative working practices, including the journey to become a facilitator; and addresses principles and practices of practice development in a multi-professional context.
- 614.48 PRO
- Proper maintenance of instruments
- 8th rev. ed. Instrument Preparation Working Group, 2005.
- Provides users with a guide containing detailed instructions for the correct handling of surgical instruments.
- 616.1207547 HAM
- The ECG in practice
- John R. Hampton, with a contribution by David Adlam. 5th ed. Churchill Livingstone, 2008.
- This is a clinically-oriented book, showing how the electrocardiogram can help in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with symptoms suggesting cardiovascular disease. The underlying philosophy of this fifth edition remains that the ECG has to be interpreted in the light of the patient’s history and physical examination, and is organised in chapters according to a patient’s symptoms.
- 616.4 PED
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Edited by Mark A. Sperling. 3rd ed. Saunders, 2008.
- This thoroughly revised edition examines the physiological, biochemical, and genetic aspects of pediatric endocrine disorders, including genetics, diabetes and obesity.
- Pediatrics Audio-Digest
- v.54 (12), 7th July 2008 [Audiocassette]
- Infectious disease challenges.
- RCH Grand Rounds
- 13th August 2008 [DVD]
- Providing best practice in immunisations at RCH - presented by Dr. Jenny Royle.
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Annual Report, 2007.
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Annual Report, 2007.
Journals in print
About these links: some online titles are unavailable to off site users; see the online Journals List for other link options.
- Academic Emergency Medicine
- v.15 (7), July 2008
(Comparison of adverse events during procedural sedation between specially trained pediatric residents and pediatric emergency physicians in Israel, p.617) - AJR: American Journal of Roentgenology
- v.191 (2), August 2008
(Pediatric body MDCT: a 5-year follow-up survey of scanning parameters used by pediatric radiologists, p.611) - American Journal of Cardiology
- v.102 (3), 1st August 2008 [password]
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- v.168 (2), 15th July 2008
(Perinatal factors and the risk of asthma in childhood a population-based register in Finland, p.170) - Archives of Disease in Childhood
- v.93 (8), August 2008 [password]
v.93 (4), Supplement, August 2008 [password]
(Education & Practice.) - Archives of Internal Medicine
- v.168 (14), 28th July 2008
- Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter
- v.24 (8), August 2008
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
- v.25 (3), June 2008
v.25 (4), August 2008 - Circulation
- v.118 (3), 15th July 2008
(Cardiovascular risk factors and the metabolic syndrome in pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, p.277)
v.188 (4), 22nd July 2008 - Circulation Research
- v.103 (2), 18th July 2008
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- v.466 (7), July 2008
(Acetabular changes in coxa vara, p.1688)
v.466 (8), August 2008
(Streamlining the evaluation of low back pain in children, p.1971) - MAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal
- v.179 (2), 15th July 2008
- Contemporary Pediatrics
- v.25 (7), July 2008
- Developmental Neuropsychology
- v.33 (4), July-August 2008
- Journal of Adolescence
- v.31 (4), August 2008 [password]
- Journal of Child Neurology
- v.23 (8), August 2008
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- v.49 (8), August 2008
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- v.197 Supplement 3, 15th May 2008
(Significant challenges facing HIV practitioners. Single topic.) - Journal of Neurosurgery
- v.109 (2), August 2008 [password]
v.2 (2), Supplement, August 2008 [password]
(Pediatrics.)
v.9 (2), Supplement, August 2008 [password]
(Spine.) - Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- v.47 (2), August 2008
v.47 Supplement 1, August 2008
(Third World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, pre-congress courses. Single topic.) - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
- v.33 (7), August 2008
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- v.47 (8), August 2008
- Lancet
- v.372 (9637), 9th August 2008 [password]
(Death in children with febrile seizures: a population-based cohort study, p.457) - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- v.26 (6), July 2008 [password]
- Nature
- v.454 (7205), 7th August 2008
- Neurology
- v.71 (3), 15th July 2008
v.71 (4), 22nd July 2008 - New England Journal of Medicine
- v.359 (5), 31st July 2008
- New Scientist
- v.199 (2668), 9th August 2008
- Pediatric Cardiology
- v.29 (4), July 2008
- Pediatric Research
- v.64 (2), August 2008
- Pediatrics
- v.121 (3), March 2008 [password]
- Postgraduate Medical Journal
- v.84 (992), June 2008 [password]
- Science
- v.321 (5889), 1st August 2008
- Thorax
- v.63 (8), August 2008 [password]
Health and science news
Medgadget
» Digital Lightbox Brings Minority Report to The OR (No Precognition Capabilities) - BrainLAB AG, out of Feldkirchen, Germany has recently installed its first Digital Lightbox radiology system in a Munich hospital. Designed to be installed in radiology departments, clinical floors, and operating rooms, the system behaves l..
19/08/08 - Medgadget
» MedicalPlexus: Professional Network for Clinicians - MedicalPlexus is a new online medical community from a group of Harvard residents and MIT graduate students. Based on an Ajax platform called Backbase, the website aims to bring together clinicians, researchers and medical students to shar..
19/08/08 - Medgadget
» FDA OK's Draeger Fabius MRI Anesthesia Machine - Dräger Medical , Inc., an American subsidiary of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, has just announced that its MRI-compatible Fabius anesthesia machine has received FDA clearance. From now on sedating and anesthetizing all those wiggly t..
19/08/08 - Medgadget
» ATS Medical Gets CE Mark for CryoMaze Surgical Ablation System - ATS Medical , Inc., a Minneapolis, MN company, is reporting that its Argon-based cryoablation system ATS CryoMaze™, designed to perform the Cox-Maze III procedure for concomitant atrial fibrillation treatment during open heart surger..
19/08/08 - Medgadget
» Studies Show Benefits of Video Game Playing - The American Psychological Association is profiling a number of studies discussed at this year's Annual Convention of the APA pointing to video games having a number of positive effects on people that play them. In one paper, Fordham Unive..
19/08/08 - Medgadget
ABC Science Online: Health and Medical News
» Cats happy to share if they're top dog - Dogs and cats can be best of friends, suggests a new study - so long as the cat is in the home first and introductions are made at a young age.
20/08/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Stem cells could allow 'blood farms' - Embryonic stem cells can be used to grow vats of red blood cells, which could lead to the creation of 'farms' that could provide limitless sources of blood, US researchers report.
20/08/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Language no barrier to counting - A new study suggests children do not need to know the words for numbers in order to be able to count, and that basic mathematical ability is hardwired in the human genome.
19/08/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Minor planet points to comet origins - A newly discovered 'minor planet' with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, say researchers.
19/08/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
» Train on track to deliver greenhouse results - The Ghan tourist train has been harnessed by Australian scientists to help track changes in greenhouse gas emissions across the country as part of an international carbon measuring network.
19/08/08 - ABC Science Online: News in Science
BBC World Health News
» Rise in free prescriptions issued - Official figures show the first year of free prescriptions in Wales saw the number of items dispensed rise by 5%.
19/08/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Dead certain - Can your risk of dying really be as high as 114%?
19/08/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Teddy camera catches carer thief - A forensic science student and her father catch a carer stealing from an elderly relative by hiding a camera in a teddy bear's eye.
19/08/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Skin taboo - Elana Kelly bares all for an advert on vitiligo
19/08/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
» Headache woman's 'bionic' surgery - A cluster headache sufferer undergoes treatment after campaigning for funding for surgery.
19/08/08 - BBC News | Health | World Edition
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Commission)
» Juice blocks absorption of some drugs, study finds - Drinking grapefruit, apple or orange juice may wipe out part of the benefits of taking medications for some life-threatening conditions, says a Canadian researcher who recommends taking drugs with water only. The study adds to 'the grapefru..
19/08/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» Trace arsenic levels in water linked to diabetes - Drinking low levels of arsenic from ground water may increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, say U.S. researchers. Minimizing arsenic exposure is advised.
19/08/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» 10 more cancer patients' results sent for retesting, Eastern Health says - Eastern Health, the largest health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador, announced Tuesday that it has discovered 10 additional breast cancer patients whose hormone receptor tests were sent for retesting.
19/08/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» Cape Breton woman runs out of time, money for lung transplant - A Cape Breton woman waiting for a double lung transplant in Toronto may have to return home without receiving the life-saving operation because she and her husband can no longer afford to cover her living expenses.
19/08/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
» Risk of high blood pressure higher among sleepier teens: study - Teenagers who don't get enough shut-eye may not only be drowsy in class, but they could be increasing their risk for high blood pressure and heart disease later in life, researchers say.
19/08/08 - CBC | Health & Science News
