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JAMA recently published a special issue on conflict of interest.

The issue includes more than twenty viewpoint articles on potential conflicts of interest for physicians in diverse settings including academic medicine, biomedical research, medical education, guideline development, health care management, and medical publishing.

Discussions of conflict of interest topics include:

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nature19827-f3New research published in Nature traced when HIV arrived in the United States and its path from Africa via Haiti.  This research also provides a timeline for the virus' movement and exonerates Gaétan Dugas who had been identified as 'Patient 0'.

Read this research and how the virus was traced and tracked via Himmelfarb Library's online collection:

 

Image citation: M Worobey et al. Nature 1–4 (2016) doi:10.1038/nature19827

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protocolsHimmelfarb Library subscribes to three different protocol databases including Brain Research Protocols, JoVE Biology, and Nature Protocols.

Brain Research Protocols, now incorporated into Brain Research, consists of current and updated protocols in a variety of subjects related to brain research including neuromorphology, neuropharmacology, and neurobiology.

JoVE Biology provides video demonstrations of research methods from cell, molecular, and organismal biology. With over 1,700 videos and growing, you can find new applications of standard techniques in JoVE Biology.

Nature Protocols provides fully searchable, peer-reviewed laboratory protocols in "recipe style," step-by-step procedures that can be easily applied to your own research in the lab. Covering a wide range of biological and biomedical fields, Nature Protocols focuses on providing practical information not typically found in original primary research papers. Protocols are added weekly.

Questions?   Please contact Ruth Bueter at rbueter@gwu.edu or 202-994-9756.

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networkRefWorks and full-text journals available on the Proquest platform will be unavailable for an eight hour period this weekend in order to upgrade infrastructure, enhance security, and maintain product reliability.  These resources will be unavailable to users from 10 p.m. on  Saturday, August 20th until 6 a.m. on Sunday, August 21st.

 

Image citation: ShellyS. (2008).  IMG_9581 [Online image].  Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shellysblogger/3003797689/in/photostream/

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Check out this freely-accessible National Geographic article titled “How the DNA Revolution is Changing Us”.  This article explores the role of CRISPR in gene modification efforts, its potential, and the ethical challenges it raises.

Genetic modification has improved disease control and prevention, and has the potential to prevent conditions and diseases that result from one’s genetic makeup.  However, where we draw the line of application is the true question.

Interested in more resources for genetics?  Check out our Genetics Journal Club Research Guide.

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medications-342484_960_720The challenges and promise of drugs which work (or don't) based on a patient's genetic make-up is is discussed in an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.   GW faculty Shawneequa Callier and her co-authors describe the market forces and recent litigation which is shaping personalized medicine in this article:
Bonham, V. L., Callier, S. L., & Royal, C. D. (2016). Will Precision Medicine Move Us beyond Race?. The New England journal of medicine, 374(21), 2003.
You can read the full-text article as part of Himmelfarb Library's online collection and find this article and additional publications in the Dr. Charles Macri's Genetics Journal Club.

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nihHave a NIH grant?  Getting ready to publish?  Don’t forget to play by the rules.

Publicly accessible federal data and journal articles are key sources for major studies of a wide number of issues.  Thanks to recent action by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ,  these sources have become easier to access, providing those in the medical field with important, reputable information.

Since April 7, 2008, the NIH has required that all manuscripts of NIH funded peer-reviewed journal articles be publicly accessible through PubMed Central.  In February 2013, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) mandated federal departments and agencies with research budgets greater than $100 million to make research data and journal articles publicly accessible. The affected departments and agencies have adopted different plans, repositories, and implementation dates.

What does this mean for SMHS, GWSPH, and SON researchers? Publication compliance.  Himmelfarb Library can assist you with complying with these open access policies.  You can find everything you need to know about the NIH Public Access Policy and the open access policies of additional federal agencies on Himmelfarb Library's research guide on Open Access to Publicly Funded Journal Articles & Research Data.

 

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networkProQuest will be updating its systems infrastructure for an eight (8) hour period beginning at 10:00 PM ET on Saturday, March 12.  During this time, the following Proquest resources will not be available:  Proquest Research Library Plus (including full-text journal articles), ProQuest Environmental Science Collection, and RefWorks.

 

Image citation: ShellyS. (2008).  IMG_9581 [Online image].  Available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shellysblogger/3003797689/in/photostream/

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Aedes_aegypti141Zika virus is on the news, the topic of patient questions, and a concern for healthcare providers.  Himmelfarb Library has the Zika virus information that you need:

 

Image source: Rafaelgilo (No date). Aedes aegypti , one of the transmitters Zika virus [online image].  Available at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aedes_aegypti141.jpg

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tcsYou've just finished your first research article, and are now looking for a potential journal to submit your work. With so many journals available in your field, and the proliferation of deceptive or predatory publishing practices, how do you identify which journals are high-quality?

 

Think. Check. Submit is a new cross-industry initiative that aims to help authors identify trustworthy journals. This initiative provides a checklist for authors of what to look for to help you make an informed decision on where to publish.
For assistance in evaluating journals and deciding where to publish, contact Acquisitions & Resource Sharing Librarian Meaghan Corbett at corbettm@gwu.edu.
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