CINAHL and Health Business Fulltext Elite

On November 29, 2011, EBSCO Publishing released the new EBSCOhost Android app.  This app enables Android users to access CINAHL Plus with Full Text and Health Business Full Text Elite content through their library's database subscriptions.  KUMC faculty, staff, and students can now connect to A.R. Dykes Library's EBSCO databases through this new mobile tool. The new app includes enhanced web-based search and storage features which bring several of the web-based characteristics to your pocket. For more information visit http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=16346

Point-of-care content from MD Consult available for iPhone & iPad

Do you need evidence-based answers to clinical questions at the point of care? Have you been unable to get answers because you did not have online computer access or a Wi-Fi/3G data connection? The First Consult iPhone App is your solution - available as part of the library's existing MD Consult subscription.   Find it through Apple's iTunes store or linked through MD Consult.  You must set up a free personal account through MD Consult first before logging in via the app.  Access KUMC’s MD Consult subscription now or find it under Databases on the Dykes Library home page.

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A new medical app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

The National Library of Medicine has released “Embryo,” a new app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.  Features include human fertilization videos, photo micrographs of early-stage embryo development, 2D and 3D digital images using visual stack dissections, and a pregnancy calculator.

Embryo is a collaboration of NLM, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), the Virtual Human Embryo Project (Louisiana State University) and the National Museum of Health & Medicine’s Human Developmental Anatomy Center.

Read more here.