Friday, 25 September 2009

TROP 710

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Thursday, 24 September 2009

New Journals

Nature
Vol.461, No.7263

Parasite Immunology
Vol.31, No.10, October 2009


Maternal & Child Nutrition
Vol.5, Issue 4, October 2009

Africa Health
Vol.31, No.6, September 2009
(not available online)

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

New Journals

Pest Management Science
Vol.65, Issue 10, October 2009

The Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene
Vol.103. No.9, September 2009
(not online)

The New England Journal of Medicine
Vol.361, No.13, September 2009

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

More new journals.....

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Vol.87, No.9, September 2009.


Cadernos de Saude Publica
Vol.25, No.9, September 2009.


Saudi Medical Journal
Vol.30, No.8, August 2009.


Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
Vol.56, No.5, September/October 2009.
(Not online)

Third Sector
Issue 585, 22 September 2009.


Clinical Pediatrics
Vol.48, No.8, October 2009.

Autumn poem












'To Autumn'
(by John Keats)


Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.




Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.




Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Friday, 4 September 2009

New Journals

Indian Journal of Medical Research
Vol.129, No.6, June 2009.
Vol.130, No.1, July 2009.


Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Vol.102, No.8, August 2009.


Parasitology
Vol.136, No.10, September 2009.


Medical Teacher
Vol.31, No.8, August 2009.


Revista de Patologia Tropical
Vol.38, Supp.1, Jan-June 2009.
(Supp.s not available on journal website)


JAMA
Vol.302, No.6, August 12th, 2009.
Vol.302, No.7, August 19th, 2009.
Vol.302, No.8, August 26th 2009.

BMJ
Vol.339, No.7719, 29th August 2009.


Physiological Entomology


Vol.34, No.3, September 2009.


Medical and Veterinary Entomology


Vol.23, No.3, September 2009.


Journal of Parasitology


Vol.95, No.4, August 2009.


Revista de Saude Publica


Vol.43, No.3, June 2009.


Cadernos de Saude Publica


Vol.25, Supp.2, 2009.


Clinical Infectious Diseases


Vol.49, No.5, 1 September 2009.


Journal of Infectious Diseases


Vol.200, No.5, 1 September 2009.


American journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene


Vol.81, No.3, September 2009.


Nature


Vol.460, No.7259, 27 August 2009.













Thursday, 6 August 2009

Adopt A Word.

Everyone has a favourite word. Yes, you do. A word which you like using all of the time, either because you like saying it, spelling it, writing it, and often because you can't stop yourself (though it's true some of these words are more colourful than others). Everyone likes giving to charity. Yes, you do. It makes you feel good, makes you feel like you're giving something back to the world.

Adopt A Word cleverly manages to combine the two. For fun or as a gift, you can 'adopt' your favourite word for £20 a year (for which you'll recieve an adoption pack), with the proceeds benefiting I CAN, a charity set up to help children with communication difficulties by providing training to teachers and supporting parents. In others to introduce kids to language so that they can have a favourite word too.

I've checked and there are plenty of words available in our field, including tropical and medicine and most of the diseases in case you want to commemorate the field you're working in. And if you want to flaunt your word, it's merchandised: mugs, keyrings and fridge magnets and t-shirts. So you'll finally be able to say without a shadow of doubt, been there, done that, bought the ...

Monday, 3 August 2009

New Journals

Development in Practice
Vol.19, No.4 & 5, June 2009
Vol.19, No.6, Ausust 2009
(not yet available online)

The Medical Journal of Malaysia
Vol.64, Supplement A, July 2009
(not yet available online)

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Vol.13, Vol.8, August 2009

Friday, 31 July 2009

Fridays Journal's

Revista de Pataologia Tropical.
Vol. 38, No.2, 2009.

Nature
Vol. 460, No. 7255, 2009

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropicla Medicine and Hygiene
Vol. 103, No. 8, 2009.

The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health.
Vol. 40, No. 4, 2009.

The New England journal of Medicine.
Vol. 361, No. 5, 2009

Particapatory Learning and Action
Vol. 59, 2009.

Clinical Infectious Diseases
Vol. 49, no. 2, 2009.

Science
325, No. 5939, 2009

BMJ
Vol. 339, No. 7715, 2009.

Thursday, 30 July 2009

High volume of books.

If you think your borrowing habits at the library (or if you're like me, any library) border on the obsessive, you'll have to go some to beat ninety-one year old Louise Brown of Stranraer who is close to making her 25,000th loan from the local Castle Douglas library where she first became a member in 1946.

As BBC News & The Guardian report, Louise has been reading up to twelve books a week, mostly "Mills & Boon romances, war stories and historical dramas" and has never paid a late fee. There can't be many of us who could beat that record!

Monday, 27 July 2009

New Journals

South African Medical Journal
Vol99, No.7, July 2009

Archives of Disease in Childhood
Vol.94, No.8, August 2009

Education & Practice
Vol.94, No.4, August 2009

BMJ
Vol.330, No.7714, 25 July 2009

Parasite Immunology
Vol.31, No.8, August 2009

Saudi Medical Journal
Vol.30, No.6, June 2009

Critical Public Health
Vol.19, No.2, June 2009
(not available online)

Clinical & Experimental Immunology
Vol.157, No.2, August 2009

AIDS
Vol.23, No.12, 31 July 2009

MMWR
Vol.58, No.25, July 10 2009

Third Sector
Issue 579, 28 July 2009

Medical Teacher
Vol.31, No.6, June 2009
(not available online)

Nature Medicine
Vol.15, No.7, July 2009

Friday, 24 July 2009

Not only but also.

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Vol.115, No.8, July 2009

Indian Pediatrics
Vol.46, No.5, May 2009
Vol.46, No.6, June 2009

Journal of Communicable Diseases
Vol.41, No.1, March 2009
(not available online)

Revista de Saude Publica
Vol.43, No.2, April 2009

Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases
Vol.84, No.7, July 2009
(not available online)

The New England Journal of Medicine
Vol.361, No.4, July 23 2009

Cadernos De Saude Publica
Vol.25, No.7, July 2009

JAMA
Vol.302, No.4, July 22/29 2009

Pest Management Science
Vol.65, No.8, August 2009

Chinese Medical Journal
Vol.122, No.10 May 20, 2009

Nature
Vol.460, No.7254, 23 July 2009

Science
Vol.325, No.5938, 17 July 2009

The Journal of Parasitology
Vol.95, No.3, June 2009

Planet Earth
Summer 2009

MMWR
Vol.58, No.25, 3 July 2009

Waterlines
Vol.28, No.3, July 2009

Third Sector
Issue 578, 21 July 2009

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand
Vol.92, No.7, July 2009
(not available online)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Vol.104, No.3, 2009

Perspectives in Public Health
Vol.129, No.4, July 2009

Tropical Disease Bulletin
Vol.106, No.7, July 2009
(not available online)

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Monday, 13 July 2009

Is it just me, or is there a nip of Autumn in the air? Anyway, here's those new journals..

MMWR
Vol.58, No.24, June 26, 2009.

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
Vol.103, No.5, July 2009.

Health Policy and Planning
Vol.24, No.4, July 2009.

Nature
Vol.460, No.7252, 9 July 2009.

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
Vol.22, No.4, August 2009.

Development
Vol.52, No.2, June 2009.

Tropical Medicine and International Health
Vol.14, No.6, June 2009.

Historia Ciencias Saude
Vol.16, No.2, April-June 2009.

BMJ
Vol.339, No.7712, 11 July 2009.

Nature Immunology
Vol.10, No.7, July 2009.

AIDS
Vol.23, No.11, 17 July 2009.

Third Sector
Issue 577, 14 July 2009.

The UK's Department of International Affairs

The UK's Department of International Affairs is a government run, minister led department managing our aid to developing countries in order to help towards erradicating extreme hunger [source].

As part of that remit, their website offers a range of publications covering a diverse selection of topics often in relation strategies dealing with general health matters and more specifically HIV/AIDS as well as specific reports on the working being done in particular countries (for example, Bangladesh).

Their most recent AIDS related publication discusses the Millennium Development Goal 6: To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases revealing the challenges involved and outlining possible solutions.

Monday, 6 July 2009

New Journals

Journal of the National Research Council of Thailand
Vol.40, No.2, July-December 2008.
(This issue isn't online yet. Hard copy here to read in library).

Science
Vol.324, No.5932, 5th June 2009.

Korean Journal of Parasitology
Vol.47. No.2, June 2009.

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Vol.59, No.2, February 2009.
Vol.59, No.3, March 2009.
Vol.59, No.4, April 2009.

Folia Parasitologica
Vol.56, No.2, June 2009.

Science
Vol.325, No.5936, 3 July 2009.

Tropical Doctor
Vol.39, No.3, July 2009.

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Vol.27, No.3, June 2009.

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
Vol.25, No.2, June 2009.