Message-Id: <9512051620.AA23579@mail.uni-muenster.de>
From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 17:22:06 +0000
Subject: Medlib Digest 28.11.-4.12.
Der neueste Digest ...
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1 Daily Health News Site
2 AIDS dictionary
3 CancerNet Update
4 CD-ROM christmas tree
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:42:51 -0500 (EST)
From: PVANCE@delphi.com
Subject: Daily health news web site (free)
`Your Health Daily' Internet Site Launched by New York
Times Syndicate
Contacts: The New York Times Syndicate:
Patrick Vance, 212-499-3331, or John Brewer, 212-499-3333
E-mail: nytss@mcimail.com
The New York Times Information Services Group: William Adler,
(212) 499-3313 E-mail: adlerwk@nytimes.com
Medical Tribune: Jack Angel, 212-274-7180, or Dan B. Zurich,
212-274-7127
Interactive Connection: Alan S. Ellman, 212-741-6333 E-mail:
alan@interactive.line.com
NEW YORK, N.Y., November 28, 1995 -- Your Health Daily -- a new
site
on the Internet's World Wide Web offering real-time health and medical
news from around the globe -- was launched today by The New York Times
Syndicate.
The site's address is http://nytsyn.com/medic/. It is initially
being offered free to all Internet users. The site will also include
advertising.
Your Health Daily includes news, features, analysis and columns
from a variety of news sources in the United States, Asia and Europe,
including Medical Tribune News Service. All the stories are written
so they can be easily understood by the general reader as well as
health professionals.
``This is the premier site in the computer world for
reader-friendly, up-to-the-minute, authoritative health and medical
news,'' said John Brewer, president and editor-in-chief of The New
York Times Syndication Sales Corp., which operates the Times Syndicate
and The New York Times News Service. All are part of The New York
Times Information Services Group.
The information is updated daily and ranges from articles about
the latest heart disease research and new reports on asthma, cancer
and depression to coverage of AIDS conferences and feature articles
about weight loss, nutrition and men's and women's health.
Users can also search a database of past medical and health
articles by topic or keyword.
Many of the articles are provided by Medical Tribune News
Service, which distributes stories for broadcast and publication
throughout the world. Its stories are written for the general reader
by the staff of Medical Tribune, a New York-based bi-weekly newspaper
for physicians that has been first in medical news for nearly 40
years.
``Your Health Daily is uniquely positioned to positively impact
the needs of health-conscious consumers around the world -- and it's
there for them 24-hours-day, seven days a week,'' said Robert A.
Amato, president of Jobson Healthcare Group, which publishes Medical
Tribune.
Users can electronically talk about the stories in a discussion
forum. Your Health Daily also includes electronic links to the
American Medical Association (http://www.ama-assn.org), British
Medical Journal (http://www.bmj.com/bmj/), World Health Organization
(http://who.ch/) and other key health and medical sites around the
Internet.
The site was produced by the Interactive Connection, a New
York-based interactive media, advertising and Wide World Web-site
development company.
Interactive Connection also built two other Internet sites for
The New York Times Information Services Group -- Computer News Daily
(http://nytsyn.com), the only site on the Web with real-time
technology and new media news and a bi-weekly column by Microsoft CEO
Bill Gates, and the Internet edition of TimesFax
(http://nytimesfax.com), an eight-page daily digest of news from The
New York Times.
Your Health Daily, Computer News Daily and TimesFax are also
linked to a directory of businesses and activities of The New York
Times Information Services Group (http://nytinfoserv.com).
In addition to Medical Tribune, which is published in 14
countries and in five languages, Jobson also produces Medical Tribune
Via Fax, a one-page daily digest of health and medical news, and
Medical Tribune Radio, a daily one-minute program broadcast by 40 U.S.
AM and FM stations to more than half a million listeners.
The New York Times Information Services Group, a division of The
New York Times Company, develops new markets for the company's news
and information, including applications that use new and emerging
technologies. The group includes NYT Business Information Services,
which produces The Times's archival databases and the Times Index; NYT
Custom Publishing; New Business Development; NYT New Media/New
Products; The New York Times News Service and The New York Times
Syndicate; NYT Specialized Publications, publisher of TimesFax;
licensee and database marketing and various services on the World Wide
Web.
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Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 08:17:38 -0500
From: Tom Flemming <tomflem@FHS.CSU.MCMASTER.CA>
Subject: Re: ?? re: terminology books
There is a good new resource on the web which calls itself an "AIDS
dictionary". I recommend that anyone interested in terminology related
to HIV/AIDS take a look at it. The URL follows:
http://www.clients.anomtec.com/AidsBytes/index.html
Not a book, perhaps, but at least as useful and possibly less expensive!
.....................................................................
Tom Flemming Internet: tomflem@fhs.csu.McMaster.ca
Health Sciences Library Ariel: 130.113.181.186
McMaster University Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22321
1200 Main Street West Fax: (905) 528-3733
Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5
Visit the _Health Care Information Resources_ page
URL http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/top.html
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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:23:59 -0500
From: Cheryl Burg <cheryl@ICICB.NCI.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Cancernet Update for December
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| NATIONAL INSTITUTE |
| C A N C E R |
| INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION |
| C E N T E R |
+----------------------------------------------+
| CancerNet@icicc.nci.nih.gov |
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CancerNet, NCI's mail server providing cancer information has been
updated for December. For a description of statement changes, request
Monthly PDQ Statement Changes ( cn-405001). For a brief listing
of CancerNet content changes for the current month, request CancerNet
Changes ( cn-400000).
CANCERLIT citations and abstracts for December will be available
in CancerNet after December 7, 1995.
The National Cancer Institute Information Associates Program
provides one-stop, easy access to all of NCI's scientific
information resources, including online access to the PDQ database
via the Internet or by dialing toll-free to the Information Associates
Program BBS using just a modem and a personal computer.
For details, request news articles How to Access NCI Information
Resources - U.S. Residents ( cn-400035) or How to Access NCI
Information Resources - International ( cn-400036) from CancerNet.
To access CancerNet, send a mail message to:
In the body of the mail message, enter HELP to receive the instructions
and most current contents list. If you have a problem accessing CancerNet,
please call 1-800-624-7890 (within U.S.) or (301) 496-7600 or send an
email message to:
CancerNet statements are available in Spanish. To request the
Instructions and Contents List in Spanish, enter SPANISH in the
body of the mail message. If you would like to request the statements
in Spanish, substitute the prefix "cs-" in front of the number
(e.g., cs-100022 to receive the statement on anal cancer in Spanish).
All of the physician, patient, and supportive care statements
are available in Spanish. Selected news articles marked with a "#" in
the Contents List are available in Spanish.
CancerNet is available on the NIH gopher server. Point gopher client
software to gopher.nih.gov. Select #3 Health and Clinical Information,
and #1 CancerNet information. Telnet access is available at the
National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo ( gopher.ncc.go.jp
login: gopher ). Access to CancerNet via the World Wide Web is available
from the NCI's International Cancer Information Center Web server.
URL http://wwwicic.nci.nih.gov/CancerNet.html
For a listing of additional sites where CancerNet Information is available,
request Redistribution of CancerNet and CancerNet Availability ( cn-400030).
This news article also has information on the conditions that apply when
redistributing CancerNet information.
Please send comments or questions to:
Cheryl Burg
International Cancer Information Center
Internet: cheryl@icicc.nci.nih.gov
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:58:03 -0800
From: Elizabeth Dilworth <hennedil@CLASS.ORG>
Subject: cd-rom christmas tree
We are trying to make a christmas tree out of CDs we would have otherwise
recycled. This year we plan on doing a department card with a photo of
all the library staff and our director thought a cd "Medline" tree in the
background would look good. We tried stringing them together and that
didn't work. Anyone ever do this (with sucess :-))? Any help would be
appreciated!
Elizabeth Dilworth
Librarian
Hennepin County Medical Center
Health Sciences Library
701 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
(612) 347-2713 (voice); (612) 347-6292 (fax)
hennedil@class.org
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 07:58:52 -0800
From: Cheryl Goodwin <cgoodwin@HALCYON.COM>
Subject: Re: cd-rom christmas tree
I've done that for the past several years and it gets lots of positive
comments. I just use
masking tape and tape them to a wall or door in the shape of a tree. You can
then cut out paper
"ornaments" from garlands, etc. if you want to "decorate" the tree. The
general shape looks like this:
*
***
*****
*******
*********
***********
***
***
Each of the *s is one CD.
I don't know if this helps or not...
Cheryl Goodwin
Providence Seattle Medical Center
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 12:24:36 GMT
From: Hugh Brazier <hbrazier@RCSI.IE>
Subject: cd-rom christmas tree
In reply to a recent message from Elizabeth Dilworth...
We have been using old Medline CDs as Christmas tree decorations for some
years. There is even a photo of our tree in the Library Association Record
for January 1994 (vol 96, issue 1, page 27). Ours is a real tree with CDs
hung on it, not a tree made entirely of CDs...
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The Mercer Library, Mercer Street Lower
Dublin 2, Ireland