Early pharmacy education at the University of Utah experienced considerable growing pains. Although 1917 saw the advent of the Department of Pharmacy, situated within the College of Medicine, the department was forced to close in 1927 due to lack of funding.Fortunately it was determined that a baccalaureate program in pharmacy should be resurrected. In 1946 […]
Read ArticleEccles Health Sciences Library now offers access to Ovid MEDLINE ® to the University of Utah community for expert searching in the biomedical literature. The Library’s expert searchers are available to collaborate- ask us. Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, […]
Read ArticleWatch the video of a retrospective of The Cochrane Collaboration’s beginnings and achievements of the past two decades.
Read ArticleUpToDate is now available both on and off campus. Health practitioners are encouraged to register to gain continuing education (CME/CE/CPD ) credit and other benefits. However, users can skip registration and use UpToDate anonymously. NOTE: uptodate.com/online continues to work from devices connected to the university network and does not prompt for user registration. NOTE to Mobile […]
Read Article“A free source of evidence-based information for health care professionals and for researchers studying liver injury associated with prescription and over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and dietary supplements … LIVERTOX also includes a case registry that will enable scientific analysis and better characterization of the clinical patterns of liver injury.” NIH news release.
Read ArticleStory demonstrating the importance of health literacy with regards to patients and their prescriptions, and resources to assist pharmacists with this challenge.
Read ArticleReview of the new Sigler Drug Cards-Pharmacology Flash Card App
Read ArticleRegistration for the Clinical Team Experience (CTE), an interdisciplinary project that demonstrates the importance of a team approach to health care delivery, is now open.
Read ArticleAre you or someone you know using or considering using herbal remedies or dietary supplements? Wondering if there is a reliable source of information on their effectiveness, usual dosage, and drug interactions? MedlinePlus recently released 100 new herb and supplement monographs in English and Spanish from Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Consumer Version (NMCD). These monographs […]
Read ArticleAlways striving to stay on the cutting edge of library technology, Eccles Health Sciences Library has moved all of its helpful research guides to Springshare’s Campus Guides system, which is the larger, campus-wide version of Lib Guides. This “Web 2.0 content management and library knowledge sharing system” helps libraries “to create attractive multimedia content, share […]
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