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23rd February - 1st March 2015 Eating disorders can be characterised by an abnormal and unhealthy attitude towards food which can cause an individual to change their eating habits and behaviour.  An individual with an eating disorder may focus unduly on their weight or body shape which can then lead them towards making food choices that can be damaging to their health.  There are several types of eating disorder such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa which manifest themselves in different ways.  The causes are often put down to social pressure to fit a certain stereotypical body image.  However, the reality is that the underlying causes can be far more complex.  B-eat (Beat eating disorders), is an organisation that aims to try and change the way eating disorders are viewed and improve the services provided to those suffering from an eating disorder.  Between February 23 rd and March 1 st 2015 B-eat are leading a whole week of events in order to raise ...

We have revamped our current awareness service for medical research. You can now sign-up to receive a selection of the latest headlines and research from our main medicine-based journals : BMJ – British Journal of Medicine The Lancet JAMA – Journal of the American Medical Association New England Journal of Medicine International Journal of Clinical Practice Medicine (UK) Check the Medicine Updates tab on our Current Awareness Service or sign-up here to receive email updates . Our Current Awareness Service is delivered via Netvibes; but you don’t need to join. Our email update service is delivered via Google Feedburner. For more information about our Current Awareness Service watch our video:

You can find a list of published research from our local staff on our Staff Publications web page Here we have gathered together some of the research published over the past year by our partner organisations: Keele University North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust University Hospital of North Staffordshire / University Hospitals of North Midlands Note: that this list is drawn from Pubmed, where the Author/Affiliation field includes our partner organisations.

Ebsco have released a new App for Dynamed : Easier to install No serial number required From Ebsco: Features that meet clinician’s needs: Free App (with UHNM subscription) Access content offline Bookmark Favorites Email topics Write and save notes about particular topics Dynamed is available to our UHNM users via their NHS Athens username. Easy download instructions: 1. Download the free DynaMed App from the iTunes Store or Google Play. 2. Log in to DynaMed ( see our Healthcare Resources page ). 3. Click on the DynaMed mobile access link from DynaMed and enter your email address. The link will be located at the top toolbar.  An authentication key will be emailed to you. Select "Mobile" from the top menu bar and insert your email address 4. Open the DynaMed email from your device. 5. Within 48 hours, tap on the link in the email to authenticate the app. Note: after 48 hours, users will need to request a new authentication key. ...

Our collection of ejournal titles from ScienceDirect have been updated: Titles available at Science Direct include: American Journal of Cardiology American Journal of Medicine American journal of ophthalmology American Journal of Surgery Annals of thoracic surgery British journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery Clinical neurophysiology European journal of vascular and endovascular surgery Gastroenterology Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Journal of Clinical Anesthesia Journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery Journal of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery (JPRAS) Journal of the American College of Surgeons Ophthalmology Orthopaedics and trauma (Also SSoTP North) Respiratory Medicine (Also SSoTP: North) Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care   These journals are available to UHNM NHS users only, unless noted above, via your NHS Athens username / password. Please check the NHS Journals list for your access rights.

Keele Library Latest: Catalogue Plus - 'more like this' : Another new feature was introduced in Catalogue Plus and the Classic Catalogue this morning. When you

We have subscribed to a range of ejournals via the Ovid Journals database. New titles at Ovid include: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Anaesthesia British Journal of Haematology Cancer Cancer Cytopathology Current Opinion in Hematology Current Opinion in Oncology Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology International Journal of Clinical Practice Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Journal of Family Therapy Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise   Some of these titles have been moved to Ovid from other platforms. We hope that this will improve access. Other Ovid titles include: A & A Case Reports Advances in Nursing Science Age and Ageing American heart journal American journal of nursing (AJN) American journal of occupational therapy American Journal of Surgical Pathology Anesthesia and Analgesia Anesthesiology Annals of Emergency Medicine Annals of Surgery BJOG: An International Journal o...

NIHR funding to produce DARE (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects) and NHS EED (NHS Economic Evaluation Database) ceases at the end of March 2015. However, both databases can still be accessed via the CRD website. Bibliographic records will be published on DARE and NHS EED until 31st March 2015. The HTA database will continue to be produced by CRD for the foreseeable future.

We have been informed that the problems using the NHS Athens registration form have now been resolved. You should be able to: Register for an NHS Athens username online Renew your account when you receive the renewal email Reset your own password if you have forgotten it. You can find the links as well as more helpful information on our NHS Athens page .

From the 1 st of April the provision of the Medline and PsychInfo databases, as part of the NHS Core Content, will be delivered via ProQuest and not Ovid. Changes will be made to the NHS HDAS interface to run searches on these 2 databases via ProQuest instead of Ovid. As a consequence of these changes, any searches (and associated alerts) saved within HDAS by users, which use these databases or search across databases, will be lost. You are advised to export your search information in order to retain it. You can then re-create the search, and alert, when the new interface is implemented. Screen-shot of the export options You can find more help on using HDAS in our guide . Note for users who use the Ovid interface directly. If you use the Ovid interface directly to save searches, and set up alerts, on Medline or PsychInfo you will also lose access to your saved searches. Ovid are investigating whether searches can be exported to ProQuest but you are advi...

Here is a selection of new titles added to the catalogue this month. Browse all the latest titles here or check out “New Books” display in the library. New books include: ABC of transfer and retrieval medicine / edited by Adam Low, Jonathan Hulme An introduction to theory and reasoning in nursing / Betty M. Johnson, Pamela B. Webber Clinical dermatology / Richard B. Weller, Hamish J.A. Hunter, Margaret W. Mann. Introducing anaesthesia: a curriculum-based guide / Paul Greig, Nicholas Crabtree Key clinical topics in plastic and reconstructive surgery / Tor Wo Chiu, Tze Yean Kong Learning disability nursing : modern day practice / Bob Gates, Kay Mafuba Medical ethics and the elderly / edited by Gurcharan S Rai MRCP PACES : 180 clinical cases / Kevin O'Gallagher, Michael O'Gallagher,Danial Knight, Omar Malik and Eirini Merika Organizational change / Barbara Senior, Stephen Swailes Pain management in nursing practice / Shelagh Wright Patient safety and healthcare...