HSIS Newsletter
The HSIS Newsletter is a free one-page zine, with clickable links, which provides:
- Important medical alerts
- Recent research findings
- Useful health-related web sites
- Resources offered by the National Library of Medicine
- Changes in database search features and techniques
- Updates on HSIS collections, services and staff
The new issue is posted on the HSIS website each month. By signing up, you will receive e-mail notification with the link to the latest issue when it is posted.
Past Issues
| Issue | Major Topic(s) |
| June 2008 |
*Can Cell Phones Destroy Your Brain? |
| May 2008 |
*Health Information in MANY Languages - Now on MedlinePlus! |
| March-April 2008 |
*HAPPINESSISNOWHERE |
| February 2008 |
*Happy 40th Birthday, HSIS! |
| January 2008 |
*MRSA in the Community: A Growing Threat to Young People |
| December 2007 |
*Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs): What you Should Know! |
| November 2007 |
*Don't Underestimate "Mild" Head Injuries! |
| October 2007 |
*Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is on the Move in Alaska! |
| September 2007 |
*Dreaming of Becoming a Physician? |
| August 2007 |
*Alaska's Digital Pipeline: Free Articles and More - Just for Alaskans! |
| July 2007 |
*Exposing the Great Bottled Water Scam - It's Time to Wise Up! |
| June 2007 |
*Bionic Boomers: Why Hip Replacements are All the Rage |
| May 2007 |
*Alaska Native Suicide: Help Turn the Tide |
| April 2007 |
*Depression: Deadlier in Spring |
| March 2007 |
*The Power of Touch |
| February 2007 |
*Vitamin D Deficiency - An Unrecognized but Deadly Epidemic? |
| January 2007 |
*The Human Genome Project - What's in it for us? |
| December 2006 |
*Pilates: The Mind-Body Workout that Transforms |
| November 2006 |
*In Your Stocking This Year: More E-books! |
| October 2006 |
*Pregnancy and Diabetes - A Dangerous Link! |
| September 2006 |
*To Zap or Not to Zap - That is the Question! |
| August 2006 |
*HSIS Newsletter - Behind the Scenes |
| July 2006 |
*Choose to Move for Cancer Protection and Recovery |
| June 2006 |
*The Untold Misery of Prostate Problems |
| May 2006 |
*Better Than Google? Update on Databases for Alaskans *Cast Your Vote for New E-Books |
| April 2006 | *Thumbs Up for Red Wine and Chocolate? |
| March 2006 | *Colorectal Cancer Screening: An Important Test for Over 50s |
| February 2006 | *Bird Flu: What Alaskans Need to Know |
| January 2006 | *Bad Blood: the Silent Epidemic. Are You at Risk? |
| December 2005 | *Public Health: A Global Effort that Protects and Promotes the Health of Communities |
| November 2005 | *The Perils of Multitasking: Is Less Really More? |
| October 2005 | *Finding Foreign Language Health Education Materials |
| September 2005 | *Finding Full Text Articles Online - Not for the Impatient or Faint-hearted! |
| August 2005 | *E-books Galore -- STAT!Ref and More! Passwords, pins and registration. |
| July 2005 | *Focus on Domestic Violence |
| June 2005 | *Online Resources - What's New for 2005 |
| May 2005 | *Focus on tobacco: Alaska's No.1 health problem |
| April 2005 | *Focus on Vitamins and Minerals |
| March 2005 | *Find out what's new at HSIS |
| February 2005 | *What's new in PubMed? |
| January 2005 | *Focus on Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) |
| December 2004 | *What are your information needs? |
| November 2004 | *Focus on Palliative Care |
| October 2004 | *UAA's Library of the 21st Century Becomes a Reality |
| September 2004 | *Of Traditional Healing and Herb Gardens |
| August 2004 | *When you need answers fast -- STAT!Ref it! GIDEON update |
| July 2004 | *Alaska Herbs that Harm and Heal! |
| June 2004 | *GIDEON: Powerful new infectious disease resource |
| May 2004 | *Focus on infectious diseases. Announcing GIDEON |
| April 2004 | *Low health literacy -- an emerging public health issue! |
| March 2004 |
*Natural Standard natural medicine database *Breast cancer news and resources |
| February 2004 | *Reducing medical errors -- an urgent new priority! |
| January 2004 | *Type 2 diabetes in children and young adults: the new epidemic! |
| December 2003 | *"Tis the season to be SAD!" |
| November 2003 | *Focus on the medical library |
| October 2003 |
*Focus on children with complex medical conditions *HSIS Table of Contents Service |
| September 2003 | *Focus on aging: a critical issue for us all! |
| August 2003 | *Focus on HSIS: a new home and a new direction! |
| July 2003 | *PubMed: What is it? What's new on PubMed? PubCrawler |
| June 2003 | *ArcticHealth Website: a brand new resource for northerners |
| May 2003 | *Obesity: One of the major health threats of our time |
| April 2003 | *Focus on resources for Alaskans: Databases, SARS, health programs on TV, STAT!Ref survey |
| March 2003 |
*STAT!Ref online medical reference library *Borrowing specialized medical books or textbooks *SARS Resources on the Web |
| Jan.-Feb. 2003 | *Finding patient education materials for Native Alaskans |
| Nov.-Dec. 2002 | *PubMed changes |
| Sept.-Oct. 2002 | *Breast Cancer Awareness Month--substantive web sites |
| July-Aug 2002 | *National Library of Medicine--services/URL locations |
| May-June 2002 | *Reliability of Web Sites |
| Mar.-Apr. 2002 |
*Finding patient education material *Finding health statistics |
| Jan.-Feb. 2002 | *Literature Searches |
| Nov.-Dec. 2001 |
*ArcticHealth database *MEDLINEplus |
| Sept.-Oct. 2001 | *Using Loansome Doc |
| July-Aug 2001 | *Obtaining information from health-related databases such as PsychAbstracts, Sociology, etc. |
| May-June 2001 |
* Is Everything on the 'Net? * Full-text journals ... for Administrators & Nurses |
| March-April 2001 | * Autoalerts (SDIs) or automatic updates by medical topic |
| February 2001 | * Signing up for Table of Contents service |
| January 2001 |
* Articles delivered to your computer * MD Consult * Stat!Ref |
| December 2000 | * Keeping up with the literature (Table of Contents service) |
| December 2000 StatRef/MDConsult | * Introduction of StatRef and MDconsult service and access |