HSL-News November 1, 2001

1. Crisis in Context: Human Dimensions
2. Manage Your UW Email List Subscriptions
3. RFS Nov. 14 Noontime Grant Presentation
4. NLM's MEDLINEplus Weekly Email Announcements
5. HealthLinks November Front Page

Crisis in Context: Human Dimensions
The University of Washington Libraries has put together resources to assist research into the tragedies of September 11, 2001.  The health section is http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/sept11/human.html.
Topics include Coping with Trauma, Chemical and Biological Terrorism, Blood Donations, General Medical Preparedness, What to Say to Children, and General Information.  The site will continue to be updated.  See the announcement below regarding our HealthLinks November Front Page for further bioterrorism information.

Manage Your UW Email List Subscriptions
Computing and Networking has set up a website for you to be able to subscribe to selected UW email lists.  HSL-News is pleased to be one of the sites for this launch.  You will be asked to authenticate with your UW NetID at http://www.washington.edu/computing/listproc/online/.
You will find the HSL-News description and boxes to subscribe under two headings:  Health, and UW Departments.  Take a look at their new site and let them know what you think.

Research Funding Service Noontime Grants Discussion on November 14
RFS is sponsoring a noontime grants event, "How to Prepare a Budget."  It is a discussion series presented from 12 P.M. to 1 P.M., Nov. 14, in the South Campus Center, Rooms 242/246.  No registration is required.  To be notified of future sessions, phone (206) 685-8036 or send email to rfs@u.washington.edu.

National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus Weekly Email Announcements
You can now sign up to receive weekly email announcements from MEDLINEplus containing links to new topics and sites on consumer health information.  Choose MEDLINEplus-NEW which covers all new resources, health topics, and announcements from MEDLINEplus.  Choose MEDLINEplus-NIH which covers new and updated consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health only, plus announcements and new health topics from MEDLINEplus.  See http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/listserv.html for details on how to sign up.

HealthLinks November Front Page
The featured topic this month is "Bioterrorism: Focus on Health."  Some of the featured sites include the AMA Working Group on Civilian Biodefense links on anthrax, smallpox, plague, botulinum toxin, and tularemia.  Another site is The Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies.  Many more comprehensive and timely sites are included.  You can find all of this information at http://healthlinks.washington.edu.

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