Our health is so important to us and it should be! Taking care of our health could lead to a very long vibrant life. BUT...what happens when our health declines? What can we find to better educate and equip ourselves for what the future holds? Maybe it's not about you, maybe it's a friend or family member, Or maybe you want to find out more about issues pertaining to health in general?
What I find Most distressing within the library, not providing the most updates & information because, let's face it ..medical materials are just plain expensive AND there's so many to choose from.......well, WELCOME to Week 7, our questions-updated info. has just been answered!!!!
There are 2 areas I wish to review the first one; Marvel's Health Source - Consumer Edition where there is a wealth of information from magazines that are very familiar AND not just for the aging but-also, growing families as well. Here you'll find articles/magazines from: Baby Talk, Parenting Early Years; Parenting School Years, Joe Weider's Muscle Fitness, Science News, Popular Science, Urology Times, Alzheimer's Disease, etc... refine your search and find exact info for what you are interested in learning.
Okay let me get personal.....Let's narrow this and find some information on what I'm interested in this season of my life "hot flashes". Wow 245 results and by placing "date desending" in the "relevance sort" option the search gives 12 articles dated 10/01/12. I'm reviewing the first materials offered "Estradiol Topical", in reviewing this article; definitely understandable in the contents-- a gel that one can use, BUT can also be used for more that just the flashes, however this can also greatly increase endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus [womb]). This is also offered as a MP3 download. Very helpful whether reading the text Or taking with you for "light" listening? okay, maybe :)
Here's something that anyone can do without Marvel: Medline Plus www.medlineplus.gov Please take the time to check this site out! On the right side the articles are from 11/14/12 : Breast Cancer Disparities Continue Among U.S. Women,"Black women have the highest breast cancer death rates of all racial and ethnic groups and are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women. " Another article, Breast Cancer Disparities Continue Among U.S. Women , next Patients More Likely to Survive In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Today: Study. On the left side you can view the top searches like: Autism, aspirin, asthma, dietary fats, hypertension..etc..
Let's see what the "drugs and supplements" tab has to offer.. let's start with Ibuprofen. By clicking on the item of interest there is a wealth of information to be found, when to take it, warnings, uses for side effects and more. Wow,,, I had a patron stop by several months ago trying to find out about an ingredient that was part of their medication. If I had only known about this site. I did google but this would have so much more to check into!!Subscribe to RSS
There's a tab for "Health Topics", I'm going to check out the "hot flashes" that I had searched for earlier. This offers information about Menopause, related topics of, and much more than I found whether related to flashes Or just what to expect with the onset of menopause, quite intriguing!
One last area to check into is the "Videos and Cool Tools". There are so many options which offer displayed text. Surgery videos, interactive tutorials, and anatomy videos, plus quizzes and games. I think an interesting tutorial would be about Colonoscopy, this easily guides you through the interest of the subject, step by step with a complete understanding of the of the disease-procedures-risks-summary. I can follow along at my own pace or have it just inform on it's own. This also offers a text format to have a copy.
This site is now in my favorites so helping the patron no longer requires having costly materials that I would need to update later.
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