|
Association for
|
|
Practice Management Systems |
35 |
|
Communications and Networking |
22 |
|
Computerized Patient Records |
58 |
|
Data and Messaging Standards |
5 |
|
Computer-Aided Instruction |
48 |
|
No selection |
28 |
Respectfully
submitted,
James T. Case DVM,
Ph.D.
Secretary/Treasurer
Treasurer's
Report
From: "Jim
Case" <JimCase@aol.com>
As of June 30, 1998, the AVI had $7229.44 in checking. There are no other accounts currently open. Income and expenses (actual vs prior) are as listed below.
|
7/1/97- |
7/1/96- |
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|
6/30/98 |
6/30/97 |
Dollar |
|
|
ACTUAL |
PRIOR |
Change |
|
|
Income |
|||
|
Membership dues |
$7,014.57 |
$5,549.74 |
$1,464.83 |
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------------ |
------------ |
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|
Total Income |
$7,014.57 |
$5,549.74 |
$1,464.83 |
|
Expense |
|||
|
Annual meeting costs |
$1,495.08 |
$835.42 |
$(659.66) |
|
Bank correction |
(11.00) |
19.00 |
30.00 |
|
Equipment |
290.62 |
4,033.41 |
3742.79 |
|
Membership costs |
0.00 |
0.00 |
(8.00) |
|
Newsletter editor support |
2,300.00 |
0.00 |
(2,300.00) |
|
Postage |
2,738.43 |
1,957.00 |
(781.43) |
|
Printing - newsletter |
895.48 |
903.47 |
7.99 |
|
Printing - nonnewsletter |
816.65 |
442.87 |
(373.78) |
|
PR/ Marketing |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
Reimburs-able expense |
0.00 |
139.00 |
139.00 |
|
Reimburse-ment |
0.00 |
230.45 |
230.45 |
|
Software |
0.00 |
309.68 |
309.68 |
|
Sponsorship |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
|
Stationary |
52.29 |
245.80 |
193.51 |
|
Xeroxing |
0.00 |
16.90 |
16.90 |
|
------------ |
------------ |
------------ |
------------ |
|
Total Expense |
$8,585.55 |
$9,808.00 |
$1,222.45 |
|
NET INCOME (LOSS) |
$(1,570.92) |
$(4,258.26) |
$2,627.28 |
Minutes from AVI Annual Business Meeting 1998
General comments - Dr. Charles Cohen, Outgoing AVI
President
Welcome to all those attending the AVI Business Meeting
Thanks to Duane Steward for organizing the Talbot Informatics Symposium
Problem and possible topic for next Talbot Symposium - the need for additional Vet Med software
Introduction of JAVMA Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Janis H. Audin
Presentation by Dr. Janis H. Audin
Mission of JAVMA
Open discussion regarding relationship between AVI and AVMA
J. Audin suggested AVI assemble a publications committee that would be sponsored by a specialty group or school
Reiterated that JAVMA always willing to consider informatics articles
Secretary/Treasurer's report - Dr. James T. Case
Membership report: see "Association News"
Financial report: see "Association News"
Newsletter Editor's report - Dr. Ronald D. Smith
Introduction of Newsletter Assistant Editor, Tina Villarete
Discussion: pros and cons of replacing e-mailed (ASCII) and Web (HTML) versions of AVI Newsletter with a .pdf (Acrobat) version
RESOLVED:.pdf version will be distributed in lieu of ASCII version starting with Jan-Feb 99 issue
RESOLVED: continue posting HTML version on NetVet
Open discussion on ways to cut costs of AVI Newsletter hardcopy
Move to Web version only?
Additional charge for those members requesting a hardcopy of the AVI Newsletter?
RESOLVED: AVI will continue to urge members to receive electronic version (.pdf) only and see if demand for hardcopy diminishes
Nominating Committee report - Dr. James T. Case)
Announced the installment of Dr. Robin M. Starr as AVI President
Announced the election of Dr. James V. Schoster as AVI President-Elect
Education Committee report - Dr. Duane Steward
Open discussion regarding improving member participation and attendance
Suggestion to list informatics separately in the AVMA listing
Suggestion to make AVI information more mainstream and applicable for practitioners
Reference to survey conducted by Cheryl Dhein
Open nominations for new Education Committee Chair
At the present time we have not identified anyone willing to chair the Education Committee and take responsibility for AVI presence at next year's AVMA annual meeting
RESOLVED: Robin Starr will follow-up
Working group reports - none given
Practice management
Networking and Communications (Internet)
Electronic Medical Records
Data standards and Messaging (Standards)
Computer Aided Instruction
Installation of new officers
Robin Starr installed as incoming AVI President
James Schoster announced as incoming AVI President-elect
Old Business - Dr. Ken Boschert
AVI should have its own Internet domain and webserver
Currently, AVI is listed under Ken Boschert's Website
Discussed costs associated with the change
Motion to get AVI its own domain name, motion seconded
Request to send Ken Boschert any domain name suggestions
New Business
Robin Starr announced that she will discuss Education Committee Chair and arrangements for next year's symposium with the Executive Committee
Adjourn
Pilots
Help Doctors Navigate Their Residency
By Lisa Napoli
July 19, 1998
When the new crop
of neurology residents arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital
this summer, they were presented with a surprise in the midst of
orientation lectures and paperwork: a Palm Pilot pre-loaded with
medical data to make their hectic lives run a bit more smoothly.
The modern medical resident is still governed by a life of
stress and sleeplessness for which this rite of passage to
becoming a doctor is notorious. But one of the dozen new Pilot
recipients, Dr. Volney Sheen, 29, said he expects the device will
make his job easier in at least one way: by eliminating the need
to carry around the three-by-five index cards doctors generally
use to take notes on their rounds.
"You lose the
cards, and they are so disorganized that you can't find anything,"
said Dr. Sheen, a recent graduate of Harvard Medical School.
Efficient management of information is something John
Lester, the systems specialist for the neurology department, has
witnessed a need for in his six years on the job. When the
residency program at Massachusetts General was merged with those
of two other local hospitals last year, that meant fewer residents
serving more patients -- and an even more pressing need for a way
to help the young doctors navigate the maze of lab numbers,
contact names, drug references, and patient data.
Lester
brainstormed with Dr. Barry Kosofsky, the coordinator of the
merged programs, for a solution. "We had to manage the phone
numbers, lab numbers, ID numbers, computer access," said Dr.
Kosofsky.
"All (the residents) needed was some good,
fundamental way to take little notes and save them and keep them
in their pocket," said Lester. "There had to be a better
way than these cards. I was thinking wilderness survival -- what
is the ideal tool to help them?"
They found it in the
Palm Pilot, just small enough to be portable, yet powerful enough
to store vast amounts of information. Starting last year,
residents were given the digital assistants and instructed on
their use. Docking stations were installed in each of the
hospitals, so that residents could easily download their
schedules. (This year's Pilots also have an infrared feature,
allowing residents who are so inclined to share notes at the push
of a button.)
"The way I'm working now, I'm at
several different places all the time. Even if it were easier for
me to keep all my patient data on one computer, a lot of times I
wouldn't be at one computer to write it down," said Dr. Alice
Flaherty, who served as chief resident at Massachusetts General
last year when the program was launched.
Her loose-leaf
notebook of lab numbers and medical "pearls of wisdom"
-- cobbled together over her three years in the program -- was
transcribed and imported as the basis of the program's master
database. The database also includes clinical scenarios, drug
names and a modified Physician's Desk Reference.
Though
Dr. Flaherty admitted she was initially somewhat resistant to the
notion of using a personal digital assistant, she said she has now
mastered the graffiti alphabet necessary to input information into
a Pilot and now uses it to take notes at lectures, record patient
data and jot down ideas from papers she reads. It took a month for
her to feel comfortable writing the characters the Pilot
recognizes, morphing her doctor's scribble into the Pilot's
"language."
Lester said not all the residents
choose to learn the characters necessary for taking notes on the
Pilot, but he said those who do usually discover even more
utility.
Said Dr. Flaherty: "You can do these great
searches. I used to try to remember papers I'd seen, like there's
one about 'ringing in your ears.' Now I can look up 'ringing in
your ears' and see it was a Levine paper in Science in 1997.
Another key thing: you can do stuff on the elevator, or if I just
stop to talk to someone, right then I can enter in the data.
Whereas if I wrote it down, who knows what would happen to it. It
makes you able to use the downtime, like waiting in line for the
cafeteria, for doing something else."
Dr. Kosofsky
remembers a different sort of waiting in line ten years ago: when
there was just one computer, and residents had to queue up at a
single terminal to access their schedules. Although advances in
information technology have helped solve some problems, he
acknowledged that there are still challenges.
"We're
fighting the same battle, just in different ways now," he
said. He and Lester are working with Harvard Medical School on a
task force in educational computing that aims to put Pilots in the
hands of medical students there, after an earlier experiment with
clunky laptops failed because of their bulk. Finding a place to
balance a machine in order to use a keyboard just wasn't feasible
for the students.
"The bottom line is, how do you get
value?" said Dr. Kosofsky. "What's appealing about what
we're doing is there is little startup cost and minimal
maintenance. It's part of a bigger initiative to figure out how to
give students 'virtual brains.'"
As the second year
of the program gets underway, Lester said one of the best
testaments to its success is that older, more technophobic doctors
have asked if they can get the Pilots, too -- and current users
have come up with ways to enhance the devices.
Ease-of-use
was a key part of making the program work, Lester said. "We
didn't want to make it so integral to their lives that they would
fail if they didn't make it a part of their work, but at the same
time, we wanted to make the benefits of using it so great that
they would want to learn it. It's the co-evolving of the people
and the tools."
Copyright 1998 The New York Times
Company
Compendium of
Veterinary Products Available on NOAH Database
From: "Jill Indelicato" <JIndelicato@avma.org>
Veterinary Products (CVP) published by North American
Compendiums, Inc., is now available on NOAH. The Compendium of
Veterinary Products gives you more product listings and
information to provide your veterinary practice with the most
complete and concise online reference available.
It is
available online exclusively to NOAH members:
http://www.avma.org/noah/databases/nac/naccvp.asp
This
easy-to-use, online version of the CVP contains over 4,800
monographs of approved pharmaceuticals, pesticides, biologics, and
other veterinary products. Essential information is provided for
companion animals, livestock and poultry. Manufacturer's or
distributer's names and addresses and contact information are also
provided.
The Compendium of Veterinary Products is
sponsored on NOAH by Bayer Animal Health. Please let us know if
you have any questions or comments regarding NOAH.
Jill
Indelicato
Online Services Specialist
AVMA Center for
Information Management
Dogbot
Engineers at Sony's D21 lab have developed a robotic dog,
complete with 64-bit central processing unit, 8 megabytes of
memory, and a supersensitive camera "eye" that enables
it to obey motion commands -- if you stick your hand out, Dogbot
will sit. The robot is reconfigurable, so that the owner can swap
out limbs or even the head, and each module is "intelligent"
-- equipped with its own motor and control chip. Toshitada Doi,
head of the D21 lab, says he thinks there will be a consumer
market among children for the dogbots sometime around 2000.
(Business Week 20 Jul 98)
Surveillance
Manual and Software
From:
"Angus Cameron" <angus@pnc.com.au>
Active
Surveillance for Livestock Diseases
A new book on
livestock disease surveillance is now available, together with a
suite of software programs for surveillance. The electronic
versions of the manual and software are now available over the
internet from:
The manual and software are the result of
research in surveillance techniques in Thailand and Laos. The
manual - "Active Surveillance for Livestock Diseases -
Practical Techniques for Developing Countries" - consists of
335 pages in Adobe Acrobat format was prepared with the assistance
of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
(ACIAR). A hard copy will soon be available through them. The
software - Survey Toolbox - runs on Windows 95 systems, and
contains programs for random sampling, planning and analysis of
two-stage prevalence surveys, incidence surveys, and surveys to
demonstrate freedom from disease (FreeCalc).
Both the
electronic version of the manual and software are available free
of charge. The printed version of the manual will be available
free of charge to developing countries.
Angus Cameron -
Veterinary Consultant
140 Falls Road, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2782, Australia
Email: <angus@pnc.com.au>
Phone: +61 2 4757 2770
Fax: +61 2 4757 2789
VETMED-L
No Longer Exists
From:
<raingoddess@JUNO.COM>
The VETMED-L list at UGA (
LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
) no longer exists. Most of
its functions have been taken up by the newer moderated VETMED
(note: no "-L") list on the IUPUI server. A separate
announcement for VETMED will follow. Please update any
lists-of-lists that you may maintain to remove VETMED-L and
replace it with VETMED.
Epivet-L
- The Veterinary Epidemiologists List
From: "John Gay" <jmgay@vetmed.wsu.edu>
Greetings:
I've create a website of epidemiology
and other materials for veterinary students and ag animal
practitioners. It contains both original materials as well as
links to other sites. If I've missed linking something or you find
something original is in serious error, please let me know. Like
most sites, I modify and add things to it on an irregular but
constant basis and contents are in various stages starting with
rough draft. If you have similar items to link to, please let me
know.
Some pieces relevant to this list are:
·
Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence-Based Medicine Glossary
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/GlossClinEpiEBM.htm
· Guidelines for Assessing Professional Information
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/EvalGuide.htm
· WWWeb Epidemiology & Evidence-based Medicine Sources for Veterinarians
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/EpiLinks.htm
John Gay, DVM
PhD DACVPM
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Office: (509)
335-0785
Washington State University
New
Search Engine for Horse-Related Websites
From: "Savelberg Hubert" <hubert@savelberg.com>
The search-engine of
http://www.aachenbreed.com/index.html
is dedicated to horse-related web pages only. Although the new website
is still under construction, you can
now submit your horse-related web pages to our search engine, for
free.
Our no-nonsense webcrawler will index not only the
links of the related pages, but also all words, keywords and
meta-tags on your entire website, but only if your website is
horse-dedicated.
Just go to
http://www.aachenbreed.com/index.html
and
submit your site.
(English, Deutsch, Francais, Italiano
and Nederlands instructions are available)
Holisticat
- Holistic Cat Care and Nutrition
Holisticat is a new umoderated mailing list for cat lovers
who are interested in treated their cats using alternative,
non-invasive healing methods such as homeopathy, herbs, Chinese
medicine, etc. Optimal nutrition for cats is also a major
discussion topic. This list is for the discussion of cat-related
topics only. Both regular and digest versions of the list are
currently available.
Flaming either on the list, or
privately to other listmembers will not be tolerated.
·
To subscribe to the regular version of the list i.e. to receive
individual messages as they are posted, send this message:
subscribe holisticat
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Either message must be sent (with no sig
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Any questions, please contact the listowner at:
<s_arora@juno.com>
AGRICOLA on the Web
Looking for a particular reference? Or a book and can't
remember the author? An article on some aspect of food safety, vet
med, nutrition, or other agricultural topics? If yes, I would like
to invite you to check out "AGRICOLA on the Web". You
will find it on the National Agricultural Library (NAL) home page
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
is a bibliographic database consisting of literature citations for
journal articles, monographs, serials, audiovisual materials,
technical reports (and more) relating to all aspects of
agriculture since 1965.
AGRICOLA does not contain the
materials themselves; but it can help you identify and find them,
and you can search AGRICOLA via the World Wide Web. Materials may
be borrowed from the National Agricultural Library (NAL).
How
to Borrow:
For complete information on how to get NAL
materials, see NAL's Document Delivery Services on the Web site.
1 - USDA
employees and some USDA personnel working for specific Food and
Nutrition Service programs may borrow directly. See list of FNS
programs at bottom of this message.
2 - Individuals
NAL
provides copies and loans of agricultural materials to the public
through interlibrary loan. Individuals who wish to borrow or
obtain copies of material from the NAL collection should contact
their local, University, or hospital library to place an
interlibrary loan request.
3 - Libraries
Library
borrowing procedures are on the Web site.
More:
AGRICOLA
is also a locator system for materials contained in the collection
of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), the largest collection
of agricultural literature in the world. In addition to records
for volumes cataloged and indexed at NAL, AGRICOLA includes
citations with location information of items contained in
collections of some of NAL's cooperative partners.
As of
June 1998, all books, AVs, etc. (i.e., everything that was
'cataloged') from 1970 to the present is available. This amounts
to some 981,000 records. We also have all 'indexing' records
created from 1985 to the present available...some 667,000 records.
We will continue to load the remainder of the indexing records
over the summer and will ultimately have the full 3.5 million
records available, with more being added on a daily basis.
Searchable:
AGRICOLA is searchable via the Web on the
NAL Web site and also using the VTLS Web Gateway. For those who
prefer a text-oriented interface for searching, Telnet access to
ISIS, the production arm of AGRICOLA, is still available.
AGRICOLA can also be accessed for a fee through several
commercial vendors, both online and on CD-ROM, and users may
purchase magnetic tapes containing AGRICOLA records from the
National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
Please
note:
The AGRICOLA data are for personal use only. Users are
responsible for complying with all copyright and licensing
restrictions associated with data.
Special programs borrow
directly.
Through an interagency agreement with the Food and
Consumer Service (FCS) of USDA, NAL has expanded the categories of
users eligible for direct loan of books and audiovisuals, free
photocopies of journal articles, and comprehensive
reference/research services. The expanded group includes personnel
working for the following FCS programs:
* Child Nutrition
Program (school district and individual school faculty, librarians
or media center staff, nurses and food service personnel),
*
Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET),
* Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
*
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP),
* Food
Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR),
* Child
and Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP),
* University of
Maryland Nutrition Extension Agents and Department of Nutrition
and Food Science Faculty.
Food
Safety Educator Available Online
From: <EDNET@FOODSAFETY.GOV>
August 1998
Current and past issues of the "Food Safety Educator"
are available on the WWW in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat is required
to access this Web page. The URL is:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/educator/educator.htm
Subscribe to
the "Food Safety Educator" by sending an e-mail message
to joan.troiano@usda.gov
. Please include your mailing address,
not e-mail address. The newsletter is currently only available by
mail.
The On-line Medical
Dictionary
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html
OMD
is a searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark and contains
terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine,
molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science
and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory,
conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, history,
in fact anything to do with medicine or science.
It aims to
provide a one-stop source of information about all medical and
scientific terms and includes many useful cross-references and
pointers to related resources elsewhere on the Internet, as well
as bibliographical reference to paper publications. It lacks many
entries which one can find in paper dictionaries but contains more
encyclopaedia-like entries and entries on various subjects. It
also contains many definitions in related areas.
The
dictionary started in early 1997 and has grown, to contain over
46,000 definitions totalling 14.5 megabytes. Entries are
cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere
on the net. It is freely available on the Internet via the
World-Wide Web.
VETMED -
Veterinary Discussion List
VETMED is a moderated list for the discussion of
veterinary issues. Veterinary professionals, students, and all
others interested in veterinary medical issues are welcome on the
list. List subscribers include veterinarians, vet techs, animal
breeders, pet owners, farmers and others interested in animal
health topics.
List discussions include requests for help
with cases, discussion of veterinary news and new products,
general animal health and nutrition topics, and other issues of
interest to veterinary professionals and pet owners. Because it is
a moderated list, it is milder in tone and lower in volume than
the open list which preceded it (vetmed-l at UGA, which no longer
exists.) While differences of opinion on issues are welcome on
VETMED, flames and personal attacks are not.
To subscribe,
send email to: <listserv@iupui.edu>
with the message:
SUBSCRIBE VETMED Yourfirstname Yourlastname
(Example: SUB VETMED James Herriot, DVM)
You must
include your first and last name for the subscription to be
processed. Anonymous subscribers are not allowed. Leave the
subject line blank and do not include any extra text or
punctuation in the request. All new subscriptions are
automatically set to receive the digest version of the list.
For
more information, you can contact the listowners at the following
address: <vetmed-request@listserv.iupui.edu>
Note to
maintainers of 'list-of-lists' websites: please edit your pages to
remove references to the now-defunct VETMED-L and replace them
with information about VETMED.
Stacy Pober - VETMED
moderator
CONVINCE Web
Site
The CONVINCE Website
provides a database of computer-aided instructional (CAI)
materials as a community resource for veterinary students and
veterinary educators. They would like to encourage faculty who
have developed CAI materials (web sites or stand-alone programs)
to include your hard work in this database.
If you'd like
to sample the database, simply log in at
and select
"CAI Database" from the first menu that appears. This
link will take you to the search page. Follow the links described
in the search page to find instructional materials by species,
discipline, a text index, or by author.
If you would like
to have your teaching material added to their database, follow the
link in the paragraph at the bottom of the search page. The link
will take you to a form that allows you to provide information for
their descriptions. They will review your materials and transfer
it to their online database.
Jeff R. Wilcke, DVM, MS,
DACVCP
CONVINCE Website Coordinator
All
the Virology on the WWW - Update and Urgent Call for Images
From: "Dr. David M. Sander" <DMSander@ix.netcom.com>
All the Virology on the WWW Update
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
All the Virology on the WWW (ATV) is
pleased to announce several new developments of interest to our
users:
· ATV has had some very high profile reviews
recently - including a review in AAAS's premier Science Magazine.
· The Big Picture Book of Viruses continues to grow and
we are seeking more viral images for this collection, and for a
new ASM educational project to collect the best educational viral
images available.
· The Virology Bookshop continues to
offer our users significant discounts on your favorite books.
·
A new look for ATV is under development - tell us what you think!
If you aren't familiar with the site, or would like to add
a URL to my collection, please read "About All the Virology
on the WWW" below.
ATV Reviewed in SCIENCE:
You
may have seen one of the recent reviews of All the Virology on the
WWW in the June 26th issue of Science, or in Biomednet's popular
Internet Journal, the HMS Beagle:
http://biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/34/webres/wreview.htm
The Big Picture Book of Viruses:
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html
As many of you know, The Big Picture Book
of Viruses continues to prosper with many images being added every
week. If you have a virology image you would like to share with
the public, or a Web site with viral images please contact us.
In addition, ATV has partnered with the American Society
for Microbiology in sponsoring an electronic collection of
peer-reviewed materials for teaching and learning about the
microbial world. The Collection (C3) is intended to provide a
venue for teaching faculty to publish pertinent work in education,
and to provide a resource for improving teaching and learning in
the microbiological sciences
Please visit the following
web address if you need details or a submission form:
http://www.asmusa.org/edusrc/educ3.htm
This is an NSF funded project, and a
wonderful opportunity to showcase your work. We need your
materials (video, animation, photos, graphics)! The collection
will be peer reviewed so this will be a great (and relatively
easy) opportunity for you to have your material published on the
web (helpful for P&T, merit pay, makes your CV more
attractive!) If you have any specific questions not answered on
the web site, feel free to contact Kim R. Finer
<ikassem@asmusa.org> for more information. The ASM C3
collection needs your submissions now!
The Virology
Bookshop:
In association with Amazon.com, the largest
bookstore on the Internet, we are now offering our users discounts
of up to 20% on virology, microbiology, infectious disease related
books on the market. "The Virology Bookshop" is easily
accessible through the home page for All the Virology on the WWW:
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
Please let us know what you think of
this new service, and of the book reviews that accompany many of
the recent releases.
All the Virology on the WWW has also
been adding to its already substantial collection of Internet
links of use to Virologists, Microbiologists and the general
public.
A New Look for ATV:
Although we've been on the
Web for over 3 years, our appearance has changed only twice. We
are now experimenting with a new format, and would love to hear
what you think. Partially updated pages include ATV's Vaccine
page:
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavwebvacc.html
and the Paramyxovirus page within the Big Picture Book of Viruses:
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/Big_Virology/BVRNApara.html
In addition to these cosmetic changes, a
search utility has recently been made available for ATV users and
yet more changes are in store. If you have any comments or
suggestions about this new "look", please let us know!
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About All the Virology on the WWW:
http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html
This comprehensive page lists all the
WWW sites we know that contain information about virology,
epidemiology and public health, general virology, specific
viruses, microbiology, AIDS, emerging viruses, vaccines, gene
therapy, biological warfare, taxonomy, virology and microbiology
news, academic departments, virology institutes, genomic data,
research labs and other health Related sites in addition to web
sites regarding science jobs, scientific meetings, government
agencies, journals, scientific societies, patent and legal
resources, scientific companies, and much, much more.
All
the Virology on the WWW also contains On-line Virology Course
Notes, a Virology Bookshop, and a catalog of viral images - The
Big Picture Book of Viruses.
This site is maintained and
updated often. Any submissions, additions or corrections that you
might have would be very much appreciated, and can be made using
the following form:
With your assistance, this Web site
will continue to be the best resource of its kind on the web. For
those of you who maintain your own web pages, please send me your
address or use our site submission form and I will gladly add it
to the list.
Alternatives
to Animal Testing News
From:
<altweb@gumby.candler.jhsph.edu>
Altweb--the
Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site--has news to share. There
are several new additions to the site you may find useful,
including:
* a new journal, JAAWS (Journal of Applied
Animal Welfare Science)
* Reports #27 and 28 of ECVAM (the
European Center for Validation of Alternative Methods)
*
full-text of all CAAT Technical Reports
* abstracts from the
latest issues of ATLA and In Vitro Animal
* June and July News
updates
Visit our site at
to check out
any of these new resources. They are highlighted in the "What's
New" box on our homepage.
Also, Altweb was just
chosen as a "Select Site" by the Dow Jones Business
Directory. This well-regarded publication (by the same company
that produces the Wall Street Journal) highlights sites believed
by its editors to be of "exceptional value." Its review
"heartily recommended" Altweb. To see the full review,
visit the site at http://bd.dowjones.com and search for "altweb."
If you have suggestions, questions, or comments about
Altweb, we'd like to hear from you.
To subscribe, send the
message SUBSCRIBE to <altweb@caat.jhsph.edu>
To unsubscribe, send the message UNSUBSCRIBE to
<altweb@caat.jhsph.edu>
E-mail comments and questions to:
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DVM
Newsmagazine HotSpot Contest
From: "Lynne Brakeman"
<lbrakeman%advanstar.com@wuvmd.wustl.edu>
We are
pleased to inform you that the latest update of DVM Newsmagazine
Online
http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/
is
now available.
News Alert: DVM Newsmagazine launches a
search for the best veterinary clinic home pages. The DVM
Newsmagazine HotSpot Contest is accepting entries through October
2nd. Read the details and nominate your clinic's site.
Updated
pages and new additions for September 1998 include
·
Breaking News
· Calendar
· Product
Spotlights
· Links
· Classified ads
·
1998 WildWest Veterinary Conference final program
Our
first installment of the new "Ask the NetVet" column
featuring our online editorial advisor, Dr. Ken Boschert, of
NetVet fame! Have a question about the Internet or computers? Send
us an e-mail for Dr. Boschert.
We invite your list members
to stop by and let us know what they think.
Sincerely,
Lynne Brakeman
Senior Editor
DVM Newsmagazine
E-mail:
<lbrakeman@advanstar.com>
Dartmouth Endorses Apple's
Imac for Incoming Freshmen
From:
"Edupage"
In a letter to 1,100 incoming
freshmen, Dartmouth College is recommending that they purchase
Apple Computer's new iMac computer to satisfy the school's
computer requirement. Computing Director Lawrence Levine says the
suggestion is not the result of any special deal with Apple, and
that his campus also supports other PCs, including a Windows-based
machine from Dell. (Chronicle of Higher Education 31 Jul 98)
UNC-Chapel Hill Says 'Buy
Big Blue'
From:
"Edupage"
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill is recommending to its students that they purchase
their computers from IBM, once the school's mandatory-laptop
policy goes into effect in 2000. The school also expects to buy
some $16-million worth of computers from IBM over the next four
years. The deal will enable the school to offer students very
competitive prices on laptops conforming to certain technical
standards (which have not yet been determined because of the rapid
changes in technology). Meanwhile, IBM has promised the university
$2.5 million in grants for computer equipment and research, but
the school's Vice Chancellor for information technology said the
grants did not influence their decision to go with Big Blue. Sean
Rush, general manager of IBM's North American higher-education
division, said the grants were a continuation of the company's
"long-standing research relationship with UNC," and that
university officials were forbidden by law to consider such grants
when selecting vendors. IBM's prices were as much as $1,400 below
bids from other vendors. (Chronicle of Higher Education 24 Jul 98)
MEETINGS & EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
See the informatics section of NetVet for a more complete and current list of informatics-related activities at: <http://netvet.wustl.edu/info.htm>
IMIA Conference on Electronic Patient
Records
EPRiMP will be held
from October 7th - 10th 1998, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (See
the May-June 1998 AVI Newsletter for details)
International
Health Geographics Conference
October 16-18 1998; Baltimore, MD
Venue: The Maritime
Institute of Technology, Baltimore, Maryland
(See the
January-February, 1998 AVI Newsletter for details)
AMIA
1998 Annual Symposium
Nov
7-11, 1998; Orlando, FL
(See the March-April, 1998 AVI
Newsletter for details)
DVM
News Online Update
From:
"Lynn Brakeman"
<lbrakeman@advanstar.com
>
We are pleased to inform your list members that the
latest update of DVM Newsmagazine Online is now available.
http://www.dvmnewsmagazine.com/
Our last news update from the AVMA
Convention which just closed in Baltimore is now available. Read
about actions of the AVMA governing bodies with respect to
aminoglycoside antibiotics and vaccination protocols. There are
also some interesting tidbits from the scientific sessions, and a
report on how AVMA immediate Past-President John Freeman handled
the dolphins at Baltimore's National Acquarium. A list of awards
presented to your colleagues in the profession is also available.
Sincerely,
Lynne Brakeman
Senior Editor
DVM
Newsmagazine
E-mail: <lbrakeman@advanstar.com>
Internet
Outranks Beer-Drinking in What's Cool on Campus
A survey of 1,200 students at 100 colleges and
universities nationwide, conducted by research firm Student
Monitor LLC, shows that when asked what was "in" on
campus, 72.5% of the respondents answered "the Internet,"
whereas only 70.8% named "drinking beer." Up until now,
beer-drinking has held the top spot since the biannual surveys
began in 1988. (Information Week 31 Aug 98)
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