Swine Flu Information Widget

The Swine Flu information widget (resembling the green box on the PubMed start page) is available at the HHS Website’s Image & Icon library: http://www.hhs.gov/web/library/index.html#HHSWidgets. Sorry, I can’t post a copy here, WordPress doesn’t allow javascript.
Looking for more ways to spread the word?  Check out this post in the Cornflower: Using social software to deliver [...]

Firefox enhancements for Google

I’m restricted to Internet Explorer on the job, but I love being able to customize Firefox at home.
Dennis O’Reilly at the Worker’s Edge passes on some hints for optimizing Google searching with his post Three Firefox add-ons enhance Google.  The add-ons:

GoogleEnhancer, which  pulls some of the Advanced Search options into drop-down boxes next to the [...]

UpToDate, and Twitter

Laika’s MedLibLog posts an article summarizing a blog-and-twitter discussion of  UpToDate in How Evidence Based Is UpToDate really?

The post presents a variety of opinions, as well as taking a brief look, from an evidence-based point of view, at a study cited on UpToDate’s webpage relating improved patient outcomes to hospitals’ use or non-use of UpToDate. [...]

Mayo Clinic Library’s PubMed Tutorial

Mayo Clinic Library has posted an online tutorial for PubMed Advanced. It can be embedded in a web page or blog, like this:
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