Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been used to optimize decision-making for more
than two decades, and has caused considerable controversy.
BMC Medicine provides a new series of open access articles to discuss current debates in the field of EBM, and to consider ways
forward. The ‘orthodox’ and ‘dissenting’ views highlighted the potential biases that can hinder the progress of EBM, and suggest how to counteract these.
A new online tutorial, Library Research Skills in Medicine is now available at the eLearning@CU System for your self-learning. It will help you to develop the essential information literacy skills for evidence-based medicine research. Topics include identifying information resources, formulating search strategy, information evaluation and citing references.
Please login with your Student/Staff ID and CWEM
Password, select the "Courses" tab, and search for "Library Research
Skills" to find course.
The CUHK Centre for
Bioethics has organized Ten Introductory Lectures on Bioethics from 17 October to 12 December, 2015. Two internationally renowned philosophers, Prof. Bonnie
Steinbock and Prof. Paul Menzel will address on ten of the most
intriguing issues in bioethics.
Want to learn more about bioethics? Check out the Library books on their publications.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 for their contribution in discovery of anti-parasitic drugs long hidden in herbs and soil. Dr. William C. Campbell and Dr. Satoshi Omura developed Avermectin that has radically lowered the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
Dr. Youyou Tu was inspired by Chinese traditional medicine in discovering
Artemisinin, a drug that was proven highly effective against the malaria parasite and has reduced death rates from the disease.
Key publications:
Burg RW, Miller BM, Baker EE, Birnbaum J,Currie SA, Hartman R, et al. Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: producing organism and fermentatio. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1979;15:361-367. doi:10.1128/AAC.15.3.361.
Egerton JD, Ostlind DA, Blair LS, Eary CH, Suhayda D, Cifelli S, et al. Avermectins, new family of potent anthelmintic agents: efficacy of the B1a component. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1979;15:372-378.
doi:10.1128/AAC.15.3.372.
Tu Y, Ni M, Zhong Y, Li L, Cui S, Zhang M, et al. Studies on the constituents of Artemisia Anua L. Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica.1981;16,366-370. (Text in Chinese)
The Medical Heritage Library, a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, provides a huge curated collection of free digital resources for medical historians and humanities researchers. In this month, the Medical Heritage Library has added to 100,000 digitized books related to health and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries.
