A subject guide to selected medical eBooks has been created to help you locate them more easily.

Look for eBook list under the Textbook heading on the Medical Information Resources website or you can access it directly from http://www.library.uq.edu.au/mbbs/ebooks.html

'....focuses on the challenging topic of clinical management of systemic hypotension in the very-low-birth-weight infant during the first 3 days of postnatal life."

Published: 2011
Publisher: National Association of Neonatal Nurses (endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics)
http://www.nann.org/uploads/files/Hypotension_Guideline.pdf

The Dean of Medicine's Lecture series scheduled to take place on Wednesday, May 11, at UQ Herston campus: entitled "Physician assistants: from inception to implementation (and some troubles along the way)" has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience.

"The report....presents findings on the number and rate of people seriously enough injured to be admitted to hospital for at least one night, but not dying."

‘Although there has been a distinct downward trend in the number of road deaths over this 8-year period, the rates of people seriously injured in a road traffic crash rose by an average of 1.7% each year.’

‘Motor vehicle drivers, motorcyclists and pedal cyclists all recorded significant increases in life-threatening injuries over the period.'

"Extensive experience shows that poor design and management of water systems in buildings can cause outbreaks of disease. The types of building, water uses, disease outcomes and individuals affected are diverse.

Rumours are circulating that due to the Australian Government facing one of the toughest budgets in many years medical research funding cuts are expected to be as high as $400 million!

The following link takes you to an initiative of the Walter and Eliza Hall to help protect the medical research budgets of institution around Australia.

The Australian Medicines Handbook's (AMH) value as an independent and current source of drug information is clear. It was accessed 1,004,799 times in 2010 by UQ staff and students. Click here to access. MD Consult Australia drug information is provided by the AMH.