"US-Mexico Border" neighborhood has been added to Tox Town

Users of Tox Town can now explore a border community to learn about air pollution, drinking water quality, workplace hazards, pesticides, rats and snakes, lead poisoning, and many other environmental concerns that may affect one's health. New locations to explore in the border scene are an auto shop, tienda (corner store), maquiladora (factory), crop fields, stormwater and sewage systems, illegal dumps and tire piles, and a colonia. Colonias are border communities that lack paved roads, running water, and waste disposal, and are home to over 400,000 people in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/border/main.html

Many Caregivers Have Health, Financial Problems

Many adults caring for sick or disabled relatives have their own health problems, lack health insurance and face trouble paying medical bills, according to a study by the Commonwealth Fund. The study surveyed 4,052 U.S. adults ages 19 or older between September 2003 and January 2004.

Citation: "A Look at Working-Age Caregivers' Roles, Health Concerns, and Need for Support." Alice Ho, Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Karen Davis, Ph.D., and Michelle M. Doty, Ph.D. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, August 2005.
http://www.cmwf.org/usr_doc/working-age_caregivers_roles.pdf

Number of Overweight Kids in California Up 6% Since 2001

The California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) August 2005 study describes changes in the prevalence of overweight children in California Assembly Districts between 2001 and 2004. Twenty-eight out of every 100 school children in California were overweight in 2004, up 6% from 2001. CCPHA is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that raises awareness about critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to promote the establishment of effective health policies.

RefWorks

RefWorks, a web-based bibliography/citation manager, is one of the Library's newest enhancements. It allows you to create a personal database of references for research use and in writing papers. It's like having a set of index cards online. RefWorks will import references and organize them in any manner you choose. Those references create a searchable database of your research. Bibliographies can be created from your library of references in many citation styles. To access and for more information, please visit http://www.csulb.edu/library/refworks/

Canary Database

Yale School of Medicine has launched a state-of-the-art database funded in part by the National Library of Medicine, called the Canary Database, containing scientific evidence about how animal disease events can be an early warning system for emerging human diseases. The Canary Database of Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental Health Hazards is a web-based collection of animal sentinel studies that have been collected and curated in terms of their relevance to human health. The project represents a collaborative effort between the Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center. To access the database, please visit http://canarydatabase.org

Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library

The DoD Deployment Health Risk Communication Working Group and the Joint Task Force for Family Readiness Education on Deployments have joined together to create the Deployment Health and Family Readiness Library. This library provides servicemembers, families and healthcare providers a quick and easy way to find deployment health and family readiness information. The contents of this library include fact sheets, guides and other products on a wide variety of topics that have been made available on a single website at
http://deploymenthealthlibrary.fhp.osd.mil/home.jsp