This poster summarized a study to determine the use of health sciences library information and services among clinicians and other health care professionals in four hospitals serving medium and large communities in Colorado ...

Many heavy metal-contaminated sites where nuclear weapons have been produced contain high concentrations of nitrate. Nitrate inhibits dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), bacteria known to precipitate heavy metals. ...

Alcohol promotes sleep and is widely used as a sleep aid. Tolerance to the sleep promoting effects of alcohol develops over time with its repeated use, which plays an important role in the gradual escalation of alcohol ...

This study reports on the preference and use of information resources by first-year medical students at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. It was part of a larger study that was conducted to understand their ...

Cavernous hemangiomas are common hamartomatous vascular proliferations often seen as incidental solitary lesions. Rarely they occur as multifocal lesions, often in characteristic locations as part of a hereditary syndrome. ...

This 24- by 36-inch, four-color poster includes the MyPlate graphic released by the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services in June of 2011 to promote healthy food choices. At the bottom of ...

The 20- by 30-inch poster is designed to help children ages 6 to 11 include a variety of physical activities in their daily lives by being physically active 60 minutes, up to several hours every day.

This poster presented information about and some results from the Newspaper Archive Summit held at the Reynolds Journalism Institute on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus April 10-12, 2011.

The chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin is usually contraindicated in renal transplant recipients due to its well-known side effect of nephrotoxicity, but is an important (and sometimes irreplaceable) drug in the management ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social interaction deficits, communication impairments, and restricted, repetitive behaviors. ASD, with estimates of incidence as high as 1 ...

Problem-based learning (PBL) is a teaching method created in the 1960's that encourages students to improve their critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills through case studies, group work, discussions with faculty ...

Advanced imaging is a major driver of health care expenditures. Magnetic resonance imaging provides advantages over radiography because of its ability to visualize soft tissues within the knee joint. The clinical relevance ...

Learning and understanding fluoroscopic neuroanatomy and acquiring the skills to safely perform spine injections is an essential part of training for many radiology, neurology, neurosurgery, anesthesia, and physical medicine ...

This poster presents the findings of a pilot study examining volunteerism among musculoskeletal specialty physicians.

While monitoring of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients requires repeated blood sampling, excessive sampling can lead to anemia. Upon PICU admission, 33% of patients are anemic and 41% develop anemia. Anemia ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains important to clinicians and patients because it can be highly infectious and challenging to diagnose. The CDC reports that there were 10,528 cases of TB in the U.S. in 2011, and 529 ...

Medulloblastomas (MB), the most common pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumor, is a neuroepithelial tumor characterized by its rapid progression, aggressive nature, and tendency to metastasize along the brain-spinal ...

A key contributor to insulin-mediated glucose uptake is insulin-induced vasodilation of skeletal muscle arterioles, which is impared with obesity and Type 2 diabetes (T2D). Abnormalities in the vascular reactivity to insulin ...

The electronic health record (EHR) and use of computers in today's exam rooms is a dramatic change in medicine from decades past. There are concerns about how the computer and EHR might adversely affect patient-provider ...

Lymphedema (LE) is a life-long potential consequence of breast cancer treatment that may affect quality of life of breast cancer survivors in long-term survivorship. Previous studies reported that about 2 million women ...