A blog for medical students, faculty and librarians about their use of evidence based medicine, clinical literature, Web 2.0, sources and search strategies
As accident re-enactments go, this one is pretty Riveting
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The focus and calm of U.S. Airways Captain Chesley Sullenberger can be appreciated by listening to the audio portion of this re-enactment, as he made critical analyses – over a period of only a few minutes – on how (and where) to land a disabled aircraft sinking earthward over a densely populated area. His decisions saved 100% of the lives on board that day.
Hang out with a bunch of epidemiologists long enough and eventually the conversation while turn to Causality. They will tell you that there are some big differences in semantics between linking causation, etiology and “proof” that X exposure caused Z disease or health condition. When I looked up the terms “causation” and “causality” (on Google) there were major sidetracks, such asWBA (Why-Because-Analysis) as in, Why did the airplane crash? Why did the reactor experience a meltdown?
Why? From the viewpoint of a physician, an engineer or an epidemiologist… because of X-Y-Z.
X-Y-Z could be bird strikes, human error, engine failure, weather conditions, crazed people bearing guns, lack of fuel or a thousand other accidents waiting to happen. Often the causes can be identified. Sometimes one can only attribute unanticipated events to gauzy, fuzzy concepts such as “it was a one in a million chance” or “this was God’s will”, “causes unknown” or just plain Karma. The harder (non-fuzzy) data can be applied towards improvements in systems design, development of new vaccines, engineering safety… all targeted towards avoidance of future accidents (or disease outbreaks).
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Epidemiologists save lives. Sometimes this association accumulates slowly… as in proving associations between Exposure X and development of Disease Y decades later. In other cases, evidence mounts up as an emergency, such as the identification of a novel virus identified as SARS in 2002. But linking health effects of exposures over a human life-span is so much more elusive than showing evidence that birds got sucked into a jet engine at 2,500 feet (as above).
Turning to the PubMed database, a screenshot below fromMedical Subject Headings List (MeSH) reveals how the term “causation” is mapped in the online thesaurus of medical indexing terms:
One way to search a large database such as PubMed is to simply type in some words – for an example, Liver Cancer AND Epidemiology. This pulls up over 18,000 retrievals… too many (!), but by then selecting and applying standard Limit Fields such as Language, Journal Subset, Age Group, Gender and others, the retrievals can be filtered down to a more-manageable number.
A more precise way to search a large database like PubMed is to use the Medical Subject Headings list. In the example below, the term Liver Cancer was typed into the MeSH search page, which maps automatically to the preferred MeSH term — Liver Neoplasms. While this search still retrieves thousands of citation, they can be limited by selecting and applying any MeSH Subheading (or clinical qualifiers) that are appropriate to the search. These subheadings include clinical concepts such as Virology, Immunology, Genetics, Epidemiology, Transmission and 80 others. Following is a screenshot of that type of search:
Remember that a librarian’s idea of “causality” could be defined, in part, by the number or types of clinical subqualifiers selected (immunology, virology, epidemiology and those types of “background” concepts) to be combined with the formal MeSH term.
There are many ways to search. It helps a novice medical searcher sometimes to tell them just that: There is no one right way to search. Sounds enigmatic and it is.
Here is an example which I found recently in the medical literature, a 2010 article which discusses application of Bradford Hill criteria (listed here):
Those searching for practical answers about causality, transmissible agents, disease etiology, global prevalence or current treatments might want to search GIDEON (Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Online Network), an interesting “niche” information source targeting the research requirements of epidemiologists, clinical & translational researchers, MPH students, toxicologists or anyone interested in tracking or diagnosing infectious diseases on a country- or world-wide scale (subscription required). Updated weekly, the database is produced by Gideon Informatics and hosted on the EBSCO platform.
A search for causality or epidemiology done in the resources indexed by GIDEON is quite unlike a search done in PubMed about the etiology of Liver Cancer. The producers collect, review and index factual data collected from around the globe; their data encompasses a wide and diverse group of human cultures, agricultural, societal, economic or environmental practices.
Below is a screenshot of one example of the type of data that can be searched on GIDEON: bacterium (causative agent), typhoid (identifiable infectious agent) and United States (location, recorded incidence over time):
.Finally, a screenshot of What’s New at GIDEON (May 11 2011):
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If you are an American who reads news articles or listens daily to TV, then the budgetary skirmishes being played out between the two governing parties in Washington this month is enough to keep you up at night.
Do our elected government representatives deserve congratulations for haggling for days about and then (at the last minute) passing yet another temporary budget in order to keep the Federal government functioning on a daily basis?No.I say: Skip the drama and get back to governing the country in a cooperative, fair manner that represents the wishes of the people from your home state who voted for you. Sadly, long-term strategical thinking as well as respectful debate seem in short supply in our capital nowadays.
Am I a tea-partier? Nope. Is this blog about politics? Nope. What this blog is about is clinical education, health science research, instruction, trends in searching, public health, epidemiology, health care environments… and the infrastructure supporting these ideas and practices.
This month – from a public health viewpoint – it is troubling to read and hear about challenges to the health care safety net that the 2012 budget proposals being set forth by House Republicans have raised. If their version of health care reform is enacted, the health care delivery system for children, disabled individuals or senior citizens will be very different by year 2021.
Families USA, a nonprofit policy group, published a report last week that examines the Republicans’ health care reform proposals; it is available online at no cost by clicking here. It is highly critical of the proposals. Below are two screenshots from this report:
At this link, the proposed 2012 budget set forth by the current administration can be read online via the Congressional Budget Office (216-page PDF). Also see a link to the Health Care section for specific numbers and rebuttals to the Republican proposals.
Thanks to Matthew Sturdevant, insurance reporter for The Courant (Hartford, CT newspaper website) for the link to the Families USA report.
Life-changing events continue hard for the citizens of Japan, as the world watches them cope with multiple environmental disasters after surviving a 9.0 magnitude earthquake (a Big One) that hit near the northeast coast of the island near Honshu on Friday, Mar 11 2011. An eyewitness filmed this video clip which illustrates with utter clarity the frightening speed and power with which the ocean wave destroyed portions of Miyako City (footage from BBC website, dated Mar 17 2011). The latest death toll shows that 10,000 perished on that day, another 12,000 are still unaccounted for ten days later.
For the estimated 500,000 survivors, the basics of human requirements are being met, but supplies are scarce. Many are living in shelters. It will take months to clean up the rubble, and years to restore the damage to the infrastructure. As those who lost loved ones are required to re-define their “new normal”, psychological and counseling services will be in demand.
The challenges facing officials in the Japanese government in the aftermath of the quake and tsunami started out complex and have only grown more so over last ten days. A different public health emergency for these agencies is to contain radioactive materials from being released by quake- and tsunami-damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (built in 1979), an event which has been described as one of the most serious civil nuclear accidents in history. Protection of humans from exposure to radiation is of course the immediate concern; downstream, scientists will have a large amounts of data to collect as they examine health effects from three separate catastrophes.
Below is a map illustrating the 20km exclusion zone (12.4-mile radius) surrounding the Fukushima power facility (from BBC, published Mar 21 2011):
Following is a brief selection of sources for links to specific medical information and relief efforts taking place in Japan – mainly from websites outside of the country.*
Doctors Without Borders has had physicians and clinical staff working in the region since March 12. Link to their Japan page to read their daily news updates.
National Library of Medicine (NLM ) produces many information resources for epidemiologists, clinicians and public health officials to use to deal with environmental disasters. Since the monies to fund these agencies is from public tax-dollars, everything on the sites from NLM is on open access, available to anyone in the world to use. How cool is that!
First, Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET), is a gateway site from which groups of individual database can be searched. Below is a sample search on the term “radiation“:
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Environmental Health & Toxicology is a wide-ranging portal from NLM. After clicking on the “health professionals” link… I found access to IUPAC (International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry and Human Health Division) Glossary of Terms Used in Toxicology and went to a random letter (I) to take a look (below):
Lastly: This 6-minute instructional video called Tsunami Teacher describes how tsunamis form, how to recognize if one is likely to take place, and testimonials from those who have survived them. It is a basic tutorial.
An iconical, enduring image about a terrible subject: “Great Wave off Kanagawa“, a colored woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is one print in a series produced between 1829 and 1833.
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*Thanks to librarians at the National Library of Medicine, who earlier this month posted some of these websites on the MED-LIB listserv, which started the idea for this post.
Health science librarians are in a unique position to work with patients and their families who seek current, credible and authoritative medical information in order to learn more about their recent diagnosis, review options for choosing treatments, or to anticipate changes in their lifestyle or living situations after treatment has ended (as examples).
Medical Library Association (MLA), a nonprofit educational organization with 5,000 members worldwide, has devoted time and care over the past decade to develop websites and resource guides specifically targeted at training librarians who provide information services to patients or family members. Their Health Information Literacy page can be viewed at http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/
Open to everyone on the MLA website are topic pages about educational resources. Here are two examples: Resources for Health Consumersand Deciphering Medspeak which links to medical terminology handouts (in English or Spanish languages), online medical dictionary, a prescription shorthand guide and a list of the “Top Ten Most Useful Medical Websites” for patients.
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For those pursuing research on strategies to address Low Health Literacy, Health Disparities or Health of Minority Populations, some valuable step-savers are available on the PubMed “Special Queries” which provide links to pre-formulated, highly specific search statements (or search queries) that can be run singly in PubMed or combined with other relevant subject searches.
Below are screenshots from two Special Queries websites: Health Literacy and for Health Disparities & Minority Health Populations
Other teaching or service organizations that offer patient-centered tutorials, podcasts or written information addressing disparities in health care delivery can be found on this very brief list:
From a workshop in 2008 sponsored by Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM), read a 3-page handout on teaching “Health Literacy for the Clinician Educator“at this link. There are many useful links in the bibliography section of this report.
Finally: In May 2010, a 73-page report detailing a National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy was announced by the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Resources, Division of Health Literacy. Following is an excerpt from that HHS website, explaining this public health initiative:
“Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Limited health literacy affects people of all ages, races, incomes, and education levels, but the impact of limited health literacy disproportionately affects lower socioeconomic and minority groups. “
” It affects people’s ability to search for and use health information, adopt healthy behaviors, and act on important public health alerts. Limited health literacy is also associated with worse health outcomes and higher costs…. ”
” This report contains seven goals that will improve health literacy and suggests strategies for achieving them: Develop and disseminate health and safety information that is accurate, accessible, and actionable ; promote changes in the health care system that improve health information, communication, informed decision-making, and access to health services ; incorporate accurate, standards-based and developmentally appropriate health and science information and curricula in child care and education through the university level ; support and expand local efforts to provide adult education, English language instruction, and culturally and linguistically appropriate health information services in the community ; build partnerships, develop guidance, and change policies ; increase basic research and the development, implementation, and evaluation of practices and interventions to improve health literacy and increase the dissemination and use of evidence-based health literacy practices and interventions“.
Ask almost anyone you know about cancer, and they will have stories to relate about parents or family, close friends or co-workers (or themselves) who have received a diagnosis of cancer, or are going through treatments, or who have been declared cancer-free. Living as a cancer survivor has become more common, thankfully, than in previous decades, and represents one of the health success stories of our era.
This post presents a short, eclectic sample of recent cancer-related news, statistics, research or summary reports. The final portion of the post links to video presentations given by two UCHC research faculty as they discuss clinical and translational cancer research (filmed in November 2009).
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First: The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) website provides an assortment of statistics or background pieces on state-based social or economic indicators, health initiatives, legislation or other current issues. This site is a valuable resource for reference librarians, epidemiologists, policy-makers or anyone seeking current statistics about state-sponsored programs.
NCSL provides a collection of documents about Cancer Data, Trends and Policy 2009 reports, free and open to anyone to access (although registration is required to view some of the tables). That page is where the table describing U.S. Cancer Incidence, 2009 shown below. According to statistics from the American Cancer Association, lung, prostate or breast cancers represent the most common diagnoses in the United States in 2009:
Next: Several paragraphs from a December 2009 article written by Harmon J. Eyre, formerly chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, entitled “Winning the Cancer Fight: Looking at the Future“:
” The medical management of cancer for the past 100 years has grouped cancers by the organ in which they originate and used standard interventions such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. With the development of the cancer genome anatomy of various cancer sites, individualized cancer therapy will quickly follow.
Specific genetic profiles are being introduced to project the risk of breast cancer recurrence and to shape the choice of treatment agents. We have decades of data on outcomes using estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human growth factor receptor 2 testing which dictates treatment in breast cancer. Tests such as these are needed for lung, colon, prostate, lymphoma, leukemia, and other cancers. They are beginning to be developed and disseminated, with encouraging early results.
Despite keeping records in cancer registries for many decades, widespread evaluation of the level of quality care in cancer is lacking. We know that large variations in the delivery of care occur by hospital, city, state, and region. There are a number of groups working to develop indicators of quality cancer care, but there is a lack of agreement on these indicators and they are not being widely collected. For optimal outcomes, quality care has to be delivered nationwide to all cancer patients. ”
“This report [from ASCO] now it its fifth year, was developed under the guidance of a 18-person editorial board made up of leading oncologists and other cancer specialists… The editors reviewed research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and the results of research presented at major scientific meetings over a 1-year period (October 2008 to September 2009).
” Only studies that significantly altered the way a cancer is understood or had an important impact on patient care were included. Research in each section is divided into “major advances” and “notable advances,” depending on the impact of the advance on patient care and survival. “
ASCO provides links to reference information about current cancer treatments for physicians or other clinical staff, called Cancer Portal, which can be accessed at this link.
The society also provides free cancer information targeted for people living with cancer on their website, Cancer.net.
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Next: Two segments from a lecture series given in 2009 by UCHC faculty. Oncologist Susan Tannenbaum is Medical Director of the Clinical & Translational ResearchProgram at UCHC, is shown in a 54-minute presentation on trends and improvements in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
The second video is a presentation on translational research given by Kevin P. Claffey, PhD, who is co-director of the UConn Health Center Breast Cancer Translational Research Group and an associate professor in Cell Biology, Center for Vascular Biology.
Next: Regarding a May 6 2010 New York Times editorial written by Nicholas D. Kristof:
” In “New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer” (column, May 5 2010) writer Nicholas D. Kristof drew attention to a document being released by the President’s Cancer Panelthat warns that – in Mr. Kristof’s words – “our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching consequences for our health. ”
First, two items about international community health projects:
“The Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP) has been working among the rural poor and marginalized [in rural Jamkhed, India] for over 37 years. By partnering with village communities and expanding upon local knowledge and resources, the project aims to effectively meet the immediate and long-term needs of these groups, especially women. With values of compassion, justice, respect and trust, CRHP works to empower people, families and communities, regardless of caste, race or religion, through integrated efforts in health and development. ”
” The CRHP in Jamkhed operates a 40-bed low-cost secondary care hospital providing quality emergency, medical, surgical, and outpatient care for the 1.5 million people residing in the surrounding 8 block catchment area. Each year about 20,000 outpatients receive treatment, 250 deliveries take place (high-risk referrals), and 400 surgical procedures are performed. Most deliveries take place in the village and because we provide extensive training for VHWs (village health workers) and birth attendants these deliveries are very safe. “
View this video link from the New York Times website for interviews with prisoners who are now actively caring for and training service puppies.
PBB has established canine training programs for inmates housed in six prisons in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut; there are currently 90 animals in the program. PBB also trains dogs to serve a very different aspect of public health and safety: detection of explosive devices.
This therapeutic community effort extends benefits to both disabled veterans and the groups of incarcerated men and women training the dogs. The dogs look like they are enjoying themselves too.
Found on American Medical News this Monday, a feature article describing plans in process for establishing 13 new allopathic schools of medicine in the U.S. (with nine in the preliminary planning stages).
(Link to a graphic from the AMedNews site showing their geographic locations.)
Locally, Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT) announced their intention in January 2010 to seek accreditation to open a new medical college. The school plans to begin admitting students in academic year 2014.
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” A developing medical school in the United States or Canada must complete five steps to become fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)…. Each step has its own requirements, and a school may not recruit applicants or accept student applications before reaching Step Three. ”
Finally: Published on Feb 15 2010, a reporter from the New York Times interviewed medical students who have chosen to attend some of the “newest” schools of medicine. Read the article at this link..
I have been unable to post very much on the blog lately, and apologize for this. It has been largely due to a combination of workload and snow-days!
The Northeastern U.S. has been smacked by weekly snowstorms lately – but as the days grow longer and the sun gets a little warmer daily, there is hope that snow-season is drawing to an end.
One of the items on my work horizon is participating in next week’s 2010 NEGEA Retreat, hosted by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Innovations in Medical Education: Responding to Health Care Reform“. *
Here is a screenshot of the conference program page:
This retreat will be held in Farmington on Friday, March 12 and Saturday March 13, 2010. Click this link to view the complete list of programs and speakers (68-page PDF).
In August 2009, a collaboration project between UCHC reference librarians (Jessica Kilham, Robert Joven, Hongjie Wang and myself) and a UConn School of Medicine 4th year medical student, Cheyenne Beach, resulted in a redesigned Library Orientation instructional session for the incoming medical and dental students (Class of 2013).
Ms. Beach and I wrote a 3-page mock problem-based learning (PBL) case which served as a live document for the hands-on interactive instructional session held on Aug 26 2009. We met in one of the large wired auditoriums with 136 students and a group of faculty.
Cheyenne narrated the case for the group. The hypothetical patient was written up to present through the Emergency Room in acute pain and was later diagnosed with cholangitis.
As she explained findings about the physical exam, lab results, diagnosis and treatment, librarians took turns standing at the podium demonstrating links to Up to Date, DynaMed, Access Medicine, MD-Consult, histology images, drug information from Lexi-Comp and other sources.
The students were given an electronic copy of the case, which had hyperlinks to clinical subscription resources from UCHC Library embedded in the text. This allowed them to choose whether to follow along with the case digitally or to simply watch and listen as librarians demonstrated how these resources “look” and search.
The intent of the session was to provide an overview of the “Where, How and Why” of finding health science resources at UCHC, and to reinforce learning set in the context of answering specific questions that apply towards formulating a hypothesis about diagnosing and taking care of this pretend “patient”.
One thing that I really enjoyed about this exercise was admiring how attractive library resources look when they are projected onto a mega-sized projection screen. (Answer: Wow! Big!)
AAMC “represents all 131 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; approximately 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 68 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and nearly 90 academic and scientific societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC represents 125,000 faculty members, 75,000 medical students, and 106,000 resident physicians.”
Finally: Here is a link to the 2008-2010 Agenda for Action collectively created by institutional members of the Group on Educational Affairs.
The theme for the 2010 campaign is “Cancer can be prevented too”. The public health message promotes practical lifestyle choices or modifications to lower the risk of developing cancer, such as avoiding tobacco use, limiting alcohol consumption or exposure to the sun’s rays (or tanning booths), maintaining a healthy weight and take preventative measures against cancer-causing infections.
World Cancer Day began in 2006, and is held every year on Feb 4th.
” In 1933, cancer researchers recognized the need to share knowledge and expertise globally and so founded the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). Since then, UICC has grown to embrace organizations engaged in all aspects of cancer prevention and control: voluntary cancer societies, research and treatment centres, public health authorities, patient support networks andadvocacy groups, and ministries of health “.
It probably isn’t correct to say that any cat has a “mission” in life… other than eating, looking for tuna, seeking out sunny spots, sleeping, batting balls around or searching for insects to chew on. But anyone who has ever lived with a feline knows how comforting a warm, purring cat can be in times of trouble or stress.
This month, the press has picked up on the story of one spotted cat from Providence, RI that does seem to have a purpose and meaning in his behaviors, as documented by David Dosa, MD.
Dr. Dosa is an associate professor of medicine at Brown University and a gerontologist at Steere House Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Providence. Oscar is a therapy cat and lives at the facility on the third floor where there is a 41-bed unit for patients with dementia. The staff has noticed that, over time, Oscar has purposely chosen to enter rooms of patients who are near death and will stay with them until they’ve passed on.
Reporters from The Providence Journal visited with Dr. Dosa and Oscar recently, and the video link is here (Jan 31 2010). Some of the other news videos about this story are regrettably sensationalistic, even calling him the furry “angel of death” or other silly stuff.
And today, I learned that Oscar now has a Facebook page!
The recent major earthquake in the capital city of Port-au-Prince,Haiti on Jan 12 2010 has been a catastrophic and life-altering event for those living there. The death toll climbed this week to an estimated 200,000 people. For world leaders (and regular citizens), viewing the news reporting and photos from afar, the downtown area resembles a post-nuclear landscape. Thankfully, many millions of people worldwide have donated monies toward the relief effort currently gearing up for their aid.
Watching the grim news from this poor Caribbean country unfold, it seems unfortunately predictable as a sober demonstration of what happens when a government does (next to) nothing for a few days after a major catastrophe. “No one” was in charge of managing the after-effects of this disaster. Bodies piled up in the streets, people trapped under rubble – and whom might have lived had they been pulled away from the buildings which collapsed around them – were not rescued, roads are not cleared, the government was not visible. The infrastructure failed.
Injured people waited in pain and fear for help which only began to arrive on Friday, Jan 15th. Those folks lucky enough to walk out of fallen buildings with non life-threatening injuries – an estimated 1.1 million people survived the Jan 12th quake in Port-Au-Prince – are now homeless. Growing civil unrest is gaining hold.
This is the second wave of their public health emergency.
The public health infrastructure in Haiti was thin to begin with, but now with the city’s port severely damaged, roads blocked by fallen debris, scant fuel supplies, no functional communication networks and a lack of coordination among international aid agencies, newly-arrived emergency health personnel* and security forces ready to distribute aid are hard-pressed to get it quickly to those most in need.
An NPR reporter on the ground on Sunday Jan 17 was quoted as saying: “Money means little here right now. People are dying from exposure, lack of drinking water and from injuries which are now infected… the stench of death and raw sewage is everywhere“. Age-old scourges – communicable diseases (measles, meningitis, tetanus or malaria), secondary infections (such as gangrene) from untreated traumatic injuries, dehydration, psychological shock, lack of food or medicine and rising criminal activities by a few – will be working against those survivors who have been literally camped out, sleeping on the ground for six nights. Click here to read an article dated Jan 17 2010 about a field hospital in Port-au-Prince, where Sanjay Gupta, physician and medical correspondent for CNN, stayed to treat patients after Belgian health personnel left due to security threats.
In most places, the infrastructure works (until it does not). So much about public health is essential yet unglamorous, addressing basic human needs: adequate and safe food, clean water, shelter from the elements, a means of earning a living, sewage and waste management, knowledge of basic healthcare practices, and the means to implement them, a chance for an education, safety from danger or interpersonal violence, peace of mind if possible.
There will be little of that (peace of mind, that is) on the island of Haiti in the near-term, but as one of of the many Haitian politicians interviewed on a news programs stated last week: “Maybe now we can rebuild a new Haiti”.
That would be a great public health opportunity for the citizens of this devastated country.
** Link here to an assortment of non-profit international agencies coordinating aid to the population in Haiti, collected by Google.
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Addendum #1: On the morning of Jan 20 2010, a second earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck near Port-au-Prince. Read a brief report about this new quake from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Addendum #2: On Thurs Jan 21, this entry was added: Dr. Robert Fuller, director of Emergency Medicine at UCHC, is currently in Haiti as a volunteer physician for International Medical Corps. Dr. Fuller spoke with with CNN reporter Wolf Blitzen on Jan 19 2010 about the medical rescue efforts in Port au Prince (link here for video).
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