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This exciting exhibit includes torches from the 1994 Lillehammer and 2002 Salt Lake City Games, participatory medals from the 1980 Lake Placid and the 1984 Sarajevo Games, and various tickets, programs and promotional items dating from the first Winter Olympic Games in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The exhibit is on loan from John P. (Jack) Kelly of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Jack is also Secretary General of USA Baseball and sits on an Olympic Committee. Free seminars will highlight various aspects of the Winter Olympics and sports medicine. All seminars will take place in the Street Level Conference Room of the HAM-TMC Library from 11:30 – 12:30.

February 14 – John Elliot, PhD, Rice University Department of Kinesiology

The Mindset of Olympians

Animals and Olympians: From the Biology of Performance Limits to the Ominous Future of Competitive Athletics

All Conversations are free, and will be held in the Library's Street Level Conference Room. Light lunch will be provided to the first 30 attendees.



		Volume IV, Number 1 January - February 2006 Visit the Winter Olympics Exhibit at the Library Through March, the HAM-TMC Library is hosting an historical exhibit on the Winter Olympics to recognize the games being held in Torino, Italy from February 10th to 26th, 2006. read more Access to Backfiles of Neuroscience, Nursing, Organic Chemistry and Social Science Journals via Science Direct Educational users' archival access to content in Science Direct has been expanded. read more News in Health The February issue of News in Health, a publication that includes practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now available at: http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/ read more New Clinical Alert International HIV/AIDS Trial Finds Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy Superior to Episodic Therapy The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced that enrollment into a large international HIV/AIDS trial comparing continuous antiretroviral therapy with episodic drug treatment guided by levels of CD4+ cells has been stopped. read more Library Class Schedule Attend one or more free classes offered by the Library: read more Version of this Issue of the Insider (200kb.pdf) Visit the Winter Olympics Exhibit at the Library This exciting exhibit includes torches from the 1994 Lillehammer and 2002 Salt Lake City Games, participatory medals from the 1980 Lake Placid and the 1984 Sarajevo Games, and various tickets, programs and promotional items dating from the first Winter Olympic Games in 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The exhibit is on loan from John P. (Jack) Kelly of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Jack is also Secretary General of USA Baseball and sits on an Olympic Committee. Free seminars will highlight various aspects of the Winter Olympics and sports medicine. All seminars will take place in the Street Level Conference Room of the HAM-TMC Library from 11:30 – 12:30. Conversations with . . . February 14 – John Elliot, PhD, Rice University Department of Kinesiology The Mindset of Olympians March 2 – John P. (Jack) Kelly, Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau What Makes Olympians Different: A Personal Olympic Odyssey from 1984 to Torino March 10 – Peter Weyand, PhD, Rice University Department of Kinesiology Animals and Olympians: From the Biology of Performance Limits to the Ominous Future of Competitive Athletics All Conversations are free, and will be held in the Library's Street Level Conference Room. Light lunch will be provided to the first 30 attendees. More information available at: http://192.168.168.23 8/reference/promotions.php back to top Access to Backfiles of Neuroscience, Nursing, Organic Chemistry and Social Science Journals via Science Direct Thanks to special funding through The University of Texas Digital Library in Austin, 4 more subject-based backfile collections are available. Neuroscience (80 titles) Nursing and Health (17 titles) Organic Chemistry (14 titles) Social Science (131 titles) For a complete list of the Neuroscience and Nursing journal backfiles, with date ranges indicated, visit the Library webpage at: http ://resource.library.tmc.edu/resources/alcepbackfiles2006.php back to top News in Health As the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, NIH produces content that is not copyrighted. Copies can be downloaded and displayed free of charge. Featured Stories: The Future of Genetic Testing: Telling Science Fact from Science Fiction. Are you likely to get heart disease? Is obesity in your future? Your risk of developing many diseases and health conditions is partly written in your genes. Genes or Environment? Epigenetics Sheds Light on Debate – Which is more important in shaping who we are and what we will become – our genes or the environment around us? Health Capsules Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Risk Up in Winter Risky Teen Behavior – Three of the leading causes of preventable death in the U.S. are smoking, being overweight or obese, and abusing alcohol. A new study shows that a large proportion of American youth are already involved in these risky health behaviors. Featured Website: http://www.smokefree.gov back to top New Clinical Alert International HIV/AIDS Trial Finds Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy Superior to Episodic Therapy Enrollment was stopped because those patients receiving episodic therapy had twice the risk of disease progression (the development of clinical AIDS or death), the major outcome of the study. For more information go to: http://www.nl m.nih.gov/databases/alerts/aids_smart.html back to top Library Class schedule Basic HTML: March 14 CINAHL: February 21 EndNote: February 16, March 22 Library Research for Office Assistants: February 28 For a complete class schedule and registration visit: http://resource.li brary.tmc.edu/class/schedule.php Classes are offered in the Street Level Classroom. back to top