Monthly Lists

National Minority Health Month (updated April 2024)

April is National Minority Health Month (NMHM), a time to raise awareness about the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority communities and reducing health disparities.

Resources

• NIH - National Minority Health Month
• US Department of Health and Human Services

Select Books

• Clinical manual of cultural psychiatry
• Salud : a latina's guide to total health
• Counseling the culturally diverse : theory and practice
• Ethnicity, race, and health in multicultural societies : foundations for better epidemiology, public health and health care
• Health issues in the Black community
• Assessing Hispanic clients using the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A
• Multicultural medicine and health disparities
• Minority populations and health : an introduction to health disparities in the United States
• Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization
• ...for more items including electronic items search our catalog

National Stress Awareness Month (updated April 2024)

April is recognized as National Stress Awareness Month to bring attention to the negative impact of stress. Knowing how to manage stress can improve mental and physical well-being, helping to reduce health-related issues.

Resources

• NIH National Stress Awareness Month
• The Stress Management Society
• The American Institute of Stress

EVMS select books:

• Peace is every step : the path of mindfulness in everyday life
• Clinical manual for management of PTSD
• The craving mind : from cigarettes to smartphones to love--why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits
• At war with yourself
• The only EKG book you'll ever need
• Change your brain, change your life : the breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, lack of focus, anger, and memory problem
• Principles and practice of sleep medicine
• Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease
• Hypertension : a companion to Braunwald's heart disease
• The PTSD workbook : simple, effective techniques for overcoming traumatic stress symptoms
• Essentials of psychiatry
• The stress response of critical illness : metabolic and hormonal aspects
• Mayo Clinic healthy heart for life! : the Mayo Clinic plan for preventing and conquering heart disease
• Cognitive hypnotherapy
• Stop physician burnout : what to do when working harder isn't working
• Mental health, naturally : the family guide to holistic care for a healthy mind and body
• ...for more items including electronic items search our catalog

Women's History Month (updated March 2024)
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.

Resources:

• Women's History Month
• AAMC - Celebrating 10 women medical pioneers
• American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

EVMS select books:

• The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
• Walking out on the boys
• Patient by patient : lessons in love, loss, hope, and healing from a doctor's practice
• This side of doctoring : reflections from women in medicine
• The house of hope and fear : life in a big city hospital
• Lab Girl
• Ever yours, Florence Nightingale : selected letters
• Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
• Medical marvels : the 100 greatest advances in medicine
• Howard & Georgeanna : sixty years of marriage & medicine
• A Southern woman's story
• A vital force : women in American homeopathy
• Singular intimacies : becoming a doctor at Bellevue
• ...for more items including electronic items search our catalog

National Kidney Month(updated March 2024)

No matter your age, getting to know your kidneys can help you lead a healthier life and may prevent or slow the progression of kidney disease.

Resources:

• National Kidney Month NIH
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases(NIDDK),

EVMS select books:

• Type II diabetes mellitus : a multidisciplinary approach
• Renal pathophysiology : the essentials
• High-yield kidneyE06XRG
• National Kidney Foundation's primer on kidney diseases
• Comprehensive clinical nephrology
• Principles and practice of dialysis
• Primer on kidney diseases
• The kidney and hypertension in diabetes melliitus
• Renal and electrolyte disorders
• ...for more items including electronic items search our catalog

Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (updated March 2024)
Colorectal cancer screening saves lives. Regular screening, beginning at age 45, is the key to preventing colorectal cancer

Resources:

• CDC - Colorectal Cancer Awareness
• American Cancer Society

EVMS select books:

• Johns Hopkins patients' guide to colon and rectal cancer
• Handbook of gastroenterology
• Handbook of colon and rectal surgery
• Challenges in colorectal surgery
• Principles and practice of surgery for the colon, rectum, and anus
• Mayo Clinic gastrointestinal surgery
• The ASCRS textbook of colon and rectal surgery
• Cancer of the lower gastrointestinal tract
• Gastrointestinal imaging : case review
• Pediatric gastroenterology
• Handbook of gastroenterologic procedures
• ...for more items including electronic items search our catalog