What Your Patient Reads are summaries of health-related media reports that are supplemented with references to evidence-based medical literature.

This month's edition is titled Will Ibuprofen Hurt My Child's Kidneys? and is available on our Health Libraries website.

The University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries and the Winnipeg Public Library have collaborated on a new online Consumer Health Information resource – CHECKUP.

Understanding clinical practice guidelines a video series primer.
These videos were developed to provide an overview of clinical practice guidelines in Canada through the eyes of those who design, disseminate, and use them.
View the four videos here.

Today the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Public Health Ontario released a new report:
Opening Eyes, Opening Minds: The Ontario Burden of Mental Illness and Addictions Report.

Steven Lewis is a Saskatoon-based health policy consultant and part-time academic who thinks the healthcare system needs to get a lot better a lot faster (not to be confused with Stephen Lewis the politician, AIDS activist and member of the Order of Canada).

A collection of his writing has now been assembled into a book and is available free online.

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has released a new report: The Early Development Instrument (EDI) in Manitoba. From MCHP:

The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has released a new report: The Epidemiology and Outcomes of Critical Illness in Manitoba. From MCHP:

The Health Information Management Branch at Manitoba Health has released their new Annual Statistics publication. The report "has been redesigned for a broad audience that includes health professionals, researchers, policymakers and the general public" and "looks at the distribution of the population, mortality, disease and injury, prevalence of mental illness, physician and hospital services, use of home care and personal care homes, preventative services and prescription drug use."

The Community Guide (www.thecommunityguide.org) is a free resource from the epidemiology branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. It provides summaries and recommendations from systematic reviews that they conduct on broad public health topics.
The Community Guide is a great place to look for answers to questions on:

New guidelines for breast cancer screening have been released by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and published in the CMAJ.Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years. CMAJ. 2011; 183 (17): 1991- 2001. Available from: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/17/1991