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Innovations in Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
This month, NLM joins the Nation in celebrating Black History Month. Libraries play an important role in ensuring equity of access to information. From my career as a nurse, I know that libraries are important vehicles for delivering trusted information. To celebrate my dual allegiances to nursing and libraries, in this post, I am tuning … Continue reading Nursing and Libraries – Powerful Forces in Motion
Guest post by Maryam Zaringhalam, PhD, National Library of Medicine Data Science and Open Science Officer and Mike Huerta, PhD, director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives and associate director of the National Library of Medicine. In October 2019, NLM invited award-winning science journalist Angela Saini to discuss her research on how bias and prejudice … Continue reading NLM Announces New Annual Lecture on Science, Technology, and Society
Guest post by Rebecca Williams, PharmD, MPH, acting director of ClinicalTrials.gov at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. In 2019, NLM introduced a multi-year effort to modernize ClinicalTrials.gov, the world’s largest publicly accessible database of privately and publicly funded clinical trials. This effort was launched with a commitment to engage with and … Continue reading Progress Towards a Modernized ClinicalTrials.gov
Guest post by Valerie Schneider, PhD, staff scientist at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. It’s been said that nature is the best teacher. When it comes to understanding human biology and improving health, examples abound of the advances that have been made from the study of … Continue reading A Journey to Spur Innovation and Discovery