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NIH is committed to making research accessible to all with a new Public Access Policy. The new policy eliminates the twelve-month embargo to accelerate access to published results. This milestone ensures patients, families, and researchers can benefit quickly from discoveries, promoting transparency and equitable access to federally funded research.
With DiscoverWHR—a new resource from the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) and NLM—users now have easy access to NIH-funded research on the important topic of women’s health research. Explore studies, grants, clinical trials, and more on topics like menopause, PCOS, and autoimmune diseases.
This Veterans Day, NLM is celebrating U.S. veterans not only in recognition of their service to our nation but also for their vital contributions to biomedical research. Through the Million Veteran Program and resources like ClinicalTrials.gov, veterans are expanding genetic research and supporting health advancements for all communities. Thank you, veterans!
Join us in welcoming Dr. Kin Wah Fung as the new Director of the NLM Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications! His clinical background and expertise in health data standards inform his two principal directions for LHNCBC: moving from research to translation and toward a clinical data emphasis.
NLM’s MedlinePlus website is celebrating 25 years! In that time, it has expanded its consumer health information offerings to include over 1,000 health topics, drug information, genetic resources, and mobile access, all in English and Spanish. Learn more about its history and continued impact on global communities.
The relationship between botanicals and modern medicine has led to important discoveries for human health. The NLM Herb Garden reflects this long symbiotic history, and thanks to the Montgomery County Master Gardener Association and a new video about the garden, researchers and visitors alike can experience this connection for themselves.
We were "Musing" on this year's most popular posts and discovered a few themes that kept you coming back again and again. What were our Top 5 posts in 2023?
The ”Jerry Jar” crept into our lingo as a shorthand way of letting me say, “Here’s something important to handle—I am not quite sure what to do with it and I believe that it needs your expertise.” As we planned for his departure, I sought his advice about what to do with the “Jerry Jar” that had become so invaluable to our operations. “Smash it,” he said!
It is time for the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) Annual Meeting this week in Detroit, Michigan. This year is special because not only is MLA partnering with the Special Libraries Association to expand its offerings beyond health sciences librarianship, it’s also MLA’s 125th anniversary!
National Nurses Week is an opportune moment for us in the nursing profession to reflect on our nation's overall health and wellbeing and our role in redesigning and improving traditional models of health services. Check out a new framework from the Duke University School of Nursing that can inform how nurse-led models of care can effectively mitigate health inequities.