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Guest post by Maureen M. Goodenow, PhD, Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health On June 5th, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research (OAR) joined colleagues worldwide to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the landmark 1981 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … Continue reading 40 Years of Progress: It’s Time to End the HIV Epidemic
Guest post by Diana W. Bianchi, MD, Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Janine Clayton, MD, Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health For many of you, this past weekend likely had its share of greeting cards, flowers, video calls, and, perhaps, even a tasty brunch celebrating the … Continue reading A Mother’s Day Message: Time for Action to Improve Maternal Health
Writing these blog posts gives me a chance to showcase some of the great work done by our team at NLM, and reflect on the roles I play as part of the NIH leadership team, Director of the National Library of Medicine, a mother-daughter-sister-aunt-friend, and an advocate for self-care management education and support for all … Continue reading Thank You, My Nurse Colleagues
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
Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) celebrates the many contributions to U.S. society of people originating from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America. Today, there are almost 60 million Latinx-identifying or Spanish-speaking people in the United States (about 18% of the total U.S. population). Representing our nation’s largest ethnic or … Continue reading Hispanic Heritage Month: Improving Access to Health Information
A couple years ago, I wrote about how the paintings in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series inspired me to think about how the National Library of Medicine gets information to people on the move—people displaced by violence, natural disasters, or economic crises. I felt a similar stirring after viewing the Jeanine Michna-Bales exhibition Photographs of the … Continue reading Information Along the Underground Railroad
Celebrating National Medical Librarians Month
Guest post by NLM Associate Fellow Gabrielle Barr and NLM Copyright Group co-chairs Christie Moffatt and Rebecca Goodwin. It’s Fair Use Week 2018, an annual event coordinated by the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) to celebrate the opportunities of fair use, including the many ways it supports biomedical research and the work we do at here at … Continue reading NLM Celebrates Fair Use
The Library's role in heart health and understanding
Guest post by James G. Smirniotopoulos, MD, chief editor for MedPix®. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain was recently diagnosed with the most aggressive form of brain cancer: glioblastoma. This is the same type of tumor that killed Vice President Joe Biden’s son Beau and Senator Ted Kennedy. Glioblastoma originates in the brain. … Continue reading What does a glioblastoma look like?