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A guest post by Amanda J. Wilson, Chief, Office of Engagement and Training; Leigh Samsel, NLM Planning and Evaluation Officer, Office of Strategic Initiatives; and Elizabeth A. Mullen, Manager of Web Development and Social Media, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. This year’s theme for World AIDS … Continue reading Ending the HIV Epidemic: Equitable Access, Everyone’s Voice
In mid-October I gave the NLM Research in Trustable, Transparent AI for Decision Support keynote speech to the 50th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition conference in Washington, D.C. (virtually, for me). The IEEE continues to advance new topics in applied image and visual understanding, and the focus this year … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, Imaging, and the Promising Future of Image-Based Medicine
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 Doug Joubert, head of User Services and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, National Library of Medicine. NLM has a strong record of involving its stakeholders in the strategic decisions that drive the products we develop and the services we offer. As the world’s largest biomedical … Continue reading A 21st-Century Approach to Health Services Research: NLM Moves Forward with You in Mind
When you grow up in a family of 10 kids, like I did, your birthday is a very special day. My mom and dad made sure that it was always a celebration, with breakfast pancakes, a picnic lunch in the park, and favorite foods for dinner. It’s a day that’s just yours. By now, I’ve … Continue reading It’s My Birthday: An Ode to Aging and to Lifespan Research
Guest post by NLM’s Jennifer Gilbert, Technical Services Division, Christie Moffatt, History of Medicine Division, and Doron Shalvi, Office of Computer and Communication Systems. NLM’s widely appreciated online historical resource, Profiles in Science, makes available to researchers, educators, and members of the public the archival collections of prominent scientists, physicians, and other individuals who have … Continue reading Profiles in Science: Exploring Stories of Scientific Discovery
Guest post by Teresa Przytycka, PhD, Senior Investigator, Computational and Systems Biology section of the Computational Biology Branch at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health. The functioning of any complex system involves interactions between elements of that system. This is true at the cellular level, the macro … Continue reading The Significance of Network Biology
Guest post by Dr. Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, associate professor of informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Social media has grown in popularity for health-related research as it has become evident that it can be a good source of patient insights. Be it Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Amazon reviews or health forums, researchers … Continue reading On the Ethics of Using Social Media Data for Health Research
Guest post by Derek Johnson, MLIS, Health Professionals Outreach Specialist for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Greater Midwest Region Recent articles in Preventing Chronic Disease and The Nation’s Health chronicle how public libraries can complement the efforts of public health workers in community outreach and engagement. Data tell us that more Americans visit … Continue reading National Public Health Week 2019: How NLM Brings Together Libraries and Public Health
Guest post by Dr. Valerie Florance, Director of the NLM Division of Extramural Programs. It is an exciting time to be a biomedical informatician or data scientist. First, NLM has committed to transforming the infrastructure of biomedical research and health care. In support of that, NLM’s research grant programs help fund the computational, informatics, and … Continue reading Seeking Innovative Methods in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science