NIH MedlinePlus Salud Magazine Now Available
The annual issue of NIH MedlinePlus Salud magazine is now available online and in print. Salud, which means health in Spanish, is a free magazine of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine. Salud brings accurate and timely information in Spanish and English on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 12, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Publications Source Type: blogs
Focus on NLM Scientists: Dr. Kira Makarova Makes Her Mark
Kira Makarova, PhD, could have easily coasted through college and her career. But she didn’t. She took advantage of opportunities and overcame setbacks along the way. As a staff scientist at NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Makarova is making her mark in the scientific world by supporting computational biologists all over the globe.… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 8, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
What ’s in? What’s out?
As a new year begins, NLM in Focus takes a light-hearted look back at 2017 and forward to 2018. How’d we do with our predictions? What do you think will be in or out in the new year? Comment below. What’s IN for 2018 and OUT with 2017 IN for 2018 OUT with 2017 All… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - January 2, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: blogs
Seasons of Stories, 2017-2018
Happy New Year! As we look back at 2017, we wrote, we edited, we interviewed, and we rocked—all to share stories about the people and products making a difference in scientific discovery and public health here at NLM. Here are a few highlights: Winter 2017 We posted stories about NLM disaster health information courses, MedlinePlus.gov… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 27, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Publications Source Type: blogs
An NLM Holiday Sing-a-long
N-L-M to tune of “Jingle Bells” Dashing through the stacks, Retrieving as we go. We scan and cart and prep to bind While shouting “Ho, ho, ho!” Visible Humans dance And the bust of Lister Hill sings. Our magic isn’t just research But in so many things! N-L-M! N-L-M! Rings as… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
Betsy Humphreys: Presidential Rank Awardee
Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson calls the Presidential Rank Awards “serious business.” So it seems especially appropriate for NLM to congratulate one of its most serious and respected leaders of the past century, Betsy Humphreys, who was recently recognized as a Presidential Rank Awardee at the Distinguished Level. Humphreys, who retired as deputy director of… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 19, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
What a deal! Free NLM cards highlight resources to help students prepare for National History Day
The National Library of Medicine is helping young historians discover its rich collections related to the National History Day 2018 theme, “Conflict and Compromise.” Middle school and high school students throughout the US are preparing projects for History Day, which takes place throughout the school year, with the national finals held June 10-14, 2018, at… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Collections Source Type: blogs
Happy First Birthday, NICHSR ONESearch!
NICHSR ONESearch is now one. For the past year, NICHSR OneSearch has helped people get answers to questions concerning health policy, health care costs, ongoing research, socioeconomic issues in health, disparities and inequalities, and more. NICHSR ONESearch helps you search for ongoing projects, grey literature, datasets, indices, reliable websites, meetings, training, grant opportunities, and more.… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 11, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Products Source Type: blogs
We Clue You In about NLM Tours …and Invite You to Join Us!
In the span of a few months, the list of NLM tour guests may sound like a version of the board game “Clue.” Not Miss Scarlet in the conservatory, perhaps, but… < Korean high school students in the computer room with Brian Szamborski, information technology specialist in the NLM Office of Computer and Communications Systems… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - December 6, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Programs & Services Source Type: blogs
Quick Q & A with the Bioinformatics in Medical Genetics Group
In our series of Quick Q&As with scientists who work in the NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), we’re pleased to introduce the three members of the Bioinformatics in Medical Genetics Group. The leader of the group, Alejandro Schäffer, shares a memorable lesson. Mike Gertz tells how his family influenced his career. And Eric… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 29, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Sum7 Source Type: blogs
NLM staff answer the question: Why are you thankful to be at NLM?
Everyone begins their career at the National Library of Medicine the same way—hand over heart speaking out loud the Oath of Office. It reminds each of us that we are serving our country and that our work is sacred and important. I am thankful to be part of an organization that is founded on service… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 21, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
NLM Congratulates Former Member of NLM Board of Regents Katherine Gottlieb on Prestigious Award
Southcentral Foundation, led by former NLM Board of Regents member Katherine Gottlieb, has been selected to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award announced on November 16 by the US Secretary of Commerce. “The Foundation is the only health entity in the US to have won this award twice,” said Gottlieb, president of Southcentral Foundation. “It… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 20, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Organizations Source Type: blogs
More Twists than the Double Helix: Jim Ostell ’s Surprising Path—Part 2 of 2
Director of NCBI, Dr. Jim Ostell called his journey to NCBI “a long and winding and strange road.” Part one of this circuitous path, which NLM in Focus published last week, included college classes he never thought he’d need, counter-cultural days, studying the anatomy of the cricket, borrowing a secretary’s computer because it was the… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 14, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
More Twists than a Double Helix: Jim Ostell ’s Surprising Path—Part 1
Jim Ostell’s journey to NCBI? “It was a long and winding and strange road,” he said with a laugh, looking back on life before he joined the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). But when the road ended, Ostell found what he wanted and needed—and then some. For the man who once gave away computer… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - November 8, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: People Source Type: blogs
