Viral Networks, Reconnected: A Digital Humanities/History of Medicine Research Forum
On January 29-30, 2018, the NLM hosted Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History, bringing together scholars from various fields of medical history whose innovative research shows promise through the use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities. The event was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through a grant to Virginia Tech, and was a collaborative outcome of NLM's long standing partnership with the NEH.
Viral Networks, Reconnected reunites three scholars who participated in the January 2018 Viral Networks workshop, offering them the opportunit...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
WalMart wants to influence healthcare with diet-changing app
David Hoke, senior director, Associate Health and Well-Being at Walmart, explains how the store and Fresh Try app will engage consumers with chronic health conditions to address an important health issue - their diet. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Mobile Patient Engagement Source Type: video
Special CCR Grand Rounds: 1) Pooled CRISPR Screens for Cancer Biology and 2) Dietary control of intestinal stem cells in physiology and disease
Special CCR Grand Rounds – 2018 AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award and Lecture
The Wachtel Cancer Research Award is presented to young cancer researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the cancer field.
This is the sixth lecture for the AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) and Science Translational Medicine. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is co-hosting the event.Air date: 8/10/2018 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop Appropriate Use of Drug Therapies for Osteoporotic Fracture Prevention (Day 2)
About Osteoporotic Fractures
More than 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder that causes bones to become weak and fragile as a result of low bone mass. The condition makes people more susceptible to fractures, which can impair their ability to live independently and even threaten their lives. The social and economic burden of osteoporotic fractures is substantial. Reducing osteoporosis prevalence and hip fracture incidence are among the major objectives of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health& Human Services ’ national health promotion and disease prevention initiativ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop Appropriate Use of Drug Therapies for Osteoporotic Fracture Prevention (Day 1)
About Osteoporotic Fractures
More than 10 million people in the United States have osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder that causes bones to become weak and fragile as a result of low bone mass. The condition makes people more susceptible to fractures, which can impair their ability to live independently and even threaten their lives. The social and economic burden of osteoporotic fractures is substantial. Reducing osteoporosis prevalence and hip fracture incidence are among the major objectives of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health& Human Services ’ national health promotion and disease prevention initiativ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cancer Genomics and Dietary Influences in Cancer
Special CCR Grand Rounds – 2018 AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award and Lecture
The Wachtel Cancer Research Award is presented to young cancer researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the cancer field.
This is the sixth lecture for the AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) and Science Translational Medicine. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Cancer Research (CCR) is co-hosting the event.Air date: 8/10/2018 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The ATP synthase: a gifted protein that keeps on giving
NIH Director's Seminar Series
ATP synthases produce most of the ATP that sustains living cells – that is, in a human body, over 150 pounds of ATP per day! Found in the membranes of mitochondria, chloroplasts and bacteria, these paradigmatic enzymes harness the electrochemical energy that results from nutrient metabolism or light harvesting to power a turbine-like mechanism, through which they recycle the two by-products of ATP hydrolysis, ADP and inorganic phosphate, into brand-new ATP. Dr. Faraldo-Gomez will discuss recent breakthroughs in the structural characterization of these systems at the molecular and supramolecu...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Race across tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare (Image 1)
In addition to white spruces, snowshoe hares also browse on willow trees, seen here in early spring along Alaska's Dietrich River. [Image 1 of 6 related images. See Image 2.]
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With Alaska's warming climate, forests ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 17, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Gut reactions: host microbiome interactions in the intestine in health and disease
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
The gastrointestinal tract is home to a large number and vast array of bacteria that play an important role in nutrition, immune-system development, and host defense. In inflammatory bowel disease there is a breakdown in this mutualistic relationship resulting in aberrant inflammatory responses to intestinal bacteria. Studies in model systems indicate that intestinal homeostasis is an active process involving a delicate balance between effector and immune suppressive pathways. For her presentation, Dr. Powrie will discuss bacterial pathways that promote intestinal homeostas...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Who knew mosquitoes could go on diets? This species is foregoing human blood for floral nectar
Most mosquitoes in a species called Wyeomyia smithii refuse blood meals in favor of sweet floral nectar. New research is helping to explain the evolutionary genetics of the switch from blood sucker to flower fanatic.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 12, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
NETting the web in systemic autoimmunity
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Mariana Kaplan, M.D. is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Systemic Autoimmunity Branch at NIAMS/NIH. Prior to her appointment, she was Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Kaplan obtained her medical degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and did her Internal Medicine Residency at the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City. Dr. Kaplan did her Rheumatology Fellowship and postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan, where she was a member of the faculty for 15 years, and an acti...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Brave new world: recent evolution of an insect-transmitted pathogen
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
In their natural settings microbes seldom encounter conditions that are propitious for unrestricted growth. Rather, they must survive in environments where most of the time they are faced with limiting amounts of essential nutrients, stressful stimuli and the presence of other living organisms. Since the early 1980s, Dr. Kolter ’ s laboratroy has investigated many of these survival strategies using approaches from genetics, biochemistry and ecology.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/wals/2016-2017Air date: 5/17/2017 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 11, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (Day 2)
Obesity is a major contributor to serious health conditions in children and adults. The prevalence of obesity in the United States and globally has grown rapidly in the last three decades; thus, there is a pressing need to help people achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Obesity is commonly defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. In 2014, more than one-third (37.7%) of U.S. adults (Flegal, 2016 ) and 17% of U.S. children and young adults under the age of 20 (Ogden, 2016 ) met this definition, accounting for about 55% of the total U.S. population. There are also persistent disparities among ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity (Day 1)
Obesity is a major contributor to serious health conditions in children and adults. The prevalence of obesity in the United States and globally has grown rapidly in the last three decades; thus, there is a pressing need to help people achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
Obesity is commonly defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30. In 2014, more than one-third (37.7%) of U.S. adults (Flegal, 2016 ) and 17% of U.S. children and young adults under the age of 20 (Ogden, 2016 ) met this definition, accounting for about 55% of the total U.S. population. There are also persistent disparities among ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
The primary shield: role of our microbes in heath and diseases
NIH Director ’ s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Dr. Belkaid work explores the field of immune regulation and has defined fundamental mechanisms that regulate tissue homeostasis and host immune responses. Her work uncovered key roles for the commensal microbiota and dietary factors in the maintenance of tissue immunity and protection to pathogens.Air date: 4/26/2017 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 31, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
