Caitlin Kelley says she wants to be a librarian to “connect people with information they need to live their best lives.” On the way to her goal, she spent a week at the National Library of Medicine. Kelley was one ...
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Spring Break at the NLM
May 7, 2013
George W. Bush was president, gas cost $1.59 a gallon and the Human Genome Project had just officially ended on April 25, 2003, the date that the National Library of Medicine’s Genetics Home Reference (GHR) debuted. GHR is a free ...
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2013 NLM Informatics Lectures Announced
February 20, 2013
The National Library of Medicine Division of Extramural Programs announces the 2013 NLM Informatics Lecture series showcasing NLM-funded research in biomedical informatics. The program kicks off March 6 when Chunhua Weng, PhD, presents "Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Research Eligibility ...
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Emergency Backup Communications: The Old Meets the New
January 10, 2013
When the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Partnership (BHEPP) began searching in 2008 for an emergency backup communication system to support its three allied hospitals in emergencies, they turned to one of the oldest electronic communication technologies in the world—radio, pioneered ...
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Health and Medicine Blogs Collection: A 21st Century Twist
January 3, 2013
"What wondrous things my four working limbs were once able to accomplish!" writes Marc, a 48-year-old New Yorker diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis in 2003, in his blog, "Wheelchair Kamikaze." You can tap into Marc's "Rants, Ruminations, and Reflections of ...
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