Mothers feed their sick babies an oral rehydration solution in an International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, or ICDDR, B facility. It is known locally as the Cholera Hospital. It is an international health research institution located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. This image is part of Against the Odds: Making a Difference…
On May 8, the University of Pittsburgh’s Donald A.B. Lindberg Lecture and Symposium, “Informatics in Public Health,” named in honor of National Library of Medicine Director Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, for his pioneering work in the field, featured expert discussion of informatics in surveillance, epidemic models and other aspects of public health. Sponsored by the Department…
With a quarter century of helping to advance scientific discovery worldwide behind it and two Nobel-prize winners in attendance, a two-day conference to celebrate the birth and growth of GenBank, one of the most successful and scientifically influential programs ever from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) kicked…
Public health problems caused by Hurricane Katrina as well as the Barefoot Doctors Program, which trained over one million people to treat the common ailments of residents of rural China, are both part of a new NLM exhibit opened in April showcasing public health problems and global health. Against the Odds: Making a Difference in…
An innovative research tool that helps doctors around the world collaborate in cancer research garnered the NLM a prestigious Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) Award in April. The IDEA awards recognize innovators who have created and deployed advanced network applications that enable transformational progress in research, teaching, and learning. Internet2 is a consortium of universities,…
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