And now Zika. Dengue, Ebola, West Nile, MERS coronavirus, and influenza viruses each have their own resource for virus data retrieval at NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Data scientists at NCBI are working 24/7 to make information about Zika as accessible and searchable as possible—as quickly as possible. They know that making bioinformatics…
What if you could take a photo of an unknown pill and find out what it is? The National Library of Medicine’s Pill Image Recognition Challenge seeks to make that possible. Unidentified and misidentified prescription pills present problems for patients, family members, health professionals, and law enforcement. Nine out of 10 citizens over age 65…
When NLM toxicologist Dr. Bert Hakkinen of NLM landed at Dulles Airport on Thursday, January 9, 2014, after a long vacation, he expected to go home and relax. But an email from an HHS colleague changed his plans. Just 350 miles away, something was wrong with the water. Calling on staff at a library might…
During its February meeting, NLM’s Board of Regents, senior staff, and other leaders from NIH heard from Susannah Fox, chief technology officer of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), about the innovative work under way at the HHS IDEA Lab and her efforts to make data, health information, and tools more available. “When…
The National Library of Medicine Board of Regents’ new members: Alessandro Acquisti, PhD, professor of information systems and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College and member of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. His research focuses on the economics of privacy. Daniel Masys, MD, affiliate professor of biomedical and health informatics at the University of Washington…
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