Two famous people, one real and one fictitious, both tightly connected to the other, share a birthday on July 31. J.K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, was born (for real) on this day in 1965. Harry James Potter, her iconic best-selling creation, was fictitiously born 15 years later in 1980. The Harry Potter series,…
This quarterly publication of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine brings accurate and timely information on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH turns “discovery into health.” This issue covers— how a top chef handles her medical condition why a clothing designer says it’s fashionable to get screened for…
This is a story about the risk of loss. Rotting links, drifting content, and challenging content types that are difficult to capture threaten to make material on the web disappear. This is unacceptable when we’re talking about the story of global health events like the recent Ebola outbreak and today’s Zika virus. Documentation of what…
“Hey, Alaska. Welcome to the United States,” said a high school student in Los Angeles to a student in Alaska. “Welcome to the other half,” quipped the Alaskan student. Cultural sensitivity and geography lessons are just a couple of extras to come out of NLM’s Distance Learning Outreach Program. What started as a “what if…
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other speakers at a recent conference sponsored by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine suggested the reproducibility of biomedical research might improve if scientists could agree on a definition of “reproducibility” and if more information about preclinical trial research findings was available…
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