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Profiles in Science: Risk Factors: Measuring and Rating Health, Illness, and Mortality

Circulating Now — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:16:20 +0000

By Christie Moffatt and Susan Speaker ~ The National Library of Medicine recently launched a new thematic Profiles in Science

World AIDS Day: Visual Culture and Communities

Circulating Now — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:00:43 +0000

By Christie Moffatt and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite

Exploring the Data of Web Archives as Part of Data Science @ NLM

Circulating Now — Thu, 13 May 2021 15:30:44 +0000

Over the past year our project was to gain practical experience with tools and techniques for the study of web archives data.

We Are Thankful For…

Circulating Now — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:00:06 +0000

Thanksgiving reflections in which staff share their gratitude for the historical collections.

Profiles in Science: Exploring the Stories of Scientific Discovery

Circulating Now — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:00:42 +0000

More than 30,000 digitized primary source materials in 40 collections celebrating twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health.

The Opioid Epidemic: Collecting Now for Future Research

Circulating Now — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:00:23 +0000

By Susan L. Speaker and Christie Moffatt ~ In October 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared

Archiving HIV/AIDS on the Web

Circulating Now — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:00:25 +0000

Christine Wenc describes her work to develop a web archive to provide historians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers with significant historical data for their present and future work.

Revealing Data: Explorations of Data in Collections

Circulating Now — Wed, 17 May 2017 15:00:01 +0000

By Christie Moffatt ~ We hear about data every day. In historical medical collections, data abounds, both quantitative and qualitative.

Celebrating the Nobel Prize

Circulating Now — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:00:12 +0000

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Profiles in Science

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Truly Translational: Louis Sokoloff and PET Brain Imaging

Circulating Now — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:30:34 +0000

By Susan Speaker Twenty-first century medical practitioners have many ways of making images of the inside of the body, including

Web Collecting During the Zika Outbreak

Circulating Now — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:00:41 +0000

By Christie Moffatt ~ This week is “Mosquito Control Awareness week,” and agencies across the Department of Health and Human

Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak

Circulating Now — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:30:35 +0000

Christie Moffatt spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Future Historical Collections: Archiving the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.” Ms.

A Decade of Phenomenal Progress in Heart Surgery

Circulating Now — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:00:41 +0000

By Susan Speaker In March of 1959, Dr. Michael DeBakey testified in the U.S. House of Representatives about the phenomenal

“What a mess! And we are not half through”: Dr. Osler on England’s home front in World War I

Circulating Now — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:00:54 +0000

By Susan Speaker This is one of a series of occasional posts highlighting collections that document medical activities during the

John E. Fogarty—A Family Perspective

Circulating Now — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:00:15 +0000

NLM’s newest Profiles in Science site features Congressman John Edward Fogarty (1913–1967), who was called “Mr. Public Health” for his

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—David Serlin

Circulating Now — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:00:50 +0000

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of

Back to School with the Best of ‘Em

Circulating Now — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:00:08 +0000

By Courtney Jefferies ~ Around this time of the year, many of us, including myself, are preparing to go back

Autism and Alzheimer’s on the Web

Circulating Now — Fri, 30 May 2014 15:00:24 +0000

A helpful site for people with Asperger’s Syndrome

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