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Aug
05
0 comments Tags: baby health, bonding with baby, breast milk, breastfeeding, feeding babies, infant health, nursing, World Breastfeeding Week
The World Health Organization has named the first week of August as World Breastfeeding Week! You can read lots of important health information about breastfeeding on Twitter using #WorldBreastfeedingWeek. Most of us know that health professionals recommend that babies be breastfed for the first 6 months, if possible. Initially, breastfeeding may require a little… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Apr
08
0 comments Tags: art therapy, micrographia, Parkinson's Disease, symptoms of Parkinson's disease, The Art Cart
The blog post that follows was written by Saba Shahid, Chief Smiling Officer of The Art Cart. In May of 2018 The Art Cart received a Community Engagement Grant Award from the NNLM NER to create an online training program to about how use art as… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project, Patient Engagement
Mar
14
0 comments Tags: community engagement, funding, health disparities
The following blog post was written by Brenda Lormil, a recent recipient of NNLM NER grant funding. Brenda shares the work she and her team are doing to connect Haitian community members across Massachusetts to primary care and health resources in Haitian Creole. From May to October of 2018, Haitian American Medical Association (HAMA) had… Read More »
Posted in: Funded Project, Patient Engagement
Oct
01
0 comments Tags: 99th Ingersol Lecture on Immortality & Convocation, Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, chronic illness
“I think I’m very uncomfortable with imperfection and in being fallible and how you live with your own imperfection,” says Atul Gawande. A little ironic, as he shared these words as part of his talk for the 99th Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality and Convocation at Harvard Divinity School held on September 6, at Sander’s Theatre… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Aug
31
0 comments Tags: Addiction, opioids, substance use disorder, vocabulary
Who do you think would receive the better medical care… an “abuser” or a person who suffers from “substance use disorder”? Nearly 21 million people in the US have a substance use disorder, however, just ten percent of that number actually get treatment. What keeps people from getting the help they need? The number one… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health, Webinars