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Dec
01
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We inherit many things from the people who went before us – our physical characteristics, aspects of our personality and, sometimes, our health. December’s Reading Club selections discuss inherited diseases, focusing specifically on cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell disease, and cancer caused by the BRCA mutation. … Read More »
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Nov
10
Nov
04
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Your health is the product of three factors: lifestyle, environment and genetics. In November, NNLM Reading Club is taking a closer look at human genetics. Featured are three books that translate the complexities of genetics into understandable terms. Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics from its beginnings in the 19th-century experiments of… Read More »
Posted in: All of Us, Blog, Health Literacy/Consumer Health, News From NNLM PNR, Public Libraries
Sep
04
0 comments Tags: consumer health, genetic diseases, genetic health literacy, genetic resources, genetics, genomic health literacy, genomics
Genetics Home Reference has now become part of MedlinePlus and is available in the “Genetics” section. Just like the resource, Genetics Home Reference, MedlinePlus includes over more than 1,300 genetic conditions and 1,475 genes, all of the human chromosomes, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The information is organized in much the same way for easy navigation. Also… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy/Consumer Health, News from NLM
Apr
07
0 comments Tags: genetics, genomics, online education, reading, science education
PBS has a new documentary airing tonight, April 7 and April 14. The Gene: An Intimate History is a two-episode series based on the best selling book by Siddhartha Mukherjee who also authored The Emperor of All Maladies which was also made into a PBS documentary in 2015. Mukherjee wrote about a topic that might… Read More »
Posted in: Health Literacy/Consumer Health, K-12