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Feb
27
The GeneEd resource is scheduled to be retired on March 31, 2019. Selected content will be transferred to Genetics Home Reference, another online resource from the National Library of Medicine. NLM is interested in feedback from regular users of GeneEd to determine how best to make this transition. Please share your thoughts in a brief… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, NLM Resources
Feb
09
MetaMap is a highly configurable program developed by Dr. Alan (Lan) Aronson at the National Library of Medicine to map biomedical text to the UMLS Metathesaurus or, equivalently, to discover Metathesaurus concepts referred to in text. MetaMap uses a knowledge-intensive approach based on symbolic, natural-language processing (NLP) and computational-linguistic techniques. Besides being applied for both… Read More »
Posted in: Communications Tools, NLM Resources, Search Tools
Nov
16
The California Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Health Initiative of the Americas of UC Berkeley, hosts a Zika Virus Webinar in Spanish.
Posted in: Education & Training, Events, Public Health
Aug
30
The webinar on August 31, 2017, hosted by the HHS Office of Minority Health Resource Center, will feature a discussion from the CDC and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare on the important role faith-based organizations play in promoting diabetes wellness and education to their congregations.
Posted in: Health Disparities, Health Literacy, Public Health
Jun
13
The U.S. Census Bureau has released My Tribal Area, a tool that gives quick access to tribal area statistics from the American Community Survey (ACS). The broad categories include People, Jobs, Housing, Economy, and Education. More detailed views display income, health insurance coverage, occupations, and many more statistics collected by the ACS.
Posted in: Blog, Data, Health Disparities
