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Nov
09
Tags: multicultural, multilingual
How can a library provide health information to its users who have a culturally diverse background and speak one or more languages other than English? An online course that starts in January will demonstrate how. From Beyond Our Borders: Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information is an opportunity for librarians to better understand the available… Read More »
Posted in: #CC/Academic List, #Health Interest List, #Health Sciences List, #Public/K-12 List, All of Us
Sep
14
Tags: Precision medicine
Check out the blog post “The Future of Health: Precision Medicine” created by Alison Griffith, a Consumer Health Librarian for the St. Charles City-County Library. In Griffith’s blog, Ask Alison, she describes how the Precision Medicine Initiative is aiming to better understand every individual’s genetic makeup, lifestyle, and their surrounding environment. Health professionals can then… Read More »
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Sep
06
Tags: Precision medicine
Founder and President of the Turner Syndrome Global Alliance Kelly Ranallo shared her family’s story and discussed the importance of making precision medicine available to everyone at the Kansas City launch of the All of Us Research Program. Ranallo emphasized how precision medicine can help improve the health for all by taking into account each… Read More »
Posted in: #Health Interest List, #Health Sciences List, #Public/K-12 List, All of Us
Jun
08
Tags: Dish
Eric Dishman, director of the All of Us Research Program, produces a video blog called The Dish that can update you on this ambitious effort to recruit a million or more people to share their biomedical data. You can view his comments on his YouTube channel.
Posted in: #CC/Academic List, #Health Interest List, #Health Sciences List, #Public/K-12 List, All of Us, Blog
May
22
The NIH All of Us Research Program held a priorities workshop in March. The workshop aim was to identify key research priorities and requirements (i.e., types of data, methods, and how those methods are used) for the All of Us Research Program. Videocasts of the general assembly portions of the workshop are available to view…. Read More »
Posted in: #CC/Academic List, #Health Sciences List, #Public/K-12 List, All of Us, K-12