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Mar
14
Come help us improve the sources and quality of health information online! Join staff from the Network of the National Library of Medicine from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. MT on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. We will be adding citations and content from trusted National Library of Medicine resources focusing on articles about… Read More »
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Mar
13
The NNLM Discovery Podcast has released additional episodes for season two. Each episode features a NNLM funded project making a difference through engaging with communities to provide access to trusted information for the purpose of improving the public’s health. New episodes include: Telehealth Kiosks: A Story from Region 1 – An exciting project in Delaware… Read More »
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Mar
04
For March, in recognition of Women’s History Month, the NNLM Reading Club brings awareness to Women in Medicine featuring three new books: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice Nimura The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and… Read More »
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Feb
26
Join us for another National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hour on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time. This session will focus on the beta version of a new online tool, the Dataset Catalog. The Dataset Catalog is envisioned to be a freely available catalog of biomedical datasets from selected publicly available… Read More »
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Sep
30
Health literacy is an important concept for the health and helping professions. Many times, individuals who may have high literacy skills may not have high health literacy skills. For this reason, it is important to be sure individuals understand the health information being presented to them. There are several formulas writers and editors can use… Read More »
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