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Mar
08
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WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) is a mobile application from the National Library of Medicine designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. The second release for WISER for iPhone/iPod touch is now available. Investigate what’s new in this updated release: WISER’s Help Identify Chemical capability is now available on the iOS… Read More »
Posted in: Emergency Preparedness, News from NLM, Technology, Training & Education
Mar
05
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Overview The Medical Library Association (MLA) is looking for up to five continuing education (CE) instructors/instructor teams to develop and teach courses on disaster information as part of a project to enhance its Disaster Information Specialization project. Each instructor/instructor team selected will be responsible for developing one new disaster information course. At the end of… Read More »
Posted in: Emergency Preparedness, Funding, News from NLM, Training & Education
Feb
29
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., unveiled the Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) today at NIH’s observance of international Rare Disease Day. The GTR, available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gtr/, features a versatile search interface that allows users to search by test, condition, gene, genetic mutation, and laboratory. It also serves as a… Read More »
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Feb
02
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Of recent interest to medical librarians is an article that was published in BMJ regarding search results in PubMed and how evidence from randomized clinical trials is retrieved. Here is some updated information from the National Library of Medicine, Bibliographic Services Division: Re: Wieland LS, Robinson KA, Dickersin K. Understanding why evidence from randomised clinical trials may not be… Read More »
Posted in: News from NLM, Resource Sharing & Document Delivery, Technology, Training & Education
Jan
25
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The National Library of Medicine Training Center (NTC) will be creating web based self-paced tutorials related to PubMed®, TOXNET®, and NCBI databases. We need your input in order to inform topics, length, and format of the tutorials we will develop. Please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ntctutorial to complete a short questionnaire. The questionnaire should take 10-15 minutes to… Read More »
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