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Jul
31
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All babies need to eat to survive. Breastfeeding (or chest-feeding), also called nursing, is the process of feeding a mother’s breast milk to her infant, either directly from the breast or by expressing (pumping out) the milk from the breast and bottle-feeding it to the infant. For baby, health experts agree that breast milk is… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, General, NLM Resources, NNLM Reading Club
Jul
26
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Register now for this two-part series from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH Office of Science Policy (OSP) and the Office of Extramural Research (OER) invite you to join them for an engaging and interactive webinar focused on the new DMS policy which goes into effect on January 25, 2023. Learn more and… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Data Science, News from NIH/NLM
Jul
19
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National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month is observed each July to bring awareness to the unique struggles that racial and ethnic minority communities face regarding mental illness in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for racial and ethnic minority groups to get access to mental health and substance-use treatment services. Use OMH’s… Read More »
Posted in: Advocacy, Blog, Consumer Health
Jul
13
0 comments Tags: book club, book club for librarians, book discussion, librarian book club, reading club
You are invited to join us for the second NNLM Book Discussion. From August 1 until October 31, we will read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither… Read More »
Posted in: NNLM Book Discussion
Jul
12
“CHIS On Demand” classes are for library staff interested in providing consumer health information to their community. Registration is open to anyone interested in consumer health information and outreach in their community. Through this class you can earn up to 5 Medical Library Association (MLA) continuing education credit hours that qualify towards the MLA Level… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, General