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Aug
08
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In the Fall of 2021, an exciting partnership with the Grand Rapids Public Library (GRPL) and Trinity Health Saint Mary’s Family Medicine Residency Program began as a result of the funds from an NNLM Public Library Collaboration Grant. The series was called Seniors Be Well held once a month in the auditorium of the Main… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Conferences and Meetings, Funding, Public Libraries
Aug
05
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Mpox Resources Want to find more information about Mpox? MedlinePlus has information on Mpox written for members of the public. Information on MedlinePlus can be freely distributed and shared. MedlinePlus has high quality health information, in both English and Spanish, that is easy to understand and free of advertising. StatPearls has information on Mpox written for clinicians and… Read More »
Posted in: Advocacy, Blog, Consumer Health, Resource Sharing
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