Apr
05
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Each April U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) organizes National Minority Health Month. Its goal is to highlight the important role individuals and organizations can play in helping to reduce health disparities and improve the health of racial and ethnic minority and American Indian/Alaska Native communities. This year’s… Read More »
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Mar
28
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Each year, NNLM hosts 2 Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to improve health topic pages on Wikipedia. We identify a topic and articles in need of improvement. Then we join experienced and new Wikipedia editors to work together to add citations to quality health information resources. For this Spring 2022 #CiteNLM campaign, we are focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH…. Read More »
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Mar
28
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In the United States, Black women are three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than White women Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality | Health Equity Features | CDC. We would like to highlight some events and resources in the month of April to promote maternal health and Black Maternal Health… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Mar
18
0 comments Tags: graphic medicine, hospital librarians, Member Spotlight
Alice Stokes is a Research and Education Librarian at the Dana Medical Library at the University of Vermont. Being a lifelong Vermonter, Alice feels that it’s important to be involved in her community and the importance of working together means that she has worked with NNLM R7 (and NER previously) on many projects including graphic… Read More »
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Mar
11
0 comments Tags: hospital librarians, Maine, Member Spotlight
If you had 25 hours in a day, what would you do with the extra hour? Probably tell myself I am going to exercise, but then gradually rationalize my way out of it over the course of the hour. Assuming I scrap the exercise idea, I would probably use it to practice guitar or try… Read More »
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