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Dec
02
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We inherit many things from the people who went before us – our physical characteristics, aspects of our personality and, sometimes, our health. December’s Reading Club selections discuss inherited diseases, focusing specifically on cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell disease, and cancer caused by the BRCA mutation. In Resurrection Lily, Amy Byer Shainman discusses her experiences after learning… Read More »
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Nov
30
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In, its quest to continue providing adaptive recreation programs in the Blackstone River Valley, the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor (BRVNHC) has acquired a state-of-the-art, electric-assist wheelchair bicycle. A grant received from the Network of the National Library of Medicine, New England Region (NNLM,) provided the funds to purchase a Van Raam OPair bicycle… Read More »
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Nov
30
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Now that we’ve gone over the basics of research data management, here is a roundup of tools you can use for working with data, or tools you can teach to researchers to help them better manage their data. Some of these might be familiar to you, but we hope this will be helpful to have… Read More »
Nov
16
0 comments Tags: MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine, Public Health
In November, 2019 and February, 2020, I wrote about NLM and NNLM resources that our public health partners often find particularly useful in their work. Since then, ongoing streamlining has moved, retired and reorganized some of the resources previously discussed in this series. So what’s new for our public health partners? HealthReach and Genetics Home… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health
Nov
06
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On Tue, Oct 27, I presented a poster at the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries, Inc. (NAHSL) virtual annual conference. NAHSL selected the Whova platform for the conference. Whova embeds Zoom for sharing presentations and hosting discussions. As participants entered the room, I launched into explanations of my poster. Participants typed questions and comments into… Read More »
Posted in: Communities of Interest