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Dec
06
0 comments Tags: rural health, Training, transportation
On Nov 14, 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the annual “Rural America at a Glance” report. The USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) issues this 6-page report. The ERS studies Rural Poverty and Well-being with a focus on the economic, social, spatial, temporal and demographic factors that affect the poverty status of… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health
Dec
03
0 comments Tags: American Indian Population Health, cervical cancer, HPV, HPV immunization, HPV-related cancers, oral health and HPV, Oral HPV Toolkit
The following blog post is about a current NER-funded grant project. The post was written by the Team Maureen organization, Dr. Allesandro Villa, Lisa Bennett Johnson and Kelly Welch. No one should die of an HPV-related cancer. Dr. Alessandro Villa from the Division of Oral Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project, NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Nov
26
0 comments Tags: Citizen Science, community engagement, credibility, data_science, open science, technology, Wikipedia
Thank you to all who participated in the Fall 2019 #citeNLM virtual edit-a-thon. In the November crowdsourcing campaign, over 548 articles were edited, over 47 thousand words added, all by 108 editors. To see the amazing work everyone did, check out the #citeNLM Program Dashboard to see statistics on the event. In addition, if you… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Nov
19
0 comments Tags: exhibit, NLM, resources, substance use disorder
This is conference session for my job at the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region. That means I get to attend lots of different conferences and meet and connect with a lot of different people. I was at NAHSL last week, and then I attended the symposium, Communities in Crisis: Libraries Respond to… Read More »
Posted in: Commentary, NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Nov
26
Fur-get the Stress
Posted by NNLM Region 7 on November 26th, 2019 0 comments Tags: Animals, Burnout, Dogs, Stress, Student Wellness, Therapy
The Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has started a program called “Fur-get the stress”. There are games, coloring, museum passes, and other activities, but the main highlight is a therapy dog that comes in every other week. Finn (short for Finnegan) is the dog that visits the library. He is… Read More »
Posted in: Commentary, NLM Resources