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Jan
31
0 comments Tags: high school students and addiction, high school students with substance use disorder, recovery, recovery schools, Rockdale Recovery High School, substance use disorder, SUD, Teens and Addiction, Worcester recovery high school
What’s a Recovery High School? Recovery is hard. Even harder is maintaining sobriety as a teenager when you are expected to return to the same school and friends you had while you were addicted. Recovery High Schools can help. These schools can be a safe haven for teens. Recovering students can resume their high… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources, Public Health, Trainings
Jan
28
0 comments Tags: Data, data_science, eScience, public libraries
On Friday January 17th,2020 NEASIS&T held it’s annual winter conference aptly titled, The Privacy Puzzle: Piecing Together Patron Privacy, Data Efficiency, and the Modern Web. The theme was privacy and protecting personal information. The first keynote – Callan Bignoli, the Library Director at Olin College, was very thought provoking. Her talk was titled “Troublesome Tech… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Jan
17
0 comments Tags: funding, professional development, resources
Funding is open for the 2020-2021 year and part of the application process asks you to outline how you will evaluate your project. Evaluation can be daunting and it’s often not as fun as the rest of the project, but it’s an important step to demonstrate project impact and value to your community, your organization… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project
Dec
26
0 comments Tags: Citizen Science, Data, data_science, eScience, open science, science
Another year is coming upon us and so is another year of New Year’s resolutions. What will it be this year? A popular resolution is to exercise. So this begs the question how much exercise? The answer can be found in MedlinePlus. Most adults should work out between 2 to 5 hours a week. At… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
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