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Oct
08
0 comments Tags: ClinicalTrials.gov, hospital librarians, professional development
Here is an update on ClinicalTrials.gov, including links to the recorded webinar and the modernization report. On Thu, Sep 30, Region 7 conducted a national webinar on ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians. ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources
Apr
01
0 comments Tags: type 1 diabetes
I met Dr. Erinn Rhodes last spring when she asked if she could interview me as part of her research for a paper that she was writing on Health Literacy for a class she was enrolled in. I was impressed that a pediatric endocrinologist who oversees the quality improvement program for the Endocrine Division at… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Feb
22
0 comments Tags: health disparities, Health Literacy, MedlinePlus
According to the US Census Bureau 22% of people in the US 5 years or older speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% speak English “less than very well”. In the Northeast, those percentages are slightly higher than the national average at 23.7% and 9.4% respectively. But what does that have to… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources
Dec
21
0 comments Tags: funded partner, history of medicine, National Library of Medicine, Public Health
We talk a lot about resources like MedlinePlus or PubMed, but one of the things we don’t talk about as much is the fact that the National Library of Medicine is a physical library that includes a large collection of historical documents, records and more. And these resources are available to the public through the… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources
Oct
30
0 comments Tags: K-12, National Summit on School Safety, Safe and Sound Schools, school safety, school violence
Rising to the occasion is nothing new for school administrators and teachers. What is new — is that many of us are finally recognizing just how important and dedicated those who teach our children are and always have been. In the extraordinary times of COVID19 our K-12 school administrators, educators and… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, NLM Resources, Public Health