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Sep
26
0 comments Tags: Member Spotlight, public libraries
The following article was contributed by the C.H. Booth Library in Newtown, Connecticut. The C.H. Booth Library’s dedication to health literacy was advanced significantly thanks to funding from a 2021 NNLM Region 7 Technology Improvement Award. In 2021, the library began an initiative to bring greater awareness and understanding of medical resources to the… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Funded Project, NLM Resources, Technology
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as much is the fact that the National Library of Medicine is a physical library that includes a large collection of historical documents, records and more.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