NIH’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion partnered with NLM to share photos of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement. Nine poster-size photographs will be on display outside of the auditorium in the Library’s Lister Hill Center until the end of Black History Month, February 28. As part of the exhibition called “A…
How well will a new malaria screener work? We want to know. NLM and our collaborators developed an automated system for detecting the malaria parasite that runs on smart phones. Working with the universities of Oxford, Mahidol, and Missouri, we developed a way to use the phone’s camera and an adapter to connect the phone…
The annual issue of NIH Medline Plus Salud magazine is now available online and in print. Salud, which means health in Spanish, is a free magazine of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine. Salud brings accurate and timely information in Spanish on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH…
The people in these photos are not responding to a real disaster—but they could. They are real emergency planners, real firefighters … and real librarians, who know how to support the disaster workforce with critical health information. Put yourself in the picture! Take one of the updated and enhanced NLM disaster health information courses. These…
As we look back at 2016, we are proud to have shared stories about the people and products making a difference in scientific discovery and public health here at NLM. Here are a few highlights: Winter 2016 We posted stories about an NLM scientist coediting a book on providing health information to consumers, how NLM responded…
In anticipation of her 100th day in office since her swearing in September 12th, Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan answered questions from NLM in Focus. Here she shares her passion for the Library and its future and provides a little insight into her personal interests. As the first nurse to lead the National Library of Medicine,…
NIH went a bit intergalactic on October 18 when, from aboard the International Space Station (ISS), flight engineer and biologist Dr. Kate Rubins of NASA discussed research aboard the orbital laboratory—particularly the DNA sequencing experiments—during an in-flight conversation with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins. The National Library of Medicine was glad to help contribute to its success.…
By about 4:30 a.m. every day, two colonial- era cooks—Nathan and Lucy, both slaves—were well into their typical work day on Mount Vernon plantation near Alexandria, Va. We know from historical record that a cook’s duties would have included lighting fires in the kitchen hearth for breakfast prep, and perhaps in the dining room for…
In Quick Q&A, NLM staff share a bit about why they’re motivated and inspired. We also ask them to add something surprising about themselves. For our third Quick Q&A, we reached three scientists in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) who work in the Statistical Computational Biology Group. Meet John Spouge, Mileidy Gonzalez, and…
