The NLM Technical Bulletin recently announced the addition of a Drug Sensor to PubMed. The Drug Sensor detects if a drug name is included in the search query, and then presents excerpts from other resources on the right of the results. Currently, a new resource, PubMed Clinical Q&A, is highlighted.

The Association of American Indian Physicians’ Diabetes Program offers $1,000 mini-grants to Diabetes Program Affiliates to support innovative, culturally sensitive community intervention activities related to Native Americans and diabetes education and prevention. AAIP encourages awardees to author proposals that conduct their mini-grant activities during the month of November, which is both, National Diabetes Awareness Month [...]

Hello everyone! I’m Jonathan Hartmann, the new Public Health Outreach Coordinator for the NN/LM South Central Region. I will teach Public Health classes and coordinate the SCR’s national and regional exhibits, regional public health information program, health information literacy program, health disparities program, and refugee health information program. I will also be the state liaison for [...]

According to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), there has been a dramatic increase in people looking for health care information.  While use of all information sources increased dramatically, use of the Internet for health information has doubled from 2001 to 2007.  Thirty-two percent of consumers—70 million [...]

In its recent article “Great .gov Web sites,” the Government Computer News (GCN) selected 10 great government websites. The National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus was the first website highlighted in this article. GCN “Great .gov Web sites: These 10 sites show agencies putting the power of the Web to work”

Last year, several librarians from across the United States generously shared their personal stories about disaster or emergency situations that affected library operations with National Library of Medicine Associate Fellow Robin Featherstone. As was originally planned, a Web site has been created to provide a platform for sharing these stories. The site includes an individual [...]

On September 16, 2008, the NN/LM SCR will offer two free classes from the NN/LM Outreach Evaluation Resource Center (http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/) at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Answering the Right Questions: Data Collection for Health Information Outreach (4 hours) In this workshop, participants will learn to apply good principles of data [...]

A request for applications has recently been posted for the Exceptional, Unconventional Research Enabling Knowledge Acceleration (EUREKA) grant. This R01 grant is designed to fund exceptionally innovative research on novel hypotheses or difficult problems, solutions to which would have an extremely high impact on biomedical or biobehavioral research that is germane to the mission [...]

The NN/LM SCR will be offering the class Public Health Information on the Web at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library on September 10, 2008 from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm. Course description: The field of public health encompasses a wide array of disciplines including health education, epidemiology and nursing. Digital literacy and the effective [...]

The NN/LM SCR will be offering the class Keeping Up with NLM’s PubMed at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library on October 6, 2008 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm. This hands-on class will show attendees how to use the features of PubMed effectively. Topics include: formatting and revising searches; displaying, printing and saving [...]