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Stills from the films of Telford Work.

The Films of Virologist Telford Work

November 17, 2022 Circulating Now

Explore a new addition to Medicine on Screen: Films and Essays from NLM, a curated, freely-accessible portal presenting digitized historical titles from the Library’s world-renowned audiovisuals collection.

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A poster with repeated images of a Black woman with sunglasses and green hair with white text

AIDS Posters: A Community Tool Used to Save Lives

December 1, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Theodore (ted) Kerr to discuss his research in the AIDS poster collection at the National Library of Medicine and his

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Multi-color magazine spread showing 200 stamp-like pictures of chairs with names of AIDS victims in the fashion industry

Visualizing World AIDS Day

November 29, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate

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Panel from a prenatal health poster from the March of Dimes.

March in February: Congenital Heart Defects Awareness

February 14, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Today is Valentines Day, a day associated with hearts. In fact, the entire month of February is American Heart Month.

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A nurse in dark goggles sits by a patient lying with skin exposed to a bright electric light.

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

December 20, 2016 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

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Drawing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Trade Cards in The Fight Against AIDS

December 1, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~     World AIDS Day is an international observance held on December 1st each year and an opportunity for people

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Cover, with bullet hole illustration.

Nurses Organize

January 26, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the fourth in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

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A simple bar graph style chart titled American War Deaths and ranking deaths from various wars in comparison to AIDS deaths, with AIDS at 319,849 (through 1995) and World War Two at 291,557.

Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition

December 1, 2014 Circulating Now

Dr. Jennifer Brier spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition.” Dr. Brier is director of

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AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts. A Guide for Teens. Image Copyright K. Haring '88.

Getting to Zero: World AIDS Day

December 1, 2013 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ Currently, 35 million people around the world are living with HIV. Many lack access to vital information and resources that would

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What motivates a rare book collector? This week's Circulating Now blog post looks at the legacy of Thomas Windsor, whose lifetime investment in books enriched the growing collections of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (now NLM!).
Maxine Singer (born 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose restrictions on the new and controversial science of recombinant DNA, and to develop a framework for removing these restrictions as knowledge of the science advanced. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Singer was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position in which she not only reinvigorated the Institution's scientific programs, but served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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