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NLM Collections Tour: Aging

September 22, 2022 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about aging.

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NLM Collections Tour: Nutrition

May 19, 2022 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about nutrition.

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NLM Collections Tour: Matters of the Heart

February 10, 2022 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about the heart.

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NLM Collections Tour: HIV/AIDS

December 9, 2021 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. To commemorate the 40 years that the US has been responding to the crisis, this post features materials related to HIV/AIDS.

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NLM Collections Tour: Health at Home

August 26, 2021 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring materials intended to help people learn about and manage their own health.

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NLM Collections Tour: Mental Health

May 20, 2021 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about mental health.

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Exploring the Data of Web Archives as Part of Data Science @ NLM

May 13, 2021 Circulating Now

Over the past year our project was to gain practical experience with tools and techniques for the study of web archives data.

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NLM Collections Tour: Vaccines

March 5, 2021 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about vaccines.

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NLM Collections Tour: Epidemics

December 17, 2020 Circulating Now

Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about epidemics.

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Who Was Here First

November 25, 2019 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) sits on the southeast corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

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"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.
Need a dog-tor for #NationalPuppyDay? 🐶🩺
Join us on Thursday, March 30th at 2:00 PM ET for the next NLM History Talk! Soha Bayoumi, PhD of Johns Hopkins University will discuss “COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic." This talk will will be live-streamed globally, and archived, by NIH VideoCasting (https://loom.ly/ILbAYPM).
For #TinyTuesday, we're featuring a #14thCentury treatise on equine veterinary medicine that just came back from the conservation lab with a brand new box, complete with a custom size compartment inside. With the added boost in height, the #EarlyManuscript will stand taller next to the other books on the shelf and avoid getting lost in the crowd.

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