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Remembering & Witnessing: AIDS35 and the NLM Exhibition “Surviving and Thriving”

October 19, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Thomas Lawrence Long from University of Connecticut School of Nursing.  Drawn from a presentation given as part of a bimonthly

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Faye Abdullah holds a plaque next to Koop, in uniform, in an office in front of flags.

Faye Glenn Abdellah: Nurse, Officer, Educator

March 24, 2017 Circulating Now

By Douglas Atkins In honor of Women’s History Month, Circulating Now pays tribute today, to Rear Admiral and Nurse, Dr. Faye Glenn Abdellah, Ed.D., LL.D.,

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Helen Coley Nauts: Advocate for Immunotherapy

April 19, 2016 Circulating Now

By Douglas Atkins Helen Coley Nauts (1907–2001) was the daughter of a prominent physician and surgeon whom many consider to be the Father of Immunotherapy

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Change is Possible

March 8, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the last in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from Dr. Catherine Jacquet.

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A Pharmacist’s Mate First Class

November 10, 2015 Circulating Now

By John Rees In celebration of Veteran’s Day, the Archives and Modern Manuscripts program highlights the recent acquisition of the Charles Henry Stevens Papers, 1945–1946,

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For All the People

November 4, 2015 Circulating Now

Dr. Beatrix Hoffman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and guest curator of NLM’s newest exhibition, For All the People: A Century of

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Medicare and Medicaid at 50

July 30, 2015 Circulating Now

By Lisa Lang For most Americans today, Medicare and Medicaid have been in existence all their lives. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll, conducted in

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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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The Sacred Work: Galsworthy’s Advocacy for WWI Veterans

November 10, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick ~ This Veterans Day is the first to occur during the four-year centenary anniversary of World War I. As media outlets

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