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Photographs of three buttons naming PCP, CMV and Crypto, three diseases associated with AIDS..

June 5, 1981—The First Report of AIDS in the U.S.

June 4, 2021 Circulating Now

~ By Erika Mills In the June 5, 1981 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the CDC described a rare lung infection

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Detail from A CDC poster for vaccination showing teens in a high school hallway.

“The World’s First Public Health Emergency of International Concern”

April 21, 2020 Circulating Now

On April 25, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2009 H1N1 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

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Artwork showing physicians and medical students washing their hands before examining obstetric patients.

How to Wash Your Hands, Historically

April 7, 2020 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers ~ A simple act of personal hygiene that practically every human carries out daily is key to preventing the spread of viral

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A chef prepares a chicken on a cutting board.

Scrub Away the Thanksgiving Troublemakers

November 17, 2016 Circulating Now

In the 1950s, the CDC produced a food-handling film series demonstrating what—and what not—to do when storing and preparing food.

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French poster warning of danger to sun exposure.

A Call To Action to Prevent Skin Cancer

August 7, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth   In the fun summer months, it is often difficult to remember that outdoor activities in the hot sun can cause

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Word cloud in which influenza, H7N9, Health, Virus, and CDC figure prominantly

Future Explorations of the Modern Flu

December 5, 2013 Circulating Now

Those who preserved the newspapers of 1918 served modern researchers well, today NLM preserves web content on epidemics and other health topics for the benefit of future historical research.

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Joshua Lederberg (born #OTD in 1925) was an American geneticist and microbiologist whose path-breaking research into the molecular mechanisms of gene action made him one of the founders of molecular biology in the 1940s and 1950s. A prodigy who received the Nobel Prize at age 33, he helped lay the groundwork for genetic engineering, modern biotechnology, and genetic approaches to medicine. Visit https://loom.ly/2mPxN20 to explore the Joshua Lederberg Papers (1904-2003) collection on NLM's Profiles in Science site (🔗 link also in bio).
In The Art of Swimming (New York, 1846), James Arlington Bennett describes the frog as "the most perfect example for human swimming." Shown here are illustrations from Bennett's manual of flippers for the hands and feet made of light wood and leather straps. On page 37, he notes that after a slow and awkward adjustment phase, you can "swim and dive like a fish" with these appendages. Who came up with this splashy idea? It was none other than Benjamin Franklin, at only 11 years old. As an avid swimmer, he wanted to increase his speed and looked to the webbed feet of frogs as inspiration for his first invention.
For many NIH staff, everyday is #BikeToWorkDay. Donald Fredrickson, the 11th Director of NIH, was an avid supporter of bicyclists commuting to work during the oil crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s and rode a bike to work himself. In 1979, nearly 100 employees signed up to organize the NIH Bicycle Commuter Club (NIHBCC) which held its first meeting at the National Library of Medicine and has since grown to about 400 members.
Check out the Circulating Now blog today to take a virtual "NLM Collections Tour: Nutrition" featuring materials that document research and education about nutrition our bodies need to stay healthy. See the link in bio or visit https://loom.ly/mj2n1LU to explore!
This portrait was recently featured in a piece by @MilitaryHealth which explores the life of Army Maj. (Dr.) William W. Keen, Jr., a medical #surgeon during the Civil War who advocated & researched medical advances so the horrors of #CivilWar-era medicine would not occur again. See the link in bio to read "'America’s First Brain Surgeon' Served During Civil War and World War I" or visit https://loom.ly/jAsZHUE.
“If I fits, I sits,” says the lap unicorn as it climbs upon a young maiden for pets. With so many fantastic creatures in Ortus Sanitatis (1491), we couldn't choose just one to celebrate @IGLibraries #PawsomeLibraries today. Here, people interact with unicorns, birds, wolves, and dogs, all in the pages of this hefty leather bound book.

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