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A collage of images including a Marvel comic cover showing diverse nurses in masks, a black woman in a nurse uniform in a Rosie the Riveter pose, and a drawn figure holding a telephone with text Socialize from a Distance.

COVID Comics: Decentering White Narratives in Graphic Medicine

March 23, 2023 Circulating Now

An interview with Soha Bayoumi, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her exploration of pandemic stories in graphic medicine.

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More Pictures of the Pandemic

July 9, 2021 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Three months ago Circulating Now published a post presenting new acquisitions related to COVID-19. As vaccination rates rise in our

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Captain America says Some moms and dads who drink too much are alcoholics, and they have a disease called alcoholism.

Super Heroes with a Serious Message

February 10, 2014 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick More than a colorful image of the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America, this poster offers a serious public health message: “Some

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For #FloralFriday, we've picked an engraved and hand-colored illustration (Image 1) of the "female piony" (Paeonia faemina, Plate 65) from the first volume of Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal, printed in London in 1737. Just outside, the peony flowers (Image 2) in the NLM Herb Garden bloomed with a welcomed burst of color for spring.

In the 1930s/1940s, cinema—#PublicHealth films included—was having a moment. With the onset of World War II, the U.S. military had much to say and show audiences of soldiers and the public. Often in league with well-regarded filmmakers, the government sought to inform, inspire, and educate military men and women as well as the masses at home.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (born #OnThisDay in 1686) was a physicist and instrument maker best known for inventing both the alcohol and mercury thermometers as well as developing his namesake temperature scale.

NIH MedlinePlus Magazine looks at the history of prosthetics and how #NIH supports innovation. Read about the oldest known prosthetics (two different artificial toes from ancient Egypt) all the way up to cutting-edge research supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (#NIBIB) today.

Albrecht Dürer (born #OnThisDay in 1471) was a noted German painter, graphic artist, and humanist. Dürer was interested not only in the arts but pursued the sciences as well, including perspective and the proportions of the human body.

For #NationalLearnToSwimDay, we're featuring a photograph captioned "Flora teaching Priscilla to swim" from the #WW1 Leek Island Military Hospital album of nurses and patients created during the summer of 1918.

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