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Smoking and You

November 19, 2015 alinelink

By Sarah Eilers Today is the 40th annual Great American Smokeout. The first was held in California in 1976, and the American Cancer Society took

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Interior view of a trolley or train car, where a man is smoking and causing considerable discomfort among the other passengers

What’s Your Quit Day?

November 20, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth For nearly 42 million Americans, smoking is a hard habit to break.  The American Cancer Society (ACS) calls tobacco use the

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Detail of Report cover reading: Smoking and Health Report of the Advisory Committee to theSurgeon General of the Public Health Service.

Smoking in America: 50 Years On

January 10, 2014 Circulating Now

By Christie Moffatt Fifty years ago, on January 11, 1964,  the Surgeon General of the United States, Luther L. Terry, issued Smoking and Health: Report

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Quit Smoking… It’s Only Logical

November 21, 2013 circulating now

 By Ginny A. Roth This 1989 poster from the American Cancer Society (ACS) features pop culture icon Leonard Nimoy, as his character Mr. Spock from

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Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series Filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1969

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In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing a portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876 - 1952), the second Native American woman to hold an M.D. degree. Visit NLM's "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition site to learn more about her life and work: Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/GatkWhg
Pardon me, but it's already Thanksgiving Eve?
Today we join the nation in remembering former First Lady Rosalynn Carter who passed away yesterday after a lifetime of service.
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! This week, the Circulating Now blog explores early works with pumpkins in the NLM collections, from the 1597 book "The Herbal or Generall Historie of Plantes" with woodcut illustrations to an 1898 journal citation discussing a pumpkin seed in the bronchus.
Gather round the piano for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesFamilyPhotos, hosted by @usnatarchives. Pictured here is American geneticist Barbara McClintock singing by the piano with her family (including the family dog 🐶) around 1914. Almost 70 years after this picture was taken, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.
A new archival collection, the Louis W. Sullivan Papers, is now available at NLM for those interested in the history of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Morehouse School of Medicine, public and minority health programs, and racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions. Dr. Sullivan served as HHS Secretary from 1989 to 1993. Pictured here is his official HHS portrait, housed in Box 86 of the collection.

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