October 29, 2009 at 3:25 pm (General)
Tags: National Library of Medicine
Just in time for Halloween, the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Department offers insight into Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus through it’s traveling exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature. Online content includes: The Birth of Frankenstein; information on the author; The celluloid monster – Hollywood, magazine covers; and Promise & Peril – the search for balance, animal organs in humans.
September 2, 2009 at 2:40 pm (General)
Tags: Consumer Health, Medline Plus, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Medicine, National Library of Medicine, Reference, technology
Here is a new health resources that offers a unique approach to sifting through the vast quantities of online medical/health websites and zeroing in on quality, authoritative, and reliable information. HealthBase is a (self 
described) research solution for healthcare powered by NetBase Solutions. It relies on “content intelligence technology”** to scour millions of documents to provide results in 4 areas – treatments for health conditions, causes of health conditions, complications of health conditions, and pros & cons of drugs, foods, chemicals and treatments. Answers are retrived from authoritative health resources including: PubMed, eMedicine, WebMD, Health Central, Mayo Clinic, Health Finder, and NetWellness.
** NetBase’s Content Intelligence Technology reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences that deliver highly relevant answers and insights. It’s the world’s only technology that can:
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August 12, 2009 at 11:52 am (General)
Tags: disabilities, disabled, medicare/medicaid, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Medicine, National Library of Medicine
The U.S. Department of Labor has relaunched DisabilityInfo.gov as Disability.gov, available at http://www.disability.gov. Disability.gov contains information from 22 federal agencies in 10 subject areas including civil rights, education, housing, and technology. It offers RSS feeds, email notification of news, twitter, and email receipt of the quarterly newsletter Disability Connection. Across the upper right hand side are adaptive tools to utilize when viewing the page that can increase text size and provide high contrast display.
Disability.gov is designed to provide people with disabilities, their family members, employers, service providers, educators and others with quick and easy access to the information they need. The site offers a number of ways to find this information, including:
The Information by State option enables users to list resources and programs unique to their location. I Want To allows you to locate information based on a particular action, for example “Find a job” or “Apply for scholarships.” There are ten “I Want To” actions on the home page that cover the most frequently asked about topics. If you click on “More Options” at the bottom right of the “I Want To” section, you will find additional choices. The News & Events tab at the bottom of the page includes up-to-date information on topics of particular interest to disabled individuals.
May 17, 2009 at 1:02 pm (General)
Tags: Consumer Health, food, National Library of Medicine, Reference
This week has been one when I’ve found all kinds of interesting info and sites which don’t fit into any specific category but which are just too good to pass up (in my opinion). So, this post is a “mental health day” – time off from whatever you’re working on, worrying over, planning for, thinking about, etc., to sit back and just read. Hope you find a useful nugget here.
