If you are traveling to Honolulu, HI for the Medical Library Association annual conference, add these two events to your schedule:

1. NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Network Member Session

Sunday, May 17, 7-8 am, Hawaii Convention Center Room 319B

Hear an RML update, meet Kate Oliver, MAR’s new Associate Director, and connect with other MAR members.

2. National Library of Medicine Sunrise Seminar: NLM Online Users’ Meeting

Monday, May 18, 6:30-7:30am, Hawaii Convention Center Room 318AB

NLM staff will highlight recent accomplishments and indicate new developments in a variety of online systems, including MEDLINE/PubMed, MedlinePlus, and DOCLINE. PubMed will be undergoing a major redesign, and the sunrise session will feature mock ups and more details.

Aloha!

Check out the May issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. And consider becoming a fan on Facebook, where you can write on our wall to suggest topics you’d like us to cover, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter. In this month’s edition:

No More Butts
Snuff Out That Cigarette for Good
If you’re a smoker, chances are you’ve already tried to quit. So you know from experience that it’s not easy. But many do succeed in the end. The health benefits you’d gain make quitting worth the effort.
full story

A Window to Your Health
Your Eyes Reveal a Bigger Picture
Your vision seems great. Your eyes feel completely fine. But if you haven’t seen your eye care professional in a while, you might have an eye problem that you don’t know about.
full story

Health Capsules:

• Exercise Helps After Heart Failure
• Catch Oral Cancer Early
• Featured Web Site: Go Local

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Check out the April issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research. And consider joining us on Facebook, where you can write on our wall to suggest topics you’d like us to cover, or start a discussion about how you use the newsletter.  Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIH-News-in-Health/45385547967 and become a fan.

In this edition:

Get Moving and Stay Healthy Make Physical Activity Part of Your Life
People from all walks of life find it difficult to get enough exercise. But research shows that all Americans need physical activity for good health. New government guidelines can help you get started and stay active.

Remember To Take Your Pills? Jog Your Memory of What To Take and When
We forget things every day-people’s names, our keys or whether we locked the front door. But when it comes to taking your medicines, don’t let your memory fail you.

Health Capsules:

• Study Questions Prostate Cancer Test
• Vitamin C May Ward Off Gout
• Featured Web Site: Rethinking Drinking

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HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects 2009 (NLM-09-078/SES)

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the solicitation of quotations from organizations and libraries to design and conduct projects that will improve access to HIV/AIDS related health information for patients, the affected community, and their caregivers.

Projects must involve  one or more of the following information access categories:

• Information retrieval
• Skills development
• State-of-the-art resources
• Resource development
• Document Access.

Emphasis is placed upon the following types of organizations or arrangements for developing these programs:

• Community-based organizations (CBOs) or patient advocacy groups currently providing HIV/AIDS related serves to the affected community
• Public libraries serving communities in the provision of HIV/AIDS-related information and resources
• Health departments or other local, municipal, or state agencies working to improve public health
• Faith-based organizations currently providing HIV/AIDS-related services
• Multi-type consortia of the above-listed organizations that may be in existence or formed specifically for this project.

Standard Awards are offered for up to $60,000;  Express Awards are offered for up to $10,000.

Quotations are due to NLM on Monday, June 1, 2009.

The solicitation for the 2009 HIV/AIDS Community Information Outreach Projects is posted at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/hiv/2009aidsrfq.html .

Primary Point of Contact:

Shari E. Shor, Contract Specialist

shorse(at)mail.nlm.nih.gov

Phone: 3014354388

Fax: 301-402-0642

Secondary Point of Contact:

Robin D. Hope-Williams, Contracting Officer

rhwilli(at)mail.nih.gov

Phone: 301-435-4379

Fax: 301-402-8169

Medical Words: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine

This tutorial teaches you about medical words. You’ll learn about how to put together parts of medical words. You’ll also find quizzes to see what you’ve learned.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html

NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now on Facebook!  Please join us there and post comments on our wall or start a discussion.  Share your ideas about how you use the newsletter and suggest topics you’d like us to cover.  Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/NIH-News-in-Health/45385547967 and become a fan.

The March issue of NIH News in Health is now online. In this edition:

A Loved One’s Substance Abuse Problem
What You Can Do
Your brother has been irritable, angry and anxious. Sometimes he acts depressed. You start to suspect he may be on drugs. What can you do?

full story

Too Hot to Handle?
Facts About Fevers
You’re achy and run down. Something’s not quite right. When you finally reach for the thermometer, you find that your temperature’s above normal. You have a fever-a sign that something is out of balance in your body.
full story

Health Capsules:

• Diabetes Rates on the Rise
• Cleaner Air May Lengthen Life
• Featured Web Site: Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center

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Friends of the National Library of Medicine: Michael E. DeBakey Award Nominations Accepted Now

The Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award for Outstanding Service to Rural or Underserved Communities was established in the early 1990s to recognize the contributions to medical education and librarianship by Michael E. DeBakey and to honor a practicing health sciences librarian who serves in a rural or underserved community.

The recipient of the Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award is publicly recognized at the Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) Awards Dinner on May 5, 2009. The dinner is in memory of FNLM past chairman “Mr. Health” Paul G. Rogers and will celebrate leadership in public health and medicine.

Nominations for the 2009 award are currently being accepted. Forms and materials are available on the Friends of the National Library of Medicine website, or view the announcement directly using this link.

Deadline for submission is March 9, 2009 extended to March 30, 2009.

NN/LM is pleased to announce new additions to the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit. If you haven’t yet visited the Toolkit, you can access it at http://nnlm.gov/ep/. The Toolkit features resources for service continuity planning, disaster plan templates, sample forms, and regularly updated news stories. It is an excellent starting place for your institution’s disaster planning process.

New features include:

• A new tutorial, which provides an overview of the toolkit and highlights several of the features and functions available at the site. Look for the “Tutorials” tab.

• New “Risk Assessment Maps and Charts” display the likelihood of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and more in different areas of the country. The section is available on the right-side navigation of the Toolkit.

• Sample “Mutual Aid Agreement” (MAA) added to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) section of the Toolkit. The MAA is a “softer” version of the MOU which may be less intimidating to institutions uncertain of the legal issues/implications of an MOU.

Please take a moment to visit the NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit and see the new enhancements. If you have any questions or concerns about the Toolkit, please contact the RML at rml@library.med.nyu.edu or 800-338-7657.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/medsun/

provides a representative profile of reports from healthcare facilities, such as hospitals. MedSun improves understanding of medical device problems so FDA, healthcare facilities, clinicians, and manufacturers can better address safety concerns. Over 350 health care facilities, primarily hospitals, participate in the network. MedSun is unique because it educates health care professionals about the importance of monitoring, being aware of, and reporting device related problems to FDA and the manufacturer.

MedSun also ensures that new safety information is rapidly communicated to the medical community thereby promoting patient safety.

The content that FDA produces is not copyrighted. Stories can be reprinted without permission and copies can be downloaded and displayed free of charge. If you are an editor who wishes to use our material in your publication, we ask only that you acknowledge MedSun as the source and send us copies of your stories for our records.

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Coming soon: To improve the look of the PubMed Summary results Web page, as well as to make it easier to scan titles, the positions of author names and the title of the article will be reversed. The article title will soon display on top and serve as the link to the AbstractPlus format. Author names will appear under the title; the rest of the citation remains the same.

Read the Technical Bulletin article.