Last week there was a item from Valerie Florance on libraries having a role in projects funded by NIH. <http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=3125 >. This week she provides an example of a grant announcement for such a project. /ch

Check out the August issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research.

In this edition:

Concerned About Coffee? It May Actually Be Good for You

You’ve Got Rhythm - Your Internal Clock Affects Your Health

Health Capsules:

• Questions Raised About “Depression Gene”
• Tasty Recipes for People with Diabetes
• Featured Web Site: NIH Education and Awareness Campaigns

The NLM Online Users’ Meeting at the 2009 MLA annual meeting provided a preview of the upcoming PubMed redesign. David Gillikin, Chief of NLM’s Bibliographic Services will reprise this preview for anyone who did not get to attend the user meeting in Honolulu. This 15 minute presentation will review the draft design for the new search results page and abstract view presented at MLA. David will remain on the call for questions and answers. This session will be recorded for those unable to attend.

Members from 3 regions (Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, MidContinental) have been invited to attend this session. Participation is limited to 125. Those who would like to attend should login early. The room will be open 15 minutes before the presentation is scheduled. Members are also encouraged to attend as a group by gathering around a workstation or projecting the presentation and using a conference phone.

When: August 11, 2009 12:30 - 1:00 MT, 1:30-2:00 CT

Where: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/nlmupdate/ Sign in as a Guest with your first and last name /ch

The inaugural class of Fellows in the Association of Health Care Journalists-National Library of Medicine (AHCJ-NLM) Fellowships was recently announced by AHCJ.

The Fellows, health journalists selected by AHCJ from dozens of qualified applicants, will receive training about NLM’s services and meet with physicians and researchers at NLM and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during a weeklong visit to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, September 13-17, 2009.

The journalists chosen to take part this year are:

• John Fauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• Lynya Floyd, Essence Magazine
• Jeff Hansel, Rochester, Minn. Post-Bulletin
• Douglas Podolsky, Consumer Reports
• Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star
• Heidi Splete, Global Medical News Network

The Fellows will receive hands-on training on how to use and get the most from NLM’s databases, such as Pub Med, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, ToxNet and the Household Products Database. They will also meet with senior NLM and NIH researchers and officials for exclusive informational sessions on such topics as diabetes, infectious disease, health disparities, and personalized medicine.

“The Fellowship is designed to help health journalists obtain new stories, improve their reporting and be more resourceful,” said Robert A. Logan, PhD, NLM senior staff, who helped coordinate the program with AHCJ. “The bonus for the Fellows is better stories,” added Len Bruzzese, Executive Director of AHCJ.

“NLM welcomes the inaugural class and is pleased that the Fellows represent a wide spectrum of news organizations,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of NLM.

For more information about the AHCJ-NLM fellows program, please contact Dr. Robert A. Logan at loganr@nlm.nih.gov and 301.496.1936.
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Check out the July issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research.

In this edition:

• How You See Yourself - When Your Body Image Doesn’t Measure Up
• Don’t Dry Out - Make Sure You Drink Enough Water

Health Capsules:

• Well Water Testing Protects Kids’ Health
• What’s Living on Your Skin?
• Featured Web Site: Computing Life

NLM and the NN/LM MidContinental Region offices will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2009 in observance of Indepenence Day.

Members can now read the narrative and see powerpoint slides from the NLM Online Users Update held at MLA http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj09/mj09_mla_dg.html. Included in this posting on the Technical Bulletin is a link to the screen shots of the PubMed redesign.

Radiation Event Medical Management (REMM) http://remm.nlm.gov/index.html provides guidance for health care providers, primarily physicians, about clinical diagnosis and treatment during mass casualty radiological/nuclear (rad/nuc) events. It provides just-in-time evidence based information and downloadable web-based information. (REMM) announced a major new verion of the REMM web site. You can subscribe to the REMM listserv (which sends very few announcements) at http://www.remm.nlm.gov/email.htm

NLM’s History of Medicine Division is proud to announce that a new Turning the Pages Project has been released on the TTP kiosks in the Library and on the Web: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm. The project features Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de Arte Distillandi, printed in Strasbourg in 1512. The book is a practical manual on chemical, alchemical, and distillation devices and techniques used to manufacture drug therapies, and it features a number of hand-colored woodcuts featuring scenes of laboratories, distillation devices, and doctor patient scenes. It includes instructions on how to distill aqua vitae, potable gold, artificial and natural balsams and how to use distillates to treat illnesses in surgical cases. [scb]

The MedlinePlus team is pleased to announce a new email alerting service for the NIH MedlinePlus magazine. Users can sign up on this page: https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=medlineplus-magazine&A=1 to join the list. They will receive an email whenever a new issue is published.

You can also find this information at the bottom of the NIH MedlinePlus Magazine home page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/index.html. Click on “Subscribe” at the bottom of the page. [scb]

NLM and the NN/LM MCR offices will be closed on Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day.