There could be more than just fashion risks involved when buying a pair of leggings or a raincoat. Just how much risk is still not clear, but toxic chemicals have been found…
Category: public health
Telehealth Brings Expert Sexual Assault Exams to Rural Patients
Amanda Shelley was sitting in her dentist’s waiting room when she received a call from the police. A local teenage girl had been sexually assaulted and needed an exam. Shelley, a nurse…
World Health Organization: Picturing Health for All
Now open at NLM, a special display featuring a selection of images drawn from our Prints & Photographs collection. Since the 1950s, the WHO has commissioned photojournalists to capture the transformative impact…
Edward Jenner and “the happy immunity”
By Aliya Rahman ~ August is back-to-school month. While many of us are booking last-minute vacations or scrambling to purchase tickets to that almost-sold-out concert, Continue reading Source: NLM
Archiving HIV/AIDS on the Web
Christine Wenc describes her work to develop a web archive to provide historians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers with significant historical data for their present and future work. Continue reading Source: NLM
Web Collecting During the Zika Outbreak
By Christie Moffatt ~ This week is “Mosquito Control Awareness week,” and agencies across the Department of Health and Human Services are taking this opportunity Continue reading Source: NLM
World Tuberculosis Day
By Ginny A. Roth On March 24, 1882, a medical milestone was achieved. Dr. Robert Koch reported his discovery that Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the cause of Continue reading Source: NLM
Influenza Precautions, Then and Now
Dr. Tom Ewing, Professor of History at Virginia Tech offers a comparison of health recommendations during the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 and today. Continue reading Source: NLM
Dangers to Health in Our Own Home, 1877
NLM historian Michael Sappol was a recent guest blogger at The Ultimate History Project. The post explores a whimsically illustrated and persuasive Victorian era Continue reading Source: NLM
A Voyage to Health, a Connection to Communities
By Alicia Yanagihara When you think of the National Library of Medicine, what comes to mind? Is it a Polynesian canoe? That definitely wasn’t my Continue reading Source: NLM
Medicine, Morality, Faith, and Film
By Sophie Lipman Religion and science, two concepts sometimes viewed as incompatible today, were seen by many in the 1930s and ‘40s as mutually supportive Continue reading Source: NLM
TB: A Killer Then, A Killer Now
By Sarah Eilers Peter Borik: The Story of the Tragedy He Brought His Family, 1944 In the mid-20th century, U.S. public health authorities used a Continue reading Source: NLM
Smoking in America: 50 Years On
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 Continue reading Source: NLM
Fry Now. Pay Later.
This 1985 poster titled “Fry Now. Pay Later.” from the American Cancer Society conveys an important message that is still valid today. There is a proven link between sun exposure and skin…