From the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
This week I participated in a journalism fellowship at the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine, and communication was a recurring pattern. The NLM is taking several steps to improve how it communicates medical information to the public, with online initiatives including the consumer-oriented Medline Plus [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘NIH’
September 17, 2009
Health Literacy Lesson: Education Does Not Equal Understanding
February 6, 2009
What exactly IS translational medicine?
From the annual Academic Surgical Congress in Ft. Meyers, Florida
I’ve spent 2 days listening to presentations that fall into primarily two categories: basic science animal studies and retrospective reviews of large patient databases. My perception was that the basic science people attended the basic science talks and the clinical people attended the clinical talks.
The term translational medicine is [...]
October 21, 2008
Unusually Full Disclosure …
From the NARSAD Symposium, New York:
A funny thing happened while I was covering the NARSAD (previously the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression) symposium in New York City. It had nothing to do with the research or science presented. During the last presentation of the day, Dr. Dan W. Haupt, an assistant [...]
