Six months after the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and just a few short weeks before the midterm congressional elections, the Kaiser Family Foundation has launched an online gateway to new and comprehensive resources on the health reform law. The Health Reform Source, http://healthreform.kff.org, has many new features that provide explanations of [...]

October is National Medical Librarians Month. As part of this celebration, the NN/LM SCR is proud to highlight the following five SCR funded projects and the librarians whose hard work made these programs successful: Communication and Education: Equipping the Community to Fight CA-MRSA (Project Director: Pat Morris) Building Dynamic Partnerships in Public Health: Using Wiki [...]

When Apple released the iPad in April of this year, competition to keep up with the latest trend in technology began to heat up. From Dell to RIM (the makers of the Blackberry) developers began designing new mobile options to compete in the now fast growing tablet market. According to a recent Wall Street Journal [...]

The National Library of Medicine® (NLM) launched a new free digital repository, Digital Collections, which is complementary to the PubMed Central® digital archive of electronic journal articles. The content in Digital Collections is in the public domain and freely available worldwide. Digital Collections provides unique access to NLM’s rich, historical resources. Digital Collections uses a [...]

The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) has been re-designated as an Institute of the National Institutes of Health: the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). This transition gives the Institute a more defined role in the NIH’s research agenda against health disparities, which it defines as differences in [...]

AAHSL (American Association of Health Sciences Libraries) recently announced the 2010 - 2011 NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows. The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program is designed to prepare emerging leaders for director positions in academic health sciences libraries. Sixteen fellows have assumed director positions to date. This year, three of the fellows are from the South Central Region. [...]

Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State by State highlights progress in preparedness and presents data on a broad range of preparedness and response activities occurring at state and local levels across the nation. The report features national data and individual fact sheets for the 50 states and four directly funded localities (Chicago, [...]

Cameron Chapman of Six Revisions: Useful Information for Web Developers & Designers recently posted 10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies which demonstrate how current research is actually providing useful data which can be used to improve website design and usability. Research data is providing support for some long-standing design principles while proving others to [...]

Happy Get Ready Day, Everyone! Today is Get Ready Day, an annual observance designed to encourage Americans to prepared for all health emergencies. Held annually on the third Tuesday in September, Get Ready Day is timed to coincide with National Preparedness Month. The Get Ready campaign, sponsored by the American Public Health Association, provides information, [...]

The Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries and Museums initiative is a new funding opportunity developed by IMLS to expand and test the boundaries of library, archive, and museum services and practices. It provides small, targeted investments in high-risk, innovative responses to the challenges and opportunities facing cultural heritage institutions in a rapidly changing information environment. [...]