NLM Technical Bulletin, May-Jun 2017, New Tutorial: UMLS REST API: Authentication and Calling
The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the release of the UMLS REST API: Authentication and Calling video tutorial.
Source: NLM Technical Bulletin - June 26, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

WISER Tutorial Videos
These tutorial videos introduce and demonstrate the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) functionality. They include a dive into the information provided by a known substance as well as a demonstration of WISER ' s protective distance mapping feature.
Source: PHPartners.org - June 19, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Until Help Arrives Program from ASPR
We are excited to announce the Until Help Arrives program, which was developed to educate and empower the public to take action and provide lifesaving care before professional help arrives.  We hope that you will help us get the word out about this program. The Until Help Arrives program encourages the public to take these five steps in situations where someone may have a life-threatening injury due to trauma: Call 9-1-1 Protect the injured from harm Stop bleeding Position people so they can breathe Provide comfort There are three main training tools available as part of the Until Help Arrives program – all availa...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - May 22, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Tags: Training Industry News Source Type: news

Facebook Users Have Awesome Responses To Little Boy's Makeup Tutorial
A viral video is helping to pose a parenting question to social media users. On May 13, the Facebook page VibeswithBae posted a video of a young boy doing a makeup tutorial. “You walk in to your son doing this, wyd?” the caption asks. The video has been viewed over 15 million times.  Commenters came up with some awesome responses to the question in the caption. Their reactions as his hypothetical parents ranged from asking him to do their makeup to helping him launch a beauty empire. Many also offered their own beauty tips to the budding makeup artist. The boy i...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 15, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Chris Pratt Talking About His Son Is The Sweetest
Chris Pratt knows what it’s like to have a child in the hospital. His 4-year-old son Jack was born nine weeks early and spent a month in the NICU.  In a new interview with Yahoo Style, the actor opened up about that experience and how it has inspired him to visit sick kids in hospitals and even auction off a “Jurassic World 2” set visit to raise money for the orthopedics department at Seattle Children’s Hospital.  “Anna and I went through a lot with our guy and spent a lot of time in the NICU,” he told Yahoo. “I can’t imagine a world where I don’t have [J...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

This Woman Survived One Of The Deadliest Snake Attacks
This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them. CHERANGAN, KENYA ― Walking home from a party in the evening light, Cheposait Adomo was unaware of the 6.5-foot black mamba snake in her path until it had coiled around her ankles and sunk in its teeth. As Adomo screamed and pulled at the slithering knot that punctured her three times, she was unaware of the two other brown-colored mambas slithering over to provide backup. “I felt the bites and then a burning sensation,” Adomo, a mother of five, said of the attack, wh...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Tutorial: Zika
FutureTDM. 03/2017 This resource is a tutorial on how to do data mining on Zika virus databases. It demonstrates some basic and advanced text and data mining methods with the ContentMine toolchain, to explore the scientific publications and get a better understanding of the Zika virus. The used approach should also work as a blueprint to gather information about pandemics in general and help for future research when a new virus starts to spread. (Text)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - April 7, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news

Health Care Coverage and Financing for Children with Special Health Care Needs: A Tutorial to Address Inequities
This tutorial clarifies the language used to describe the differences within the population of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and provides tools and examples of policies, programs, and partnerships that users can adopt in their states to improve access to coverage and financing of care for the most vulnerable children.
Source: HSR Information Central - February 28, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Basic Level Courses: Disaster Health Information
The NLM Basic Level Courses for the Medical Library Association Disaster Information Specialization have all been updated to a new online web-based tutorial format. The courses are self-paced, interactive, and offered at no cost. When you complete all 15 hours of the courses, you are eligible to earn a Basic Level certificate in Disaster Information Specialization from MLA. The Basic Level courses include three from NLM Disaster Health: Disaster Health Information Sources: The Basics https://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/disastercourse_thebasics.html This course provides a comprehensive overview of the essential resourc...
Source: MCR News - January 9, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: liaison Tags: All Members Community College/Academic Libraries Health Sciences Webinars and Training Source Type: news

New YouTube video: Sequence Viewer: Display Translation Discrepancies
The newest video on the NCBI YouTube channel is a brief introduction to a new set of sequence viewer renderings that better display discrepancies between genomic sequence and annotated features. These discrepancies can occur because RefSeq gene models based on the current genomic sequence can differ from RefSeq transcripts and corresponding proteins that come from our continuous curation efforts. For links to examples used in the video, see the Sequence Viewer tutorial.
Source: NCBI Announcements - December 23, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

Is Quitting Smoking Your New Year's Resolution? Now Is the Time to Make Some Serious #SquadGoals
This coming New Year's Eve, millions of Americans will make a resolution to quit smoking with the goal of stubbing out their last cigarette on January 1st. Take advantage of having your loved ones around you during the holiday festivities to declare your resolution to quit smoking and build up your support team for quit smoking success. In a 2015 survey, 80 percent of smokers who are trying to quit smoking said that support from family, friends, significant others and even coworkers is very important to successfully quit smoking. The American Lung Association has a quick tutorial on how to build your quit smoking squad!...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Updated Online CE ’s Now Available for the Disaster Information Specialization
From the Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC): Do you have some down time as 2016 comes to a close? Or maybe you made a resolution way back in January that you would learn something new this year?  We have a suggestion for how to end 2016 with a flourish! The NLM Basic Level Courses for the Medical Library Association Disaster Information Specialization have all been updated to a new online web-based tutorial format. The courses are self-paced, interactive, and offered at no cost. When you complete all 15 hours of the courses, you are eligible to earn a Basic Level certificate in Disaster Information Sp...
Source: Dragonfly - December 6, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Emergency Preparedness News from NLM Training & Education Source Type: news

Updated “ ToxTutor ” Toxicology Tutorial
From the Outreach and Special Populations Branch: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has updated its online toxicology tutorial, ToxTutor. ToxTutor is a self-paced tutorial covering key principles of toxicology. For almost 20 years, students and others have used ToxTutor to explore the fundamental principles of toxicology. Written in plain language and including helpful illustrations, […]
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - November 3, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Hannah Sinemus Tags: Disaster / Emergency Preparedness Education Health Professionals News from NLM/NIH Public Health Source Type: news

NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2016, NLM Toxicology Tutorial ToxTutor Redesigned
The ToxTutor tutorial is a self-paced tutorial covering key principles of toxicology including covering dose and dose response, toxic effects, interactions, toxicity testing methods, risk assessment, and exposure standards and guidelines.
Source: NLM Technical Bulletin - November 2, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news

A tutorial on hunting statistical significance by chasing N - Szucs D.
There is increasing concern about the replicability of studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Hidden data dredging (also called p-hacking) is a major contributor to this crisis because it substantially increases Type I error resulting in a much ...
Source: SafetyLit - October 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

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