A new default setting was released today that bolds a search term in the search results list.  This is true when a user is not signed into My NCBI.  If they are signed into MyNCBI, the search term is highlighted (the highlight function is not new).  The trick to all this is that the search terms that are highlighted will include any of the associated exploded terms or mapped terms that go with the term that the user put in.

An article for the NLM Technical Bulletin is forthcoming, but not yet available. [da]

http://www.phha.mlanet.org/blog/activities/sewell-stipend/
This should be a particularly great year to attend American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting this year in Washington, DC from October 29-November 2, 2011. The theme is Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds & Bodies and librarians do a lot of important community work. Our public health impact can be seen both directly through health literacy projects and outreach as well as indirectly through education of future nurses, doctors, and public health workers. And, there is funding available through the Sewell Fund to help subsidize costs of attendance at the meeting!

What can you expect from attending APHA? Librarian attendees from the past 10 years report a wide variety of outcomes from attending the meeting. Outcomes range from being written into grants; having parts of their salaries paid by other departments; being asked to give presentations at local, state, national, and international meetings; being asked to become regular faculty members in schools of public health; and in general earning the respect of their public health colleagues. The deadline for applications is Friday July 29, 2011! [scb]

Health Information Literacy: On the Front Lines

Please join the July 2011 Breezing Along with the RML online webinar and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss how they incorporate health literacy into the work they do in oral health, HIV/AIDS, and community outreach. Confirmed speakers include Anne Ryan-Haddad, Associate Professor Pharmacy Practice, Creighton University; Lisa Cohen, HHS Region VIII, HIV/AIDS Regional Resource Coordinator; Jeanette Flannery Courtad DDS, Colorado School of Mines and author of  “Toothful Tales: How We Survived the Sweet Attack;” and Andrea West, Director of Curriculum and Research, International Parish Nurse Resource Center.

Each panelist will discuss the following:

• Why health literacy is important to the populations they are working with
• Discussion of their project(s)/populations
• What they perceive the impact of health literacy on project outcomes/populations to be
• How libraries/librarians can be engaged in these kinds of projects/community outreach

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided a few minutes before the hour. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

This Spotlight! session on Neurological Disorders, will be presented by Barb Jones.

Taking the one-hour class and completing the exercises and class evaluation makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE. Register online at http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses (registration is not required but is appreciated).

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided a few minutes before the hour. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

Google announced that its service, Google Health, will be discontinued. Data entered into Google Health will be available for download through January 1, 2012.

To learn more about Google’s decision, please visit: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html

To learn how to download data please visit: http://www.google.com/support/health/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=1241447. [da]

EDUCATION:  July 8, 2011 -Disaster Information Outreach- hear from MCR conference attendees

July 8, 2011, at 12:30 MT, 1:30 CT

The NN/LM MidContinental Region made available travel awards so that our members could benefit from Professional Development, and share information learned with our region.  The last of these presentations focuses on Disaster Information Outreach.  MidContinental Region staff attendees, Claire Hamasu, and Siobhan Champ-Blackwell will be presenting, as well as three MidContinental Region members:  Margaret Bandy, Gayle Willard, and Rhonda Altonen.

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/, Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in, a few minutes before the hour. Captioning will be provided. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

Health Information Literacy: On the Front Lines

Please join the July 2011 Breezing Along with the RML online webinar and hear from a panel of experts as they discuss how they incorporate health literacy into the work they do in oral health, HIV/AIDS, and community outreach. Confirmed speakers include Anne Ryan-Haddad, Associate Professor Pharmacy Practice, Creighton University; Lisa Cohen, HHS Region VIII, HIV/AIDS Regional Resource Coordinator; Jeanette Flannery Courtad DDS, Colorado School of Mines and author of  “Toothful Tales: How We Survived the Sweet Attack;” and Andrea West, Director of Curriculum and Research, International Parish Nurse Resource Center.

Each panelist will discuss the following:

• Why health literacy is important to the populations they are working with
• Discussion of their project(s)/populations
• What they perceive the impact of health literacy on project outcomes/populations to be
• How libraries/librarians can be engaged in these kinds of projects/community outreach

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr/ Equipment: connection to the Internet and a phone, Login: as a guest with your first and last name. Instructions to connect to the audio will show up once you’ve logged in. Captioning will be provided a few minutes before the hour. Questions to mmagee@unmc.edu. (mm)

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/06/20110620a.html
The National Library of Medicine has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, a trusted source of authoritative, up-to-date health information for patients, families and health care providers. [scb]

Yesterday, NLM released several exciting enhancements that improve users’ ability to share and consume MedlinePlus content.

MedlinePlus now offers several general interest RSS feeds as well as RSS feeds for every health topic page on the site. Subscribe to any of these feeds in your favorite RSS reader, and stay up to date with the quality, reliable health information provided by MedlinePlus.

• English: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/rss.html
• Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/rss.html

NLM also unveiled enhancements to the print, email, and AddThis share icons on MedlinePlus and MedlinePlus en español health topic pages. These icons are now located above the topic summary, and the Facebook and Twitter sharing options are more prominent, making it easier for you to share content in these very popular social networks.

If you have any questions about these enhancements, please use the “Contact Us” link that appears at the top of every MedlinePlus page.

The National Library of Medicine announces the release of the book Come on, Mom, Dad, Get Healthy! http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/TAPAS_Mom_Dad_Get_Healthy.pdf Designed for use in the middle school health curriculum, the book employs a fictional story to address the subjects of addiction to food, smoking, and alcohol. Three teens fed up with their parents’ bad health habits decide to take action. Together, they educate themselves about their parents’ addictions and use health information as a tool to convince their parents to change their unhealthy habits.

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: Education: Entomology in Action
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/education/entomology/index.html
Up for a little murder mystery? Check out this lesson on Entomology in Action. See how forensic entomologists use the life cyle of the blow fly to determine time of death.  [K-12 Listserv June 2011] scb