August 2022 NNLM Reading Club: Infant Feeding
All babies need to eat to survive. Breastfeeding (or chest-feeding), also called nursing, is the process of feeding a mother's breast milk to her infant, either directly from the breast or by expressing (pumping out) the milk from the breast and bottle-feeding it to the infant. For baby, health experts agree that breast milk is considered best because it has all the necessary vitamins and minerals that the infant needs. However, for a parent not able to breastfeed or who decides not to, or for parents of an infant with special medical needs, infant formula is an alternative.
In support of the National Health Observance’s Breastfeeding Awareness Month, the NNLM Reading Club explores infant feeding from several different perspectives. For information on each of our three featured books, free downloadable book club discussion guides, customizable promotional materials and more, visit NNLM Reading Club Infant Feeding.
Climate Change and Health Initiative to Expand Research, Build Resiliency
Climate change is a global process that affects human health in a variety of complex ways. Wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes, floods, and other climate-related weather events can result in illness, injury, and death. Indirect health threats are cause for concern, too. For example, changes in temperature and rainfall can affect the lifecycle of mosquitoes that transmit diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, thereby paving the way for new outbreaks. Read the rest of the NIH Director's Blog.
NNLM Book Discussion: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
You are invited to join us for the second NNLM Book Discussion. From August 1 until October 31, we will read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. NNLM Book Discussion offers librarians and library staff interested in better understanding health issues faced by people in the communities that they serve an opportunity to explore topics with other professionals and earn Continuing Education Credit. Learn more and register here.
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New PubChem Tutorial
PubChem is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) open chemistry database and one of the largest freely accessible reference tools for chemical information. A new, free, self-paced PubChem tutorial guides you through how to access chemical property and structure data contributed by hundreds of academic, government, and industrial sources. The tutorial includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures. It also shows you how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources, like PubMed, to explore chemical information further, and how to download chemistry data from PubChem. You can access the tutorial on the NLM website at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/pubchem/tutorial/
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