The National Library of Medicine releases free iPad App, "Native Voices: the Native peoples ' concepts of health and disease"

To give those who cannot travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see him personally lively experience of virtual, National Library Medicine (NLM) announces new iPad app, free, which captures the contents of its popular exhibitions, Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/index.html), currently on display. NLM is the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health.

The application allows users to explore video chat with members of the tribal elders, tribal healers and other prominent people practice traditional medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of both. Experience the unique and the prospects they weave tapestry vibrant and diverse cultures and ways of medicine practiced by the Natives of Alaska, native Americans and native Hawaiians. Other clips video provides an overview of the exhibition and the stresses of travel 4,400-mile had ordered a totem of specially crafted for exhibition from Washington State to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

App NLM Native Voices works on all iPads with iOS 4.2 and higher. To download the free app, go to the Apple iTunes store (www.apple.com/iTunes) and type in "NLM Native Voices."

In addition to the content of the native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, the application contains a function "of the NLM", which allows the public to obtain information on the National Library of Medicine, and also learn how to "visit the NLM" and "Connect with NLM" through social media outlets.

On the welcome page of the app NLM Native Voices shows the logo of the exhibition and of the four featured interview subjects.

NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg (left top) provides an overview of the Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, this exhibition home users and applications, you can also examine the rich content on five main topics: individual, Community, tradition, healing and nature.

Interviews on app NLM Native Voices can be searched by key words, respondent name or, as shown here, the topic. The speakers presented to talk about the importance of taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their Communities.

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The National Library of Medicine releases free iPad App, "Native Voices: the Native peoples ' concepts of health and disease"

To give those who cannot travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see him personally lively experience of virtual, National Library Medicine (NLM) announces new iPad app, free, which captures the contents of its popular exhibitions, Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/index.html), currently on display. NLM is the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health.

The application allows users to explore video chat with members of the tribal elders, tribal healers and other prominent people practice traditional medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of both. Experience the unique and the prospects they weave tapestry vibrant and diverse cultures and ways of medicine practiced by the Natives of Alaska, native Americans and native Hawaiians. Other clips video provides an overview of the exhibition and the stresses of travel 4,400-mile had ordered a totem of specially crafted for exhibition from Washington State to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

App NLM Native Voices works on all iPads with iOS 4.2 and higher. To download the free app, go to the Apple iTunes store (www.apple.com/iTunes) and type in "NLM Native Voices."

In addition to the content of the native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, the application contains a function "of the NLM", which allows the public to obtain information on the National Library of Medicine, and also learn how to "visit the NLM" and "Connect with NLM" through social media outlets.

On the welcome page of the app NLM Native Voices shows the logo of the exhibition and of the four featured interview subjects.

NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg (left top) provides an overview of the Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, this exhibition home users and applications, you can also examine the rich content on five main topics: individual, Community, tradition, healing and nature.

Interviews on app NLM Native Voices can be searched by key words, respondent name or, as shown here, the topic. The speakers presented to talk about the importance of taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their Communities.

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Library of the medical heritage granted to the digitalisation of historical medical journals of the grants NEH

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, is among Member libraries, the Medical Library heritage (MHL) (www.medicalheritage.org), participating in a project with nieporównywalnej estimated 6000 volume of 200 historical American medical journal titles published between 1797 and 1923.

The financing of digitisation of these sheets collection Columbia, Harvard and Yale universities and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is provided by two years grant March 2012 with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) VAC to the open knowledge Commons (champion) (www.knowledgecommons.org).  NLM and other MHL colleagues are not directly involved in the digitisation will help efforts by the journal volumes which do not have four participants. Digital journals connect more than 33,000 monographs, serials, pamphlets and videos currently available in the MHL. Digital journal will be freely available to researchers through the collection of the library service heritage at the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary).

The library of the medical Heritage:
MHL (www.medicalheritage.org) this is a contents centered Digital Community to support research, education and dialog box, which allows for the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the access point to valuable quality antropologia digital material and wider holding digital and nondigital its members. Established in 2010, with funding from the Alfred p. Sloan Foundation through OKC to nieporównywalnej 30000 medical books rare. In addition to the participants named above MHL contributors are the Johns Hopkins University, the New York Academy of medicine, the New York public library and the Wellcome Library; Content contributors include Duke University, UMass Medical School and at the University of Toronto.

Information for Humanities NEH/Digital:
Created in 1965 as an independent agency of the Federal Government, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and training in the history, other areas of the humanities, literature and philosophy through the financing of selected, reviewed proposals around the nation. For more information about NEH Digital Humanities Office can be found at http://www.neh.gov/odh/.

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Library of the medical heritage granted to the digitalisation of historical medical journals of the grants NEH

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, is among Member libraries, the Medical Library heritage (MHL) (www.medicalheritage.org), participating in a project with nieporównywalnej estimated 6000 volume of 200 historical American medical journal titles published between 1797 and 1923.

The financing of digitisation of these sheets collection Columbia, Harvard and Yale universities and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is provided by two years grant March 2012 with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) VAC to the open knowledge Commons (champion) (www.knowledgecommons.org).  NLM and other MHL colleagues are not directly involved in the digitisation will help efforts by the journal volumes which do not have four participants. Digital journals connect more than 33,000 monographs, serials, pamphlets and videos currently available in the MHL. Digital journal will be freely available to researchers through the collection of the library service heritage at the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary).

The library of the medical Heritage:
MHL (www.medicalheritage.org) this is a contents centered Digital Community to support research, education and dialog box, which allows for the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the access point to valuable quality antropologia digital material and wider holding digital and nondigital its members. Established in 2010, with funding from the Alfred p. Sloan Foundation through OKC to nieporównywalnej 30000 medical books rare. In addition to the participants named above MHL contributors are the Johns Hopkins University, the New York Academy of medicine, the New York public library and the Wellcome Library; Content contributors include Duke University, UMass Medical School and at the University of Toronto.

Information for Humanities NEH/Digital:
Created in 1965 as an independent agency of the Federal Government, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports research and training in the history, other areas of the humanities, literature and philosophy through the financing of selected, reviewed proposals around the nation. For more information about NEH Digital Humanities Office can be found at http://www.neh.gov/odh/.

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New look, new collections of the National Library medicine at IndexCat ™ database

National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, and the History of Medicine Division are pleased to announce the launch of the new user interface for database IndexCat, together with two new collections covering the medieval texts of scientific English and Latin.

Using software developed by Ex Libris, Inc., the new interface IndexCat offers enhanced viewing capabilities and new layouts search results and displays the record.

IndexCat is available online, free of charge, at: http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov.

By providing access to digital versions of print, 61-volume index-catalogue of the library of the Office of Surgeon General, IndexCat contains over 4.5 million bibliographical references elements more than 3.7 million dating from more than five centuries, covering the fields of basic sciences, research, civil and military medicine, public health and hospital administration. The language is international with quotations in European languages and Slavic, Greek script and the titles of Chinese and Japanese – some of the English translations. A wide range of materials can be discovered IndexCat, including books, articles, press releases, doktorskie, flyers, reports, Newspaper clippings, case studies, Obituary notices, letters, portraits, as well as a rare books and manuscripts.

For more information about the original index catalogue, see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/abouticatalogue.html.

Two new collections now available through IndexCat are part of the project supported the NLM in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Collections historical landmark, are developed with enriched electronic database and Catalogue of Incipits of mediaeval scientific Writings in Latin (Rev.), Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre (eTK) and the updated and expanded version of the electronic scientific and medical Writings in old and Middle English: an electronic reference (eVK2), edited by Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz. Opening up new research historical, these measures include more than 42 000 records of incipits or words beginning 6th or early printed books. IndexCat users can search the incipit manuscript, library, author, title, subject, date, and other information.

For more information about IndexCat, visit page IndexCat on: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/ichome.html.

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New look, new collections of the National Library medicine at IndexCat ™ database

National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health, and the History of Medicine Division are pleased to announce the launch of the new user interface for database IndexCat, together with two new collections covering the medieval texts of scientific English and Latin.

Using software developed by Ex Libris, Inc., the new interface IndexCat offers enhanced viewing capabilities and new layouts search results and displays the record.

IndexCat is available online, free of charge, at: http://indexcat.nlm.nih.gov.

By providing access to digital versions of print, 61-volume index-catalogue of the library of the Office of Surgeon General, IndexCat contains over 4.5 million bibliographical references elements more than 3.7 million dating from more than five centuries, covering the fields of basic sciences, research, civil and military medicine, public health and hospital administration. The language is international with quotations in European languages and Slavic, Greek script and the titles of Chinese and Japanese – some of the English translations. A wide range of materials can be discovered IndexCat, including books, articles, press releases, doktorskie, flyers, reports, Newspaper clippings, case studies, Obituary notices, letters, portraits, as well as a rare books and manuscripts.

For more information about the original index catalogue, see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/abouticatalogue.html.

Two new collections now available through IndexCat are part of the project supported the NLM in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Collections historical landmark, are developed with enriched electronic database and Catalogue of Incipits of mediaeval scientific Writings in Latin (Rev.), Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre (eTK) and the updated and expanded version of the electronic scientific and medical Writings in old and Middle English: an electronic reference (eVK2), edited by Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz. Opening up new research historical, these measures include more than 42 000 records of incipits or words beginning 6th or early printed books. IndexCat users can search the incipit manuscript, library, author, title, subject, date, and other information.

For more information about IndexCat, visit page IndexCat on: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/ichome.html.

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The National Library of Medicine releases free iPad App, "Native Voices: the Native peoples ' concepts of health and disease"

To give those who cannot travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see him personally lively experience of virtual, National Library Medicine (NLM) announces new iPad app, free, which captures the contents of its popular exhibitions, Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/index.html), currently on display. NLM is the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health.

The application allows users to explore video chat with members of the tribal elders, tribal healers and other prominent people practice traditional medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of both. Experience the unique and the prospects they weave tapestry vibrant and diverse cultures and ways of medicine practiced by the Natives of Alaska, native Americans and native Hawaiians. Other clips video provides an overview of the exhibition and the stresses of travel 4,400-mile had ordered a totem of specially crafted for exhibition from Washington State to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

App NLM Native Voices works on all iPads with iOS 4.2 and higher. To download the free app, go to the Apple iTunes store (www.apple.com/iTunes) and type in "NLM Native Voices."

In addition to the content of the native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, the application contains a function "of the NLM", which allows the public to obtain information on the National Library of Medicine, and also learn how to "visit the NLM" and "Connect with NLM" through social media outlets.

On the welcome page of the app NLM Native Voices shows the logo of the exhibition and of the four featured interview subjects.

NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg (left top) provides an overview of the Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, this exhibition home users and applications, you can also examine the rich content on five main topics: individual, Community, tradition, healing and nature.

Interviews on app NLM Native Voices can be searched by key words, respondent name or, as shown here, the topic. The speakers presented to talk about the importance of taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their Communities.

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The National Library of Medicine releases free iPad App, "Native Voices: the Native peoples ' concepts of health and disease"

To give those who cannot travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see him personally lively experience of virtual, National Library Medicine (NLM) announces new iPad app, free, which captures the contents of its popular exhibitions, Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/index.html), currently on display. NLM is the world's largest medical library and component of the National Institutes of Health.

The application allows users to explore video chat with members of the tribal elders, tribal healers and other prominent people practice traditional medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of both. Experience the unique and the prospects they weave tapestry vibrant and diverse cultures and ways of medicine practiced by the Natives of Alaska, native Americans and native Hawaiians. Other clips video provides an overview of the exhibition and the stresses of travel 4,400-mile had ordered a totem of specially crafted for exhibition from Washington State to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

App NLM Native Voices works on all iPads with iOS 4.2 and higher. To download the free app, go to the Apple iTunes store (www.apple.com/iTunes) and type in "NLM Native Voices."

In addition to the content of the native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, the application contains a function "of the NLM", which allows the public to obtain information on the National Library of Medicine, and also learn how to "visit the NLM" and "Connect with NLM" through social media outlets.

On the welcome page of the app NLM Native Voices shows the logo of the exhibition and of the four featured interview subjects.

NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg (left top) provides an overview of the Native Voices: the native inhabitants of the concepts of health and disease, this exhibition home users and applications, you can also examine the rich content on five main topics: individual, Community, tradition, healing and nature.

Interviews on app NLM Native Voices can be searched by key words, respondent name or, as shown here, the topic. The speakers presented to talk about the importance of taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their Communities.

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