What if racism, sexism, and ableism aren’t just glitches in mostly functional machinery—what if they’re coded into our technological systems? In this talk, data scientist and journalist Meredith Broussard explores why neutrality in tech is a myth and how algorithms can be held accountable.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the 2024 History Talks. These virtual talks are all free, live-streamed globally, and archived on NLM’s YouTube channel and NIH VideoCasting. We invite you to join this year’s History Talks:

James (Jim) Mork, MS, has been named Acting Director of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health, effective December 30, 2023. In this role, Mr. Mork will be charged with continuing LHNCBC’s reorganization to include implementing the new strategic vision and direction for the Applied Clinical Informatics Branch. Jim will also lead LHNCBC in NLM’s mission to support and foster open science.

The latest online exhibition, Making the Greatest Medical Library in America, showcases a selection of 19th-century medical pamphlets that were once featured in NLM’s first exhibition, over 145 years ago.

Following its May 11, 2023 call for applications to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, NLM is pleased to announce its 2024 DeBakey Fellows.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s new online exhibition Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aspirin Revisited, examines how modern organic chemistry and technology isolated, then synthesized nature’s properties into aspirin, a ubiquitous remedy for a constellation of ailments.

A collection of reproduced documents from the 1932 study by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) on the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men at Tuskegee Institute is now available as a digitized collection through the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Zhiyong Lu, PhD, FACMI, Senior Investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Intramural Research Program, has been elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the launch of the modernized ClinicalTrials.gov. on an updated platform that will accommodate growth and enhance efficiency. Informed by user feedback, the modernized website includes an updated look and feel that improves functionality for searching, viewing, and downloading information about clinical trials. The new look includes simple web components that improve navigation and make important information easier to find.

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce its 2023-2024 class of Associate Fellows. NLM Associate Fellows will begin a robust educational and leadership program offering a variety of activities including formal lectures, presentations, projects in operations, research and development, policy, and data analysis.