Starting June 25, 2024, the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) modernized ClinicalTrials.gov website will become the singular website experience for all users. As part of its commitment to enhance the user experience and deliver improved functionality for searching, viewing, and downloading information about clinical trials, NLM is retiring the classic version of the website and its application programming interface.

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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine. The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection.

An academic work funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13) was awarded the 2024 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award by the Urban Affairs Association. Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate was presented with the award for her book, White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation, today at the International Conference on Urban Affairs in New York City. The book provides a detailed history of race and the food environment and its impact on nutrition and health disparities.

Eugene V. Koonin, PhD, Distinguished Investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Intramural Research Program (IRP), has been selected as a 2024 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

In this role, Dr. Paltoo will establish and implement policy frameworks that guide NLM’s research, operations, and public services and oversee NLM’s relationships across the NIH and with external groups. She will also work alongside NLM’s Deputy Director for Operations and Innovation.

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.