The National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) helps you find
answers to all your health care questions. The NLM's
medical library collection has more than 8 million books,
photographs, microfilms, journals and other items. It's a
resource for health care, biomedicine, and the humanities,
technology and science as it they relate to biomedicine.
NLM offers a website call MedlinePlus that is one service
of the NLM to direct you to the information to help answer
health questions. This website also has extensive
information about drugs, an illustrated medical
encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest
health news. NLM is located on the campus of the national
institutes of health in Bethesda in Maryland and it's the
largest medical library in the world. There are the rarest
medical works and the oldest medical history collections
inside this library. The library offers a reading room for
convenience or items can be requested through the
interlibrary loan system. The National Library of Medicine
once published a monthly guide to the articles in five
thousand journals. The guide called Index Medicus was begun
in 1879. The final issue was published in December 2004.
The information is now offered at its website call PubMed.

In February 2003, the NLM launched a virtual customer
service representative named Cosmo. Cosmo is a navigation
tool used to guide customers to information on the NLM web
site. Users can get help finding information on consumer
health, drug facts, medical databases, grant information
and the online catalog access. The National Center for
Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is run by NLM. The NCBI
houses the biological databases accessible through the
internet's Entrez search engine.

The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical
Communications (LHNCBC) along with NCBI carries out the
research and development for NLM. They explore the use of
computers, communications and audiovisual technologies to
improve biomedical information. NLM is a valuable resource
for the publics health information needs.

Another interesting institute in United States is the
Institute of Medicine (IOM). It's one of the United States
national academies that chartered in 1970. It's also a non
profit making and non government organization. The
objective of this institute is to give advice on medicine,
biomedicine issues and health. The members of this IOM are
selected based on their background like professional
ability and achievements. IOM works in a several categories
such as mental health, aging, women's health, children's
health. It also includes other fields such as medicine,
nutrition education and diseases. This institute mostly
works on committee studies and reports of above categories.

Moreover, there is also some medicine college like Baylor
College of Medicine that is one of the leading centers for
biomedical research. This center is located in Houston
Texas of United States with area 1,000 acre with 46 member
institutions. There are 14 types of PhD programs offered
such as neuroscience, molecular and biochemistry biology,
immunology and cardiovascular sciences. It also includes
graduate program of nurse anesthesia, residency training
and physician assistant program. So it's one of famous
medicine library because there are lots of research and
studies of medicines in there.

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