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It’s the next Spotlight! on National Library of Medicine Resources session. The Wednesday, October 28 one-hour webinar class will cover Genetics Home Reference, My Family Health History and Information RX as presented by Wyoming Liaison, Jim Honour.
Tune in on Wednesday, October 28 at 1:00MT/2:00CT. Taking the class and completing the exercises makes you eligible to receive 1 Medical Library Association Continuing Education credit. This online training is FREE, and requires no registration. All you need is a computer with Internet access and a phone. You’ll sign in as a guest, enter your phone number when prompted and the system will call you! Access it by going to: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/mcr. (mm) (Source: Midcontinental Region News)

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the intrauterine device Mirena for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding in women who use intrauterine contraception as their method of pregnancy prevention.

Changes in heparin manufacturing standards are expected to affect the potency of heparin available in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration announced October 1.

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1980 In library school I thought: Why do I have to take a class in computing? I am going to be working with people, not machines.
1982 As a trainee at the VA Medical Center in Washington DC learning to search MEDLINE was challenging, and FUN. The Texas Instruments Silent 700 with built in acoustic coupler printed the results on a roll of thermal paper while ripping along at 300 baud. No more searching through multiple volumes of Index Medicus.
Texas Instruments Silent 700 with Acoustic Coupler*
1983-4 I remember ELHILL. So many databases, so little time: MEDLINE, AVLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, POPLINE, CATLINE, SERLINE
1985 Moved to Seattle at the same time as NLMs automated interlibrary loan request and referral system, DOCLINE, came into existence. Hurray – no m…