Resources
Access reliable health information on aspirin in MedlinePlus, an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends, produced by the National Library of Medicine.
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MedlinePlus
Circulating Now, the blog highlighting the National Library of Medicine’s historical holdings, features posts about women in the history of medicine.
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Circulating Now
This article discusses the disadvantages and unfair treatment women physicians face and explores strategies that medical workplaces can use to combat the implicit bias behind gender-based discrimination.
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Inequity and Women Physicians: Time to Change Millennia of Societal Beliefs
The article examines whether physicians who are women, racial and ethnic minorities, gender and sexual minorities, or people with disabilities are at high risk for career and mental health challenges and discusses ways to address the issue.
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Physician Workforce Disparities and Patient Care: A Narrative Review
The online exhibition, Rise, Serve, Lead: America’s Women Physicians features a digital gallery of NLM collection items authored by doctors featured in Changing the Face of Medicine.
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Rise, Serve, Lead: America’s Women Physicians Digital Gallery
Profiles in Science presents curated selections of fully digitized archival materials from luminaries in biomedical science. Here are the papers of Dr. Virginia Apgar, who developed Apgar Score, the first standardized method for evaluating a newborn's transition to life outside the womb.
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Virginia Apgar—Profiles in Science
Profiles in Science presents curated selections of fully digitized archival materials from luminaries in biomedical science. This page presents the papers of pioneering anatomist and researcher, Florence R. Sabin.
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Florence R. Sabin—Profiles in Science
Circulation Station explores the parts and inner workings of the circulatory system through a series of illustrations and presents the story of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig, a physician who helped develop a groundbreaking procedure that treated a congenital heart defect.
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Circulation Station
Sickle Cell Anemia features a series of illustrations explaining a hereditary condition that causes red blood cells to be misshapen, resulting in poor circulation and other complications. Additionally, this resource presents the story of Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, a physician who conducted a study proving that providing long-term penicillin treatment to children with sickle cell anemia helped to prevent infections.
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