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December 1999

• Request for Applications for Internet Connections for Health Institutions (Link no longer available) (12/20/99)

November 1999

• NLM's annual report, Programs and Services, Fiscal Year 1998, is now available (11/09/99)
• NLM's Dr. Spann Retires (press announcement) (11/08/99)

October 1999

• New Online Syndrome Resource: Multiple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (10/22/99)
• October is National Medical Librarians Month (10/12/99)

September 1999

• NLM Wins Vice President's Hammer Award (press announcement) (09/27/99)
• Frances Humphrey Howard Retires (press announcement) (09/24/99)
• NLM releases new version of MEDLINEplus (09/24/99)
• New Beta Version of PubMed available (09/22/99)

July 1999

• Technology for the National Heart Attack Alert Program, Request for Proposals (07/09/99)
• NLM Appoints Assistant Director for Research and Education (press announcement) (07/09/99)

June 1999

• NIH Support for Biomedical Computing: a report to Dr. Varmus (06/09/99)

May 1999

• NLM Names Associate Director (press announcement) (05/25/99)
• Provide Input to New NLM Long Range Plan (Link no longer available) (05/14/99)
• Additional "Partners In Information Access" Awards Announced (press announcement) (05/03/99)

April 1999

• View Telemedicine Video Demos from the HII99 Conference (04/29/99)
• Direct Access to ELHILL & TOXNET Command/Menu Systems Ends (04/28/99)
• NLM Unveils Web-based Online Catalog LocatorPlus (press announcement) (04/12/99)
• New Office of High Performance Computing and Communications funding opportunities (Link no longer available) (04/07/99)

March 1999

• "Breath Of Life" Exhibition Opens (press announcement) (03/22/99)
• NLM Friends Conference: Improving Health in a Digital World (03/16/99)
• NLM Associate Director, Lois Ann Colaianni, Retires (03/10/99)
• Profiles in Science" Site Adds Joshua Lederberg's Papers (press announcement) (03/01/99)

February 1999

• Director Testifies on FY 2000 Budget (02/25/99)

January 1999

• Exhibit Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's Graduation from Medical School (press announcement) (01/28/99)
• MeSH Browser Available (01/21/99)
• Cumulated Index Medicus, Vol. 39, 1998 Price Announcement (Link no longer available) (01/13/99)