There are 427,000 children in the custody of child protective services (i.e., foster care) in the United States; approximately 5,000 youths emancipate, or age out, annually. Health care outcomes are poor, in part due to lack of access to medical history.

With NLM grant funding, Dr. Judith Dexheimer of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is helping empower youths aging out of the foster care system to access their personal health records. Using the Health Hero online platform, Dr. Dexheimer is providing emancipated youths with access and control over their own personal health records, improving health care knowledge and utilization as a result.

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer and cardiovascular disease. The largest proportion of medical errors involve medications.

With NLM funding, Drs. Corey Lester, Raed Al Kontar, and Xi Jessie Yang of the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy are using machine intelligence (MI) to assist in the pill verification process to help avoid dangerous and costly pharmacy dispensing errors. Their research is making sure MI is capable of conveying accurate information that encourages providers to make sound, trustworthy decisions. In doing so, they can ensure that patients get the correct pills in the correct bottle, ultimately creating safer systems that can save lives.

NLM is building a workforce for data-driven research and health. To ensure a future of data-driven discovery and health, it is essential to have a biomedical informatics and data science workforce prepared to make conceptual and methodological advances in analytics, visualization, mining, and other methods needed to use data for discoveries and to make it interoperable with existing knowledge.

NLM’s open science tools and resources enable anyone interested to access and engage with the results of science. Open science allows people to address societal needs in their communities by connecting them to information about biomedical science, technology, and innovation.

The Genetic Testing Registry (GTR®) provides a central location for voluntary submission of genetic test information by providers. The scope includes the test's purpose, methodology, validity, evidence of the test's usefulness, and laboratory contacts and credentials. The overarching goal of the GTR is to advance the public health and research into the genetic basis of health and disease

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 29074 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.

LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus. It is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 29074 (and growing) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access.

NLM is more than a library! Check out this video to learn about NLM as the world’s research engine – providing scientists with tools, methods, and databanks to better understand and improve health for people everywhere. And see how NLM supports research through both its Intramural and Extramural programs to make the library a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research!