NLM News 1995 November-December; Vol. 50, No. 6

	The NLM News is published 6 times a year by the 
National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services).  Beginning with 
Vol. 49, No. 1, the NLM News is avaiable via the Internet.  
To access, ftp to nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov and login as 
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	In addition to electronic access, the printed NLM News 
is mailed without charge to institutions and individuals 
interested in health sciences communications.  For further 
information, contact NLM's Office of Public Information 
(8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894); e-mail address: 
publicinfo@occshost.nlm.nih.gov.  

NLM Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D.
Chief, Office of Public Information, Robert B. Mehnert,
Editor, Roger L. Gilkeson; e-mail address: Gilkeson@nih.gov 

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Contents:

* "Sharper" Visible Woman Joins Male Counterpart on the 
Internet
* Furlough-Blizzard Issue
* NLM's Master Serials System Reaches Two Milestones
* Siegel Elected AAAS Information and Computing Section Chair-Elect
* Retrospect of a Former NLM Director [Dr. Joseph McNinch]
* NLM Honor Awards Ceremony
* Historical Exhibit Explores Medical Maps of Washington, D.C.
* NLM in Print; History of Medical Informatics in the U.S.
* Publications; CAIM Ceases with 1994 Cumulation
* NLM Grant Awards--Fiscal Year 1995
* Monograph & Serial G aps

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Phase II of Visible Human Project Completed
"Sharper" Visible Woman Joins Male Counterpart on the 
Internet
	An anonymous 59-year-old Maryland woman who donated her 
body to science is now immortalized on the Internet as the 
Visible Woman, completing the second phase of NLM’s Visible 
Human Project.  This news was hailed by the national news 
media and the international scientific community as another 
milestone in the ongoing attempt to better understand the 
workings of the human body.

	The three-dimensional, computer-generated female 
"cadaver" joined her male counterpart during the 81st 
Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological 
Society of North America (RSNA) on November 28.  The Visible 
Man was released during the 1994 RSNA meeting (News, 
November-December 1994).

	The Visible Woman will give viewers an incredibly 
detailed depiction of how the body works.  While both 
databases were created from thousands of images of a male 
and a female body collected with state-of-the-art 
radiographic and photographic techniques, the Visible 
Woman’s resolution is three times sharper than the male 
cadaver.  

	"We demanded more of our technology and ended up with 
a significantly higher resolution for the Visible Woman than 
we achieved for the Visible Man," said NLM Director Donald 
A. B. Lindberg., M.D.  "This is vital because the data can 
then be reformatted to show additional information with even 
more detail.  Medical professionals can study the Visible 
Woman data to learn more about female anatomy, perform 
better surgical planning, continue training, and conduct 
research."

	The Visible Human Project is managed and funded by the 
NLM, while the imaging and data assembly were carried out by 
researchers at the University of Colorado Health Sciences 
Center in Denver.

	The donor body for the Visible Woman was imaged from 
head to toe using computed tomography (CT), magnetic 
resonance (MR) and x-rays.  The body was embedded in a 
gelatin, frozen, and sliced crosswise into more than 5,000 
slices, each one-third of a millimeter thick.  A custom-made 
mechanical planing device--called a cryomacrotome--was used 
to slice the body in a technique developed by principal 
researchers Victor Spitzer, Ph.D., associate professor, 
Department of Radiology and Cellular and Structural Biology, 
and David G. Whitlock, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Department of 
Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Colorado 
Health Sciences Center. 

	"We are already seeing the impact of the data as a 
simulator to train medical professionals," said Dr. 
Spitzer.  Students can interact with the data of the Visible 
Human to train and test procedures.  Soon we will be able to 
reformat the database and change body characteristics.  For 
example, kinetics researchers will be able to compare the 
‘normal’ Visible Human’s attributes to that of an Olympic 
runner and investigate what contributes to the athlete’s 
superior ability."

	The next phase of the project will be to label the 
Visible Man and Woman.  "Right now, looking at them is like 
looking at a road map without street names," says Michael 
J. Ackerman, Ph.D., who is managing NLM’s Visible Human 
Project with Dr. Lindberg.  "We are already working on 
making this an ‘intelligent’ database by labeling each part 
of the body and incorporating descriptions of how the parts 
relate to each other."  Dr. Ackerman is NLM assistant 
director for high performance computing and communications.

	The Visible Woman and Man are available from the NLM 
over the Internet (at no charge) or on magnetic tape.  Users 
must sign a licensing agreement stating how the information 
will be used.  Although licensed users can download the 
anatomical information from the Internet, gettting the 
entire 39 gigabytes that constitute the Visible Woman (or 
the 15 gigabytes that constitute the Visible Man) would take 
weeks of uninterrupted computer processing time.  For most 
purposes, uesrs access only portions of the anatomical 
information from the Internet; those who want the whole 
database get the information on magnetic tape supplied by 
the National Technical Information Service for a duplication 
fee.  For further information, users can contact Dr. 
Ackerman via e-mail: ackerman@nlm.nih.gov.  The Library also 
provides information about the project on its World Wide Web 
home page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov.
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[Caption for Photo]
The Visible Man (left) and Visible Woman, shown above in 
vertical cross sections, together constitute some 55 
gigabytes of data that is available via the Internet or on 
magnetic tape from NLM.  



[A Myriad of Uses for the Visible Man

The Visible Man, since being released over the Internet a 
year ago, has been used in a variety of ways.  Among the 
medical uses are:

*	Force Feedback Training: Attendees at the recent RSNA 
meeting performed a needle insertion simulation using the 
Visible Man database.  While attempting a lumbar puncture 
(the insertion of a needle into a space between two 
vertebrae) into a plastic model of a human back, users 
actually felt bones and muscles.  This "force feedback" 
technique is guided by the Visible Man database.
*	Virtual Testing: Researchers at the State University of 
New York, Stony Brook, are using the database to create a 
virtual colonoscopy simulator that could eliminate the 
need for the uncomfortable, invasive procedure that 
screens for colon cancer.  Patients would need only a 
noninvasive computer tomography (CT) scan to be tested.
*	Anatomy: "The Dissectable Human" was presented via CD-
ROM and printed atlases by Engineering Animation, Inc., 
and Mosby.
*	Web Browser: UNIX workstation users can use a data 
browsing and retrieval tool called Human Explorer, which 
was created through a collaboration between NLM and the 
University of Maryland.
*	Knee Knowledge: The University of Pennsylvania has 
developed an Interactive Knee Program.
*	Radiation Reduction: Researchers are using the Visible 
Man as a model to help improve patient treatment planning 
and reduce radiation absorption.
*	Curricula: The Loyola University Stritch School of 
Medicine, Chicago, is Using Visible Human images in its 
anatomical curriculum; the Mallinckrodt Institute of 
Radiology, St. Louis, has created an educational tool for 
medical students; Smoky Hill High School, Smoky Hill, 
Colorado, is involved in a Visible Human Digital Anatomy 
Project.
Among non-medical uses of the Visible Man:
*	Artists: Several groups of artists have used the Visible 
Man as a model for their work.  For example, a university 
in Japan is using the Visible Man as part of an exhibit 
of Leonardo da Vinci’s art work.  They rendered the 
database to mirror da Vinci’s work to compare the 
differences in physique.
*	Furniture Building: Builders of ergonomic furniture are 
studying the Visible Man’s range of motion to design more 
comfortable and supportive seating.
*	Mathematical Theorizing: The Visible Man data is being 
used by a group of mathematicians who are testing a 
theory of how to map three-dimensional objects.

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Furlough-Blizzard Issue
	As most of you know, the National Library of Medicine 
was seriously affected by the three-week Government furlough 
and the blizzard that hit the Eastern U.S.  We had to close 
our doors to patrons, but we attempted to maintain round-the 
clock MEDLINE services to doctors and scientists around the 
world with a tiny emergency crew.  As NLM Director Donald A. 
B. Lindberg, M.D., commented during the furlough, 
"Essentially, we have put the computers on automatic pilot 
and crossed our fingers that no interruptions or failures 
occur."  The furlough ended the first week of January, only 
to be followed by a record-breaking blizzard that 
essentially closed NLM's operations through mid-January.

	During the month, new users could not be added, and the 
pipeline of records for MEDLINE would have been totally 
depleted had the closing continued through the end of 
January.  NLM's Regional Medical Libraries, fortunately, 
continued to provide service, but the Library's own 
interlibrary loan activities (normally averaging almost 
5,000 requests a week) had to stop except for emergency 
requests.  

	We are now funded through the end of this fiscal year , 
so Library employees (and patrons alike) are breathing 
easier, knowing NLM will be exempt from future Government 
shut-downs--at least until the end of September 1996.  We 
are glad to be back in service and appreciate your patience 
during this most unusual situation.    

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NLM's Master Serials System Reaches Two Milestones

	The NLM Serial Records Section reached two milestones 
this fall in the development of its automated serials 
processing system.  The 100,000th serial title was added to 
its Master Serials System on November 13.  Earlier in the 
fall, a remote site entered a title into the system for the 
first time.

	The Master Serials System, a series of electronic 
files, originated in the mid-1970's as one of the early 
applications of general database management system (DBMS) 
software to library processing.  Today it controls all 
aspects of serials acquisitions for the NLM including 
ordering, payment and checkin of receipts. The system also 
helps manage journals routed for indexing in MEDLINE as well 
as document delivery and holdings data for more than 3100 
biomedical libraries in the United States and Canada.

	Data extracted from the Master Serials System are used 
to build SERLINE, a public MEDLARS file.  SERLINE is used 
throughout the world to identify journals and other serials 
and to record information about those journals NLM indexes 
for the MEDLARS databases.  SERLINE was first mounted on the 
Elhill retrieval system in 1977.  Two of NLM's publications, 
List of Journals Indexed for Index Medicus and the List of 
Serials Indexed for Online Users, are produced from SERLINE.

	The Master Serials System originally contained 
bibliographic records for serial titles currently received 
at the NLM.  In the mid 1980s, records for the entire 
collection of serials held at NLM, including ceased titles, 
were added to the file, bringing the total to over 60,000.  
Since that time all new titles acquired by the library have 
been entered into the file. The 100,000th title added to the 
file was. 

	Bibliographic data in the Master Serials System 
includes not only titles that NLM acquires for its 
collection but also over 6600 titles held by other libraries 
in the National Network of Libraries (NN/LM) of Medicine, 
for which they wish to record holdings in SERHOLD, the 
national serials holdings database.  Until recently, NLM has 
added all the records of titles owned by other libraries, 
based on bibliographic information they supply. 

	A pilot test to permit direct input by the regional 
SERHOLD coordinators was initiated this year to speed the 
input of the titles held only in NN/LM libraries.  The 
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of 
Virginia is the beta test site for this project and is the 
first institution outside of NLM to add records directly 
online to the NLM Master Serials System.  On October 18th, 
staff at the health sciences library accessed the NLM file 
and created a record for AAHM Newsletter, a publication of 
the American Association for the History of Medicine.  

[Photo]
NLM serials librarian Kathrin McConnell added the 100,000th 
record--for Contemporary Treatments in Cardiovascular 
Disease, published by Chapman and Hall--to the Library's 
Master Serials System.

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Dr. Siegel Elected AAAS Information and Computing Section 
Chair-Elect

	Elliot R. Siegel, Ph.D., NLM associate director for 
health information programs development, has been elected 
chair-elect of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science’s Section on Information, Computing, and 
Communication.  His three-year term of office runs through 
January 26, 1999.  Dr. Siegel has been secretary of the AAAS 
Information and Computing Section since 1986.

	Dr. Siegel, who began his career at NLM as an 
information scientist with the Lister Hill Center, is 
currently in charge of the office that directs NLM’s 
outreach, planning and evaluation, and international 
programs.  In his upcoming chairmanship at the AAAS, he will 
play a major role in planning new initiatives in connection 
with the Association’s informatics and communications 
activities.

	With more than 243,000 individual members and nearly 
300 affiliated societies comprising some 10 million members, 
the AAAS is the world's largest general science 
organization.  It also publishes the peer-reviewed journal 
Science.

	On February 11, Dr. Siegel and NLM Director Donald A. 
B. Lindberg, M.D., will be speaking at the session on 
"Health Research and Education: Information for the Next 
Century" at the AAAS annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Retrospect of a Former NLM Director 

News has recently been received of the death of Dr. Joseph 
H. McNinch in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 4, 1994, 
at the age of eighty-nine.

	A native of Indiana, Dr. McNinch entered the United 
States Army Medical Corps in 1930 after receiving his M.D. 
degree from Ohio State University.  He went on to serve as 
an Army medical officer for thirty-two years.  Following 
varied field and staff assignments, including World War II 
service in Europe, he went to Washington, D.C., where from 
1945 to 1950 he was assigned as first Director and Editor-
in-Chief of the unit in charge of planning and preparing the 
multi-volume medical history of World War II.  Between 1946 
and 1949 Dr. McNinch served additional as Director of the 
Army Medical Library, the predecessor of NLM.  During this 
assignment he met his second wife, Eleanor, who was the 
Library’s chief of reference; she continues to live in 
Florida.
	During the 1950s and early 60s, Dr. McNinch 
successively held a number of senior Army medical posts, 
among them, as Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army Far East 
Command; Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army, Europe; and 
Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Research and 
Development Command.  He retired from the Army in 1962 with 
the rank of major-general but continued in medical 
administration up to 1971 in prominent non-military 
capacities.  These included important positions with the 
American Hospital Association as well as that of Chief 
Medical Director of the U.S. Veterans Administration.  He 
spent his last years with his wife in St. Petersburg.
* * * * *
	Dr. McNinch came to the Army Medical Library as its 
Director without having had previous library training, but 
he went to considerable lengths to learn the workings of the 
institution.  While he left routine operations to 
professional librarians, he made his mark as a highly 
capable administrator at a critical point in the Library’s 
history.  He initiated an overdue evaluation of the Index 
Medicus and instituted measures to ensure its issuance on a 
timely basis.  He grappled effectively with the emerging 
legal and economic issues involved in microfilming and 
photocopying published materials.  And he not only played a 
constructive role in discussions over the future cabinet 
placement of the Library but argued for its eventual 
physical relocation in Bethesda.
	In addition to his term as Director, General McNinch 
served NLM once again, between 1963 and 1965, as a member of 
its Board of Regents.  The Library owes much to the wisdom 
and dedication of this distinguished physician and Army 
officer.
----James H. Cassedy, History of Medicine Division
[Caption for Photo]
Dr. Joseph McNinch

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NLM Honor Awards Ceremony

	The Library's annual honor awards ceremony, held 
November 8, saluted the achievements of individuals and 
groups throughout the Library.

	The following employees received National Institutes of 
Health Merit Awards:

 	Joyce Backus, Public Services Division, "for exceptional 
leadership and achievement in developing and maintaining 
automated systems for the Public Services Division and 
NLM."

 	Sally S. Burke, Office of Administration, "in recognition 
of consistently excellent staff work provided in support 
of the Office of  the Director, NLM, as well as her 
contributions to the administrative management functions 
of the National Library of Medicine."

 	Peter A. Clepper, Extramural Programs, "for superb 
professionalism in bringing critical new extramural 
programs to fruition expeditiously and with commendable 
ingenuity."

 	George F. Hazard, Jr., Specialized Information Services, 
"for innovation and diligence in making chemical 
information available to the scientific community with 
easy-to-use retrieval methods and reasonable prices."

 	David L. Kenton, Office of Computer and Communications 
Systems, "in recognition of his creative work in the 
design, development, and implementation of a proximity 
search capability for the MEDLINE Retrieval System."

 	Nancy E. Selinger, Bibliographic Services Division,"for 
sustained contributions to enhancing the accuracy and 
quality of the MEDLINE database."

	Acknowledgment was made of the following previously 
announced awards:

 	Phillip C. Coleman Award: To Melvin L. Spann, Ph.D., 
Specialized Information Services, "for continuing 
leadership through mentoring, dedication and commitment 
to the overall goals of NLM."

 	EEO Special Achievement Award: To Kristine M. Scannel, 
Public Services Division, "for her significant efforts to 
provide library services for NLM employees and persons 
with disabilities."

 	NIH Director's Award: To Robert B. Mehnert, Public 
Information Office, "for outstanding effort in 
imaginatively and effectively communicating the mission 
of the National Library of Medicine," and to Susan P. 
Buyer, Office of Health Information Programs Development, 
"for her superior leadership in the development and 
management of the National Library of Medicine Long Range 
Plan."

 	NLM Director's Award: To Kenneth G. Carney, Office of 
Administration, "for exceptional expertise in 
administrative management and for exemplifying the 
highest standards of public service"; to Harold M. 
Schoolman, Office of the Director,  "for invaluable 
contributions to the research mission of the National 
Library of Medicine, and effective leadership of the 
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical 
Communications"; and to Ennis Wilson, Office of 
Administrative Management Services,  "for demonstrating 
exceptional initiative, skill, and knowledge in 
developing and directing a highly effective NLM property 
management program."

 	PHS Special Recognition Award: To Michael J. Ackerman, 
Ph.D., National Coordination Office for High Performance 
Computing and Communications, "for innovative direction 
and leadership of NLM's pioneering electronic imaging 
research project, the Visible Human."

 	Board of Regents Award: To Jonathan A. Kans, Ph.D., and 
Gregory D. Schuler, Ph.D., both of the National Center 
for Biotechnology Information, "for technical achievement 
contributing to the development of Entrez, an innovative 
information retrieval system that provides researchers 
worldwide with integrated access to the databases and 
literature of molecular biology."

 	Frank B. Rogers Award: To Peri L. Schuyler, Medical 
Subject Headings Section, "for her exceptional 
contributions and leadership that have significantly 
improved the automation activities and expanded the scope 
of MeSH."

	Over 135 employees were honored with individual and 
groups awards for sustained superior performance or for 
special acts or service.  Sixty employees received length-
of-service wards.
 
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Historical Exhibit Explores Medical Maps of Washington, D.C.
	"Death and Disease in the Neighborhood: Medical Maps of 
Washington, D.C., 1878-1909" is a new exhibit on display 
from January 26 through April 25, 1996, in the National 
Library of Medicine's main lobby (Building 38).

	The exhibit traces the evolution and publication of 
epidemiological maps of the U.S. capitol city from 1878 
until 1909, when the public health officer of the District 
of Columbia discontinued their use in his annual report to 
the city's commissioners.
	Displayed are maps mainly from the collections of the 
Library's History of Medicine Division.  The central focus 
of the exhibit is the consistent use of maps in the annual 
Report of the Public Health Officer of the District of 
Columbia from 1878 until 1909 to chart numbers, locations, 
and the extent of human deaths from various diseases 
prevalent in Washington, D.C., and its suburbs as well.  	
	Maps from other sources include one from the tenth 
census of the United States that accompanies Vital 
Statistics of the District of Columbia and Baltimor (1893).  
This work was authored by U.S. census expert, special agent 
John Shaw Billings, M.D., who was also in charge of the Army 
Medical Library (precursor to NLM) from 1867 to 1895.  
Another section of the exhibit displays earlier examples of 
how maps were used to communicate epidemiological 
information elsewhere.  Also featured is a brief movie that 
provides a geographical history of Washington, D.C., with 
narration by Richard W. Stephenson, former head of the 
Library of Congress's Geography and Map Reading Room.	
	For further information on the exhibit, contact: David 
Vecchioli, History of Medicine Division, NLM; phone: 301-
496-5405; Internet: david_vecchioli@occshost.nlm.nih.gov.
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[Caption for Photo]
Detail from: Map of the City of Washington, showing location 
of fatal cases of lung diseases for the year ending June 30, 
1892.  Each dot indicates a death from consumption; each "x" 
represents a death from pneumonia, bronchitis, or another 
acute lung disease.

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[NLM in Print]

	The following references cite works that discuss the 
products and services of the National Library of Medicine.  
If you know of other appropriate citations for this column, 
please send reprints or references to the editor, NLM News, 
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894.  (Note: 
Some of the articles below may be from journals that are out 
of scope for the NLM collection and are therefore not 
available from the Library on interlibrary loan.)

	Baxevanis AD, Landsman D. The Internet biologist 
[news]. FASEB J 1995 Aug;9(11):994.
	Floyd NL. A new national library fuels the engine of 
education. Am Libr 1995 Nov;:1032-3.
	Fonger GC. The Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) as 
a source of environmental fate information on chemicals. 
Toxicology 1995;103(2):137-45.
	Fuller S, Braude RM, Florance V, Frisse ME. Managing 
information in the academic medical center: building an 
integrated information environment. Acad Med 1995 
Oct;70(10):887-91.
	Lawrence RC, Pillemer S, Murphy R, Ostchega Y, Thoma 
GR, Long LR, Berman LE. Computer and Internet access to a 
national population sample of radiographic images of neck 
and lumbar spine. Arthr Rheum 1995;38(9):s385.
	Locatis C. Deciding among interactive multimedia 
technologies. J Biocommun 1995;22(2):2-7.
	Mahoney MC, Michalek AM. A bibliometric analysis of 
cancer among American Indians & Alaska Natives, 1966-1993. 
Alaska Med 1995 Apr-Jun;37(2):59-62, 77.
	Ostell JM. Integrated access to heterogeneous data from 
NCBI. IEE Engin Med Biol. 1995 Nov-Dec;:730-6.
	Pope J. The Visible Man: murderer becomes medical 
model. Times-Picayune (LA) 1995 Oct 31;:A1, A5.
	Rowlands J, Morrow T, Lee N, Millman A. ABC of medical 
computing. Online searching. BMJ 1995 Aug 19;311(7003):500-
4.
	Thoma GR, Berman LE, Long LR. Internet access to a 
biomedical text./x-ray image databank. Proc 19th 
International Online Meeting. Oxford: Learned Information 
Europe Ltd, 1995; 429-35.
	Waldrop MM. On-line archives let biologists interrogate 
the genome [news]. Science 1995 Sep 8;269(5229):1356-8.
	Waldrop MM. The Visible Man steps out. Science. 1995 
Sep 8;269(5229):1358.
	Whalen TV. The National Library of Medicine computer 
resources: your tax dollars at work. Current Surg 1995 Jul-
Aug;52(6):324-6.
	Zelingher J. HyperDOC [news]. MD Comput 1995 May-
Jun;12(3):169,171.
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A History of Medical Informatics in the U.S., 1950 to 1990

This new work, published by the American Medical Informatics 
Association, was prepared under a National Library of 
Medicine contract by NLM scholar-in-residence Morris F. 
Collen, M.D.  Dr. Collen, a well-known and highly respected 
figure in the discipline, is Director Emeritus of the 
Division of Research at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care 
Program.  This first volume of Dr. Collen’s history focuses 
on the systems that have been applied most directly to 
patient care.  From the foreword by NLM Director Donald A. 
B. Lindberg, M.D.: "With the whole-hearted cooperation of 
his colleagues, [Dr. Collen] has produced a richly detailed 
account of how Medical Informatics came into being and 
attracted a cadre of immensely talented true believers who, 
frequently with little support from their institutions, 
dedicated themselves to the task of applying rapidly 
evolving computer and communications capabilities to 
medicine."  Copies may be ordered from AMIA (4915 St. Elmo 
Ave., Suite 401, Bethesda, MD 20814); $38 (members); $43 
(non-members); price includes domestic postage/handling.

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[Publications]

New Current Bibliography on Cardiovascular Health

	NLM's Reference Section produces a series of 
bibliographies covering distinct subject areas of current 
interest to the biomedical community.  The latest, on 
physical activity and cardiovascular health, is available 
from the Government Printing Office (see below). 

	Current Bibliographies in Medicine (CBM95) series 
subscriptions are available for $47 ($58.75 foreign) or 
individually for $4.75 ($5.94 foreign).  A list of available 
titles appears in each monthly issue of Abridged Index 
Medicus and Index Medicus.  Mail orders to: New Orders, 
Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 
15250-7954.  GPO Phone Orders: 202/783-3238.  Recent CBMs 
are also accessible through FTP. 
CBM 95-7 Physical activity and cardiovascular health. 
January 1990 through September 1995. 1,966 citations.  
[S/N 817-011-00007-1]
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CAIM Ceases with 1994 Cumulation
	NLM has announced that its Cumulated Abridged Index 
Medicus will cease effective with volume 25, the cumulation 
of the 1994 issues of the monthly Abridged Index Medicus.  A 
cumulation of the 1995 issues will not be published.
	The Abridged Index Medicus was initiated in 1970 to 
"afford rapid access to selected biomedical journal 
literature of immediate interest to the practicing 
physician."  A subset of citations from approximately 119 
English-language clinical journals was selected for AIM.  
Although today it is becoming increasingly difficult to 
select a core of journals that meets the needs of the 
practicing physician, this publication has been of value to 
the community over the years.  In the past two decades over 
two thousand libraries, clinics, colleges, public libraries, 
and individuals, including libraries in the depository 
program, have subscribed to the monthly issues and the 
annual cumulations.
	There are several reasons for discontinuing this 
publication.  First, during the past 20 years, increasing 
numbers of subscribers have been accessing the MEDLINE 
database directly and therefore subscriptions are declining.  
Searching MEDLINE provides a much more efficient and 
effective way to identify citations relevant to one's 
information needs and is more cost effective for most users.  
For example, for the cost of the annual volume, a user could 
perform approximately 45 Grateful Med searches.  And 
secondly, since there are many demands on scare Federal 
dollars, the National Library of Medicine must make some 
difficult choices between continuing to support existing 
products and improving or developing new products to meet 
the needs expressed by health sciences librarians and health 
professionals.
	NLM Associate Director for Library Operations, Lois Ann 
Colaianni, said recently, "I realize that some find this 
publication particularly useful, and I would be happy to 
explore alternative sources for this information with such 
individuals.  Please contact me at 301/496-6921, 
loisann@nlm.nih.gov, or by mail."
	This decision does not affect the monthly Abridged 
Index Medicus for 1996.Nor does it affect the unabridged 
Cumulated Index Medicus. 

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NLM Grant Awards--Fiscal Year 1995

	The Library has a number of grant programs which are 
made available under the authorities of Public Health 
Service laws.  New grant awards for fiscal year 1995 are 
listed below.  The dollar amounts shown represent the 
current (first year) awards and are only a portion of the 
total in the case of a multiple-year total project period.  
Further information on NLM grants is available from 
Extramural Programs, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, 
MD 20894; telephone: 301/496-4221.

Publication Grants

 	Peter Baldwin, Ph.D. (University of California Los 
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA) State Intervention Against 
Contagious Disease					$39,288
 	Bernadine C. Barr, Ph.D. (Stanford University, Stanford, 
CA) Spare Children--Subjects in Research, 1900-1945		
				$25,000
 	Ann G. Carmichael, Ph.D. (Indiana University Bloomington, 
Bloomington, IN) History of State Registration of Causes 
of Death				$20,348
 	Albert H. Teich, Ph.D. (American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.) Videos on 
Scientific Research Integrity		$185,862
 	Malcolm H. Hast, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, Chicago, 
IL) Annotated Translation of Vesalius' Fabrica			
			$34,799
 	Philippa J. Levine, Ph.D. (University of Southern 
California, Los Angeles, CA) Venereal Disease and 
Imperial Policy--Britain 1860-1918		$30,711
 	Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, 
Baltimore, MD)  Ethics & Allocation--Foundations of 
American Health Care			$33,000
 	Leslie J. Reagan, Ph.D. (University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign, Champaign, IL)  When Abortion Was a Crime--
Women, Medicine, and Law		$38,550
 	Heather M. Prescott, Ph.D. (Central Connecticut State 
University, New Britain, CT) Emergence of Adolescent 
Medicine					$33,195
 	Carla J. Funk (Medical Library Association, Chicago, IL) 
History of the Medical Library Association				
			$14,300
 	MaryEllen C. Sievert, Ph.D. (University of Missouri 
Columbia, Columbia, MO) Missouri Thesaurus of Medical 
Informatics Terminology		$36,293
 	Richard A. Rettig, Ph.D. (Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, 
CA) Public Policy and the Treatment of Kidney Failure	
					$43,960
 	Ann G. Hess, M.D. (Harvard University, Boston MA) Women 
Healers and Female Health in Puritan America			
			$44,975
 	Ruth Leys, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 
MD) Western Concepts of Psychic Trauma, 1875-1995		
				$25,000

 	Biotechnology Information Research Grants

 	William R. Pearson, Ph.D. (University of Virginia 
Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA) Comparison of 
Protein Sequences and Structures			$211,523
 	Daniel B. Davison, Ph.D. (University of Houston-
University Park, Houston TX) Multiple Sequence Alignment 
of Server and Algorithm Development	$181,811
 	Ross C. Hardison, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University, 
University Park, PA) Network Server for Electronic 
Genetic Analysis				$217,340

Medical Informatics Research Grants

 	Eta S. Berner, Ed.D. (University of Alabama at 
Birmingham, Birmingham AL) Physician Use of Diagnostic 
Decision Support System Data		$35,299
 	Roger W. Jelliffe, M.D. (University of California Los 
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA) New Decision Supports and 
Databases for Drug Dosage			$412,029
 	Colin B. Begg, Ph.D. (Sloan-Kettering Institute for 
Cancer Research, New York, NY) Meta Analysis Methodology 
for Diagnostic Test Evaluation		$88,410
 	Lawrence E. Widman, M.D. (University of Oklahoma Health 
Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK) Knowledge-Based 
Interpretation of Cardiac Arrhythmias					
							$166,321
 	Andrew Balas, M.D. (University of Missouri Columbia, 
Columbia, MO) Meta Analysis of Clinical Information 
Service Trials				$93,481
 	Harry P. Selker, M.D. (New England Medical Center 
Hospitals, Inc., Boston, MA) New Mathematical Models for 
Medical Events				$251,015
 	Arthur W. Toga, Ph.D. ( University of California Los 
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA) Digital Representation and 
Visualization of Human Brain		$216,253
 	Robert S. Hayward, M.D. (Mc Master University, Hamilton, 
Canada) Evaluation of a Database of Practice Guideline 
Abstracts				$171,433
 	Mark A. Musen, M.D. (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) 
Software Architecture for Guideline Directed Therapy		
		$319,790
 	Michael H. Goldbaum, M.D. (University of California San 
Diego, San Diego, CA) Structured Analysis of the Retina	
					$274,013
 	Bonnie L. Webber, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, PA) Effective Information Delivery to 
Clinical Personnel				$251,080
 	Sartaj K. Sahni, Ph.D. (University of Florida, 
Gainesville, FL) Algorithms for Compression and 
Registration of Brain MRI				$269,252

Medical Informatics Research Fellowship

 	John C. Mc Eachen, Ph.D. (Yale University, New Haven, CT) 
Statistical Fusion of Multimodal Neurologic Images		
				$25,608

Applied Medical Informatics Fellowship

 	Andreas M. Kogelnik (Emory University, Atlanta, GA) 
Mitochondrial Genetics Information System				
			$14,508



Conference Grant

 	Russ B. Altman, M.D. (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) 
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 1995			
				$13,000

Electronic Medical Records System Cooperative Agreements

 	Guy . Barnett, M.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital, 
Boston, MA) Point of Care Computer Based Ambulatory 
Patient Record				$386,676
 	William R. Hersh, M.D. (Oregon Health Sciences 
University, Portland, OR) Vocabulary and Text Data 
Extraction from the EMR			$375,570

Research Resource Grants

 	Temple Smith, Ph.D. (Boston University, Boston, MA) 
Biomolecular Engineering Research Center				
				$732,251
 	Robert S. Ledley, D.D.S., National Biomedical Research 
Foundation, Washington, D.C.) Protein Information 
Resource					$1,048,211
 	Richard J. Roberts, Ph.D. (New England Biolabs, Inc., 
Beverly, MA) Rebase--the Restriction Enzyme Database		
				$143,929

Academic Research Enhancement Award

 	Ronald E. Mandsager (Oklahoma State University at 
Stillwater, Stillwater, OK) Computer-Based Fuzzy 
Monitoring of Infusion Anesthesia		$88,762

FIRST (First Independent Research Support and Transition) 
Awards

 	Paul N. Gorman, M.D. (Oregon Health Sciences University, 
Portland, OR) Information Seeking in Primary Care		
			$100,056
 	Yiming Yang, Ph.D. (Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN) LLSF 
Mapping for Indexing and Retrieval of MEDLINE			
			$120,129
 	Richard A. Goldstein, Ph.D. (University of Michigan at 
Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor MI) Computational Approaches to 
Protein Structure Prediction		$85,687
 	Stephen B. Johnson, Ph.D. (Columbia University, New York, 
NY) Access to Medical Information through Natural 
Language					$114,933

Small Business Innovative Research Grant

 	John Nelson, M.D. (Nelson Information Systems, Inc., 
Bethesda, MD) Advanced Pilot Study of a Journal 
Management System				$387,854

Health Sciences Librarian Education & Training Planning 
Grants

(Total awarded: $500,506))

 	Kerryn A. Brandt, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School 
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
 	Thomas Detre, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
 	Linda Smith, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 
 	Fred W. Roper, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 
Columbia, SC
 	Nunzia B. Giuse, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical 
Center, Nashville, TN
 	MaryEllen C. Sievert, Ph.D., University of Missouri 
Columbia, Columbia, MO
 	Barbara Moran, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Information Access Grants

 	Amanda Aguirre (Western Arizona Area Health Education 
Center, Yuma, AZ) WAMLC Online Modernization Program		
			$101,097
 	Pamela M. Reynolds (Southwest Georgia Area Health 
Education Center, Albany, GA) SOWEGA Information Delivery 
Electronic Access-IDEA #2		$74,021
 	Pamela M. Reynolds (Southwest Georgia Area Health 
Education Center, Albany, GA) SOWEGA Info Delivery 
Electronic Access-IDEA #3 			$86,577
 	Frieda Liem (Pennsylvania State Department of Public 
Welfare, Harrisburg, PA) Technology for Immediate Access 
to Health Information		$61,099
 	Janice Perlman-Stites (Hospital Consortium of San Mateo 
County, Burlingame, CA) Multiple User Access to Online 
Union Catalog				$59,608
 	Evelyn L. Simpson (Bear Valley Community Hospital 
District, Big Bear Lake, CA) Bear Valley Community 
Hospital Medical Library Online		$12,000
 	Tracy K. Notarius (Western New York Library Resources 
Council, Buffalo, NY) WNY Circuit Hospitals Information 
Access Project			$75,287
 	Anne S. Goss (Ohio University Athens, Athens, OH) End-
User Health Information Retrieval 					
				$65,036
 	Phyllis C. Self, Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University, 
Richmond, VA) Southside Health Information Consortium 
Access Grant				$89,970
 	Sheila M. Hayes (William W. Backus Hospital, Norwich, CT) 
Professional/Public Information Increased Access Grant	
				$11,121

Information Systems Grants

 	Gary W. Kearl, M.D. (University of Kentucky, Lexington, 
KY) Information for Medical Students in Ambulatory 
Practice Sites				$79,076
 	Sharon E. Dennis (University Of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) 
Model Multimedia Support Center for the Health Sciences	
				$200,285
 	Roberta A. Oppenheim (Forsyth Dental Center, Boston, MA) 
Oral Health Sciences Information System (OHSIS)			
			$191,640
 	Mignon S. Adams (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy-
Science, Philadelphia, PA) Electronic Pharmacy Library	
					$99,524
 	Phyllis C. Self, Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University, 
Richmond, VA) Drug Information Automated Library (DIAL)	
				$148,413
 	Judith R. Messerle (Harvard University, Boston, MA) 
Creation of a Knowledge Laboratory					
			$216,422

Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems Grants

 	William W. Stead, M.D. (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
TN) Fast Track Provision of IAIMS					
				$550,000
 	John A. Paton, Ph.D. (Yale University, New Haven, CT) 
IAIMS Implementation								
			$546,561
 	Richard E. Ward, M.D. (Case Western Reserve University-
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI) Planning a 
Comprehensive IAIMS Capable of Supporting CQI			
				$148,629

Internet Connections Grants

(Total awarded: $908,056)

 	Cathy M. Perley, St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, 
Sioux City, IA
 	Carole Gilbert, Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI 
 	Jane C. Buch, Kettering Medical Center Foundation, 
Kettering, OH
 	Irving Freeman, Ph.D., Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, 
Pittsburgh, PA
 	Jane Howell, Montana State University - Billings, 
Billings, MT
 	Estelle M. Goodell, Ph.D., Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, 
Cooperstown, NY
 	James C. Kotis, III, University of South Alabama, Mobile, 
AL
 	Debra C. Rand, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New 
Hyde Park, NY
 	Charles W. Van Way, M.D., Saint Luke's Hospital, Kansas 
City, MO
 	Sally H. Cavanaugh, Ph.D., York Health System, York, PA
 	Jocelyn A. Rankin, Ph.D., Mercer University, Macon, GA
 	Elliott S. Grossman, Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medical Center, 
Miami Beach, FL
 	Donald A. Boudreau, Ph.D., Louisiana State University 
Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
 	Donald R. Forgue, M.D., The Children's Mercy Hospital, 
Kansas City, MO
 	Jeffrey F. Kenny, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic 
Medicine, Erie, PA 
 	R. Stephen Hunter, Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health 
Center, Portland, OR
 	Kappie A. Mumphrey, Baton Rouge General Medical Center, 
Baton Rouge, LA
 	Randolph A. Miller, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical 
Center, Nashville, TN
 	John T. Heard, Ph.D., Kirksville College of Osteopathic 
Medicine, Kirksville, MO
 	Mark F. Guagliardo, Ph.D., Children's Research Institute, 
Washington, D.C.
 	Gerald B. Holzman, M.D., American College of OB/GYN, 
Washington, D.C.
 	Daniel J. Weidman, St. John Mercy Health System, St. 
Louis, MO
 	Dale F. Nordenberg, M.D., Egleston Children's Hospital, 
Atlanta, GA
 	Patricia Hamilton, Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid 
City, SD
 	Mark E. Notman, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East 
Lansing, MI 
 


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[Monograph & Serials G aps] 

	NLM regularly seeks the help of the medical library 
community in filling gaps in its monograph and serial 
collections.  If you can provide any of these items we would 
be most grateful.

Monographs

	If you are able to provide a copy of any of the 
monographs listed below, please send to:

	National Library of Medicine
	TSD-MONOGRAPHS  Attn: L. Turnage
	Bethesda, MD 20894

	Hayes, David L.  Dictionary of cardiac pacing, 
electrophysiology, and arrhythmias.  Miami Lakes, Fla., : 
Peritus Corp., c1993.
	Healers in the night.  Eric de Rosny ; translated from 
the French by Robert Barr.  Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 
c1985.
	Lauritsen, John.  Death rush : poppers & aids.  New 
York : Pagan Press, c1986.

Serials

	Please adddress serial issues to:

		National Library of Medicine
		TSD-GAPS Attn: C. Fields
		Bethesda, MD 20894

AADE Editors Journal  1:1,3, 1974;2:2-3, 1975;3:1,3, 1976;4, 
1977;5, 1978;7:2, 1980
AHA News  23:1-2, 1987;29:31, 1993
Alabama Medicine  63:7, 1994
Alternative Methods in Toxicology  9, 1993;10, 1994
ASAIO Journal  40:3, 1994
Biotechnology Techniques  8:2, 1994
BIR Report  23, 1992;24, 1993;25, 1994
British Dental Journal  165:9-10, 1988;176:3, 1994
Bulletin de l Academie Nationale de Medecine  164:10-12, 
1980
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.  Biochemistry and 
Molecular Biology  107:1-2, 1994
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Comparative 
Physiology  106:3, 1993;107:1, 1994
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.  Pharmacology, 
Toxicology and Endocrinology  107:1, 1994
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology.  Supplement  69, 
1993
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing  1:2-3,5, 1982;2:5, 1983
Environmental Health Perspectives  102:6-7, 1994
Equine Veterinary Journal  26:2-4, 1994
European Journal of Rheumatology and Inflammation  10:2, 
1990;11:1, 1991;12:1,1992;12:3, 13:2-4, 1993
International Reviews of Immunology  5:2, 1989
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps.  140:1-3, 1994
Leprosy Review 65:3, 1994
Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Diseases Series  4, 1994
Molecular Ecology  1:4, 1992
Nuclear Medicine and Biology  21:1-8, 1994
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.  
Series B:  Biological Sciences  179, 1888;344:1307, 1994
Seminars in Oncology  21, 1994
Structure  1:3, 1993
Trends in Genetics  8:7, 1992