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	NIH Research: Children Research Volunteers Receive Care and Help Advance Knowledge If one smile can light up a room, the smiles of many can light up a whole building. Such could be said of the pediatric patients at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center…Continue Reading, “Children Research Volunteers Receive Care...”


	Feature: Medicines for Children Developing Safe and Effective Medicines for Children The Importance of Children in Clinical Trials Cokie Roberts Cares about Kids!


	Feature:Vision Take Steps to Keep Your Sight Nutrition and the Aging Eye Leading Causes of Blindness Understanding Your Vision: The “Imperfect Eye” Videos from the National Eye Institute: Eye Diseases


	Feature: Detecting and Treating Gout Detecting and Treating Gout Gout: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treament Gout: Personal Stories Gout: History, Research, and Recent NIH–Supported Advances True or False: What Do You Know About Gout?


	Feature: February Is Women’s Heart Month The Heart Truth Campaign Inspires Women’s Heart Health Action


	HealthLines Social Media May Help Spot a Problem Drinker Prevent the Flu; Get Vaccinated Is 90 the New 85? Oh, My Aching Back!


	Feature: National Library of Medicine 175^th Anniversary Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness Understanding the Healing Totem


	NIH Quickfinder and NIH MedlinePlus Advisory Group

Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen win health communications award. Four others also honored.

The 2011 FNLM Annual Awards Dinner on November 3 brought together representatives from the public, professional, and business sectors in health care to show their support for the Library—this year celebrating its 175th anniversary. For their achievements and support of the advancement of health, six recipients were honored.

Paul G. Rogers Health Communications Award Mehmet Oz, MD, and Michael Roizen, MD, co-authors, YOU: The Owner’s Manual
Distinguished Medical Science Award Purnell W. Choppin, MD, President Emeritus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Michael E. DeBakey Library Services Outreach Award Ann Duesing, Outreach Librarian, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, UVA
Distinguished Medical Informatics Award Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO, Oracle
Congressional Citation Michael Lemole, one of the medical professionals who operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, for his outstanding work in neurosurgery.

Sincerely,
Donald West King, M.D., Chairman
Friends of the National Library of Medicine

Award winner Dr. Mehmet Oz and wife Lisa at the Awards Gala.
Photo: Michael Spencer

Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz helped improve patient education and health literacy in their bestselling YOU: The Owner’s Manual, which sparked a series of associated books from the two doctors.

Award winner Dr. Michael Roizen (left) and FNLM Chairman Dr. Donald West King.
Photo: Michael Spencer

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