By Lindsay Franz ~ Springtime means spring cleaning, but do you include cleaning your teeth as part of your annual efforts, and overall dental health?
![A postcard with a dentist saying to a patient "due to the "gas" shortage, we must use other methods" and a woman with a big hammer standing by.](https://i0.wp.com/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/postcard_101689666_feature.jpg?resize=600%2C280&ssl=1)
By Lindsay Franz ~ Springtime means spring cleaning, but do you include cleaning your teeth as part of your annual efforts, and overall dental health?
An interview with Alice Weinreb, PhD on her NLM History Talk and her research on anorexia nervosa in the 20th century.
By Lindsay Franz ~ Pumpkin season is upon us! Pumpkin flavored coffee, candles, lotions and even beer are everywhere as soon as the season of
An interview with Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. on his NLM History Talk and his work on health disparities.
By Anne Rothfeld ~ Culinary historians have traced the origins of egg-nog to the medieval British punch called “posset,” warm milk curdled with alcohol such
By Anne Rothfeld ~ Coffee shops today are ubiquitous: nearly every street corner, airport, hotel, grocery store offers coffee in a myriad of forms. Yet,
Welcome to a virtual tour of the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine. Today we are featuring collections about nutrition.
By Kenneth M. Koyle ~ January is National Soup Month, and for obvious reasons. This is the middle of winter for those of us in
By Ashley Chang ~ For millennia, mothers around the world have made great sacrifices to ensure the survival of their children. These efforts have changed
Andrew Ruis, PhD, on his article in the new open-access book Viral Networks: Connecting Digital Humanities and Medical History