Measles genotyped from Berlin medical museum specimen

The Virus Buried in a 100-Year-Old Lung

Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a measles virus that infected a 2-year-old girl who died in 1912.

Sarah Zhang

January 9, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/what-100-year-old-lung-says-about-measles-origin/604591/

NMHM and research on Einstein's brain

Expert Interest in Albert Einstein's Brain

SEPTEMBER 03, 2019

MD Magazine

https://www.mdmag.com/peers-perspectives/einstein-brain/expert-interest-in-albert-einsteins-brain

NMHM digitizing bones

Modernizing Medical Museums through the 3D Digitization of Pathological Specimens

Kristen Pearlstein, Anatomical Collections Manager and Brian Spatola, Anatomical Curator | June 6, 2019

https://www.medicalmuseum.mil/micrograph/index.cfm/posts/2019/modernizing_medical_museums_through_the_3d_digitization_of_pathological_specimens

NMHM 'vampire' skeleton featured in Washington Post

A 'vampire's' remains were found about 30 years ago. Now DNA is giving him new life.

By Michael E. Ruane

Reporter covering local news, Washington institutions and historical topics

July 31 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/31/vampires-remains-were-found-about-years-ago-now-dna-is-giving-him-new-life/ 

AFIP and NMHM mentioned in memo as having aliens from Roswell

'Fake' Roswell alien autopsy video was REAL and CIA scientist saw
proof at Pentagon briefing ...
The Sun
... reveals alien forensic tissue and organs were being stored at
Walter Reed-Armed Forces Institute for Pathology Medical Museum in
Washington DC ...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9382232/leaked-memo-suggests-fake-roswell-alien-autopsy-video-real-cia-scientist-pentagon-briefing/

Indiana Medical History Museum profiled

Former mental hospital houses medical museum

South Bend Tribune

INDIANAPOLIS — In the shadows of old wooden bookcases sit jars filled with embalming fluid preserving decades-old brains that have signs of ...

https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/former-mental-hospital-houses-medical-museum/article_37504499-04f9-5a9d-bde9-b14b5560fdf8.html

NMHM and Dittrick curators on medical equipment

Left to their own devices

A look at the evolution of five now-essential medical tools.

Friday, March 22, 2019 |by Lindsay Kalter, Staff Writer

https://news.aamc.org/research/article/left-their-own-devices/

McGill honors Maude Abbott with a plaque

After honouring 99 men, McGill medical building recognizes pioneer Maude Abbott

Refused entry to McGill medical school because she was a woman, Abbott went on to work for the university

Sarah Leavitt · CBC Feb 21, 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/maude-abbott-honoured-1.5028047

NMHM sued for access to collection

Innocence Project sues museum for access to archives on 'tragically flawed' bite-mark evidence

By Debra Cassens Weiss

ABA Journal February 21, 2019,

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/innocence-project-files-first-amendment-suit-over-denied-access-to-museums-bite-mark-archives

The Innocence Project has sued the federal government's National Museum of Health and Medicine for denying it access to archival information on the history of bite-mark analysis.....

The Washington Post's Express paper reviews the National Museum of Health and Medicine

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a fascinating nightmare

By Sadie Dingfelder

Express January 17 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/2019/01/17/national-museum-health-medicine-is-fascinating-nightmare/

McGill's Medical Museum opens to public

McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum opens its collection to the public University Affairs The "Holmes heart" has a special place among the 2,000 specimens in the collection of McGill's Maude Abbott Medical Museum, which opened its ...

Excellent article on WW1 Chemical Corps experiments in DC

The Chemists' War

One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans' gas attacks.

By Theo Emery

Nov. 10, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/science/chemical-weapons-world-war-1-armistice.html

Civil War specimens scanned from NMHM

Lab 3-D scans human skeletal remains dating back to the American Civil War

November 1, 2018 by Brian Mcneill, Virginia Commonwealth University

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-lab-d-scans-human-skeletal.html#jCp

Wayne Meyers, leprosy specialist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, has passed away

The Washington Post ran an obituary for Dr. Meyers.

A 1993 oral history done for the Museum can be seen online.

McGill Medical Museum featured in local paper

Restored museum unlocks McGill's medical history McGill Tribune The Maude Abbott Medical Museum provides visitors with insight into the rich history of medical studies at McGill as well as the rare opportunity to see ...

http://www.mcgilltribune.com/sci-tech/restored-museum-unlocks-mcgills-medical-history-091018/

Brain collection at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences

Visitors Can Touch Human Brains at This Indian Neuroscience Institute

It's like a petting zoo for organs.

by Maya Prabhu

September 21, 2018

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nimhans-brain-museum

More on the McGill Medical Museum and Gunter von Hagens

Experience: I will be plastinated when I die

The challenges I face are immense. Suffering from Parkinson's disease is like practising dying

Gunther von Hagens

Fri 21 Sep 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/21/i-want-to-be-plastinated-when-i-die

Hearts, brains and bones: Visitors to new museum will 'come a little closer to death'

'We have virtually everything you can think of,' says pathologist Rick Fraser.

CBC Radio · September 18 2018

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/hearts-brains-and-bones-visitors-to-new-museum-will-come-a-little-closer-to-death-1.4828244

McGill University reopens medical museum

Bones, brains, bladders: McGill opens body parts museum to the public

Interactive tablets will offer insights on the specimens, and "we'll also be telling the story of grave-robbing."

Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette September 18, 2018

https://www.thesudburystar.com/opinion/columnists/bones-brains-bladders-mcgill-opens-body-parts-museum-to-the-public/wcm/180f1b63-a006-44ed-af75-9233ae6f38e1

Facial reconstruction photos on NLM's blog

The National Museum of Health and Medicine also has thousands of these types of pictures.

Hidden Faces of WW1: Maxillofacial Portraits Preserved

August 2, 2018
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/08/02/hidden-faces-of-ww1-maxillofacial-portraits-preserved/

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Katherine Akey. Ms. Akey is Adjunct Professor of Photography in the Corcoran School of the Arts at the George Washington University and Fellow in the Living Legacy of World War One project at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is also the line producer for the United States World War One Centennial Commission weekly WW1 Centennial News Podcast. Today she employs her considerable expertise to give us insight into a private and profound photographic collection of an American surgeon in the Great War, now held in the public trust at the National Library of Medicine.

July 23: Medical Museum Science Cafe: Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I

You are cordially invited to attend the following lecture to be held at the
National Museum of Health and Medicine, 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD
20910, on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, from 6-7 p.m.

Confronting "Shell Shock": The American Experience during World War I

During World War I, war-related psychological trauma was considered a new
manifestation of psychiatric breakdown. American military medicine was
challenged by establishing an entirely new medical specialty while treating
the stricken service member and assuring an anxious public back home. Explore
American psychiatrists' understanding of "shell shock" and what lessons they
did – or did not – learn from their experience. Presenter: Rachel Levandoski
is an historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office
and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

FREE! Open to the public. No RSVP required.

Andrea Schierkolk
NMHM Public Programs
andrea.k.schierkolk.civ@mail.mil
301-319-3303