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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Who's buried in Booth's grave remains an issue

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Booth mystery must remain so - for now Philly.com Their request for access to an alleged Booth specimen - three cervical vertebrae in ...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Death of Lorenz Zimmerman

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Dr. Lorenz Zimmerman, a long-time Armed Forces Institute of Pathology staff member , died recently. Much of his work is in the medical museu...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Brain awareness week at NMHM

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Brain Awareness Week looks to make science cool GIMBY The National Museum of Health and Medicine include a couple larger-than-life brai...

Medical museum and library staff quoted on 10-year Iraq war

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More than 50,000 U.S. troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan Medical care, front-line tactics aid recovery rates By Lee Bowman Scripps Howar...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

New issue of The Grog, A Journal of Navy Medical History and Culture

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It is with great pleasure that we present to you the latest edition of The Grog, A Journal of Navy Medical History and Culture. In this issu...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Another staff departure at NMHM

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I hear through the grapevine that Mike Stanley, director of logistics for the Museum, is retiring. The hiring freeze on DOD may mean that he...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

National Library of Medicine featured in Washington Post

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National Library of Medicine: A valuable outing, and not just for MDs By Peggy McEwan , Washington Post March 6 2013 - there's a pict...

National Museum of Health and Medicine - a parent's review

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The National Museum of Health and Medicine : Fascinating, but not ... Every once in a while, our adventures around the DC-Metro don't ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Navy Medicine's 1993 John Wilkes Booth issue online now

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The January 1993 issue of Navy Medicine is digitized and online. It features the article "Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Bo...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Here's a cute article about a mini-medical museum

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Hospital receives book with 5000 19th century remedies Idaho State Journal SODA SPRINGS — The Mini- Medical Museum at Caribou Memorial ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

PR: Wellcome Library launches Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics

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Yesterday saw the official launch of Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics, the Wellcome Library's new digital resource which contai...

An anatomical flap book, animated

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Anatomical Flap-Up Illustrations from 1901 Adapted as Animated GIFs by Maria Popova http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/30/anat...

Interesting article on medieval dissection

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Grotesque Mummy Head Reveals Advanced Medieval Science Doctors in medieval Europe weren't as idle as it may seem, as a new analys...

March 12: NLM History of Medicine Lecture

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  You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Tuesday, 12 March, 2013 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

"Do you know where the National Museum of Health and Medicine is located?"

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Sure I do. It's on an Army base, in an industrial park, in a suburban neighborhood...   The National Mus...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

New medical museum opens in Kansas

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  New medical museum opens Shawnee Dispatch The museum tells that story through exhibits focusing on different count...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Mutter museum article

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Travel: It's what??? Philadelphia's Mutter Museum is 'disturbingly ... Waterloo Record The nation's finest and oldest m...
Friday, February 22, 2013

Bits on medical museums on 2 continents

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This is from a first-time visitor to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, who reflects on medical care during the Civil War and today...

Why 'Lincoln' should win an Oscar for Best Picture...

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...because there's a brief scene of General Daniel Sickles' leg on display at the Medical Museum. Sickles lost his leg at th...
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Upcoming lecture on Medical Museum in NY

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The Living Specimen and 'The Museum of Horrors': Amputation, American Civil War Medicine, & the U.S. Army Medical Museum more ...