October 2005 — The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) collection continues to grow, with more than 21,000 high-quality materials available for use including the following featured collections:

• Gallery of Hematology Images, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University — Christine Lawrence, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine emerita, developed this impressive collection of almost 600 peer-reviewed images. It surveys most of the hematologic disorders and many infectious diseases evident on examination of blood and bone marrow smears.
• William F. Hoyt Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection from the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) — 850+ images from the extensive collection Dr. Hoyt, Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Ophthalmology.
• Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction — A Web-based course combining Medantic Technology's didactic presentations and Medulator virtual patient cases to present information on nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare for healthcare providers.
• Search for MERLOT resources — HEAL users may now search for health sciences resources from the renowned Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) repository, via an experimental Web services-based federated search, at http://www.healcentral.org/search/fedsearch.jsp.
• HEAL resources available in NSDL — HEAL resources now appear in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) at http://nsdl.org. NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels. It is now harvesting HEAL metadata via the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol.

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