Insurance finding tool and oil spill video conference for health care professionals

A couple of small pieces of news from the internet today.

The US Department of Health and Human Services now provides a web tool for finding health insurance.  Check out this nifty new widget they created:

If you'd like the code for this widget and others, you can find it here.

Also newsworthy, there will be a statewide video conference for nurses, physicians, partners and stakeholders titled "Gulf Oil Spill 2010: Public Health Aspects" on Monday, August 30th starting at 1:30pm.  More information is available from this .pdf.  The speaker will be LuAnn White, the director of the Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Health (CAEPH), Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

With thanks to the Poynter Legislative Research Library for forwarding the links.

NEW National Library of Medicine page on Crude Oil Spills and Human Health

Forwarded from NLM:

A new page of links to information on "Crude Oil Spills and Human Health" is now available at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/oilspills.html.

The page has links to information on how the United States responds to oil spills, state agencies in the Gulf region that respond to spills, occupational hazards for professionals and volunteers assisting with clean-up, seafood safety and more. The links under "Featured Sites" focus on the latest updates about the recent spill and subsequent controlled burning of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill followed the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit oil platform 50 miles southeast of the Mississippi Delta on April 20, 2010.

Please send your comments and suggestions about additional health information content to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov. This information is compiled by the Disaster Information Management Research Center, Specialized Information Services, US National Library of Medicine.

With thanks to the LSU Library and Information Science Listserv.