NIAMS Community Outreach Bulletin — Fall 2021 Issue

NEW! Health Information Basics Series Now Includes Helpful Tools and Information About Back Pain

The NIAMS recently added a new title, Living With Back Pain, to its popular "Health Information Basics" series. The NIAMS also recently updated two other resources in the series, Living With Arthritis and Living With Lupus. The free booklets, designed for patients and their families, present basic information in a simple, easy-to-read format and provide helpful tips on how to cope with these conditions. The booklets also include tools that you can tear out and use to record information to share with your doctor, including a symptom tracker, pain tracker, and medication tracker. The booklets will soon be available in Spanish, as well!

Order your copies today! You can also download and print full-color PDFs for each of the resources.

Watch this video overview to learn more about the NIAMS' programs, community partnerships, and research priorities, and meet some of its world-class investigators. You can also read more about the Institute on the updated "What Is NIAMS?" webpage.

This one-page guide, created by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Science, Health, and Public Trust group, helps communicators put the process of science into perspective, which can help earn and build public trust in science. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial public health importance of explaining why science changes and why it's important to expect that change.

The Let's Take Charge campaign, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, intends to increase diversity in clinical trial participation. The goal is to ensure that future medical products are safe and effective for everyone living with lupus.