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| Evaluating Health News | ||
| JAMA Patient Pages | ||
| One-page summaries with basic information on many health-related topics; recent Pages have focused on basic science research, health information from the Internet, and finding information on medical research. ( http://pubs.ama-assn.org/ ) | ||
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | ||
| Provides information about the NIH and NIH activities and agencies; the NIH is the key federal agency that conducts and funds health-related research. ( http://www.nih.gov ) | ||
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| NIH National Library of Medicine | ||
| Gateway to consumer health information, clinical trials information, and abstracts of millions of medical research studies. ( http://www.nlm.nih.gov ) | ||
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| NIH Office of Science Education | ||
| Provides resources for improving scientific literacy as well as information on NIH research activities. ( http://science-education.nih.gov/homepage.nsf ) | ||
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| Research! America | ||
| An advocacy organization promoting the idea that medical and health research should be a higher national priority; site has information about the funding of medical research and recent key findings. ( http://researchamerica.org ) | ||
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| Social Issues Research Center: Health News: Reading Between the Lines | ||
| Provides advice for evaluating health news. ( http://www.sirc.org/articles/anxiety.html ) | ||
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