• The National Institutes of Health has opened its own ClinicalTrials.gov website to provide current information about research studies. It's searchable by disease/condition, keywords, or browsable by disease or study sponsor.
  
  
• You can now get FREE access to Medline, the online medical search database from the National Library of Medicine. It's the world's largest collection of published medical research papers. I just tried a search on the word, Crohn, and it gave back 532 hits in just the last year!
  
  
• The official web site of The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has been updated and reorganized. In its mission to conduct and support research on kidney, urologic, hematologic, digestive, metabolic, and endocrine diseases, the NIDDK also provides a wealth of easy-to-read health information for the public.
  
  
• Here's a directory of U. S. Federal Government agencies as represented in the United States Government Manual. Indentations will inform the reader of the institution's place in the hierarchy. You have to scroll about half-way down the page to get to the Health & Human Services agencies. No annotation is be provided. This index is for people who know where they want to go, but don't know the address. The index is searchable by keyword.
  
  

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