Monday, June 12, 2006

NIH Consumer Magazine


NIH MedlinePlus Magazine is a new quarterly guide for patients and their families. It brings the latest and most authoritative medical and healthcare information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as featured online on the MedlinePlus website.

Table of contents for the Summer 2006 issue include:
  • clinical trials: a crucial key to human health research
  • Lance Armstrong shares his battle with cancer
  • detecting and managing high blood pressure
  • the challenges of living with Parkinson's disease
  • this is the season of the itch
This colorful, informative, and authoritative magazine is designed to engage consumers in the health care process.