From the Editor

From the Chair

PH/HA @ MLA 2003

Elections for New Officers

Member News

Electronic Journal Club: Evidence Based Public Health

Strengthening Ties with Public Health: Librarians and Public Health Practitioners Interact at APHA's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

CDC Column: Toxicological Profiles for Hazardous Substances

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project
Mentoring: Sharing Experiences for Professional Growth
101 Public Health Uses for a PDA
Pittsburgh School of Public Health offers “PUBLIC HEALTH 101” Online

4 Girls Health
AHRQ Web-Assisted Audio Conferences on Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness
Bioterrorism and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
Clip Art for Health Communication
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
Eat Five a Day for Better Health
Edible Vaccines
From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Supersizing
Health Education Advocate
Healthy Pets Healthy People
IOM Health Literacy Project
Making Strategic Decisions about Service Delivery
Michigan Community Health Electronic Library
Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal
Microbiology Current Issues: Water Quality
National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)
A New Era in Newborn Screening - Saving Lives, Improving Outcomes
Newsletters and Journals in Public Health (Free)
The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating
Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Partners for Substance Abuse Prevention Website
Pests of Significant Public Health Importance - EPA
probeBase
Ready to Learn: All About Hepatitis C
RE-AIM
Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood
Reports of Public Health Interest
Staying Alive
Tox Town from the National Library of Medicine
UK Biobank: A Study of Genes, Environment, and Health
Virus World

From the Editor

Hi everyone. Welcome to the much delayed Fall issue of the PH/HA Newsletter! This fall has been a very demanding time for me as I finished my MPH in Community Health Education from Hunter College of the City University of New York and taking a new job in September as the Manager of the Public Health Library of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene.

Thanks to all the contributers for this issue. We will be extending the spring issue deadline to April 1, 2003 to give a little more time between issues. We will also be looking for a new GIS columnist. Please let me know if you are interested. Hope to see you all at MLA!
Kris

From the Chair

Happy New Year! Here is a brief update on our activities. In December I submitted the section's mid-year report to MLA, and distributed a copy of it via the PH/HA E-mail list. We have a lot to be proud of as a section—we sponsor unique activities that include and reach beyond MLA.

Our section bylaws are being reviewed for our vote at the annual meeting in San Diego. Diana Cunningham and other section members have worked hard to revise these.

PH/HA is co-sponsoring 6 programming sessions this year at MLA—see their descriptions below. Marie Ascher was a true advocate for PH/HA in program planning this year.

PH/HA @ MLA 2003
http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2003/index.html

MLA 2003 will be full of opportunities to learn more about Public Health and meet up with other PH/HA members.

The PH/HA business meeting is Monday, May 5, 2003, from 5:00 - 6:30 PM

Two continuing education courses are being offered:

• CE 321 Adventures in Public Health (Public Health 101)
  Instructor: Sharon Talboys, project director, Training and Education, Utah Department of Health-Salt Lake City
  Course will allow librarians to learn about the field of public health through lecture and group problem-solving activities.
• CE 399 Data Detective: Finding the Jewels of Public Health Datasets
  Instructor: Hongjie Wang, AHIP, head, Information and Education Services Department, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library, University of Connecticut Health Center-Farmington
  Course will demonstrate the definition, nature, sources, access, use, and related issues of general health datasets information. An overview of the basic information skills necessary to use available large health datasets will be followed by live demonstration of how to access the most-often used datasets.

• Staying Afloat in a Sea of Data: Lessons in Public Health Informatics
  Description: What are the major issues in public health informatics, and what role can libraries and information centers play in this emerging discipline? How are librarians providing public health information to public health professionals in the field? What are the trends in data surveillance and information systems that impact the work that we do? How do we work with public health data and information? What are we doing to teach others to access public health information?
• Caught in the Whirlpool: Information Needs of and Outreach Services for At-Risk and Underserved Consumer Populations
  Description: Many special consumer groups are at risk for various health problems due to social, economic, and behavioral factors. In many cases, these populations who have the greatest need for quality health information are the most difficult to reach. How do we design services to reach these populations? What do we know about what information they need? Speakers will discuss topics such as health information for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth; immigrants and non-English speaking users; migrant workers; and low socioeconomic status, low-literacy, rural, or inner-city populations.
• Knowing When to Get Out of the Water: Delivering Disaster-Related Public Health Information
  Description: With a renewed focus on homeland security in the United States, the need for immediate access to disaster-related public health information is as important as it has ever been. The focus of contributions to this session will be on innovative uses of technologies such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), pocket personal computers, wireless networks, or other handheld devices to disseminate disaster-related public health information to those who need it most. Disaster-related public health information topics include bioterrorism and other acts of terrorism, disease outbreaks, or natural disasters.
• Through Tempests and Storms: Vaccines, Biologicals, Patient Education, and Environmental Health
  Description: What are the latest issues and the historical background of the current resurgence of interest in vaccines? What effects have there been for consumers and patients? How do biological agents and research show promise for medical uses and threat for military ones? How do both of these relate to environmental toxicology and health? Most importantly, what do they have to do with your library? The papers will showcase creation and sources of information, collection development, research, and organization of resources on vaccines and immunization, biologicals, patient education, and environmental health issues. Find out more about vaccines, biologicals, patient education, and environmental health, as they relate to health care, library services and collections, consumer and patient health information, and informatics.
• Building Lighthouses on Far Shores: Services to Underserved Health Professionals
  Description: Many health professionals are not directly affiliated with a large university library or do not have access to any library services. These may include health professionals in rural or inner city areas or in stand-alone practices who may be physicians, nurses, public health workers, health department employees, physical therapists, or other allied health workers and allied professionals (for example, athletic trainers). This session will showcase outreach programs-including but not limited to marketing library services, developing Web and virtual library content, or providing continuing education workshops-that bring library and information services to these far shores and research that explores this area.
• The Crest of the Wave-Cool New Health Information Resources for Consumers
  Description: An exciting session on the latest library services for consumers will feature Angela B. Ruffin, Ph.D., head, National Network Office, National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, MD, who will speak on “The NN/LM Electronic Access to Health Information Projects.” Timely contributed papers on electronic reference for consumers, informed medical decision making, and resources for diverse and minority populations will also be featured. Libraries have reached the next stage of consumer health services. Vibrant new electronic resources and library services for patients and their families are here today. Papers will cover innovative resources, delivery systems, avant-garde services, and Web-based NLM-funded projects as they relate to consumer health information. What are some experiences and outcomes of e-reference services, informed medical decision-making services, and resources suitable for diverse and minority populations? Join us to hear and learn the latest trends.

Elections for New PH/HA Officers

The elections for PH/HA officers are here!! Brief candidate bios and the official ballot were distributed to the PH/HA E-mail list by Marie Ascher, PH/HA Chair Elect. Deadline for voting is Wednesday, February 26, 2003. The candidates are:

• Chair-Elect / Chair 2004-2005
  ________ Kris Alpi
• Section Council Representative
  ________ Pauline Fulda
  ________ Matthew Wilcox
  
• Nominee to the Nominating Committee
  ________ Marjorie Cahn
  ________ Gale Dutcher
  

Member News

Memorials to Win may be made to your charity of choice or to the Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc. at the following address:

Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund, Inc.
c/o Lois Bauer, Business Manager
P.O. Box 1294
Fall City, WA 98024

Electronic Journal Club: Evidence Based Public Health

It's been a long journey from June to December, but the evidence-based public health journal club is now complete. The club was jointly sponsored by the PH/HA and Nursing and Allied Health Resources Section, but included participation from many sections. Thank you to Matt Wilcox, Kay McCloskey, Carolyn Bridgewater, and Dorice Vieira for convening the other four sections. I would also like to thank the participants for their energy and their patience with the paperwork required. An analysis of participant evaluations will be prepared in the future.

Here are a list of those to successfully complete the MLA requirements:

Mary Aldous Kristine Alpi Marie Ascher Agnes Bongero Ester Brandeis Carolyn Bridgewater Cynthia Burke Peter Droese Sharon Easterby-Gannett Dorothy Fleishman Lynette Georgeson Alice Hadley Eileen Hansen Elizabeth Hill

Leann Isaac Carol Johnson Cynthia Kahn Kathy Kerdolff Nina Lane Emily Moser Gediminas Paulaitis Harriet Schick Hathy Simpson Mary K. Taylor Anne Tomlin Beth Wescott Jean Williams Lucy Wrightington

Strengthening Ties with Public Health: Librarians and Public Health Practitioners Interact at APHA's Annual Meeting in Philadelphia

CDC Column: Toxicological Profiles for Hazardous Substances

Do you need information about toxic substances? Would you like your health sciences library to obtain this information at no cost? If your answer to these questions is yes, we have good news for you!

This information is available in publications developed by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the principal federal public health agency charged with evaluating the human health effects of exposure to hazardous substances. ATSDR is part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The agency has 10 regional offices throughout the United States and also has an office in Washington, DC. ATSDR was created in 1980 by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

ATSDR has been directed by Congress to produce toxicological profiles for hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites; these are the hazardous waste sites identified as having the most significant public health implications. The agency ranks these substances based on frequency of occurrence at NPL sites, toxicity, and potential for human exposure. ATSDR also prepares toxicological profiles on substances related to federal sites for the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Profile development procedures include a rigorous peer review by a nongovernmental panel, and each profile is made available for public review.

Each profile examines, summarizes, and interprets available toxicologic information and epidemiologic evaluations. The profiles include estimates of levels of hazardous substances that might harm people's health; they are updated about every 3 years. Each profile begins with a public health statement that describes a substance's relevant toxicologic properties in a nontechnical, question-and-answer format. After the public health statement, the profile discusses information concerning levels of significant human exposure and, where known, significant health effects. The adequacy of information to determine a substance's health effects is described in a health effects summary, and data needs that are of significance to protection of public health are also identified.

The principal audiences for the profiles are health professionals, other government agencies, academia, interested private sector organizations and groups, and the general public. The profiles average about 150 pages each and are available in paper or electronic format. The agency has produced a CD-ROM for the profiles, and the profiles can also be accessed via the ATSDR Internet website. Public health statements and chemical-specific fact sheets (ToxFAQs™) for many of the profiles are also available on the Internet. Profiles include the following information:

1. Health effects of a substance by route of exposure
2. Levels of a substance in the human body and in the environment that are associated with health effects
3. Chemical and physical information; production, import, use, and disposal of the substance; and potential for human exposure
4. Data needs for toxic substances
5. Analytical methods to detect and measure the substance in the environment and in biologic samples
6. Regulations and advisories for the substance

• Visit the ATSDR Internet website - http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov
• Call the ATSDR toll-free number - 1-888-42-ATSDR (1-888-422-8737)
• Write the ATSDR Information Center, 1600 Clifton Road, Mail Stop E-57, Atlanta, GA 30333

ATSDR publishes notices in the Federal Register announcing the availability of profiles. Your health sciences library can also be placed on the ATSDR mailing list to receive free copies of the profiles. For a list of the profiles available at this time or for further information, contact Marianne Yaun Hartin at myaun@cdc.gov.

Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project

This project, based at Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, is funded by an award from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM). Elaine Martin, Director of Library Services, is the Principal Investigator of the project and Hathy Simpson at the Lamar Soutter Library is the Project Coordinator. Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) for clinical medicine involves using the best evidence to care for individual patients. Evidence-based public health (EBPH) involves using the best evidence to develop public health policies and intervention programs. There are various EBM resources available to help clinicians sort through the vast amount of medical literature to find the best evidence for their practice needs, yet few resources are available to assist public health practitioners find high quality information relevant to their practice needs. A primary aim of the project is to examine the characteristics of clinical EBM resources and determine their applicability for a model for EBPH. In order to develop an evidence-based tool appropriate to public health, the project team needed to identify the knowledge domains of public health and then determine the literature and bibliographic databases associated with each domain. The project team looked at public health associations, government health agencies, national health objectives, and other public health sources to identify the knowledge domains of public health. They also identified and compiled a list of journals related to public health practice.

The project team traveled to the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. They met with the CDC Information Center Advisory Committee and gave a presentation on the project and solicited feedback from the committee. The CDC librarians and researchers were very positive about the project, and especially liked the concept of matching public health journals with the identified knowledge domains of public health. They thought this would be tremendously helpful in identifying literature in specific public health subject areas. The Library recently received notification from the CDC and the ATPM that the project's funding has been renewed for another year. Future goals for the project include determining the information needs of public health workers through focus groups and determining how they would prefer to access evidence-based public health information.

Information about the project and the identified public health knowledge domains and journals can be viewed on the project's website at: http://library.umassmed.edu/ebpph/. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Hathy Simpson at e.hatheway.simpson@umassmed.edu.

Mentoring: Sharing Experiences for Professional Growth

Mentoring has become a national movement in business and industry as organizations strive to insure recruitment, retention and productivity of talented employees. Librarians who have traditionally sought talented and respected colleagues to share opinions and experiences in an informal manner are experiencing the need to explore more formal approaches to mentoring as we continue to recruit new members to our profession.

This year at the MLA Annual Meeting in San Diego, there will be a three-hour program on Wednesday, May 7 from 9am to 12 noon where members can learn about and discuss how to further develop, implement and maintain mentoring activities in our organization. The committee responsible for planning this program is the first to be composed of members from both Section Council (Stephen Greenberg, Jett McCann, Tovah Reis) and Chapter Council (Irene Lovas, Paula Raimondo, Debbie Sibley). Consultant Karen Garman, Ed.D., who spoke at the November 2001 joint meeting of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Librarians (AAHSL) and the Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), will set the stage for the program by providing an overview of mentoring. Dr. Garman is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant who specializes in the fields of mentoring, healthcare education, leadership and performance.

To share some of their unique experiences of professional growth, a distinguished panel of health sciences librarians including Sue Trombley, from the Arizona Health Sciences Library in Tucson, Ruth Holst, currently the associate director, NN/LM Greater Midwest Region, and Rick Forsman, director of the Denison Memorial Library at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center will bring their perspectives of mentoring to the discussion. Sue is a recent graduate, Ruth is at mid-career and a former hospital librarian who has been and has mentored, and Rick is a “senior” librarian who has mentored librarians throughout his career. A Town Meeting will cap off the morning. This will be the time for everyone to express opinions, to offer ideas and thoughts, and to ask any questions about mentoring. It will be an opportunity for MLA members to hear about the mentoring activities of MLA, its Sections and Chapters, and other professional associations and organizations. The Town Meeting will be the place to continue planning mentoring initiatives for our professional organization. Before the Annual Meeting, there will be opportunities for you to assist the Committee in planning the Town Meeting. A bibliography of mentoring resources will be posted on MLANet. There will be a place on MLANet to post suggestions, comments and questions to be addressed at the Town Meeting. You also can email any ideas or questions to either Irene Lovas (email: Irene.Lovas@cshs.org) or Tovah Reis (Tovah_Reis@brown.edu). Please take this opportunity to participate as the MLA membership continues to develop and implement mentoring activities for future health sciences librarians.

101 Public Health Uses for a PDA
http://depts.washington.edu/hswork/workshops/joint2002/101_ph_uses_pda.html

Our technology guru, Laura Larsson, shares this wonderful compilation hosted on her website.

Pittsburgh School of Public Health offers “PUBLIC HEALTH 101” Online
http://www.pophtc.pitt.edu/training.htm

Public Health 101 Online was developed by the Pennsylvania & Ohio Public Health Training Center, a project of the Center for Public Health Practice, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, funded through the ASPH/HRSA cooperative agreement. The course is a free continuing education accredited on-line introduction to the field of Public Health. It provides information on the fundamentals of U.S. Public Health including public health history, legal underpinnings of the US public health system (with specifics of PA's & OH's public health systems), and public health core functions (with practical examples from people within the field).

Public Health 101 addresses the basic public health sciences skills competency (from the Council on Linkages found at: http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list_nolevels.htm). The course is available at: http://coursesites.blackboard.com/. You will need to register (free!) as a Blackboard user, then search “public health” to find the course and click on Enroll. If you have questions or need instructions to log in, contact: Molly M. Eggleston, Project Coordinator at: 412-383-2230, or mme@pitt.edu.

4 Girls Health
http://www.4girls.gov/index2.htm

AHRQ Web-Assisted Audio Conferences on Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness
http://www.hsrnet.net/ahrq-ulp/bioterrorism/

Bioterrorism and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response: A National Collaborative Plan for Strenthening Preparedness at the Front Lines - Executive Summary
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/owpp/Docs/BTNatTrainPlanExecSum0202.pdf

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
http://www.csiss.org/

Clip Art for Health Communication
http://www.hcmn.org/clipart

Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource - Department of Energy
http://cedr.lbl.gov/

Eat Five a Day for Better Health
http://www.5aday.gov/

Edible Vaccines
http://whyfiles.org/166plant_vaccines/index.html

From Wallet to Waistline: The Hidden Costs of Supersizing
http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/final_price_study.pdf

Health Education Advocate
http://www.healtheducationadvocate.org

Healthy Pets Healthy People
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/

IOM Health Literacy Project
http://www4.nas.edu/cp.nsf/Projects+_by+_PIN/BNBH-H-01-03-A?OpenDocument

For more on assessing the literacy level of health documents, see the following sites:

• Harvard School of Public Health page on Health Literacy Studies - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy/how_to/assess_mat.html
• Center for Medicare Education Writing Easy to Read Documents - http://www.medicareed.org/pdfs/papers62.pdf
• Web Accessibility for Ethnic Older Adults - http://www.cba.nau.edu/becker-a/Accessibility/ReadMe.html
• Readability Tests - http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/health-education/read.cfm [Ed note: Updated link 3/17/04].
• Pfizer Health Literacy Principles - http://www.pfizerhealthliteracy.com/improving.html

Making Strategic Decisions about Service Delivery

Michigan Community Health Electronic Library
http://www.mchel.org

Microbes.info - The Microbiology Information Portal
http://microbes.info/

Microbiology Current Issues: Water Quality
http://www.microbeworld.org/htm/cissues/waterq/wqual_0.htm

National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI)
http://www.nnphi.org

A New Era in Newborn Screening - Saving Lives, Improving Outcomes
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/Newborn/default.asp

Newsletters and Journals in Public Health (Free)

• AHRQ WebM&M - http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov
  The official launch of AHRQ WebM&M, AHRQ's peer-reviewed, Web-based medical journal that will showcase patient safety lessons drawn from actual cases of medical errors, is scheduled for February. Edited by a team at the University of California, San Francisco, the Web-based journal is designed to educate health care providers about medical errors in an engaging and blame-free environment. Authors of cases chosen for posting will receive an honorarium while retaining their anonymity. Every month, five interesting cases of medical errors and patient safety problems across a broad array of medical specialties will be posted along with commentaries from distinguished experts and a forum for readers' comments. Site registrants can also choose to receive monthly notices of topics and commentaries starting in mid-February.
• Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health Newsletter - http://www.atmch.org/newltr.htm
• Health and Quality of Life Outcomes - http://www.hqlo.com
  New open access journal [ISSN: 1477-7525] invites submissions on all aspects of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) assessment for the evaluation of medical therapies or psychosocial approaches and studies on psychometric properties of HRQOL measures, including cultural validation of instruments.
• Health Research Policy and Systems - http://www.health-policy-systems.com
  New open access journal [ISSN: 1478-4505] launched in association with World Health Organization. It welcomes a broad spectrum of articles addressing key issues and topics in the field of health research systems and health research policy.
• NACCHO Exchange - http://www.naccho.org/cat9.cfm Although print copies are not free, the link for each issue leads to a free PDF with full text. The Fall 2002 issue, “Promoting Effective Local Public Health Practice,” highlights workforce competencies for emergency preparedness and includes articles by practitioners, ASPH faculty, and federal, state, and local partners. It may be accessed at http://archive.naccho.org/Documents/Fall2002.pdf.
• Public Health GIS News and Information - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/gis/gis_publichealthinfo.htm

The Nutrition Source: Knowledge for Healthy Eating
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
http://www.mipt.org/

Partners for Substance Abuse Prevention Website
http://www.samhsa.gov/preventionpartners

Pests of Significant Public Health Importance - EPA
http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/csb_page/updates/pr2002-1.htm

probeBase
http://www.microbial-ecology.de/probebase/

Ready to Learn: All About Hepatitis C
http://www.all-about-hepatitisc.com/

RE-AIM
http://www.re-aim.org

Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/

Reports of Public Health Interest

• 10th Report on Carcinogens - http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/roc/toc10.html
  The US Department of Health and Human Services has recently made available its 10th Report on Carcinogens (RoC), as prepared by the National Toxicology Program located at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The Report on Carcinogens (RoC) is an informational scientific and public health document that identifies and discusses substances (including agents, mixtures, or exposure circumstances) that may pose a carcinogenic hazard to human health.
• 2001 Annual ASPH Data Report - http://www.asph.org/uploads/adr2001.pdf
  The Annual Data Report with information on applicants, new enrollees, students and graduates of the U.S. accredited schools of public health, is now available online on the ASPH website.
• The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century - http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10548.html
  This report, the follow-up to the 1988 report The Future of Public Health, reviews the nation's public health capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for how the government public health agencies, working with multiple partners from the public and private sectors as an intersectoral public health system, can better ensure the health of communities.
• A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet - http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/index.html
  The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) published a report in 2002 detailing use of the internet in the US today. Data includes the number/age/type of people who use the internet for health related information.
• Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals - http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
  The Report is the second in a series of publications that provide an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals or their metabolites in human specimens such as blood or urine.
• State of Tobacco Control 2002 - http://lungaction.org/reports/tobacco-control.html
  The American Lung Association's Report on the state of tobacco control analyzes individuals states' action four years after the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
• Water for Life: The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality - http://credpr.stanford.edu/pdf/credpr154.pdf
  Written as part of the Working Paper series at the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy at Berkeley, this 46-page paper examines the effects of the privatization of water services on child mortality in Argentina.
• WHO Essential Medicines and Drug Policy - http://www.who.int/medicines/
  WHO releases first global reference guide on safe and effective use of essential medicines on 4 September 2002 | Geneva -- In its efforts to promote safe and cost-effective use of medicines, WHO today released the first edition of the WHO Model Formulary. Use of the formulary, which provides comprehensive information on the medicines in the WHO List of Essential Drugs, will enhance patient safety and cut costs.

Staying Alive
http://www.staying-alive.org/

Tox Town from the National Library of Medicine
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

For further information and to send comments, please contact: Cindy Love, Office of Outreach and Special Populations Specialized Information Services National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health 6707 Democracy Blvd, Suite 510, Bethesda, MD 20892 301-496-5306 cindy_love@nlm.nih.gov. You can also send comments on Tox Town to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov.

[Ed. Note: For an update on HazMap, see Chemicals, Jobs and Diseases (Haz-Map®) in the NLM Technical Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf03/jf03_hazmap.html.]

UK Biobank: A Study of Genes, Environment, and Health
http://www.biobank.ac.uk/

Virus World
http://rhino.bocklabs.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/virusworld/virustable.pl

Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1994-2001. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of the Scout Report provided the copyright notice and this paragraph is preserved on all copies. The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this material.

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