Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Consumer Health Websites

The Medical Library Association has a "top ten" list of the most useful consumer health websites. Each week we are featuring one of these. This week it is cancer.gov.

Cancer.gov is the official website for The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The NCI, established under the National Cancer Act of 1937, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training. NCI coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.

Source: Cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/)

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