http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/
PubMed Health is a consumer health Web site produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed Health provides up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, injuries, drugs, supplements, treatment options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness research from institutions around the world.
PubMed Health includes:
•consumer guides summarizing comparative effectiveness research
•fact sheets on diseases and conditions
•information on drugs and supplements
•encyclopedic overviews of health topics
•links to external Web sites
PubMed Health has a special focus on comparative effectiveness research, in particular that research which evaluates the available evidence of the benefits and harms of different treatment options for different groups of people. In Comparative Effectiveness Research, experts often synthesize the evidence from dozens, or even hundreds, of individual studies.
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