patientINFORM
patientINFORM is a free online service that provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases.
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Stay Informed about Medical Research
Improve and Safeguard your Health
Health content on the Web can help you better understand a diagnosis, treatment or prescription, and prepare for surgery or a doctor's appointment. However, not all information is created equal. Ideally, you'll rely both on general information about a health condition from a trusted health association and on research articles from publishers to learn about new treatment advances. patientINFORM is designed to give you original research – but with leading medical associations providing the analysis you need to understand it.
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Two Additional Health Organizations Join Effort to Fight Health Literacy Crisis - February 16, 2006
The National Organization for Rare Disorders and the ALS Association Commit to patient INFORM
Online Resource Allows Patients Direct Access to Latest Medical Research
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 16, 2006 - The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the umbrella organization for more than 1100 rare disorder groups, and the ALS Association (ALSA) have joined the American Diabetes Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and a group of scholarly and medical publishers as participants in patientINFORM, an effort to ... more.
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Health Organizations and Publishers Respond to Health Literacy Crisis - February 16, 2006
patientINFORM Cited as Example of Innovative Way to Provide Medical Research Studies to Patients
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 16, 2006 - Representatives Paul Gillmor (R-OH) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) were joined today by leading health organizations and medical publishers to draw attention to ... more.