Urologic Diseases Research Updates
Winter 2007

NIDDK News

NIDDK Website Offers New Resources

Interactive Health Education Tools and Image Library Now Live

Would you like to watch a video on your computer of a live surgical procedure to correct urinary incontinence? Or maybe you’re interested in taking an interactive, online tutorial about erectile dysfunction.

With a new, interactive section of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) website, http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools, you can do those things and much more.

• Test your health knowledge with online quizzes.

• Download digital recordings of radio broadcasts from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

• Listen to audio files from NIH Research Radio.

• Monitor your health using online diet and exercise tools.

These tools and resources from the NIH and the National Library of Medicine about urologic and kidney diseases are compiled into one section of the NIDDK website for ease in finding and accessing all that is available. Interactive tools are also available for diabetes at http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools and digestive diseases at http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools.

The Image Library, an online, searchable database of original full-color and black-and-white illustrations, is produced by the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse and other NIDDK information clearinghouses.

Image Library Live

Another new section of the NIDDK website is the Image Library, http://catalog.niddk.nih.gov/ImageLibrary, an online, searchable database of original full-color and black-and-white illustrations produced by the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse and other NIDDK information clearinghouses. The library organizes the drawings into instructional, anatomical/medical, and lifestyle/activity categories. These illustrations are available copyright-free to the public at no cost, although the NIDDK should be credited as the source of each downloaded illustration. The illustrations are available in high, medium, and low resolutions.

NIH Publication No. 07–5743
March 2007

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