Services

How Can the Clearinghouse Help You?
NDDIC provides the following informational products and services:

Response to inquiries about digestive diseases—ranging from information about available patient and professional education materials to statistical data. By phone (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time, M-F), fax, mail, and email.

Publications about specific digestive diseases, provided free of copyright, in varying reading levels. Available online or as booklets and brochures. (See our Publications Catalog.) NDDIC also sends publications to health fairs and community events. Please contact us for more information.

Referrals to health professionals through the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus includes a consumer-friendly listing of organizations that will assist you in your search for physicians and other health professionals.

The NIDDK Reference Collection, a database of health education materials, is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health. NDDIC maintains the digestive diseases subfile of thousands of references to materials produced for patients and health care professionals, including fact sheets, brochures, and audiovisual materials.

Exhibits at professional meetings specific to digestive diseases, as well as cross-cutting professional meetings. NDDIC exhibits at nine professional meetings each year, including Digestive Diseases Week, American College of Gastroenterology, Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Physician Assistants, American Nurses Association, and the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners.

National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse
2 Information Way
Bethesda, MD 20892–3570
Phone: 1–800–891–5389
Fax: 703–738–4929
Email: nddic@info.niddk.nih.gov