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These selected toll-free numbers for organizations provide health-related information, education, and support. These organizations DO NOT diagnose or recommend treatment for any disease. Some of the organizations use recorded messages; others provide personalized counseling and referrals. Most offer educational materials; some charge handling fees.

Organizations that provide crisis assistance are listed under the heading of Crisis Intervention.The Rare Disorders category includes diseases and disorders that affect less than 1 percent of the population at any given time. Groups in the Professional Organizations section offer consumer information.

Unless otherwise stated, numbers listed operate on eastern standard time and can be reached within the continental United States 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Numbers that observe eastern daylight saving time (when in effect) are annotated as "(Eastern time)."

Inclusion of an information source in this publication does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This document is available from the Internet at http://www.health.gov/NHIC/Pubs/. To order printed copies of this publication, contact the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) Communication Support Center, P.O. Box 37366,Washington, DC 20013-7366; fax (301) 468-3028.

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Topic Index

Adoption
Aging
AIDS/HIV
Alcohol Abuse
Allergy/Asthma
Alzheimer's Disease
Arthritis
Audiovisuals
Autism
Autoimmune Diseases
Blindness
Bone Marrow
Bone Disease
Brain Tumors
Cancer
Cerebral Palsy
Chemical
    Products/Pesticides
Child Abuse/Missing
    Children/Children's
    Mental Health
Child
    Development/Parenting
Chronic Fatigue
    Syndrome
Crisis Intervention
Cystic Fibrosis
Diabetes/Digestive
    Diseases
Disabling Conditions/Disabilities
    Access
Down Syndrome
Drinking Water Safety
Drug Abuse
Dwarfism
Dyslexia
Endometriosis
Environment
Epilepsy



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Essential Tremor
Ethics
Fire Prevention
Fitness
Food Safety
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,
    Transgender Health
General Health
Genetic Diseases
Headache/Head Injury
Healthy Weight/Weight
    Loss
Hearing and Speech
Heart Disease
Histiocytosis
Homelessness
Hormonal Disorders
Hospital/Hospice Care
Housing
Huntington's Disease
Immunization
Impotence
Insurance/Medicare/Medicaid
Justice
Kidney Disease
Lead
Learning Disorders
Library Services
Liver Diseases
Lung Disease/Asthma/Allergy
Maternal and Child
    Health
Medicare/Medicaid
Mental Health
Minority Health

Nutrition
Oral Health
Organ Donation
Orphan Products
Paralysis and Spinal
    Cord Injury
Parkinson's Disease
Pesticides
Poison Control
Practitioner Reporting
Pregnancy/Miscarriage
Professionals
Radiation
Rare Diseases/Disorders
Rehabilitation
Restless Legs Syndrome
Safety
Sexual Education
Sexually Transmitted
    Diseases
Skin Disease
Spinal Cord Injury
Smoking
Stroke
Stuttering
Substance Abuse
Sudden Infant Death
    Syndrome
Surgery/Facial Plastic
    Surgery
Suicide Prevention
    Hotlines
Trauma
Urological Disorders
Venereal Diseases
Veterans
Vision
Violence
Women

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