Digestive Diseases News
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 of gallbladder surgery on your computer? Or maybe you’re interested in taking an interactive, online tutorial about irritable bowel syndrome.

By visiting www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools/index.htm, a new, interactive section of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) website, 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 digestive 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 www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools/index.htm and kidney and urologic diseases at www.kidney.niddk.nih.gov/resources/HealthTools/index.htm.

Image Library Live

Another new section of the NIDDK website is the Image Library, 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 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 at www.catalog.niddk.nih.gov/ImageLibrary.

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NIH Publication No. 07–4552
March 2007