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Links to public health sites, medical institutions. Researchers may also wish to consult the U.S. Government's National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health sites, as well as the Science Reading Room of the Library of Congress.
Bundesministerium
für Gesundheit (BMG)
(http://www.bmg.bund.de/cln_041/DE/Home/homepage__node.html__nnn=true)Federal Ministry of Health. Profiles of the minister and senior officials; description of mandate of the ministry and of related commissions; profiles of and links to the five federal health institutes charged with various duties in areas of public health; press releases, speeches, and information on congresses and other events; full-text versions of health laws and regulations; online ordering of publications; links to other health-related sites. In German, some English.
Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Medizin (http://www.zbmed.de)
National Library of Medicine. Profile of the library and its history; access to online catalog, electronic journals, and other resources; online ordering of articles and other materials. In German and English.
U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control. Health Information for Travelers
to Countries in Western Europe (http://www.cdc.gov/travel/westeurp.htm)
Links to information on necessary vaccines, diseases, and health risks.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov)
Search on Germany.
U.S. Department of Heath and
Human Services. National Institutes of Health. John E. Fogarty International
Center (http://www.fic.nih.gov)
Search on Germany.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
National Institutes of Health. National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
Provides numerous links to health resources and databases such as PubMed, a database with more than 16 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals for biomedical articles. Search on Germany.
World Health Organization: Germany (http://www.who.int/countries/deu/en/)
Links to information on health expenditures, health system, statistics, specific conditions, and human resources.
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