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MedlinePlus: Diets [pdf]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/diets.html
In this section of their website, Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, tackles the subject of diets. The information is divided up into half a dozen labeled boxes near the top of the page, and includes “Basics”, “Research”, “Learn More”, and [...]

There are new ways to search for health conditions on Google.com. By typing in a condition (asthma, influenza) into the search box,  you will find a new “health search result snippet” with an image and a summary of the condition with links to popular health sites like Google Health, Mayo Clinc and WebMD.  If you [...]

Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Radiological Incidents: Functions, Practices, and Areas for Future Work

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2009/RAND_TR719.pdf
This 66 page report released in August 2009 looks into the world of public health emergency preparedness, and for those persons who work in the fields of emergency response policy, public health, or security studies, this work will [...]