Searching for health-related information

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I have been contributing some components to an experimental

meta-search engine being developed by the National Institutes of

Health.

The following link takes you to the meta-search engine.

http://tamas.nlm.nih.gov/metasearch/

There are 4 buttons at the top, one of which is " Health " . When you

click it, the system is configured to search various sources of health

information, including PubMed.

Searching for something like " unsaturated fatty acids and cancer "

produces your typical list of results, but on the left side of the

page, there is a column containing term clusters found in the results

that may be of interest. Clicking on a specific cluster triggers a

new narrower search.

At the top of the first page there is a " Help " button that explains

the features of the interface and provides an e-mail address for

reporting problems and suggestions.

A list of this and other linguistic experimental projects at NIH is

at:

http://sis5.nlm.nih.gov/

Tony