NIH Wants to Know

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NIH Wants to Know

A new National Institutes of Health questionnaire seeks public input to improve

the agency's information services

http://www.mda.org/publications/Quest/extra/Oct09/nih.html

Important questions for Americans: What health care issues are important to you?

Where do you get most of your health care information? If a loved one were sick

with cancer or Alzheimer's disease, where would you go for information?

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to know.

A new NIH program seeks to obtain information from a wide cross-section of

America that the agency hopes will help it better develop and distribute medical

and scientific information to the public.

NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is the

primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

NIH hopes health care consumers will fill out the online questionnaire ( " request

for information " ); e-mail them at NIHinfo@...; or phone, 301-496-4000.

The NIH Web site lists many toll-free numbers for information about specific

health issues, but neither the online or phone contacts can provide personalized

medical advice to individuals about their condition or treatment.