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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula.

HealthCentral.com is one of the most trusted sources of medical information and up to date news and contains a doctor-approved health encyclopedia of diseases and conditions, the ability to find symptoms and treatments. Also drug information with side effects and interactions

Family Practice Notebook is a library containing the following 31 books: Cardiovascular Medicine, Gynecology, Hematology and Oncology, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Infectious Disease, Jokes, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pulmonology, Practice Management, Neurology, Neonatology, Dentistry, Obstetrics, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Prevention, Mental Health, Radiology, Nephrology, Rheumatology, Sports Medicine, Dermatology, Surgery, Urology, Endocrinology, Otolaryngology, Emergency Medicine, Ophthalmology, Geriatric Medicine, Gastroenterology.

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