
	National Institutes of Health Calls for Thousands of Participants for Landmark Breast Cancer Study, Reports Medline Plus Magazine Magazine Launches as New Vehicle for Sharing Vital Health News from the Nation's Leading Medical Research Agency; Mary Tyler Moore to Share Her Personal Struggle with Diabetes at Hill Briefing Read more in a recent Des Moines Register article and in a recent Roll Call story. WASHINGTON, DC - The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences needs approximately 23,000 more women to voluntarily join a study about how the environment and genes may interact to affect the chances of getting breast cancer, according to the premiere issue of the National Institutes of Health’s Medline Plus magazine. The “Sister Study” is looking for sisters of women who have had breast cancer and is searching for links between variations in genes that affect the biological responses to exposures to certain chemicals, foods, and hormones and breast cancer risk. Sisters of women with breast cancer have about twice the risk of developing breast cancer themselves, according to the magazine’s article. The study is especially interested in the participation of a diverse cohort of women. The “Sister Study” story is an example of the important, unfiltered, consumer-friendly information contained in each quarterly issue of NIH Medline Plus magazine. The Friends of the National Library of Medicine, the magazine’s publisher, will distribute issues free-of-charge to patients and their families in thewaiting rooms of practicing physicians across the nation. The magazine, which was piloted over the summer, will be officially launched at a Capitol Hill briefing on the value of direct-to-consumer medical information being supplied by researchers in the Federal government on September 20. The briefing will feature Mary Tyler Moore, whose struggle with diabetes—and the latest information available on preventing or living with the disease—is the topic of the magazine’s cover story. Part of the impetus for the magazine was a call by Congress to make Federal health research as accessible as possible to the public. The magazine is a companion to MedlinePlus.gov, a free, comprehensive, up-to-date health information web site from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. “NIH Medline Plus magazine has one goal—to provide readers with a gold standard of reliable, understandable and up-to-date health information,” said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “We received a strong, positive response to our pilot issue earlier this year and are proud to continue our work with this premiere issue. The magazine is in a very user-friendly format that can act as a springboard to the Web site: MedlinePlus.gov.” “We are grateful to actress Mary Tyler Moore for agreeing to appear on the cover and in the main article as she shares details about her personal and public fight against diabetes,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of the National Library of Medicine – the world’s largest medical library and creator of MedlinePlus.gov. “Mary is the perfect example of an informed medical consumer who needs the latest information from NIH via MedlinePlus.gov and our new magazine.” # # # The Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) was formed in 1986 as a nonprofit organization to promote, publicize and support the Library. FNLM is a coalition of individuals, medical associations and societies, hospitals, health science libraries, corporations and other nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing public awareness and public use of the National Library of Medicine. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s leader in medical research. Comprised of 27 separate Institutes and Centers, NIH is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, providing leadership and financial support to top scientists in every state in the nation and around the world. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) the world’s largest medical library, is located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

National Institutes of Health Calls for Thousands of Participants for Landmark Breast Cancer Study, Reports Medline Plus Magazine

Magazine Launches as New Vehicle for Sharing Vital Health News from the Nation's Leading Medical Research Agency; Mary Tyler Moore to Share Her Personal Struggle with Diabetes at Hill Briefing

Read more in a recent Des Moines Register article and in a recent Roll Call story.

WASHINGTON, DC - The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences needs approximately 23,000 more women to voluntarily join a study about how the environment and genes may interact to affect the chances of getting breast cancer, according to the premiere issue of the National Institutes of Health’s Medline Plus magazine.

The “Sister Study” is looking for sisters of women who have had breast cancer and is searching for links between variations in genes that affect the biological responses to exposures to certain chemicals, foods, and hormones and breast cancer risk. Sisters of women with breast cancer have about twice the risk of developing breast cancer themselves, according to the magazine’s article. The study is especially interested in the participation of a diverse cohort of women.

The “Sister Study” story is an example of the important, unfiltered, consumer-friendly information contained in each quarterly issue of NIH Medline Plus magazine. The Friends of the National Library of Medicine, the magazine’s publisher, will distribute issues free-of-charge to patients and their families in thewaiting rooms of practicing physicians across the nation.

The magazine, which was piloted over the summer, will be officially launched at a Capitol Hill briefing on the value of direct-to-consumer medical information being supplied by researchers in the Federal government on September 20. The briefing will feature Mary Tyler Moore, whose struggle with diabetes—and the latest information available on preventing or living with the disease—is the topic of the magazine’s cover story.

Part of the impetus for the magazine was a call by Congress to make Federal health research as accessible as possible to the public. The magazine is a companion to MedlinePlus.gov, a free, comprehensive, up-to-date health information web site from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.

“NIH Medline Plus magazine has one goal—to provide readers with a gold standard of reliable, understandable and up-to-date health information,” said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. “We received a strong, positive response to our pilot issue earlier this year and are proud to continue our work with this premiere issue. The magazine is in a very user-friendly format that can act as a springboard to the Web site: MedlinePlus.gov.”

“We are grateful to actress Mary Tyler Moore for agreeing to appear on the cover and in the main article as she shares details about her personal and public fight against diabetes,” said Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of the National Library of Medicine – the world’s largest medical library and creator of MedlinePlus.gov. “Mary is the perfect example of an informed medical consumer who needs the latest information from NIH via MedlinePlus.gov and our new magazine.”

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The Friends of the National Library of Medicine (FNLM) was formed in 1986 as a nonprofit organization to promote, publicize and support the Library. FNLM is a coalition of individuals, medical associations and societies, hospitals, health science libraries, corporations and other nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing public awareness and public use of the National Library of Medicine.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s leader in medical research. Comprised of 27 separate Institutes and Centers, NIH is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research, providing leadership and financial support to top scientists in every state in the nation and around the world.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) the world’s largest medical library, is located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.