NIH launches Spanish-language diabetes, digestive, kidney disease portals

NIH launches Spanish-language diabetes, digestive, kidney disease portals

Three new Web portals from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) aim to provide information about digestive, kidney, and urologic diseases in Spanish. The portals, launched by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), features an A to Z list of topics and Spanish titles that includes 40 diabetes-related publications, 10 publications about digestive diseases, and 18 kidney and urologic publications. NIDDK says it will be adding more than 30 additional Spanish-language publications in the future, including one-page fact sheets that are part of its Awareness and Prevention Series. The NIDDK Web site also links to the Spanish portals for MedlinePlus, the National Kidney Disease Education Program, the NIDDK Reference Collection, the National Diabetes Education Program home page, and the NIDDK Interactive Tools page. In related news, a study presented last week showed that despite a rapidly growing demand for Spanish-language online cancer information, few resources provide it.