Digestive Diseases News
Fall 2007

NIDDK Website Features Health Information in Spanish

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has launched a new portal to feature Spanish-language digestive diseases materials and resources on its website.

People looking for information about digestive diseases in Spanish can now go directly to the Spanish-language portal page, where they will find an A to Z list of topics and titles. The online system for ordering NIDDK materials now includes descriptions in Spanish of available publications to help visitors choose the resources they want. The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse has 10 publications about digestive diseases in Spanish and will be adding more in the future, including one-page fact sheets that are part of the NIDDK’s Awareness and Prevention Series.

The NIDDK website also links to the Spanish-language portal for MedlinePlus and the NIDDK Reference Collection, a free, online database that includes 78 resources in Spanish.

To help people order materials in Spanish, two full-time bilingual information specialists respond to requests for health information in Spanish. Between July 15, 2006, and June 27, 2007 more than 17,500 Spanish-language publications were ordered through the three NIDDK clearinghouses. The NIDDK responded to more than 700 information requests in Spanish during that time.

The new Spanish-language portal is available at www.digestive-espanol.niddk.nih.gov.

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NIH Publication No. 08–4552
November 2007