NDDIC News

What's New From NDDIC?

The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) is pleased to announce several new and updated publications. All NDDIC materials are available on the Internet. Print versions are available through the clearinghouse using the publications order form.

New

• Hemochromatosis. This fact sheet discusses the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of hereditary hemochromatosis, one of the most common genetic diseases in the United States.
  
  
• Liver Biopsy. This fact sheet describes liver biopsy and tells patients what they can expect before and after this diagnostic procedure. Liver Biopsy is the latest addition to Diagnostic Tests, a series that describes various diagnostic tests for digestive diseases.
  
  

Updated

In the past year, NDDIC updated several publications to include new information:

Fact Sheets

• Chronic Hepatitis C: Current Disease Management
• Cirrhosis of the Liver

Information Packets

• Anal Fissure
• Autoimmune Hepatitis
• Diagnostic Tests for Liver Disease
• Fecal Incontinence
• Gallbladder and Biliary Tract Diseases
• Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Children
• Polyps

NIDDK Provides Toll-Free Numbers for Clearinghouses

Out-of-state callers will be pleased to know that the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has established toll-free lines for each of its three information clearinghouses:

• National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse: 1–800–891–5389.
• National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse: 1–800–860–8747.
• National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse: 1–800–891–5390.

NIH Publication No. 01–4552
March 2001