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Description: Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. The NIH website offers health information for the public as well as medical professionals. There's extensive information on funding opportunities and links to the many Institutes and Centers that make-up NIH such as the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine.

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St. Elizabeths Hospital
Historic Medical Sites page concerning this federal government mental hospital in Washington, D.C., with recent photo of the center of the Kirkbride building.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/elizabeths.html
Top/Arts/Architecture/Building_Types/Hospitals_and_Asylums/Kirkbride

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus
Synopsis of chapters with illustrations and quotes.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frank_modern_1.html
Top/Arts/Literature/World_Literature/British/Romanticism/Shelley,_Mary/Works/Frankenstein

PubMed Central (PMC): Fractal geometry of music
Kenneth and Andrew Hsu found evidence of melodic interval scaling in the works of Bach, Mozart, and a collection of Swiss folk songs.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=53384
Top/Arts/Music/Styles/E/Experimental/Fractal_Music

Islamic Calligraphy with Mohamed Zakariya
The artist describes the art of calligraphy and the materials he uses; illustrated with video samples.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/calligraphy/calligraphy.html
Top/Arts/Visual_Arts/Calligraphy/Arabic

AIDSinfo
World-wide resources about trials in study against acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/
Top/Business/Biotechnology_and_Pharmaceuticals/Pharmaceuticals/Products_Evaluation/Clinical_Trials

NIDCD Health Information: Hearing Aids
Describes what hearing aids are and how they work, how to get a diagnosis of hearing loss, and the different types of hearing aids. From the US National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/hearingaid.asp
Top/Business/Healthcare/Products_and_Services/Disability/Hearing_and_Listening_Aids/Hearing_Aids

Ceramic Fibers
Classification of refractory ceramic fibers. Carcinogenity, properties and use. Production, exposure factors and regulations. From the National Institute of Environmental Health Service.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/roc/tenth/profiles/s030cera.pdf
Top/Business/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/Fibers/Man-made/Resources/Articles_and_Studies/Mineral_Fibers

The Visible Human
The Visible Human Project has many medical images.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Top/Computers/Algorithms/Compression/Test_Images

US National Library of Medicine: Electronic Document Conversion
Online tool for transforming image, word processing, HTML, spreadsheet and other formats to PDF, TIFF, text or synthesized speech. Software available to conversion to PDF only. Requires free registration.
http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/
Top/Computers/Data_Formats/Conversion/Software

National Center for Research Resources
An information portal of NCRR, a component of the National Institutes of Health, supporting primary research to create and develop critical resources, models, and technologies in biomedicine.
http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/
Top/Computers/Internet/Resources/Research