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Chief Medical Officer: Martin J. Gabica, MD, Family Medicine, Boise, Idaho
Medical Director: Adam C. Husney, MD, Family Medicine, Boise, Idaho
Medical Director: Kathleen Romito, MD, Family Medicine, Boise, Idaho
Behavioral Health Specialist: Catherine Serio, PhD, Psychology, Boise, Idaho
Associate Medical Directors:
- William H. Blahd, Jr, MD, FACEP, Boise, Idaho
- Susan C. Kim, MD, Pediatrics, Boise, Idaho
- Sarah Marshall, MD, Family Medicine, Sacramento, California
- Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC, Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Boise, Idaho
- Anne C. Poinier, MD, Internal Medicine, Boise, Idaho
- John Pope, MD, Pediatrics, Phoenix, Arizona
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- E. Gregory Thompson, MD, Internal Medicine, Boise, Idaho
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Addiction Medicine
John R. Hughes, MD, Addiction Psychiatry, Burlington, Vermont
James R. McKay, PhD, Addiction, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Peter Monti, PhD, Alcohol and Addiction, Providence, Rhode Island
Allergy and Immunology
Thomas B. Casale, MD, Omaha, Nebraska
Rohit K Katial, MD, Denver, Colorado
Lora J. Stewart, MD, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Denver, Colorado
John M. Freedman, MD, Anesthesiology, Santa Rosa, California
Stephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC, Interventional Cardiology, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD, Los Angeles, California
Larry A. Latson, MD, Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care, Cleveland, Ohio
John A. McPherson, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Interventional Cardiology, Nashville, Tennessee
John M. Miller, MD, Electrophysiology, Indianapolis, Indiana
Carl E. Orringer, MD, Clinical Lipidology, Cleveland, Ohio
Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC, Electrophysiology, Boise, Idaho
George J. Philippides, MD, FACC, Boston, Massachusetts
Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, Davenport, Iowa
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD, Rockport, Massachusetts
Arden G. Christen, DDS, MSD, MA, FACD, Indianapolis, Indiana
William F. Hohlt, DDS, Orthodontics, Indianapolis, Indiana
Steven K. Patterson, BSc, DDS, MPH, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bryan D. Tompson, DDS, FRCDC, Orthodontics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Randall D. Burr, MD, Boise, Idaho
Amy McMichael, MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Alexander H. Murray, MD, FRCPC, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Diet and Nutrition
Colleen Gobert, PhD, RD, Registered Dietitian, London, Ontario, Canada
Rhonda O'Brien, MS, RD, CDE, Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator, Boise, Idaho
Ruth Schneider, RD, MPH, Dietitian, Boise Idaho
Emergency Medicine
William H. Blahd, Jr, MD, FACEP, New York, New York
Sean P. Bush, MD, FACEP, Envenomation Specialist, Loma Linda, California
David Messenger, BSc, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, Critical Care Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
H. Michael O' Connor, MD, MMEd, FRCPC, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Alan C. Dalkin, MD, Charlottesville, Virginia
Jennifer Hone, MD, Santa Barbara, California
Lois Jovanovic, MD, Gestational Diabetes, Santa Barbara, California
Matthew I. Kim, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
David C.W. Lau, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Leslie A. Tengelsen, PhD, DVM, Zoonotic Diseases, Boise, Idaho
William S. Marras, PhD, CPE, Bioengineering and Ergonomics, Columbus, Ohio
Exercise Physiology
Heather O. Chambliss, PhD, FACSM, Exercise Science, Memphis, Tennessee
Richard B. Kreider, PhD, FACSM, FASEP, Exercise Physiology, Waco, Texas
Family Medicine
Thomas M. Bailey, MD, CCFP, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Patrice Burgess, MD, FAAFP, Boise, Idaho
Christine H. Fordyce, MD, Geriatrics, Seattle, Washington
Martin J. Gabica, MD, Boise, Idaho
Adam C. Husney, MD, Boise, Idaho
Sarah Marshall, MD, Sacramento, California
Rosalia Richardson, MD, Boise, Idaho
Kathleen Romito, MD, Boise, Idaho
Steven L. Schneider, MD, Boise, Idaho
David S. Smith, MD, West Bend, Wisconsin
Donald Sproule, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Andrew Swan, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Peter J. Kahrilas, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Jerome B. Simon, MD, FRCPC, FACP, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Jerry S. Trier, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Arvydas D. Vanagunas, MD, FACP, FACG, Chicago, Illinois
Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH, Medical Genetics, Bronx, New York
Geriatric Medicine
Carla J. Herman, MD, MPH, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Elizabeth A. Phelan, MD, MS, Seattle, Washington
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, MD, FRCPC, Hematology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Brian Leber, MDCM, FRCPC, Hematology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Joseph F. O'Donnell, MD, Hanover, New Hampshire
Michael S. Rabin, MD, Medical Oncology, Boston, Massachusetts
Martin H. Steinberg, MD, Hematology, Boston, Massachusetts
Douglas A. Stewart, MD, FRCPC, Medical Oncology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Gregory T. Everson, MD, Transplant Hepatology, Englewood, Colorado
Steven L. Flamm, MD, Gastroenterology, Chicago, Illinois
W. Thomas London, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Robin L. Fainsinger, MB, ChB, LMCC, CCFP, Palliative Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Shelly R. Garone, MD, Roseville, California
Infectious Diseases
William L. Atkinson, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiology, Atlanta, Georgia
W. David Colby, IV, MSc, MD, FRCPC, Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases, London, Ontario, Canada
Christine Hahn, MD, Medical Epidemiology, Boise, Idaho
Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, Prevention Epidemiology, Seattle, Washington
Peter Shalit, MD, PhD, Internal Medicine, Seattle, Washington
Stanford T. Shulman, MD, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Chicago, Illinois
Devika Singh, MD, MPH, Seattle, Washington
Dennis L. Stevens, MD, PhD, Boise, Idaho
Raymond A. Strikas, MD, MPH, FACS, Atlanta, Georgia
Internal Medicine
Tina E. Bronner, MD, San Diego, California
Claudia A. Finkelstein, MD, Seattle, Washington
Carmen Lewis, MD, MPH, Preventive Medicine, Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Brigid McCaw, MD, MPH, MS, FACP, Family Violence, Oakland, California
Brian O'Brien, MD, FRCPC, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Anne C. Poinier, MD, Boise, Idaho
E. Gregory Thompson, MD, Boise, Idaho
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
William M. Gilbert, MD, Sacramento, California
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Kim E. Dow, MD, FRCPC, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Jennifer Merchant, MD, Boise, Idaho
Michael Mallea, MD, Boise, Idaho
Mitchell H. Rosner, MD, Charlottesville, Virginia
Tushar J. Vachharajani, MD, FASN, FACP, Clemmons, North Carolina
David N. Alexander, MD, Los Angeles, California
Colin H. Chalk, MD, CM, FRCPC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Barrie J. Hurwitz, MB, MRCP, FCP(SA), Durham, North Carolina
Karin M. Lindholm, DO, Hailey, Idaho
Benjamin Natelson, MD, East Orange, New Jersey
Steven C. Schachter, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio
G. Frederick Wooten Jr., MD, Charlottesville, Virginia
Kathryn Earhart, RN, CWOCN, Wound Ostomy Continence, Boise, Idaho
Mary Moe Robbins, RNC, IBCLC, Lactation Consultant, Newcastle, California
Rebecca H. Allen, MD, MPH, Providence, Rhode Island
Ross S. Berkowitz, MD, Gynecologic Oncology, Boston, Massachusetts
Philip D. Darney, MD, Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco, California
Divya Gupta, MD, Gynecologic Oncology New York, New York
Kevin Holcomb, MD, Gynecologic Oncology, New York, New York
Kirtly Jones, MD, Reproductive Endocrinology, Salt Lake City, Utah
Femi Olatunbosun, MB, FRCSC, FACOG, Reproductive Endocrinology, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Deborah A. Penava, MD, FRCSC, MPH, London, Ontario, Canada
George F. Sawaya, MD, San Francisco, California
Occupational Medicine
Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Steven T. Charles, MD, Vitreoretinal Surgery, Memphis, Tennessee
Carol L. Karp, MD, Miami, Florida
Christopher Joseph Rudnisky, MD, BMs, MPH, FRCSC, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jill Ann Smith, MD, Newton, Massachusetts
Davide Bardana, MD, FRCSC, Sports Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Michael R. Baumgaertner, MD, Northford, Connecticut
Timothy Bhattacharyya, MD, Orthopaedic Trauma, Bethesda, Maryland
Freddie H. Fu, MD, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Robert B. Keller, MD, Biddeford, Maine
Kenneth J. Koval, MD, Orthopaedic Trauma, Lebanon, New Hampshire
Patrick J. McMahon, MD, Sports Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David Pichora, MD, FRCSC, Trauma, Hand and Microsurgery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Herbert von Schroeder, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Hand and Microsurgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Donald R. Mintz, MD, FRCSC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Charles M. Myer III, MD, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Cincinnati, Ohio
Corinne L. Fligner, MD, Anatomic, Clinical and Forensic Pathology, Seattle, Washington
Thomas Emmett Francoeur, MDCM, CSPQ, FRCPC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Susan Kim, MD, Boise, Idaho
Georgeanna J. Klingensmith, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology, Aurora, Colorado
Stephen H. LaFranchi, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology, Portland, Oregon
Chuck Norlin, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah
Louis Pellegrino, MD, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Syracuse, New York
John Pope, MD, Pediatric Hospitalist, Phoenix, Arizona
Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH, Seattle, Washington
Margaret Hetherington, PharmD, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Theresa O'Young, PharmD, Clinical Pharmacist, Seattle, Washington
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Margaret M. Doucette, DO, Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, Boise, Idaho
Nancy E. Greenwald, MD, Boise, Idaho
Richard D. Zorowitz , MD, Baltimore, Maryland
Physical Therapy
David A. Fleckenstein, MPT, Boise, Idaho
Mary McVicars Heckel, PT, MAPT, CLT-LANA, CWS, Boise, Idaho
Mary Virginia Keely, MS, PT, OCS, FAAOMPT, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, Aptos, California
Joan Rigg, PT, OCS, Orthopaedic Physical Therapy, Boise, Idaho
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Keith A. Denkler, MD, Larkspur, California
Adam D. Schaffner, MD, FACS, Otolaryngology, New York, New York
Podiatry and Podiatric Surgery
Gavin W.G. Chalmers, DPM, FACFAS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Barry L. Scurran, DPM, Fremont, California
W. Stewart Agras, MD, FRCP©), Palo Alto, California
David A. Axelson, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David A. Brent, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Evan Eyler, MD, MPH, Adolescent and Psychosomatic Medicine, Burlington, Vermont
Peter Hauser, MD, Portland, Oregon
Alfred J. Lewy, MD, PhD, Portland, Oregon
Steven Locke, MD, Psychosomatic Medicine and Behavioral Health, Wayland, Massachusetts
Miklos F. Losonczy, MD, PhD, East Orange, New Jersey
Fred R. Volkmar, MD, Pediatric Psychiatry, New Haven, Connecticut
Myron F. Weiner, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry, Dallas, Texas
Lisa S. Weinstock, MD, Mount Kisco, New York
Sidney Zisook, MD, San Diego, California
Sue Barton, PhD, PsyD, Behavioral Health, Sacramento, California
Stephanie Bender-Kitz, PhD, Aging and Long-Term Care, Boise, Idaho
J. David Carroll, PhD, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jessica Hamblen, PhD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, White River Junction, Vermont
Catherine Serio, PhD, Behavioral Health, Boise, Idaho
Timothy Stockwell, PhD, Public Policy, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Stephen I. Sulzbacher, PhD, Clinical Psychology, Seattle, Washington
Edward Z. Tronick, PhD, Developmental Psychology, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert L. Cowie, MB, ChB, MD, MSc, FCP[SA], MFOM, Respiratory Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Susanna A. McColley, MD, Pediatric Pulmonology, Chicago, Illinois
Mark A. Rasmus, MD, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Boise, Idaho
R. Steven Tharratt, MD, FACP, FCCP, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Toxicology, Sacramento, California
Ken Y. Yoneda, MD, Critical Care Medicine, Sacramento, California
Myo Min Han, MD, Nuclear Medicine, Oakland, California
Howard B. Schaff, MD, Diagnostic Radiology, Boise, Idaho
Kenneth B. Sutherland, MD, FRCPC, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Reproductive Toxicology
Ernest L. Abel, PhD, Detroit, Michigan
Respiratory Therapy
Catherine O'Malley, RRT, Chicago, Illinois
Richa Dhawan, MD, Shreveport, Louisiana
Nancy Ann Shadick, MD, MPH, Boston, Massachusetts
Stanford M. Shoor, MD, Palo Alto, California
Speech Pathology
Robert M. Kroll, PhD, Speech Pathology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kenneth Bark, MD, General and Colorectal Surgery, Utica, Michigan
Jeffrey Gilbertson, MD, Vascular Surgery, Boise, Idaho
Mark G. Luciano, MD, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Cleveland, Ohio
C. Dale Mercer, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Michael M. Murr, MD, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tampa, Florida
Brent T. Shoji, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
David C. Stuesse, MD, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Boise, Idaho
David A. Szalay, MD, Vascular Surgery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Ali Tavakkoli, MD, Bariatric Surgery, Boston, MA
Brad W. Warner, MD, Pediatric Surgery/Critical Care, St. Louis, Missouri
Christian G. Zimmerman, MD, FACS, MBA, Neurological Surgery, Boise, ID
Peter Anderson, MD, FRCS), Pediatric Urology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Avery L. Seifert, MD, FACS, Boise, Idaho
Christopher G. Wood, MD, FACS, Houston, Texas
Last updated: May 2013
Healthwise Content Development Team
Senior Vice President
Karen Baker, MHS
Vice President of Content
Christine Calhoun, MPH
Content Managers
Kerry V. Cooke, BA
Jeannette Curtis, BS
Carrie Henley, BA
Patrick Kilby, BA
Katy Magee, MA
Judi Marsh, MBA
Susan Van Houten, RN, MBA
Senior Clinical Consultants
Carolyn Brzezicki, RN, MS
Judy Dundas, BA, BSN
Senior Special Project Manager
Kathleen M. Ariss, MS
Medical Writers
Bill Amos, JD
Nancy Bateman, BS
Deborah Dakins, BA
Eileen Ellig, BJ
Marianne Flagg, BA
Kathe Gallagher, MSW
Christopher Hess, BA
Paul Lehnert, MA
Ryan Powers, MFA
Ellie Rodgers, BA
Cynthia Tank, BA
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Elizabeth Rodgers, BA
Colleen Cronin, MA
Medical Content Specialists
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Localization Specialists
Jennifer Adams, MLS
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Associate Editors
Michele Cronen
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Pat Truman, MA
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Research Library Manager
Liisa Rogers, MSW, MLIS
Library Technical Specialist
Karri Alderson, MLIS
Bill Coe, BS
Jennifer Farnum, MLS
Visual Content
Steve Graepel, MS
David Blum, PhD
Last updated: May 2013
Healthwise® Knowledgebase Editorial Policy and Processes
The field of medicine changes constantly. Each day headlines reveal new ways to diagnose, treat, or prevent health problems. Through a comprehensive topic development process, the Healthwise® Knowledgebase content is regularly updated to keep pace with the changes in medicine and medical practice.
See What's New in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase for the current release.
Content Written by Healthwise
Healthwise develops content through the collaborative efforts of content and medical teams using a comprehensive research and review process.
The Healthwise content team includes full-time professional medical researchers, writers, and editors who have extensive experience in scientific research and medical writing. They work closely with members of the Healthwise medical team, including the chief medical officer, the medical director, the associate medical directors, and the Healthwise Medical Review Board.
The Healthwise Medical Review Board includes more than 220 health professionals and medical specialists who review Healthwise content from a specialist's point of view. Their credentials include board certification, licensure/registration and/or certification, academic appointments at leading medical schools, involvement in research, and publication in peer-reviewed journals and medical textbooks. Most important, they share the Healthwise commitment to empowering patients with reliable health information and building strong patient-provider relationships.
Healthwise content starts with evidence-based information. Content team members are experts at presenting balanced, unbiased perspectives without influence from commercial interests. Our Conflict of Interest policy enforces our editorial integrity: "All Healthwise personnel should avoid situations where their personal interests could conflict, or reasonably appear to conflict, with the interests of Healthwise. In this regard, personnel must avoid any outside financial interest that might influence, or appear to influence, their corporate decisions or actions."
Topic Development Process
There are four primary steps in the development process: planning, research, writing, and review.
- Writers, editors, and associate medical directors work together to plan the topic.
- Medical librarians develop a research packet for each topic based on extensive research and evaluation of biomedical literature. Research packets include evidence-based journal and database search results, gold standard textbook chapters, guideline statements, and outcome studies, as well as consumer health information.
- Writing and review cycles include collaboration among medical directors and other clinicians. Writers and editors also collaborate to ensure that the content is in plain language, follows literacy standards, and meets user-centered learning theory and behavior-change principles.
- An associate medical director and at least one specialist review topics during the development process. They ensure accuracy and consistency with current practice standards and identify areas of important development. These independent medical reviewers ensure that Healthwise® Knowledgebase topics contain accurate, unbiased information.
New Topic Development
Healthwise selects new topics on the basis of several criteria, including requests from consumers and organizations using the Healthwise® Knowledgebase, prevalence of the condition, and the potential of shared decision-making for consumers who have the condition.
Updating Topics
Healthwise updates topics when warranted by changes in medical practice. The content and medical teams continually review medical news sources and journals so they can quickly identify changes that affect the practice of medicine. When important changes occur, we update topics and include them in the next quarterly release of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase. In addition, Healthwise reviews and updates topics on a regular basis.
Organizations and people using the Healthwise® Knowledgebase may suggest changes or additions to topics. Healthwise considers these recommendations during the topic development process and includes them in our updates if they meet our standard criteria and pass the medical review process. If a suggested change applies only to a particular sponsoring organization's readers, and if it passes medical review, then we may make the change for that organization's customized version of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase. Any change to the Healthwise® Knowledgebase must first pass medical review.
The last revised date is at the bottom of every topic page and in the credits section of each topic.
Citing the Evidence
The Healthwise® Knowledgebase contains thousands of unique references to help readers find more information on topics. Our processes and policies ensure that entry points of content give readers reasonable access to references. We include citations that:
- Support statistics, particularly those that play a key role in decision making.
- Support outcomes, effectiveness, or risk data.
- Identify testing or treatment recommendations or guidelines.
- Support prevalence data.
Also, for all self-assessment or risk analysis tools in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase, we provide information that describes the source of the tool, the scientific basis for the tool, how the tool is maintained on the website, the evaluation process, and the last revised date.
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Cerner Multum, Inc., Drug Reference (not included in all systems)
The drug reference included in the Healthwise® Knowledgebase is provided by Cerner Multum, Inc., of Denver, Colorado.
Multum updates daily. New information is incorporated into a database as soon as it appears in the literature or in product labeling. Doctors and pharmacists review the new information and make any necessary changes. Multum conducts weekly Current Content searches on all of its drugs, and it surveys all key periodicals. All leaflets are reviewed by one or more practicing clinical specialists. Healthwise receives monthly updates from Multum. The updates are included in the quarterly releases of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase.
Conflict of Interest Policy: Multum's content is authored by full-time associates with no affiliations with drug companies. Consultants who work with the information in other capacities are required to have no conflicts of interest.
The date of the last update is at the end of each topic.
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All PDQ cancer information summaries are peer-reviewed and updated monthly by six editorial boards of oncology specialists in adult treatment, pediatric treatment, supportive care, complementary and alternative medicine, screening, prevention, and cancer genetics. They review current literature from more than 70 biomedical journals, evaluate its relevance, and synthesize it into concise, clear summaries. Healthwise receives monthly updates from the National Cancer Institute. The updates are included in the quarterly releases of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase.
Conflict of Interest Policy: PDQ Editorial Board members are selected by the editor-in-chief of each board. Potential biases or conflicts of interest are discussed as part of the selection process.
The date of the last update is at the end of each topic.
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc. (NORD)
The National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc., of Danbury, Connecticut, provides topics on rare diseases for the Healthwise® Knowledgebase.
The NORD topics are updated on an ongoing basis as new information. In addition, all topics are periodically reviewed to ensure that all information remains current and accurate. Healthwise receives quarterly updates from NORD. The updates are included in the quarterly releases of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase.
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The date of the last update is at the end of each topic.
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Healthwise receives semiannual updates from the American Self-Help Clearinghouse. The updates are included in the quarterly releases of the Healthwise® Knowledgebase. The content verification date is at the end of each listing.
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