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Weekly News Digest
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December 13, 2004 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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NLM Introduces New Environmental Site
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced an interactive Web site that shows—on maps—the amount and location of certain toxic chemicals released into the environment in the U.S. The site, called TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov), is free and requires no registration.TOXMAP focuses on the geographic distribution of chemical releases, their relative amounts, and their trends over time. This release data comes from industrial facilities around the U.S., as reported annually to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). TOXMAP also links to NLM's extensive collection of toxicology and environmental health references, as well as to a rich resource of data on hazardous chemical substances in its TOXNET databases (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov). There are also fact sheets and summaries about the various chemicals, written by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. NLM has created a number of consumer-oriented Web sites in the last several years. TOXMAP joins Web resources for consumer health information (MedlinePlus.gov), research studies (ClinicalTrials.gov), and older Americans (NIHSeniorHealth.gov). Source: National Library of Medicine
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