Dietary Supplements Research Information and Website Links

Dietary Supplement Research Information

The information below may be helpful to those of you who are interested in the scientific data base of literature on dietary suppliments. The website is helpful.
From Dan Daniel D. Shirbroun, Ph.D., FPPR
shr.dan.d@thegrid.net
www.Parity2000.org

Also, The International Food Information Council Foundation website at http://ificinfo.health.org for information on nutrition topics and international food regulation.

Parity 2000:Equal Patient Benefits and Choice of Providers NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Office of the Director
Thursday, December 31, 1998
Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
CONTACT: Marc Stern (301) 496-2535

NIH OFFICE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS ANNOUNCES NEW DATABASE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS
http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health announced the launch of its new International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database at a news media event on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1999, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. IBIDS is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements that is available to the public free of charge through the ODS Internet home page (http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov). The purpose of this database is to assist both scientists and the general public in locating credible, scientific literature on dietary supplements. The computer interface was designed to be user-friendly so individuals with all levels of expertise may use it easily. For those unfamiliar with dietary supplement terminology, a drop-down list of standard keywords is available. "This database is one of the specific mandates for the Office of Dietary Supplements designated in the original Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 that created the office," said Dr. Bernadette M. Marriott, Director of the ODS. "We have viewed its development as a key effort of the office that will be useful to the scientific community and to the public for identifying scientific information on dietary supplements." IBIDS is driven by a sophisticated search strategy that simultaneously and transparently searches numerous existing medical, botanical, agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical databases.