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General Clinical nutrition for the family physician
Cancer and HIV
Cardiovascular nutrition
Deficiency states
Diabetes
Food allergy, coeliac disease etc.
Iron
Nutrition assessment
Obstetric and women's health nutrition
Paediatric nutrition
Geriatric nutrition
Other nutritional risk groups
Sports Nutrition
Surgical and parenteral nutrition
Nutritional toxicology, overload disorders
Weight and eating disorders
Other clinical nutrition issues
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Clinical nutrition for the family physician 
Clinical nutrition in family
practice
A series of articles for family physician taken from an Australian medical publication. A new topic every month:
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Nutrition and family medicine
- What do we know about nutrition and the practice of family physicians? This review article looks at the Australian situation, but the information is relevant to any Western country.
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ABC Radio Health Reports
- Transcripts from this excellent radio series from Australia. A number of interesting nutrition issues are addressed, often in interviews with researchers involved in the area. Some examples:
American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Abstracts of last few issues, plus information on
the journal and requirements for submitting.
Ed
Frielander's path lecture notes on nutritional disease
The inimitable Prof.Frielander turns his down-to-earth
approach to pathological diagnosis to the subject of nutritional disease,
vitamin supplementation etc.
Karolinska Institute: web sources of
information on nutritional disorders
Web articles on various clinical topics, under disease-based
classification, including such disorders as hyper and avitaminoses, diabetes, Gaucher's
disease etc.. Great idea, but not clear what standard and authority the articles themselves
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Cancer and nutrition
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Nutrition in Cancer: NIH document
- From Nat.Cancer Institute, plain text for doctors.
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American
Cancer Society: "Cancer and Nutrition"
- CancerNet:
Nutrition (National Cancer Institute)
- Plain text discussion of nutrition and cancer for health
professionals.
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HIV And
Nutrition
- Brief article on supplements for HIV women: someone's personal lay perspective,
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HIVnALIVE Nutritional
Project
- "The two-fold purpose of the HIVnALIVE Nutritional Project is to
provide high quality nutritional supplements to hiv-infected persons throughout the country and to collect data
about the impact of nutrition in persons living with hiv/aids." In practice, the page has a
lot of material about two specific supplement products, without it being entirely clear what if any
commercial linkage there was.
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Cardiovascular disease nutrition
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KUMC
Lipoprotein
and Nutrition Research Laboratory
- Information for the public on heart disease and dietary issues related to fat. This home page is distinguished by having one of the largest graphic files I have ever seen for a simple home page (684,809 bytes!!!)
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Deficiency states
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MN-NET
(Micronutrient
Malnutrition)
- From the Micronutrient Initiative, based in the International
Development Research Centre, Canada. Links to other centres with similar
interest, plus plain text material on world perspective of micronutrient
malnutrition.
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MN-NET: bibliographies
- Micronutrient Initiative organisation: unannotated bibliographies on
vitamin A deficiency (long!), beta-carotene and cancer, iron and iodine deficiency. Some are
current to 1995, some don't go past 1992.
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The OMNI Project
- Opportunities for Micronutrient Interventions. Organisation based in Washington which has focus on public health aspects of micronutrition nutrition, such as vitamin A, iodine, iron etc, particularly paediatric aspects. Their site gives information about the organisation and access to their publications (both on-line and to download). These vary from workshop reports on public health and regional perspectives, to practical manuals on fortofying sugar with viamin A.
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Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition
- In collaboration with OMNI (see above). The focus of PAMM is to assist countries with developing their own technical capacity and management systems.
Group from Em,opry University with focus on eliminating micronutrient deficiency. "To accomplish these goals, PAMM works to build public-private sector alliances, strengthen regional and national education and training systems, raise awareness through advocacy at all levels, and to develop standards to establish quality assurance of national micronutrient programs." This page is part of the OMNI site and is descriptive only.
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Vitamin B12
deficiency: haematological findings
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B12 glossitis picture (KUMC)
- Slide of B12 deficiency glossitis (from Kansas Univ.Med.Center medical teaching
course).
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Scurvy: radiological findings
- Part of general radiological teaching files
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Vitamin D
Deficiency
- Radiological findings
- FDA/CFSAN
Folic Acid Fact Sheet
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Zinc in clinical practice
- For the family physician - risk groups for clinical deficiency, issues of diagnosis.
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Vitamin B12 in clinical practice
- Diagnosis and management issues.
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Magnesium deficiency
site
- Not clear who the author is, but this site contains a very large amount of material (and
links to material) about how common magnesium deficiency is and its effects on heart disease,
asthma, headaches etc. It appears to be designed for the lay public, although there are plenty of
Medline references as well, together with a degree of proselytising zeal.
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Vitamin Update
- Australian author provides monthly brief summaries of research into clinical and preventive role of vitamins, taken from research journals, conference reports etc. Very interesting.
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Malnutrition education project
- Lay education project done by students in public health nutrition course in Sweden.
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Diabetes
- The
American Diabetes Association
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Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.
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Food allergy for the family physician
- Regular clinical nutrition series by Dr.Tony Helman.
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Food
Allergy
Network
- Patient oriented, (funded by grant from Kraft). "The
Food Allergy Network (FAN) is a nonprofit organization established to help
families living with food allergies, and to increase public awareness about
food allergies and anaphylaxis (a severe life-threatening reaction). FAN
provides education, emotional support, and coping strategies".
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Environmental and Preventive Health
Center of Atlanta
- Series of short articles probably written for patients of this
environmental/allergy medical clinic. The nutrition material is generally of a somewhat
alternative bent (candida, chronic fatigue, mercury poisoning etc).
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Food Allergy Center:
Environmed Research Inc.
- Home page for a commercial environmental medicine nutrition centre in the US. Their
site gives access to lots of detailed material on their approach to food allergy.
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Celiac Disease, gluten intolerance: Don Wiss' list
of web sites
- A very long and detailed list of web resources, divided into sections
and with commentary.
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Scott's Celiac
Disease Help Page
- One lay guy's personal experience, but also lots of
links.
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Gluten-free
and wheat-free diets
- For patients.
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GIT disorders
- Journal
of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Current table of contents, but no text content.
- Advances
in Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition
- Current table of contents, but no text content.
- The
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
- Content and abstracts from 1995.
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Iron status
- Iron physiology
- Iron in special situations
- Iron deficiency
- Iron and meat
- Iron overload disorders
- Iron: lay information
- Iron research
Iron physiology and lab assessment
- Heme
and Iron: biochemistry notes
- Biochemistry of iron absorption and transport. With illustrations.
- British
Meat On-line: Meat and Iron
- Written for health professionals, contains very helpful
information and graphs on iron intake and food sources.
- Laboratory assessment for iron status
- A literature review conducted by the Australian Iron Status Advisory Panel looking at existing standards and correlations with latest clinical research.
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Iron in special situations
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Iron Nutrition During Pregnancy: Food and Nutrition Board report
- On-line chapter of Academy of Medicine (Food and Nutrition Board) report on Nutrition and Pregnancy (1990).
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Iron deficiency
Note: IDA = iron deficiency anaemia
- Iron deficiency in adults
- Iron deficiency in children
- Management principles for the family physician.
- Australian Iron Status Advisory Panel
- An excellent resource for health professionals on all aspects of iron status disorders. Contains a great deal of information on the clinical management of iron disorders, particularly iron deficiency. It includes both practical guides for the health professional and technical papers. It is planned to also include lay information and position statements in the future.
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Diagnosing iron deficiency
- Useful clinical notes on from Dr. Thomas Deloughery, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. Plain text with tables. Read in conjunction with article on diagnosis of anaemia
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MN-NET: Micronutrient Malnutrition
- The Micronutrient Initiative, based in the International
Development Research Centre , Canada. This site has links to other centres with similar
interests, plus plain text material on world perspective of micronutrient
malnutrition (see next two entries).
- MN-NET: Iron
Deficiency Anaemia
- Will in future contain UNICEF information on iron deficiency
anaemia by geographical region.
- MN-NET: : bibliography on iron deficiency anaemia
- Unannotated bibliography of iron deficiency anaemia references, up to 1992.
- Laboratory
diagnosis of iron deficiency
- Journal of Family Practice journal club appraisal of
1992 article.
- Haematology:
IDA blood picture
- Case history with pics of blood smears and explanations.
- CDC
criteria for diagnosis of anemia in children and women
- Current Trends CDC Criteria for anemia in children and
childbearing-aged women. Written in 1989.
- Cyberspace
Medical School: Anaemia in pregnancy
- From Singapore. Anaemia in pregnancy.
- Clinical
notes on IDA in children
- Note form for physicians.
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Iron deficiency in Pregnancy: University of Singapore (Cybermed)
- Note form clinical material.
- Research
project report: Paediatric IDA in Arkansas
- Written as lay material, project in a county of Arkansas
found extraordinary high rates of IDA amongst poor children there.
- Study
questions on IDA
- 5 multi-choice questions for Kansas City medical students.
Unfortunately the author's choice of text colour makes it almost unreadable!
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Iron
deficiency anemia
- Hypertext chapter on iron deficiency, particularly biochemcial
diagnostic issues. Some pictures linked to the page, but otherwise plain
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Iron and meat: organistations
Meat-ing Place
This is a "global information hub of the red meat and poultry processing industries." Sponsored by meat and chicken processing publisher in US, (e.g. "Meat Marketing & Technology"), this page has links to meat and poultry science, industry associations and resources.
American Meat Institute
The Institute is the national trade association of meat packers and processors, representing "70% of the nation's beef, pork, lamb, veal and turkey products and their suppliers throughout America." The site has facts and contacts for the Institute, plus information on nutrition, meat, food safety, animal welfare, conferences and news for the meat and poultry industries.
Cowtown
Beef and cattle raising information and promotion in the US. Includes some documents on scientific aspects.
Meat Research Corp (Australia)
Mainly organisational information, with some references as well.
Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy and CJD
Short but excellent set of annotated links on this subject.
British
Meat On-Line
Lay and health professional nutrition information.
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Iron overload
- Iron
Overload Syndrome
- From Environmental and Preventive Health Centre of Atlanta,
written by a physician for lay public.
- Iron
Overload Diseases Association
- This is a major American group of interested lay public and health professionals, whose site currently contains some simple lay information on haemochromatosis etc..
- Ontario Lab. Assoc.: guidelines for diagnosis of iron status disorders
- Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis of iron overload as well as deficiency.
- FDA:
Preventing Accidental Iron Poisoning
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Information for the public.
Iron: lay information
- Iron
in the Vegan Diet
- Good, solid. quantative dietary information.
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Eating Smart, "Meat" Your Iron Needs
- Part of a weight and fitness site and within a general healthy eating section, this page offers well illustrated advice on iron content in the diet.
Iron: research
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Nutrition assessment
- Medicine
and Surgery Nutrition Assessment Write-Up Guidelines
- Checklist for assessing nutritional status, as used for
Univ.of Penns. clinical nutrition course.
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TEKTRAN: literature search on Nutritional Status Assessment
- A completely unorganised and unannotated set of research papers more on animal than
human nutrition studies, produced by NALUSDA's TEKTRAN agricultural research search
service.
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Obstetric and women's health nutrition
Professional obstetric and women's nutrition
- CDC
criteria for diagnosis of anemia in children and women
- Current Trends CDC Criteria for anemia in children and
childbearing-aged women. Written in 1989.
- Cyberspace
Medical School: Anaemia in pregnancy
- From Singapore. Anaemia in pregnancy.
- WIC
Nutrition Programs: New Hampshire
- Information on purposes and implementation of Women Infants
and Children nutrition supplement program in New Hampshire.
Lay obstetric and women's nutrition
- Online Birth Centre: Nutrition and Pregnancy
- Good collection of links on nutriion in pregnancy, with a
generally lay perspective. Includes material on vegetarianism in pregnancy.
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IFIC: Healthy Eating During Pregnancy
- Lay plain text document from Intern.Food Information Council (co-sponsored by "March of Dimes Foundation").
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Iron deficiency in Pregnancy: University of Singapore (Cybermed)
- Note form clinical material.
- NutriGenie
- pregnancy nutrition software
- Download evaluation copy of software that analyses a
mother's diet..
- Babybag:
Feeding & Nutrition articles
- Lay site on pregnancy and motherhood, with articles on
folate, healthy eating, nutritional content of baby foods etc.
- FDA/CFSAN
Folic Acid Fact Sheet
- Folic
Acid in pregnancy: guidelines
- From Wisconsin, quoting CDC guidelines.
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Sugar content of breakfast
cereals
- From set of simple child nutrition pages, this page has tables of
recommended, acceptable, not recommended and unacceptable (US) breakfast cereals based on sugar
content.
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Paediatric nutrition
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Childrens
nutrition gopher material
- Childhood obesity, school nutrition, adolescents and AIDS.
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Parenteral
Nutrition teaching file
- Plain text information.
- CDC
criteria for diagnosis of anemia in children and women
- Current Trends CDC Criteria for anemia in children and
childbearing-aged women. Written in 1989.
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Parenteral Nutrition in neonates: teaching notes
- From Ray Duncan, MD, Staff Neonatologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
- Feeding your Baby NSW Health Dpt.Brochure
- Colour line drawings but not of didactic value. Otherwise plain text.
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Geriatric nutrition
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Nutrition in the elderly
- Part of "Multidisciplinary Education in Geriatrics and Aging" web
site, which offers "a hypermedia, computerized learning experience. The computerized modules
combine text with video segments, slides, animations, interactive experiences, graphs, and
tables." As yet a good deal of it is plain text.
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Nutrition and Eating Patterns of
Dementia Patients
- From Alzheimer's Association. A selected list of resources.
- National Policy and Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging
- Organisational information and a range of documents, bibliographies etc..
- Nutrition in the elderly bibliography
- From FNIC, but accessed at PEN gopher.
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Other nutritional risk groups
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Nutrition and Mental Illness
- List of citations (with short summaries) related to the nutritional influences on mental illness.
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Sports nutrition
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Training Nutrition homepage
- Home page of someone who co-runs a mailing list for "hardcore natural bodybuilders and other serious
amateur (and professional) athletes to discuss the nutritional issues connected with training."
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Surgical and parenteral nutrition
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Parenteral
Nutrition teaching file
- Plain text information.
- Medicine
and Surgery Nutrition Assessment Write-Up Guidelines
- Checklist for assessing nutritional status, as used for
Univ.of Penns. clinical nutrition course.
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Parenteral Nutrition in neonates: teaching notes
- From Ray Duncan, MD, Staff Neonatologist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
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Parenteral nutrition in chemotherapy: clinical practice guidelines
- Part of McMaster sample clinical guidelines DB.
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Toxicology and overload disorders
US
DHSS: Case Studies in Lead Toxicity
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Vitamin and Mineral Toxicities in Adults
- Short plain text article on hypervitaminoses anda mineral toxicities.
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Weight and eating disorders
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Weighing your patient
- Guide for the family physician.
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Shape Up America!
- Very useful site. "A public health initiative of the Koop Foundation, a non-profit corporation. Headed by C. Everett Koop, M.D., the former Surgeon General of the United States. Launched in December 1994 to combat the rising rates of obesity in America." This site is a very well constructed and illustrated one focussing on healthy diet and exercise. It has a healteh professional `library' with a lengthy Guidance Document on the Treatment of Adult Obesity, lots of lay educational material on-line, sections which allow the visitor to calculate their own BMI, to assess their fitness level,and to find out about different types of physical activity. There are also press releases. .
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Obesity,
Weight Loss teaching module
- Lengthy plain text teaching material by Dr. Robert
Baron, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine.
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Obesity:
Dr.Ben Krentzman
- Private page with obesity links and textual advice,
menus, private list of US doctors interested in this area.
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International No Diet Day
- Resources, contact information, history of this anti-dieting,
large-people's rights movement, focussed on its `day' on May 6th.
- Australasian
Society for Study of Obesity
- Information on the Society and some information on obesity
issues, including a list of literature references and the Society's position
statement on very low calorie diets.
- Desirable
weight table (American Heart Foundation)
- Cath's Eating Disorders Resources
- Lay and professional links.
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Eating
disorders information
- NIH Publication, plain text .
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NIH conference Consensus Statement on Obesity
- Statement on health effects of obesity from National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference (1984).
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Don's Diet & Weight Loss / Fitness Page
- Weight management links: seems to take a fairly balanced approach in his selection. Well worth a look, particularly to get a picture of the lay perspective on this extremely popular Internet subject.
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Other clinical nutrition topics
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Boston University:
Clinical Nutrition Unit
- Just a text description of the unit and its members
and publications. Not very interesting.
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Bovine Spongiform Encepalopathy and CJD
- Short but excellent set of annotated links on this subject.
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RENALNET -- Internet resources for renal dietitians
- Short list of links to information, patient education and software, with descriptions.
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Clinical nutrition bibliographies
- Clinical nutrition bibliographies
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