A consumer health database that provides up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, injuries, drugs, supplements, treatment options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness research from institutions around the world. PubMed Health includes * consumer guides summarizing comparative effectiveness research * fact sheets on diseases and conditions * information on drugs and supplements * encyclopedic overviews of health topics * links to external Web sites PubMed Health has a special focus on comparative effectiveness research, in particular that research which evaluates the available evidence of the benefits and harms of different treatment options for different groups of people. In Comparative Effectiveness Research, experts often synthesize the evidence from dozens, or even hundreds, of individual studies.

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