A new international pharma Clinical Trials Portal was launched on September 21: http://www.ifpma.org/clinicaltrials.html . Created by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations, the site offers one-stop searching of ongoing trials, trial results, and a glossary of terms. This could be a site to add to your consumer health resource page.

ECRI's Katrina Medical Technology Information Clearinghouse has been launched: http://katrina.ecri.org/default.aspx . From the site: "This new site will serve as a central clearinghouse for information on the disaster relief-related medical products and services available from companies worldwide. "

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has issued a new report on a slowing rate of adoption of broadband in the US: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/164/report_display.asp . You may want to share this at your next web committee meeting.

A very good article on the pitfalls of "overchoice": When Product Variety Backfires, by Poping Lin http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4980&t=marketing . The author is a business librarian at the Harvard Business School.

New consumer health information search tool, powered by Google, at Healthfinder. From post by Patricia Anderson on the medwebmasters list: " searches for consumer health information *only* in the appropriate sections of 300 US govt. agencies." http://www.healthfinder.gov/search/about.asp

Hurricane Katrina environmental health links resource from NLM:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html

"Digital Libraries - 'Opening' a digital library" article in the September issue of Campus Technology: http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=11727 .

Interesting article on the loss of the public domain, first seen on slashdot.org: The Public Domain - here today, gone tomorrow http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3176 .