public education

• NIH NIGMS: Medicines for YOU
  Just like diet and lifestyle, genes can affect how people respond to medicines. This brochure describes in lay language the science of pharmacogenetics and answers questions about pharmacogenetics research.
  
  
• NIH NIGMS: Genes & Populations
  This educational brochure explains in question-and-answer format why genetics researchers sometimes study identified populations to find links between genes and diseases.
  
  
• NIH NIGMS: Medicines By Design
  This educational booklet about pharmacology explains how scientists unravel the many different ways medicines work in the body and how this information guides the hunt for drugs of the future. Medicines By Design describes the science of pharmacology, discusses how drugs work in the body, and presents some of the latest research developments in the field.
  
  
• My Family Health Portrait
  This tool from the Department of Health and Human Services creates a chart of the personalized family health history, which users can share with other family members or health care providers. Future versions of the tool may be able to recognize disease patterns and be used to create an electronic health record.