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Welcome to BIUMINFO
BIUM’s Questions & Answers service

Who can use this service ?

Anybody, health professional or student, seeking information regarding health and its history: medicine, biology, pharmacology, psychology, public health, odontology, nursing, paramedical services, health economics, and medical law.

The service is free-of-charge.

What questions may I ask ?

The BIUMINFO team is here to help you get past the difficulties you may encounter whilst searching for addresses, references, bibliographies on specific subjects, both printed and electronic documents, etc.

You can request information on all health-related topics and we will respond using our in-house resources (catalogues, databases) and those of other institutions (libraries, websites) as well.

We can also deliver photocopies of selected documents by mail to your home/office (subject to payment). For further information, see www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/medecine/peb_ang.htm

Who answers my question ?

A team of ten librarians, who are not physicians ; so they can’t deliver any medical opinion or medical advice.

How long will it take for me to get an answer ?

You can submit questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The service responds Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. till 7 p.m.. Questions are usually answered the day that they are received. Questions submitted on week-ends will be handled on the following Monday.

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BIUMINFO commits itself not to disclose any personal information nor the contents of the exchanged mails.

BIUMINFO does not give medical advice, and neither can the provided information replace a visit to a health professional.

If you suffer from health problem, we suggest you to search patient information websites