In December 1996, the Journal of the American Medical Association announced that the editors of over 80 major medical journals from throughout the world voted on more than 200 proposed topics and chose aging as the most important topic for the JAMA’s second global theme issue. And now you know why.

Readers may reference this important publication (Vol. 278, No. 16, October 22-29, 1997) in libraries or on the World Wide Web at http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Other electronic resources are these Web sites:

• The Huffington Center on Aging
  http://www.hcoa.org
  
  
• The Texas Consortium of Geriatrics Education Center's Distance Learning Initiative
  http://www.tcgecdistancelearning.org
  
  
• The National Library of Medicine's Pub-Med site, use it to look up almost any journal article.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez
  
  
• The National Institute on Aging
  http://www.nih.gov/nia
  
  
• The Gerontological Society of America
  http://www.geron.org
  
  
• The American Association of Retired Persons
  http://www.aarp.org
  
  
• The U.S. Administration on Aging
  http://www.aoa.gov
  
  
• The Novartis Foundation for Gerontology's Web site
  http://www.healthandage.com
  
  

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