About
NHLBIHIN is an independent archive of public-domain health tools, recipes and publications that were once published from this web address.
What this site is
This site rebuilds pages that were once published from this web address so that links to them keep working and the material stays readable. It is an archive: items are reproduced as they were published, with the original wording left intact, and where an item could not be recovered the page says so rather than reconstructing it.
History of the domain
The material was originally produced by the NHLBI Health Information Network. From roughly 2000 to 2015 the nhlbihin.net domain, together with its hp2010 and emall subdomains, served a contractor-run public health information website for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which offered health calculators, recipes, a publications catalog and education slide sets. That site is no longer operated. The present site is unrelated to the institute and to the National Institutes of Health; it is an independent archive of some of that public-domain material.
What is on the site
- Tools: a 10-year heart risk calculator, the Portion Distortion quizzes, a menu planner and a BMI calculator, rebuilt to run in the browser.
- Recipes: 119 recipes from the archived healthy-eating collection, each with its ingredients, directions and nutrition figures.
- Publications: a page for each of 320 items of the old publications catalog. For 117 of them the text of the booklet or fact sheet itself is reproduced in full.
- Slide sets, newsletter pages and project profiles from the same site, and a page-by-page archive of every recovered section.
How the content is sourced
Every archived page is rebuilt from a stored copy of the original: a capture held by a public web archive or, for some booklets, the copy its publisher still makes available. Recovered text is reproduced verbatim. It is not summarised, paraphrased or brought up to date, and nothing is written in to fill a gap. Each archived page names the year of the copy it was reproduced from.
A small number of things are left out on purpose, and each kind is logged: the old site's own navigation and banners, ordering details and prices for a catalog that no longer takes orders, subscription forms, and contact details for services that no longer run. Links to other websites are shown as plain text.
Public-domain material
The historical materials reproduced here were originally published by U.S. government agencies and are in the public domain under 17 U.S.C. §105. They are reproduced as archived reference, not current clinical guidance. Health recommendations change; anyone making a health decision should rely on a qualified clinician and on current guidance.
Reading the archive
- Interactive tools run in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
- Dates on archived items are the dates of the original publication, not of this site.
- Some archived items, such as software for discontinued handheld devices, can no longer be distributed and are described instead.
Not affiliated
NHLBIHIN is an independent reference site. It is not affiliated with the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Historical materials on this site were originally published by U.S. federal agencies and are in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105); they are reproduced as archived reference, not current clinical guidance.
Corrections and contact
If a page is broken, mislabelled or differs from the original it reproduces, please write to info@nhlbihin.net; the Contact page says what to include. Corrections are made against the archived original, so it helps to name the page and what the original said. See also the Privacy and Accessibility pages.