{"id":14439,"date":"2016-09-26T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=14439"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:14:25","slug":"health-hotlines-to-be-retired","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/health-hotlines-to-be-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Hotlines to be Retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthhotlines.nlm.nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Health Hotlines<\/a> was developed by NLM as a community service to help the public locate health-related information from organizations with toll free numbers.\u00a0Organizations listed included\u00a0such\u00a0categories as Federal, State, and local government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, support groups and voluntary associations.<\/p>\n<p>NLM has decided it will no longer update the Health Hotlines database because most of the information is now readily available through web search engines and because many of the organizations no longer have toll free numbers. Health Hotlines will remain online until the end of January, 2017, at which time it will be retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Hotlines was developed by NLM as a community service to help the public locate health-related information from organizations with toll free numbers.\u00a0Organizations listed included\u00a0such\u00a0categories as Federal, State, and local government agencies, information and referral centers, professional societies, support groups and voluntary associations. NLM has decided it will no longer update the Health Hotlines database&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/health-hotlines-to-be-retired\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14439","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22179,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14439\/revisions\/22179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}