A comprehensive education package on vaccination and vaccine preventable diseases, extensively illustrated with references and slides for healthcare professionals use, and with hotlinks to other worldwide websites on related fields of interest...

* More than 30, 000 constantly updated vaccination related references from the world's leading medical and scientific journals...

* Personalised literature alerts for physicians to order the latest information on vaccination related topics in which they are interested...

* A weekly news bulletin with reports on congresses, key papers on immunisation topics, access to health bulletins content.

* A calendar and details of all the important upcoming conferences on immunisation and related topics...

All in all, a unique worldwide website for all those interested in vaccines and immunisation, whether they are clinicians, researchers, healthcare workers or members of the public: a comprehensive up-to-the-minute 'virtual library' and information centre.

This is www.worldwidevaccincs.com, the new information and education website launched by SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, one of the world leaders in vaccinology. A one-stop shop of services, unavailable elsewhere.

"Our main objective in setting up this unique vaccines website is to provide a virtual gateway in to the world of vaccinology, says Jean Stephenne, President and General Manager, SmithKline Beecham Biologicals.

"As well as the impressive features outlined above, www.worldwidevaccines.com offers a series of over 200 hotlinks to other related sites, to provide a truly comprehensive worldwide information resource. Around the world, people who care about vaccines and immunisation will have instant access, free of charge, to all the information they need."

The website will also have a database accessible to physicians showing the availability, country by country, of all the products in the SmithKline Beecham Biologicals vaccines range.

Located at Rixensart in Belgium, SmithKline Beecham Biologicals is the centre of all SB's vaccine activities worldwide. It is part of SmithKline Beecham, one of the world's leading healthcare companies.

The world's leading vaccine manufacturer, SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, employs more than 600 research scientists in its quest for new vaccines and in developing more cost-effective and convenient products to prevent the infections which cause serious worldwide medical problems.

The company distributed 770 million doses of vaccines last year, an average of 25 a second!

For further information e-mail worldwidevaccines@sbbio.be - or visit their unique vaccines 'virtual library' at www.worldwidevaccines.com

SmithKline Beecham International is proud to be associated with the Sri Lanka Medical Library through the Panadol Medical Information Centre, in their endeavour to support continuing medical education.