After 13 years of service, on January 1, 2006, Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital, the Internet's first medical Web sites, ceased operations after serving over 80 million users, due to a lack of funding.

However, much of Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital content remains available online.

If you are looking for pediatric or pediatric radiology content from Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital, please look at Virtual Pediatric Hospital where these pediatric textbooks are now available:

If you are looking for anatomy content from Virtual Hospital, please look at Anatomy Atlases where these anatomy textbooks are now available: If you are looking for pulmonary medicine content from Virtual Hospital, it will be back online soon, check back here soon.

If you are looking for patient education content from Virtual Hospital, please look at UI Health Care, where most of this content is now available.

Please update your links and bookmarks to reflect these new addresses.

Archived versions of Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital may be found at the Internet Archive, with the last archival copy being from April 1, 2005.

Additional recommended Web sites include:

URL: http://www.vh.org/