General Consumer Health Information
Sites
Adolescent
Health
Center
for Ethics in Health Care-OHSU
Children's
Action Alliance (Wyoming)
Childrens'
Services
Health
Information Handouts-AAFP
Health
InfoQuest-Site Map
Health
on the Net (HON)
Health
pages
Healthweb
HIV
InSite
Intelihealth
Mayo
Clinic-Consumer Health Information
MedicineNet
Mednexus
(hot links)
NLM
NNLM:
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
NPR
News Talk of the Nation episode:
Healthcare,
Consumers and the Internet
with
Dr. Donald Lindberg, Director, NLM
Dr.
Tom Ferguson, Sr Asso. Center for
Clinical
Computing, Harvard Medical School,
Portia
Iversen, Citizen Scientist founded Cure Autism Now
Dr.
Harold Varmus, Former Director, NIH
Pediatric
Patient Education Handouts-Johns Hopkins University
Psych
Central: Dr. John Grohol's Mental Health Page
Questions
To Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery
Public
LIbrary of Medicine: a non-profit organization of scientists committed
to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible
to scientists and to the public around the world, for the benefit of scientific
progress, education and the public good.
Users
Guide to Medical Literature
Federal
Medical Access
Clinical
Trials provides patients, family members, health care professionals,
and members of the public easy access to information on clinical trials
for a wide range of diseases and conditions, launched in February 2000,currently
contains approx. 5,700 clinical studies sponsored by NIH ,
other Federal agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry in over 63,000
locations worldwide. Studies listed are conducted primarily in the US and
Canada, but include locations in about 70 countries.
Education
of Migratory Children
FDA
Home Page
HCFA
(Health Care Financing Administration)
Healthfinder
Med
Watch
Social
Security Administration
US
GOVERNMENT
NLM-National
library of Medicine
How
to use PubMed (tutorial)
How
to find medical information
PubMed
Provides
access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and
additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing
full text articles and other related resources.
Tox
Town: designed to give information on everyday
locations where you might
find toxic chemicals
non-technical descriptions
of chemicals links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the
Internet how the environment can impact human health Internet resources
on environmental health topics
IBIDS
Gateway-International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements database of published,
international, scientific literature on dietary supplements. This includes
vitamins, minerals, and botanicals; produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements
(ODS),
(cont'd in
next column)
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National Institutes
of Health to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and researchers
in locating credible, scientific information on many dietary supplements;developed
and will be maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food
and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
Genes
and Genetic Disorders
This database is a catalog
of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor
A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed
for the World Wide Web by NCBI, National Center for biotechnology
Information
CliniWeb
International
This search engine allows
you to enter a free text query statement and returns a list of terms from
the MeSH disease classification that you can select to find associated
WWW pages.
MedlinePlus
Information
pages (at present approx. 200+) are designed to direct you to resources
containing information that will help you research your health questions.
They are checked for dead links or moved pages on a daily basis.
Links are designed for educational use. Pages provide carefully selected
lists of topic related resources arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
These topic lists are not comprehensive but perform as excellent guideposts
for health related searching.
LocatorPlus
National
Library of Medicine's catalog of books, journals, and audiovisuals and
access points to other medical research tools.
Cancer:
Cancer
Resources on the Net-
from
the NIH-Provides a good list of sites
National
Cancer Institute (NCI) www.cancer.gov
Provides
accurate, up-to-date information on cancer to patients and their families,
health professionals, and the general public. information specialists translate
the latest scientific information into understandable language and respond
in English, Spanish, or on TTY equipment.
Toll-free: 1-800-4-CANCER
(1-800-422-6237)
TTY: 1-800-332-8615
Guide
to Internet Resources for Cancer-
A
well organized guide to cancer related sites, including a page dedicated
to resource reliability issues for cancer information on the Internet.
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Top
Medical Reference Tools:
>Medical
Dictionaries
Causes
of Death, Annotated Index of,
Disease
names (List of Diseases-old and new)
English
Medical Dictionary
Multilingual
Medical Dictionary
Online
Medical Dictionary
Other:
A Web
of Online Dictionaries
>Healthcare
Statistical Information
University
of Michigan's Statistical
Resources
on the Web: Health
Consumer
Information MedFacts-
National
Jewish Medical Center, Denver
>Minority/Special
Populations Health
Hispanic
Community
Tool Box
Special
Populations Network
Center
to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
Help
patients sift wheat from chaff on World Wide Web fromFP
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