Health & Medicine Resources
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- CDC - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention - Basic Statistics (AIDS information and statistics from the Center for Disease Control)
- The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Resource (Information for people infected with HIV and AIDS)
- The Alternative Medicine Homepage (Links to various alternative medicine resources and to directories of practitioners)
- American Cancer Society (Site provides information on all types of cancers, as well as updates and links to other organizations)
- National Cancer Institute (Site provides current information on cancer research and answers to specific questions)
- OncoLink: A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource (A searchable web site provided by the UPenn Medical Center)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page (Site includes health information, statistics, disease outbreaks, etc.)
- Familydoctor.org (General health information by topic provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Federal Citizen Information Center (Site provides information from the Consumer Information Center Library)
- Food and Drug Administration Home Page (Site includes government reports, FDA drug approvals, FDA Consumer Index, etc.)
- The Health Library at Stanford University (Provides links to websites representing a variety of health topics as well as useful reference sources)
- Intelihealth (A site maintained by Johns Hopkins and CBS which includes medical news, journal abstracts, physician information, and an alphabetically arranged adult health advisor)
- KidsHealth.org (Information is organized for kids, parents, and professionals, and is searchable by subject or keyword)
- Mayo Clinic (Provides information on various health topics and current health news, plus has a searchable drug database)
- Medlineplus.gov (Web site maintained by National Library of Medicine which includes information from the National Institutes of Health and other sources)
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (Site provides substance abuse information and links to other sites)
- The NIDDK Home Page (Home Page for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney diseases)
- RxList - The Internet Drug Index (A searchable site which includes descriptions, warnings, side effects, etc. for medications)
- U. S. Pharmacopeia (USP) (Provides information on over 750 generic drugs, plus consumer information on drug-related issues)
- Virtual Pediatric Hospital (Information on children's health)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (Links to electronic medical journals)
- Free Medical Journals
- CNN - Health (Top health stories of the day, as well as links to recent important health news from the CNN company)
- Medical News Today (Daily links to articles on health topics)
- Medline Plus (Medical News arranged by date)
- American Heart Association National Center (Site provides heart and stroke information and statistics, along with a search engine)
- American Dietetic Association
- The Nutrition Source (Nutrition information provided by the Harvard School of Public Health)
- USDA Food and Nutrition Center (Site provides USDA food composition databases as well as links to other nutrition sources
- Medical Schools - Links (Links to sites for national and international medical schools)
- Official American Medical Association (AMA) Home Page (Provides consumer and professional information, and links to other resources)
- A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia (Medline Plus)
- The Online Medical Dictionary (Dictionary compiled by Dr. Graham Dark that contains over 46,00 short definitions - British site)
- Pubmed/Grateful Med (Direct link to free Medline access)
- U. S. National Library of Medicine (Site provides bibliographies, free Medline access, and telnet to the NLM catalog)
- globalhealth.gov (US Dept. of Health website which provides links to resources related to global health statistics)
- NCHS Home (National Center for Health Statistics provides news releases, factsheets, and links to other statistical Internet sources)
- World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS provides keyword and direct access to WHO statistical reports as well as links to other health statistical information sites)
- Digital Librarian: Health & Medicine (Alphabetical listing of Internet resources in health & medicine, but is not searchable by keyword)
- Hardin MD: Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources (A subject organized directory of directories)
- Healthfinder (Searchable database, but not by keyword, with links to other information and agencies concerning consumer health issues)
- HealthWeb (Links established by medical librarians and information professionals to evaluated Internet resources, and is searchable by subject and/or keyword)
- MedicalStudent.com (Links to a variety of online medical resources)
- Omni (U. K. web site that contains links to worldwide medical resources)