Health & Medicine Resources

Choose from among the following: AIDS Heart Disease  Alternative Medicine Nutrition Cancer  Professional   Consumer and Family Health  Reference Sources  Electronic Journals  Statistics Health News  Subject Directories   AIDS  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)  Alternative Medicine  The Alternative Medicine Homepage (Links to various alternative medicine resources and to directories of  practitioners) Cancer   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) Consumer and Family Health  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. 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Pharmacopeia (USP) (Provides information on over 750 generic drugs,  plus consumer information on drug-related issues) Virtual Pediatric Hospital (Information on children's health) Electronic Journals  Directory of Open Access Journals (Links to electronic medical journals) Free Medical Journals Health News  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) Heart Disease  American Heart Association National Center (Site provides heart and stroke information and statistics, along with a search engine) Nutrition  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) Professional  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) Reference Sources  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) Statistics  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) Subject Directories  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)