MEDICAL & HEALTH LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• AARP: Internet resources on aging provided by the AARP.
• About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products: This site provides objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems.
• AEGiS: AIDS Education Global Information System.
• AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
• Aids Info: From the National Institute of Health.
• Altmedicine.com: Alternative Health News online.
• Alternative Medicine: The Alternative Medicine homepage from the University of Pittsburgh.
• American Academy of Pediatrics: The American Academy of Pediatrics—an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
• American Heart Association: Homepage.
• American Indian Health: This Web resource on American Indian Health, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to bring together health and medical resources pertinent to the American Indian population including policies, consumer health information, and research.
• American Medical Association: Homepage.
• AMERICA'S LIFELINE ONLINE: Health and health risk information.
• Americans with Disabilities: Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center.
• BHN: Biomedicine and Health in the news from the Lyman Manard Stowe Library.
• Bioethics.net: A news and resource launch pad in the area of bioethics.
• Biointeractive: Site offers educational options drawn from the research interests of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• BioMed Central: An independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
• Biomedicine: The history of biomedicine from the Karolinska Institutet.
• Bloodlines: Website for the PBS documentary.
• Boston Healing Landscape Project: The Boston Healing Landscape Project, located in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, represents an initiative to examine how, the medical landscape of the U.S. has changed (This richly textured world of healing represents the new face of culturally and religiously grounded complementary and alternative medicine in America.)
• Caahep: The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
• CAM: CAM on PubMed, citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals.
• CBHP: Community Breast Health Project.
• CDC: Centers for Disease Control and prevention.
• CDC Health Topics: Health Topics A to Z from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Center for Healthy Aging: Center for Healthy Aging is a non-profit organization whose mission is to meet the needs of aging adults and their families founded in 1976.
• CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the Academic Health Center of the University of Minnesota.
• Child Welfare Information Gateway: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.
• CIT: Center for Information Technology of the National institute of Health.
• ClinicalTrial.gov: ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
• Community health: Community health resources from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
• CROET: CROET, the Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, is dedicated to health and safety in the workforce.
• CSR: Center for Scientific Review of the NIH.
• DailyMed: DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs.
• Deaflibrary: The deaf resourse library.
• The Diabetes Dictionary: The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
• DisabilityInfo.gov: DisabilityInfo.gov is a comprehensive online resource designed to provide people with disabilities with quick and easy access to the information they need.
• Drug Discovery: Site is provided by the Nature Publishing Group.
• Drugs@FDA: A Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products.
• EID: Emerging and Infectious Diseases.
• Ethnomed: The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
• FAO: Food and nutrition from the Food and Argiculture Organization of the United Nations.
• FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• FDAC: FDA Consumer Magazine.
• FIC: Fogarty International Center for Advanced Medical Research.
• FoodSafety.gov: Gateway to government food safety information.
• Genetics Home Reference: A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• Genome: National Human Genome Research Institute.
• Globalhealth: A global health portal for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
• Hardin MD: Medical information and pictures provided as a service of Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
• The Hastings Center: The Hastings Center explores fundamental ethical questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
• Heal: Health Education Assets Library whose mission is to provide free digital resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators.
• Health A to Z: A commercial health website.
• Healthfinder: A guide to reliable health information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Health, United States, 2003: Health, United States, 2003 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans from the CDC.
• Healthweb: A directory of health related resoursec on the web.
• Healthworld: HealthWorld Online is your 24-hour health resource center.
• Healthy People 2010: Healthy People 2010 challenges individuals, communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all.
• Herbal Safety: The UTEP/UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program’s Herbal Safety Website.
• History of the Health Sciences: History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links.
• History of Medicine: The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine collects, preserves, interprets, and presents materials documenting the history of medicine, biomedical science, health and disease in all time periods and cultures.
• HSG: Martindale's Health and Science Guide.
• IBIDS: The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.
• Inside Cancer: Multimedia Guide to Cancer Biology.
• IPL: The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education by Edward C. Klatt MD, Department of Pathology, University of Utah.
• Lab Tests Online: Information about clinical tests and testing.
• Library of Rush University: Alphabetical Index of online publications, some requiring password access. A heavy concentration in the health sciences.
• Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database: The Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database is an annotated bibliography of prose, poetry, film, video and art which was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in medical humanities.
• Lumen: Structure of the Human Body from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
• MDChoice: Medicine and Health Portal for consumers and health professionals.
• MedBioWorld: MedBioWorld™, with over 35,000 links, is one of the largest medical and bioscience resource portal and directory on the Internet.
• Medem Network - Medical Library: Selected one of the top ten most useful websites by the Medical Library Association, Medem's Medical Library provides patients with reliable health care information from introductory to advanced texts.
• Medhist: Searchable guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet.
• Medlineplus: From the National Library of Medicine.
• Medscape: Medical Search tool, available to registered users. Registation is free.
• MedWeb: Catalog of health web sites, maintained by the Emory Health Sciences Center Library.
• Men's Health: Men's Health resources from MedlinePlus.
• Mentalhealth.org: The National Mental Health Information Center was developed for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy makers, providers, and the media.
• Merck: Links to six Merck manuals available online
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
• NARIC: The National Rehabilitation Information Center's online gateway to an abundance of disability- and rehabilitation-oriented information.
• National Guideline Clearinghouse: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the United States presents a searchable database of clinical practice guidelines.
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature: An index of resources from Georgetown University.
• NBRC: The National Board for Respiratory Care, Inc.
• NCCAM: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
• NCEH: The National Center for Environmental Health.
• NCHS: National Center for Health Statistics' Web site from CDC.
• NCHS Sweries 10: National Center for Health Statistics Series 10 with data from the National Health Interview Survey.
• NCI: The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.
• NCPTSD: The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was created within the Department of Veterans Affairs in 1989.
• NCRR: National Center for Research Resources.
• NEI: National Eye Institute.
• NetAnatomy: NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students.
• Neuroguide.com: Neurosciences on the Internet is edited and maintained by Neil A. Busis, M.D.
• NHLBI: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• NIA: National Institute on Aging.
• NIAAA: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
• NIAID: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
• NIAMS: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
• NICHD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
• NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• NIDCD: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
• NIDCR: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
• NIDDK: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
• NIEHS: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
• NIGMS: National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
• NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health.
• NINDS: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
• NINR: National Institute of Nursing Research.
• NIRC: Nutrition Information and Resource Center, Department of Food Science, at Penn State University.
• NJC: National Jewish Medical Research Center (Lung, Allergic, and Immune diseases).
• NLM: National Library of Medicine.
• NOAH New York online access to health: New York online access to health resourses, bilingual in English and Spanish.
• NORD: The National Organization for Rare Disorders.
• NPFS: National Patient Safety Foundation with the mission to improve the safety of patients.
• NRCBL: National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
• Nursingworld: The American Nurses Association.
• Nutrient Data Laboratory: Nutrient Data Laboratory is a part of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service's Human Nutriition Research Center.
• Nutrition.gov: Portal to health and nutrition sites.
• Nutrition Source: Nutrition Source, a Web site maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
• OncoLink: OncoLink was founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge.
• PandemicFlu.gov: One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
• PDRhealth: Informatuion on diseases and health provided by Thomson Healthcare.
• PHIL: Public Health Image Library from the Center for Disease Control.
• Prevention Online: SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) web site.
• PubMed: PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
• RxList: An Internet drug index.
• State Health Facts: State Health Facts Online provided by the Kaiser Family foundation.
• State Public Health.org: State public health, information and analysis.
• TOXMAP: TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).
• Toxnet: A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
• Transcultural & Multicultural Health Links: Compiled by Ellen Bosman, a librarian at New Mexico State University.
• US FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book: Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook.
• USP: United States Pharmacopeia.
• The Visible Human Project: The Visible Human Project is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
• WebMedLit: Searches medical web sites for citations, abstracts and full-text articles.
• Wellcome Library: Through its collections and services, the Wellcome Library provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand medicine and its role in society, past and present.
• WHO: The World Health Prganization, the health agency of the UN.
• Who Named It?: Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. Attempts to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person.
• Women's Health.gov: The National Women's Health Information Center.
• Worldhealthnews: An online news digest from the Center for Health Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Links last verified and updated 3/21/2007.

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