Health and Medical Resources
Alternative
Medicine Homepage
From the University
of Pittsburgh, this site provides links to various forms of alternative
health resources.
AMA
Physician Select
From the American
Medical Association, this searchable database has information on US licensed
physicians. Included are more than 650,000 MDs and DOs.
American
Cancer Society
From the American
Cancer Society, this site includes links to the Breast Cancer Network,
other specific cancers, and to other cancer related resources.
American Foundation
for the Blind
Information for people who
are visually impaired, blind, organizations that serve them and the general public. Lots
of information about Helen Keller with images.
American
Heart Association
The "Official Web Site
of the American Heart Association" provides the latest information on heart ailments
and preventative measures, as well as other cardiovascular information.
Centers
for Disease Control (CDC)
Known as the "Nation's
Prevention Agency", the CDC is an agency of the Department of Health and Human
Services.
Florida Report on Physician Discipline and
Malpractice
A listing of Florida malpractice claims, closed and
active, listed by doctor's name in PDF format that requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader. This list is provided by the Agency for Health Care
Administration.
Food and Nutrition
Information Center
FNIC's web site provides a directory to credible, accurate, and practical resources
for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators and government personnel.
HealthAtoZ
The search engine provides
fast and easy access to medical and health related sites. Provides reviewed and
rated sites as well as weekly updates on the latest news in health and medicine.
HealthFinder
From the U.S. government,
this site is a gateway to consumer health and human services information. Links
to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, support
and self-help programs, and government agencies that produce reliable information
for the public.
Mayo
Clinic
This site from the Mayo
Clinic and IVI Publishing offers current health and medical news, an extensive
medical library , Resource Centers, as well as ask-the-expert forums.
MedicineNet
This site, written by board
certified U.S. physicians provides easy-to-understand information on many subjects
from diseases and treatment to prescription drugs. There is an online medical
dictionary and an ask the expert section. Searchable.
Free
Medline
PubMed, a service of the
National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from
MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites
providing full text articles and other related resources.
National
Institutes of Health
The NIH is an agency of
the Department of Health. This site provides news and events, grant and job information,
links to CancerNet, and to other Institutes and Offices in the NIH.
National
Mental Health Information Center
U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services mental health page
National Mental Health Association
OncoLink
From The University of
Pennsylvania , this site provides education and support resources for professionals,
cancer patients, and their families. Tour the exhibit "Confronting Cancer through
Art".
Parkinson's
Disease Foundation
The Parkinson's Disease Foundation
(PDF) is a national non-profit organization devoted to funding research ,
providing education and advocating for Parkinson's.
Michael J. Fox Foundation
for Parkinson's Research
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is dedicated to
ensuring the development of a cure for Parkinson's disease within this decade
through an aggressively funded research agenda.
RxList
This "internet drug index" has
been created by a pharmacist to search over 4,000 drugs by brand name or generic
name. There is a link to a listing of the Top 200 drugs by prescription volume.
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