Best of The Web: Health & MedicineNina Harris, Selector Librarian
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Selected General Resources in Health & Medicine |
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One of the greatest hurdles for the healthcare sector is the sheer volume of information available through the Internet. Achoo acts as a jump point and information resource for the medical community and all other Internet users interested in healthcare information. |
An informative site that allows you to ask Harvard-trained Internal Medicine specialist Dr. Andrew Weil your question, as well as browse answers to others' inquiries. |
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Developed by the Pall Corporation, this site explains blood transfusion and the associated risks and benefits. Sections include Facts About Blood, Blood Transfusion Terms and Definitions, Important Blood Transfusion Questions & Answers, and Leukocyte Associated Risks of Transfusion. |
This is the Combined Health Information Database: a cooperative effort among several Federal health agencies to provide 18 searchable databases on topics ranging from Alzheimer's Disease to weight control. |
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From our own U. of M., an in-depth comparison of Health Information Megasites and Search Engines. |
This is the online, completely searchable edition of the famous health reference work produced by the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Also available in a text-only online version |
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Databases from the National Institute of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements |
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Offers literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. |
Provides information on federally funded research projects pertaining to dietary supplements. |
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A comprehensive national Directory of practitioners. Searchable by State/City, or Specialty. Includes Top Doctors (by BestDoctors®), and directories of hospitals and health plans. |
Despite some commercial connections, this remains a comprehensive resource site: an extensive pull-down menu accesses information on specific Conditions & Concerns. Other categories include Health News, Family Health, Health Tools (including a collection of calculators that enable you to assess fitness, diet, and nutrition, and risk for several types of diseases.) |
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The web is full of misinformation. HealthFinder® is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. |
A major health information portal offering free access to eight major medical information databases. |
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This site, owned by Healthology, Inc., a privately held health media company, offers daily Webcasts of streaming video, online surgeries, and feature articles as well on a wide variety of health-centered topics. |
Healthsquare provides information on women's health concerns including breast cancer, infertility, birth control,sexually transmitted diseases, and illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, liver disease, etc. Also contains the full text of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) Family Guide to Prescription Drugs, the PDR Family Guide to Women's Health, and the PDR Family Guide Encyclopedia of Medicine. |
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An online Ezine from Prevention Magazine |
This is the "Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries", and one of the three largest free full-text medical archives on earth. It includes a large number of medical and life sciences titles (232 sites containing 227,434 free full-text articles from online journals published with the assistance of HighWire Press). |
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Children's health and parenting information from the duPont Hospital for Children and the Nemours Children's Clinic. |
Information is organized into topical centers, updated daily. As the site's Mission Statement says, "This site is produced by a team of writers, editors, multimedia and graphics producers, health educators, nurses, doctors, and scientists. Our presence on the Web is a natural extension of Mayo's long-standing commitment to provide health education to our patients and the general public. |
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James Martindale, a consultant to the University of California at Irvine's College of Medicine, created this site in 1994 and spends up to nine hours daily maintaining it. Currently the Medical Center contains over 61,500 Teaching files, 129,800 Medical Cases, 1,155 Courses/Textbooks, 1,580 Tutorials, 4,100 Databases and over 10,700 Movies. |
The Men's Health Center (accessed by clicking on the link under Healthy Living Centers) is a comprehensive source of information on topics ranging from fitness and weight to screening tests for men. Sections include News and Feature Picks, Conditions and Care, Lifestyle, and Take Charge of Your Health. |
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A collection of links to sites on specific conditions and diseases. Well represented are topics including prostate, cardiovascular and stroke, diabetes, and STDs and other communicable diseases. |
The full-text, searchable consumer edition of the famous Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, written in everyday language for non-health care professionals, yet retaining all the vital information that makes the professional version the most widely used textbook by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide. |
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The NLM (National Library of Medicine) provides this enormously comprehensive site. A rich set of "Health Topics" links is arranged alphabetically with extensive cross-references. Generic and Prescription drug information, medical dictionaries, directories of doctors, dentists and hospitals, and a powerful site search engine are only a few of this site's offerings. MEDLINEPlus is designed to provide an easy-to-understand set of information resources for the general public. |
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. MedWeb's primary audience is the academic and research community at Emory. The site emphasizes Emory's educational and research programs as well as developing a carefully selected collection of sites of interest to the general public. |
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The NLM (National Library of Medicine) Gateway allows users to search cross and in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. NLM. The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed,OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE. |
In the words of this site's Welcome page, "The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients." Virtual Hospital offers interactive multimedia textbooks, teaching files, online grand rounds, patient simulations, and digital handouts on medical conditions and procedures. |
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The Visible Human Project® is another wonderful offering from the National Library of Medicine. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals. |
A highly-regarded, award-winning site with signed editorial responsibility for its contents. Wellness Web combines coverage of conventional medicine,alternative/complementary medicine, nutrition and fitness.An excellent series of cross-links provides further information from reputable sources. The site emphasizes current developments at major research facilities. |
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A fascinating and useful road map into the human brain, using high quality brain imaging blended with clinical information. Persons seeking information about the structure of the brain, diseases on the central nervous system, the aging process, strokes, and brain tumors will find this a good resource. |
This is an excellent site providing information on commonly performed surgeries. The database includes a description of each surgery, the anatomy of the area in which the operation is performed, pathology of the illness, methods of diagnosis, alternative surgical options, possible complications of surgery, post operative care, and innovations in surgical techniques. |
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