| Alternative Medicine Home Page : http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
The Alternative Medicine Home Page is a jumpstation for
sources of information
on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, complementary, innovative, and
integrative therapies.
American Heart Association : http://www.americanheart.org
The American Heart Association's home page offers
information on heart
disease and stroke.
American Medical Association : http://www.ama-assn.org
Includes medical information for consumers and
physicians, abstracts
of current medical articles for JAMA and other AMA journals, and an
online
doctor finder.
Drugs@FDA : http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm
A Catalog of FDA approved and tentatively approved prescription,
over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs. Includes drug approval
letters, labels, and review packages. Searchable by drug name or
active ingredient, or browsable by drug name.
Gray's Anatomy : http://www.bartleby.com/107
This is the full-text of the twentieth edition of Gray's
Anatomy of
the Human Body, featuring 1,247 vibrant engravings as well as a subject
index. Fully searchable or browseable by subject.
Healthfinder : http://www.healthfinder.gov
A consumer health gateway site from the U.S.
government. Provides
links to reliable health information sources including online
publications,
Web sites, support groups, government agencies, and non-profit
organizations.
HerbMed : http://www.herbmed.org
HerbMed provides access to the scientific data
underlying the use of
herbs for health. Browseable by herb name or searchable by
keyword.
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast : http://www.thehospice.org
This site provides information on the Hospice of the
Florida Suncoast,
whose mission is to provide dignified, quality comfort care that
enhances
the lives of dying people and their families.
Household Products Database : http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov
This database has information on over 4,000 brands of
household products.
Find out what's in these products and what are the potential health
effects,
as well as who manufactures a specific product and how to contact
them.
This database is browsable and searchable by product type or by
specific
chemical name.
MayoClinic.com : http://www.mayohealth.org
This is the Mayo Clinic's Web site for consumer health
information.
Includes current medical research news and information about
prescription
drugs.
MEDLINEplus : http://medlineplus.gov
Use this site to find health information from the
world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of
Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical
encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish,
extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health
information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
The Merck Manual : http://www.merck.com/pubs
This site offers three full-text publications by
Merck. The Merck
Manual of Medical Information Home Edition is available in interactive
or text-based editions. The Merck Manual of Geriatrics is the 3rd
edition, published in 2000. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and
Therapy
is the seventeenth edition.
Physician Select : http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/
This searchable database from the American Medical
Association contains
credential information on all U.S. licensed physicians.
Searchable
by physician's name and state, or by any of over 20 medical
specialties.
PubMed : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15
million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These
citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other
related resources.
RxList : http://www.rxlist.com
RxList is a prescription drug database maintained by
Neil Sandow, a
licensed pharmacist in California. The database of approximately
5,000 product names is updated every several days. RxList is
searchable
by keyword, brand name, generic name, or imprint code (the alphanumeric
characters printed on many tablets and capsules.) Access to
Taber's
Medical Encyclopedia is also included.
WholeHealth.MD : http://www.wholehealthmd.com
This site is dedicated to providing quality information about
complementary and alternative medicine, developed by a team of leading
board-certified doctors and specialists.
YourSurgery.com : http://www.yoursurgery.com
This site offers multimedia tours of surgical procedures
to educate
patients. It has descriptions of operations, information about
possible
complications, postoperative care, and alternative surgical
options.
Organized by anatomical region or searchable by keyword.
|