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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE * COMPILED MEDICAL LINKS * HEALTHY LIVING & WELLNESS * HOSPITALS & OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES * INSURANCE & PAYMENT PLANS * MEDICAL DATABASES * MEDICAL DICTIONARIES * MEDICAL DIRECTORIES & CREDENTIALS * MISC. * NEWS * ORGANIZATIONS * PHARMACEUTICALS * STATISTICS & HISTORICAL INFORMATION
About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products - (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) "objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals [and patients], including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems. Evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies are also provided."
Alternate Health News Online - news from various sources (legitimate medical journals, newspapers and other news sources) and many links to sites
The Alternative Medicine Homepage (Charles B. Wessel, M.L.S. - Univ. of Pittsburgh) - "a jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies". AIDS & HIV, Databases, Internet Resources, Mailing Lists and Newsgroups, Government Resources, Practitioners' Directories, Related Resources
Ethnobotanical and Phytochemical Databases (Jim Duke) (National Agriculture Library) - search or browse resources, including: EthnobotDB (Worldwide Plant Uses); Ecosys (plant ecological ranges); FoodplantDB (Native American food plants); MPNADB (medicinal plants of Native America); PhytochemDB--plant chemicals; Ethnobotanical dictionary; ...
Herbal Materia Medica (Michael Moore) - Text is a brief outline of major medicinal plants, giving preferred media, strengths, common dosage ranges, possible side effects, and ecologic status - from the SouthWest School of Botanical Medicine
HerbMed - evidence-based herbal database (The Alternative Medicine Foundation) - an interactive, electronic herbal database – provides scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health for professionals, researchers, and general public.
An Illustrated Herbal - 500 medicinal plants and their properties
Medicinal Herb Garden (Michael Boer, Univ. of Wash) - Images of herbs - browse through list of botanical or common names to see images of herbs; check a pre-scripted search for "latest Herbal Medicine literature via PubMed™."
A MODERN HERBAL (Mrs. M. Grieve) - nice simple data with Description, Constituents, Medicinal Action and Uses, Dosages; contains Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folk-Lore of Herbs. Commercial site with an herbal reference collection.
MotherNature.com - Commercial site has an herbal reference collection.
Nature's Way herbal - commercial site with easy to understand herbal encyclopedia. Commercial site with an herbal reference collection.
Office of Alternative Medicine (NIH) - browse funded research projects, research centers, and information clearinghouse factsheets and phone contacts
Sloan-Kettering - About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products - The respected cancer institute 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. Evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies also are given."
Supplement Watch - the latest on nutritional supplements. Source is a private, self-funded privately held corporation consisting of a small group of scientists, physiologists, nutritionists and other health professionals
WholeHealthMD " the source for Alternative medicine, Complementary medicine, Integrative medicine" - healing foods, the latest research, reference library with information on different therapies, interactions, information on supplements and nutrition basics.
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics (Karolinska Institute in Stockholm) - "MeSH Classified" Resources on Internet
Dr. Koop's Community - news, health calculators, symptoms and conditions lookup, first aid guide, alternative medicine, wellness resources
HealthFinder - selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, news, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. Search or browse. A service of the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
HealthWorld - Major source for conventional and alternative medical information, including searchable Medline cites, links to associations, reference center, nutrition, public health, ... professional center has, Journals, Global Health Calendar, Diagnostic Lab Directory, Compounding Pharmacies, Branded Manufacturers Directory
Links on Infectious Diseases - Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) © Federation of American Scientists
Mayo Health O@sis (Mayo Clinic) - diseases and conditions, information on various tests and procedures, wellness, glossary
medbroadcast.com | HEALTH TOPICS - "Canada's source for health information"
Medical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians
MEDLINEplus - (National Library of Medicine)
MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources (Emory Univ)
World Book Medical Encyclopedia - search their database for a specific health issue to retrieve articles on that topic on the internet.
Complete Home Medical Guide - (Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons)
Diagnostic Tests — The Family Health Guide
tHE One Minute Therapist (Dr. Hugh Leavell) - syndicated columns
Strength Training - Muscle Map & Explanation
Health Care Financing Administration - Nursing Home Compare
Hospice Net - Death and Dying, Caregiving and Grief - Information on services (finding a hospice, asking the right questions, etc.), for patients (pain control, palliative care, etc.), and for caregivers and the bereaved.
HospitalWeb - US & International hospitals on the web; links to medical school, residency information and related medical businesses.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization - hospice research, legislative and regulatory information
Nursing Home Compare - detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the U.S.; plus information on Medicare basics, plan choices. Entire nursing home database can be downloaded.
Health Care Financing Administration - Information and comparison data on Nursing Homes, Medicare Health Plans, Medigap Programs; contact numbers; ...
KFF State Health Facts Online - (Kaiser Family Foundation) - individual state profiles, and comparison of states' Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, women's health, minority health, managed care, the uninsured, ...
Long Term Care Link, A comprehensive source of information about long-term care
National Committee for Quality Assurance - They evaluate health plans; standards; accreditation; glossary of managed care terms; Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set
State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation) - Individual state profiles, or state comparisons of: Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, women's health, minority health, managed care, the uninsured, etc.
managed care glossary (National Committee for Quality Assurance)
MedicineNet Medical Dictionary
MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary - encylopedic dictionary of classic and contemporary medical terms
Multilingual Glossary of medical terms - European languages
On-line Medical Dictionary - searchable dictionary created by Dr Graham Dark; contains terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. copyrighted Academic Medical Publishing & CancerWEB
Pharmaceutical abbreviations and acronyms
American Dental Association - Licensure information
American Board of Medical Specialties - register to search the database
American Hospital Directory - Comparative Hospital Data; Statistics; free and for a fee information on hospitals; Number of beds, types of services, number and cost of various procedures, % of medicare. "Database is built from Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Health Care Financing administration. The directory also includes AHA Annual Survey Data licensed from Health Forum, an American Hospital Association company."
American Medical Association Physician Select - check a doctor's credentials!
Career M.D. (medical education) - find medical schools with particular residency programs; specialty medical sites
DocFinderPlus - (product of National Physicians DataSource LLC (NPDS), publishers of The Little Blue Book.) Search for U.S. doctors by state, metro area or zip code, and name. You can further limit the search by specialty, hospital, and HMO.
Doctor Directory - Directories of doctors by specialty or location, health plans, hospitals, med schools, clinical trials, news and links. Sanctions and disciplinary actions search provides free profiles, including educational background. National sanctions reports can be ordered.
HealthCareReportCards.com - Hospital Report Cards™ health care ratings of the performance of health care providers in the United States, in the areas for Hospitals, Physicians, Health Plans, Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, Hospice Programs and Fertility Clinics. Not all locations are covered.
Medical Board Web Sites - Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Medical Board Web Sites (February 2000) - links to state sites in appendices
Air Care Alliance - Medical air flights
Easy-to-read Health Information from the National Libraries of Medicine
Emergency Medicine and Primary Care - geared to professionals. Has medical images, technology and select links. Interactive emergency simulations.
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - (Bartleby.com) 1918 edition
HealthGrades.com - Some helpful information on physicians, hospitals, health plans, and other medical/health facilities and specialties. Current news as well.
Lab Tests Online - (American Association for Clinical Chemistry) - information about the various medical tests searchable by test name, medical conditon or age of patient.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - the Home and Professional editions are available online.
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, Title Page - browse by chapter, or search the index or key words.
National Library of Medicine Gateway Search - "The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj."
Patient Medical Assistant (Michael S. Cole, M.D.) - For Common Out-Patient Primary Care Problems
QuackWatch (Stephen Barrett, M.D.) - Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisions
RegSource Regulatory Page "Provides information for regulatory affairs, fda information, federal register and clinical trials" - A source for guidance documents, regulatory forms, clinical investigator listings, adverse event reporting, warning letters, approvals, news, and access to the Federal Register. European page provides access to similar info outside the US.
Stem Cell Research (American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Summarizes the issues associated with stem cell research, including the ban on embryonic research and other ethical issues. There are also links to the National Institute of Health's guidelines for this research, other background resources, press coverage, congressional action, and to groups supporting and opposing the research.
Stem Cell Research Foundation: The Promise of Stem Cells in Medical Research - the latest science and medicine news, clinical trials, and research opportunities in stem cell therapy, which "can be defined as a part of a group of new techniques, or technologies that rely on replacing diseased or dysfunctional cells with healthy, functioning ones." Free e-mail updates are available.
The Stress Doc - "Stress Management, Team Building Exercises, Organizational Change, Workplace Violence, Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, Employee Motivation and Burnout."
World Directory of Medical Schools - Names and addresses were complied from data received from, or confirmed by, Member States of the World Health Organization.(pdf)
WWWONDER (CDC Wonder) - CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. Free with or without registration.
American Academy of Dermatology
American College of Gastroenterology
The American Dental Association
American Medical Association - Abstracts of Journal of AMA available
Health Care Liability Alliance (HCLA) - National advocacy coalition that supports effective federal health care liability reform to enhance the fairness, timeliness and cost-effectiveness of the civil justice system in resolving health care injury disputes
Health Information Resources: Toll-Free Numbers
MedWeb (Emory Univ) (search for associations or organizations brings up large list)
Patient Advocate Foundation - has a searchable state/federal resource database.
Patient Advocacy Groups (Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Information Network) - Phone numbers, sorted by disorder
The Population Council - reproductive health information; international health
Acurian - state-by-state listings of clinical trials of cutting-edge drugs under investigation both by pharmaceutical manufacturers and/or academic research facilities. Or select by medical condition.
American Pharmaceutical Association - News, drug recalls, links, state associations ...
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service - industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials, newly FDA approved drug therapies, research center and industry providers profiles, news
Clinical Alerts and Advisories (National Institutes of Health) - drug trials
TrialsCentral Clinical Trials Register - searchable by health conditions and geographic locations. Also has links to support groups, news, and other evidence-based health care sites.
Drug InfoNet - Drug package inserts, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (prescription and over-the-counter), and links to sites for specific diseases, medical schools, hospitals, news, organizations and government.
Food and Drug Administration - Full text of FDA news releases (including product recalls), enforcement reports, import alerts, drug and product approval lists, Federal Register summaries, articles from FDA consumer, and other FDA information.
FDA Drug Approvals List (June 1996 and later) - links to information on Drug and Device Product Approvals prior to June 1996
Healthtouch® - Drug Information - concise information for prescription and over-the-counter medications, including common uses of a drug, the proper ways to use the medicine, possible side effects...
MEDLINEplus: Drug Information - Prescription and over-the-counter drug information from the United States Pharmacopeia USP DI® and Advice for the Patient®. Lists brand names, safety precautions. Browse by generic or brand name of the drug from an alphabetical index. The results include warnings and side effects of the drug.
MedWeb: Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Emory Univ. Health Sciences Center Library) - Pharmacy and Pharmacology links
Resistance Web (SUNY at Buffalo) - track trends in bacterial resistance to prescription antibiotics; has media page with experts, fact sheets and glossary. Database is searchable.
RXList - The Internet Drug Index (Neil Sandow, Pharm.D.) - search brand, generic name or category, also has information on alternative medicine
U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention - sets standards to be used by drug manufacturers - info on reference books on drugs, dietary supplements, practitioner reporting, veterinary medicine, and standards. (information on specific medicines is NOT available here, except for monographs on antibiotic use in animals)
Doctor's Guide to the Internet - News & alerts; informational pages; newsgroups; links
The Free Medical Journals Site - some journals offer free trials, others only certain back issues, some have free abstracts but not full text, etc. Sorted alphabetically or by specialty.
Journal Watch Online (Massachusetts Medical Society) - summaries of medical news; account required
Medical Breakthroughs - covering medical breakthroughs, family health and issues important to women, reported by Ivanhoe Broadcast News
Medscape - latest medical news (free, registration required); plus portals to information for consumers, nurses, pharmacists and medical students.
MedWatch: The FDA Medical Products Reporting Program - safety information is available online.
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report:
National Council For Reliable Health Information (formerly National Council Against Health Fraud) - lists reliable and unreliable websites, position papers, newsletters
New England Journal of Medicine On-line - features and columns full text; research articles are abstracted. (full text online for subscribers) - free emailed table of contents weekly.
United Nations Children's Fund including State of the World's children (mortality info)
Health Data Analysis System - VitalNet - For-profit site offers free access to California and Texas birth, death and various other health data. Also available are links to state health agencies and other official health data.
Health-Track.org: Your Health...Your Community...Your Right to Know - state info on health and hazards gathered by U.S. federal and state governments and organizations, which can be mapped.
Images from the History of Medicine (NIH)
National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control)
Office of Human Radiation Experiments (DOE) - Human Radiation Experiments documents
Created by Barbara Gellis Shapiro (barbara@gate.net)