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Science & Technology

Health Sciences

(Includes Health & Wellness and Medicine & Pharmacology)

Health & Wellness

• AARP Health. Information on drugs, insurance, and staying healthy at 50-plus.
   
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Questions to ask your doctor about hospitals.
   
• Alternative Health News Online
   
• AMA Physician Select
   
• American Cancer Society. Includes links to clinical trials and patient support groups.
   
• American Diabetes Association. Along with news ofthe latest research, provides nutritional information and even recipes.
   
• American Heart Association. Features an online heart and stroke encyclopedia.
   
• American Self Help Group Clearinghouse  A keyword-searchable database of over 1,100 national, international, and model self-help support groups for most any specific illness, disability, addiction, bereavement situation, parenting, caregiver concern, abuse, or other stressful life situation. Listing of local non-profit self-help group clearinghouses worldwide. Suggestions on starting both community and online mutual help groups.
   
• Baby, Pregnancy and Early Childhood Glossary
   
• CarePages. CarePages are free, personal, private Web pages that help family and friends communicate when someone is facing illness.
   
• CaringBridge Offers free, easy-to-create web sites that help connect friends and family when they need it most.
   
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The government's latest information on public health and communicable diseases is posted here.
   
• Children's Health and Wellness Glossary
   
• Clinical Trials. Lists experimental treatments you may be eligible to receive.
   
• Combined Health Information Database (health-related gov. agencies)
   
• Consumer Health WebWatch (evaluates the top 20 health Web sites)
   
• DailyStrength.org One of the largest social networks of online support groups.
   
• Data and Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, CDC)
   
• Dictionary of Pregnancy and Birth
   
• Diet, Consumption, and Health (USDA)
   
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
   
• Drugs@FDA (From the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, a division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
   
• emedicine (Consumer Health)
   
• EPA Publications
   
• Epidemiological Fact Sheets on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (WHO)
   
• Ethnomed (Presents medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups)
   
• Family Doctor. Straightforward general information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
   
• Family Medical History Tools (AMA - Links to pamphlets, questionnaires and forms to help you trace and maintain your family medical history records)
   
• Family Village University: Disability Statistics
   
• FastStats (National Center for Health Statistics)
   
• First-Aid Guide (Mayo Clinic)
   
• Food Guide Pyramid Information
   
• Glossary of Cloning
   
• Glossary of Infertility
   
• Glossary of Pregnancy & Childbirth
   
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
   
• Health A to Z (Medical Network, Inc.)  Lets you chat with nurses and create a personalhealth record with feeds from your insurance claims.
   
• Health Answers (HealthAnswers Inc.)
   
• Health, United States (Government-compiled health information)
   
• Healthfinder A health library available in English and Spanish, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
   
• HealthGrades. Rates hospitals for treatment of various disorders.
   
• Healthline. Search thousands of health-related Web Sites.
   
• HealthWeb
   
• Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products
   
• HSTAT Databases (Search multiple databases from the National Library of Medicine)
   
• HIV and AIDS Statistics from Around the World (Avert.org)
   
• Hospitals Compare. Lets you search by location or hospital name to see how your hospital name to see now your hospital performed in 17 areas.
   
• Hospital Quality Check. Make sure your hospital is accredited and see how it compares with other facilities. Click on "Quality Check" and search by your ZIP code or hospital name.
   
• Influenza Prevention and Control
   
• InteliHealth (John Hopkins)
   
• Johnson's Baby Glossary
   
• KidsHealth. A foundation-sponsored site about children's health through adolescence; includes a special area for teens.
   
• Lamaze Childbirth Glossary
   
• List of Birthing Terms
   
• List of SIDS-Related Terms
   
• MayoClinic. Offers online tools to help guide treatment decisions.
   
• med3q  A health social networking site. Gives access to electronic health-management and tracking tools that help manage a wide range of chronic diseases and conditions such as, for example, diabetes.
   
• Medem. A partnership among medical societies to foster doctor-patient communication; includes an online medical library.
   
• MedlinePlus. The National Library Of medicine's comprehensive health-information portal.
   
• Merck Manual (Home Edition)
   
• Merck Manual - You can search by disease or condition in a number of categories. Then pull up the information you need to understand the condition and treatment. There are also multimedia presentations. Access videos of medical procedures, audio files and photographs. Additionally, animations will help you understand specific concepts. You can view anatomical drawings and read about medical tests. You can also learn how to pronounce all the difficult medical terms!
   
• Mike's Calorie and Fat Gram Charts
   
• Minority Health Data Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
   
• MSNBC: Burning Off the FAT
   
• National Cancer Institute. Provides clinical details about every type of cancer and the latest treatments.
   
• National Center for Health Statistics
   
• National Institute of Health Office of Dietary Supplements
   
• National Institute of Mental Health
   
• National Safety Council
   
• NATS: Nutritional Analysis Tools and System
   
• NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Surveillance (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
   
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
   
• Nutrition Information and Resource Center (Food and nutrition information)
   
• Nutrition News Focus
   
• PatientsLikeMe. Hosts support communities for people dealing with ALS, Parkinson's diesease, or multiple sclerosis. You can create quick graphs that track prescription regimens and symptoms.
   
• PDRHealth
   
• POPline (Reproductive health literature)
   
• Pregnancy and Birth Glossary
   
• Pregnancy and Parenting Glossary
   
• PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
   
• RevolutionHealth Pivots around a treatment portfolio you create in addition to blogging and rating doctors and hospitals.
   
• RxList
   
• Scorecard (Provides local environmental information by zip code)
   
• Sex Therapy Glossary
   
• Solucient. Lists hospitals judged best in certain specialties.
   
• Sources for HIV/AIDS (World Bank)
   
• TauMed. Enables you to create a medical library of clips from the Web, as well as a Health Space profile to add doctors and collect "friends." The question-and-answer service is novel.
   
• theStatus.com Strives to be the premier web brand for the creation of secure private web pages with the purpose of maintaining communication between family and friends.
   
• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
   
• UNAIDS (United Nations)
   
• U.S. Health & Human Services. Is a gateway to a host of reliable information from the federal government and other organizations.
   
• WebMD.com. A for-profit news and information service with interactive activities. Offers videos, virtual support groups, blogs, doctor lookups, and a symptom checker.

Medicine & Pharmacology

• Abbreviated Medical Dictionary
   
• ADAM Medical Encyclopedia
   
• AllRefer.com: Reference: Medicine Related Articles
   
• AMA Physician Select
   
• Biocompare.com (Buyer's guide for Life Sciences)
   
• Cancer.gov
   
• Centers for Disease Control
   
• CHORUS: Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology
   
• CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease and Policy)
   
• Clinical Trials. You can look up medical research trials by location and diagnosis.
   
• Cooperative Online Glossary of Trauma
   
• Dictionary Barn's Medical Dictionary
   
• Dictionary of Medical & Surgical Glossary Terms
   
• Drugs @ FDA
   
• Drugs & Supplements (Mayo Clinic)
   
• Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms
   
• Glossary of New Drugs, Equipment and Procedures
   
• Glossary of New Surgical Terms
   
• Glossary of Pathology
   
• Government Views of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome information compiled by Grace-Ellen McCrann at City College of New York)
   
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources
   
• HealthWeb
   
• Lab Tests Online
   
• List and Glossary of Medical Terms: Spanish
   
• MayoClinic Find basic health facts on any condition.
   
• MD Junction (Find a doctor. Know your doctor. Is a Doctors Search Engine - provides patient reviews, ratings, and doctor's profiles and professional information such as specialties & expertise, medical education, contacts, etc.)
   
• Medical Library Association
   
• MedicineNet.com
   
• MedicineNet Medical Dictionary
   
• MediLexicon (pharmaceutical/medical)
   
• Medline On-line Medical Dictionary (British)
   
• MEDLINEplus Encyclopedic background on all diseases. This site, operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, also defines medical terms, gives drug facts and offers referrals to organizations that deal with specific diseases.
   
• Medscape
   
• MedTerms Medical Online Dictionary
   
• Merck Home Medical Manual On-Line
   
• Merck Manuals - You can search by disease or condition in a number of categories. Then pull up the information you need to understand the condition and treatment. There are also multimedia presentations. Access videos of medical procedures, audio files and photographs. Additionally, animations will help you understand specific concepts. You can view anatomical drawings and read about medical tests. You can also learn how to pronounce all the difficult medical terms!
   
• MT Desk Lists of Medical Terms
   
• National Library of Medicine
   
• The On-line Hypertext Medical Dictionary
   
• PDRHealth
   
• POPline (Reproductive health literature)
   
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index
   
• Sex Therapy Glossary
   
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary
   
• Surgical Glossary
   
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
   
• University of Kentucky Healthcare Glossary
   
• University of Miami Online Medical Dictionary
   
• University of Miami Online Dictionary of Diseases and Conditions
   
• Vocabulary of Trauma
   
• WebMd.com  Find basic health facts. on any condition.

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