Health & Medicine

Contents:

Health News
State & Local Health Sites
Diseases & Conditions
Nutrition & Exercise
Drug Information
Consumer Health Issues
Medical Search Engines
Medical Subject Directories
Alternative Health

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• CNN.com - Health
• Health & Living News Summary from ABC News
• MEDLINEplus Current Health News; click on More news for headlines from the previous month.

• Houston HealthWays sponsored by Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service
• Salud Pública sponsored by Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service
• Texas Department of Health

• Bat incidents in the Houston area from Houston Chronicle October 10, 2006
• Bird Flu Pandemic - National and International information
• Information for Patients - Iowa Health Book from University of Iowa Health Care
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition from Merck & Co., Inc., a medical research company (also can be searched by keyword)
• Travelers Health from the National Center for Infectious Diseases

• CSPI Nutrition Quizzes from the Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Cyberdiet.com
• Exercising to Lose 10 to 20 Pounds from The Physician and Sportsmedicine - April 1997
• Food and Nutrition Information Center from the USDA
• What’s Wrong with the NEW High-Protein, Low-Carbohydrate Diets??? from University of Missouri-Columbia University Outreach and Extension

• Healthtouch Medication Guide
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index

• Health on the Net (HON): MedHunt
• MedExplorer
• MedWeb from Emory University

• American Board of Medical Specialties - Board Certification Verification
• American Medical Association Physician Select
• Choosing and Using a Health Plan sponsored by Agency of Health Care Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• Evaluating Web Sites for Consumer Health Information from the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the University of Connecticut Health Center
• Health- and Safety-Related Urban Legends, Rumors, and Hoaxes from Quackwatch.com, a consumer advocacy group led by a retired psychiatrist and board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud.
• How to Spot Health Fraud from the FDA Consumer magazine
• MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary developed by U.S. board-certified physician writers
• Patient Advocacy Numbers (toll free phone numbers) from Johns Hopkins University)
• U.S. Consumer Gateway sponsored by many federal agencies such as Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health (NIH))

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Topics A to Z
• Hardin MD - Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources from Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa
• HealthWeb from Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• InteliHealth from Aetna U.S. Healthcare featuring Harvard Medical School's consumer health information content; covers drug information, diseases, and health news
• KidsHealth created by the Nemours Foundation Center for Children's Health Media
• MayoClinic.com from the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• MEDLINEplus from the National Library of Medicine

• Ask NOAH About: Alternative (Complementary) Medicine sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, New York State Library, and other agencies
• CNN Health: Alternative
• Considering Complementary and Alternative Medicine? from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
• MEDLINEplus: Herbal Medicine from the National Library of Medicine

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