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BI-LINGUAL

FRENCH

Laboratoire de lutte contra la maladie
This is Canada's national centre for the identification, investigation, prevention and control of human disease, and a key component of the federal government's mandate for public health protection. The Centre's core activities are national health surveillance, disease prevention and control.

SPANISH

New York Online Access to Health
NOAH offers a broad range of consumer health information in both English and Spanish. Topics include aging, AIDS, alternative medicine, asthma, cancer, diabetes, healthy living, heart disease and stroke, mental health, nutrition, personal health, pregnancy, sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis

ADDICTION

TOBACCO

QuitNet
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, Join Together Online, shows you where to get help in quitting, participate in discussion groups, get information on how to make quitting easier or use interactive quitting tools.

HEALTH CARE REFORM

National Patient Advocate Foundation
The National Patient Advocacy Foundation has been active in trying to open avenues to insurance funding for evolving therapies, therapeutic agents and devices for cancer patients through legislative reform.

INTERESTING RELATED SITES

Forensic Science Society

DISEASES AND CONDITIONS

AllerDays Allergy Resource Center

HEPATITUS

Hepatitis Information Network
This site focuses on the needs of the medical community, providing updates on patient care issues, serology, new clinical papers and news releases, as well as links to many other hepatitis related sites.

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
The best site for the families of patients afflicted with this disease.

CANCER

TESTICULAR CANCER

Testicular Cancer Resource Center
A very supportive site offering information and support on the detection and treatment of testicular cancer.

LEUKEMIA

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Links

COLON CANCER

Colon Cancer Information
Most of the information presented here is related to Stage IV colon cancer, colon cancer that has metastisized to a distant organ such as the liver.

MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS

Multiple Myeloma
Survival Stories
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Polycythemia Vera (PV), Essential Thrombocythemia (ET), Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia (AMM), Myelofibrosis (MF), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Chronic Myelocytic Leukemia (CML)

ONCOLOGY

Clinical Trials Listing Service
CenterWatch offers an international listing of clinical research trials, information about physicians and medical centers performing clinical research, and drug therapies newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
CancerNet
The searchable database of the National Cancer Institute.
OncoLink
A firstrate resource provided to patients and their physicians and families by the University of Pennsylvania's Cancer Center.

MELANOMA

Melanoma Patients' Information
An excellent resource for matients with skin cancer.

CHRONIC PAIN

Roxane Pain Institute
Roxane Laboratories' provides insight into the management of chronic pain.

HIV/AIDS

AIDS FAQ
Bibliography of AIDS-Relevant Publications
HIV WebWatch
This the links page of PozForce, a company developing natural anti-HIV therapies. The links are to HIV-related arts and medical resource sites.
UCSF Aids Health Project
A model health care page provided by the University Of California San Francisco Health Project

MIGRAINES

Migraine Foundation
A canadian foundation founded to supply information and support to chronic headache sufferers.
Migraine Resource Center
A helpful resource provided by a biomedical firm.
MigraineZine
An unconventional online periodical looking at issues around migraine research.
Ronda's Migraine Page
Ronda has been inspired to put together a used friendly resource for headache sufferers.

MONONUCLEOSIS

Epstein-Barr Defined

ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE

Acupuncture.com
Information on Traditional Orientel Therapies.
AltMed Web
The AltMed Web is a directory of alternative health professionals as a public resource hub, a professional practitioner resource hub, and to further the acceptance of alternative medicine as mainstream healthcare. AltMed includes: articles, research reports, and other related files loaded to the Internet by members of the Alternative Medicine community, practitioners' web pages or e-mail addresses.
MedWeb: Alternative Medicine Links
An incredibly thorough set of alternative medicine links maintained by Emory University Health Sciences Center Library.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bibliography of AIDS-Relevant Publications

CHILDREN

Dr. Greene's HouseCalls
The real Dr. Greene, not the one on "ER," is a pediatric physician who anticipates many of parents' most common fears, questions and experiences.
kidsDoctor
Think of kidsDoctor as a 24 hr-a-day source for "What every parent needs to know" when it comes to keeping kids healthy.
Rare Genetic Diseases In Children
This site is a resource directory to links on rare genetic diseases in children.
Pediatric Points of Interest
A huge collection of links for health care professionals, parents and kids, including parenting resources, medical email lists, journals, disease specific information, resources for the health care provider, organizations and hospitals.
Babyonline
Information source for parents and childcare professionals, addressing pregnancy, parenting, prenatal/postnatal and baby issues. Expert Q&A, competitions, baby articles and parenting chat forum.
Waterbirth
In-depth information on the use of water for labor, childbirth, and early childhood development.
ParenthoodWeb
A definitive parenting/childcare WWW resource, inclduing getting pregnant, being pregnant, labor, nursing, adoption and childcare.
Children with Diabetes
A firstrate site.
Infectious Diseases in Children
Internet Resources for Special Children
An invaluable resource for parents, teachers and others who interrelate with chilcren with disABILITIES.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude's studies catastrophic diseases in children.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Network

EDUCATIONAL

American Academy of Ophthalmology
Samra University of Oriental Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Samra offers a four academic-year course of study, which can be completed in 36 consecutive months of full-time study, leading to the degree of Master of Oriental Medicine.

FAQs: FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Genetic DIseases - Jewish - FAQ
AIDS FAQ
Back FAQ
Allergy and Asthma FAQ

LINKS TO LINKS

Achoo On-line Healthcare Services
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.
Altmedweb Links
Calypte Biomedical
A growing link site focussing on chronic diseases by a biomedical firm.
MD InterActive
Provided by Boston arean doctors, this site provides links to a variety of different specialty sites.
MedWeb Medical Links
Emory University Health Sciences Center Library's MedWeb page of links to medical link pages.

MAGAZINES

MedWorld
An on-line medical journal at Stanford done entirely by medical students for patients, physicians, and the healthcare community.
Men's Health
The daily online version of the entertaining magazine that addresses men's health and lifestyle issues.

MAILING LISTS AND LIST SERVICES

Good Health Web
Links to health-related mailing list and listservs.
Health & Safety Related Internet Resources
Mailing Lists.
NewsFile
More than 15 newsweeklies from three publishers, including Fertility Weekly, Women's Health Weekly, Sex Weekly Plus, Vaccine Weekly, TB Weekly, Malaria Weekly, Immonotherapy Weekly, Hepatitis Weekly, Gene Thereapy Weekly, Cancer Weekly Plus, Antiviral Weekly, Blood Weekly, Aids Weekly Plus, and Disease Weekly Plus.

GENERAL INFORMATION SOURCES

Emergency Medicine and Primary Care
Educational resources for Emergency and Primary Care physicians and health care providers.
New York Online Access to Health
NOAH offers a broad range of consumer health information in both English and Spanish. Topics include aging, AIDS, alternative medicine, asthma, cancer, diabetes, healthy living, heart disease and stroke, mental health, nutrition, personal health, pregnancy, sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis.
Video Surgery
Sponsored by The Center For Videoscopic and Laser Surgery and The Center For Video Thoracic and General Surgery, the site provides health information on some of the most common medical problems--from heartburn, hiatal hernias, and inguinal hernias, to constipation, emphysema, esophageal reflux disease, and more.
MEDguide
MEDGuide offers a quick and easy search engine for medical terms, using keywords or categories.
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control
This is Canada's national centre for the identification, investigation, prevention and control of human disease, and a key component of the federal government's mandate for public health protection. The Centre's core activities are national health surveillance, disease prevention and control.
American Medical Association (AMA)
HealthLink Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs
HealthLink is a web resource for healthcare professionals and regulatory affairs. You will find over 700 imported medical sites, free Medline, all known medical journals on the net, and a great deal more.
MedAccess
An excellent source of health and wellness information on the Internet. The site contains thousands of pages, and millions of records of informative and entertaining material on United States healthcare, including surveys, quizzes and newsletters, workbooks, and manuals, physicians, hospitals, PPOs, HMOs and nursing homes.
MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources
The home page of Emory University Health Sciences Center Library's MedWeb lets you search by country, region and keyword.
NeuroNet
A doctor's link site, this is a great place to start looking for information on brain surgery.

NEWS

CNN
The network's health pages are accurate but not deep.
Medical Breakthroughs
Recent medical news reported by Ivanhoe Broadcast News, Inc.
MedNews
A doctors' guide to recent medical news.
Medscape
Patient-oriented medical news (requires registration).
NewsPage
A goodsource of medical news.
Reuters Health Information Services
The news srvice has provided an excellent news site (requires registration).
Today's News
Yahoo's health and fitness news is updated daily.