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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
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- 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.