Virginia Montecino
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Health Resources
updated Oct 2003
HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites  - Health on the Net Foundation 
Government Health Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - information on health (general advice, publications)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Consumer Health 
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Center for Disease Control Media Relations Health Statistics
- FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
- Food and Drug Administration
- Healthfinder - U.S. government consumer health and human services 
- Medline Plus Health Information - by the National Library of Medicine
- Medscape - specialty pages for major medical categories, free, full-text clinical medicine articles enhanced with keyword searches, graphics, annotated links to Internet resources, and more,12 easily searchable databases including MEDLINE. Free, but requires registration
- National Guideline Clearinghouse for health care professionals - clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials for expert  health care professionals
National Guideline Clearinghouse links to patient resources
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Health -Health Information
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Library of Medicine
- National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
- Public Health Image Library - an extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health (Most are in the public domain.)
- PubMed - National Library of Medicine's search service to access the citations in MEDLINE
- U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services online guide
Other Health Resources
- American Academy of Family Physicians - patient information site
- American Heart Association
- American Pediatric Association
- BioMedNet - The Internet Community for Biological and Medical Researchers
- DrugFacts.com - "a comprehensive, interactive health care web site for
pharmacists and drug information professionals"
- Family Health Online Radio Programs
- familydoctor.org - American Academy of Family Physicians
- Gray's Anatomy - "1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries"
- Health on the Net -  not-for-profit portals to medical information on the Internet. A Swiss foundation operating out of Geneva which co-operates closely with the University Hospitals of Geneva, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The Web team comes from various European countries and the U.S.A.  HON uses                MedHunt©, HONselect©, and the HON Code of Conduct (HONcode©) 
- Healthology TM - information from health professionals: in-depth articles, Web casts, etc. 
- Health Web - collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. 
- HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites  - Health on the Net Foundation 
- Institute of Medicine 
- Kids Health
- Mayo Clinic online
- Med Help International - not-for-profit consumer health network
- Medem Health Information - "Medem's Medical Library represents the full range of patient education information from our partner medical societies and other trusted sources, and is unsurpassed in quality, breadth, and depth of healthcare information"
- MedHunt - medical document finder - sponsored by Health on the Net Foundation 
- Medical Health / Science Libraries on the Web - Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, U.of Iowa 
- Mediconsult.com - Women's Health
- MedSearch - the on-line healthcare career channel
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- Merck Manual - 17th edition published in April 1999 available on web site free of charge. 
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - online abstracts
- PDR.net - publishers of the Physician's Desk Reference (must pay a fee to access the PDR, but you can register for free access to health and drug information)
- National Research Council
- Nursenet (archives, references, conferences,etc)
- Sci Central - portal to science: biological, chemical, physical, earth, health, engineering, ethics  resources
- Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health
- WWW Virtual Library Medicine/Bioscience
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