Health & Medicine

InfoTrac -- Access from inside the Library -- Access from outside the Library
Search in Health and Wellness Resource Center from InfoTrac.
American Diabetes Association -- official site providing timely information on diabetes and related health problems.
American Medical Association -- provides information on timely health issues including HIV, asthma, and women's health.
Cancer.gov -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) "is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training ... The National Cancer Institute coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -- "CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States."
Clinical Trials.gov - The U.S. National Institutes of Health has developed ClinicalTrials.gov to provide patients, family members and members of the public current information about clinical research studies. Clinical trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective.
EthnoMed -- ethnic attitudes towards medicine.
familydoctor.org -- "health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians."
healthfinder -- "healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,700 health-related organizations."
HIV InSite -- "Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine."
Mayo Clinic - "MayoClinic.com's mission is to empower people to manage their health. We accomplish this by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic."
MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies.
MedlinePlus from the National Institute of Health - "Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date."
Merck Medicus - What patients are seeing in the media: TV shows, magazines, medical websites, newspapers. Also from Merck, best medical practice for many medical conditions.
National Library of Medicine Gateway - The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) -- A consortium of New York Libraries "provides access to high quality, full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased."
PubMed - "a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million citations to articles in medical journals back to the mid-1960's. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."

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