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Links to Health and Medical Sites

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Health and Wellness Information Links

AllRefer.com Health -- Has an extensive database on over 4,000 topics including diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, surgeries, nutrition, poisons, and special topics.

Clinical Pharmacology Online -- Provides a database of drugs and other pharmacological agents with their uses, recommend dosage and side effects

CNN's Food and Health Main Page -- Contains news stories about health and nutrition

Fertilitext -- Aside from the services and products it wants to sell, it offers some very clear information about infertility and what can be done about it. See also RESOLVE below

Gentle Dentistry -- General information on dental problems

Health and Nutrition -- A large database of health and nutrition information listed alphabetically

Healthopedia.com -- A medical and health consumer information resource containing information in patient-friendly language on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.

HealthSeek -- Alphabetic listing of just about all aspects of medical practice to include nutrition and nursing

Health Touch -- Health Touch is a one-stop-source for health information and health services. Includes nutrition and recipes among its many resources

Healthwise -- Columbia University Health Services presents information on topics such as nutrition, exercise, alcohol and drug abuse etc. Their health letter is directed at college students

Intelihealth -- Intlihealth is the home to Johns Hopkins Health Information

KidsHealth -- Subjects include child behavior and development, nutrition, immunizations etc.

Lifelines -- Collections of links to nutrition, fitness and medical information

Mayo Health O@sis -- One of the best overall health sites on the net.

Medical Matrix -- Guide to internet medical resources

Medscape -- For health professionals and interested consumers. Features thousands of full text, peer reviewed articles, medical news, Medline, and interactive quizzes

Wellness Web -- Offers preventive care reports and other health information

Women's Health -- Offers sound medical advice on self-care and includes many of the common female medical problems

Yahoo Health -- Yahoo's huge health index holds more than 30 general categories including nutrition, fitness etc.


Medical Information Links

American Academy of Dermatology -- Extensive information about skin diseases and skin care

American Cancer Society -- Fact sheets, information on research, detection and treatment of cancer

The American Heart Association

Clinical Pharmacology Online -- Give the use and side effects for drugs and other pharmaceuticals

The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide -- Diagnostic Tests -- Choose the category and the specific test you want to learn about. Everything from simple throat cultures to bone marrow biopsies is covered.

The Karolinska Institute's Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics -- A huge resource for both lay people and health-care professionals

The Medical Matrix -- An online library of over 2,500 clinical medicine resources

Med World -- Contains items of current interest to the medical community

The Merck Manual -- The same medical text you'll find in the library

OncoLink -- Presents information on cancer prevention, symptoms, diagnoses and treatments as well as alternative medicine

RxList -- An internet drug index which provides information on pharmaceutical drugs including warnings, interactions, dosages and overdose treatments

U.S. National Library of Medicine -- Allows you to view some of their databases. Others are for paying customers only

Web Medical Literature -- Queries over 20 medical journals for medical information


Mental Health Information Links

Center for Anxiety & Stress Treatment

Dr. Ivan's Depression Central -- This site is Internet's central clearing house for information on all types of depressive disorders and on the most effective treatments for individuals suffering from Major Depression, Manic-Depression (Bipolar Disorder), Cyclothymia, Dysthymia and other mood disorders

MentalHealth.Com -- Internet Mental Health, a free encyclopedia of mental health information

Mental Health InfoSource -- This site offers an enormous collection of resources on mental health

PsychNet -- The American Psychological Association offers impressive online brochures for the layperson


Holistic and Alternative Medicine Information Links

Acupuncture -- Information about acupuncture

Alternative Medicine Connection -- OnLine Information service dedicated to the scientific and political interests of the holistic health community

Alternative Medicine Homepage -- Directory of chiropractic, homeopathy, massage and other alternative resources

Ask Dr. Weil -- Has searchable archives for advice on using herbs to treat various problems

Botanical.com -- Boasts a searchable database of 800 medicinal plants.

Healthworld Online -- Holds a broad range of natural approaches to healing covered in great depth. Information on acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic, herbal medicine, homeopathy etc.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage -- Has a great set of annotated links to herbal information online

Herbal Encyclopedia -- How to use, grow, mix and store herbs for maximum healing effect.

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