Health Center
Consumer Health Resources
- American Council on
Science and Health
- American Health Consultants
- Ask Jeeves
- Have a question you want to ask in plain English? Try this site.
- Atlas
of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology
- Best Doctors.com
- Bet
Tzedek
- On-line Guide to:
- Social Security Programs
- Medicare
- Nursing Home Laws
- California Board and Care Facilities
- Advance Directives
- Bill's
Net World
- 11/5/95 Honorable mention in Boston Globe article on Medical Web Sites
- Biology Browser
- Connect to over 24,000 Biology web sites
- California Medical
Board
- Chemocare
- Chemotherapy information for patients and their families
- CHESS
- Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System from the Univeristy
of Wisconsin
- Clinical Trials
- Condition
& Illness Related Organizations (courtesy
of the AMA)
- Confidentiality
techniques from the American Statistical Association
- Cyberspace Telemedical
Office
- Diagnostic Tests
- Diet sites
- Discovery
Channel Health Site
- The Doctor
Will See You Now
- DynaMed
- Extensive discussion of diagnosis, treatment and referenced, evidence-based
results of treatment for ove 2,000 medical conditions (listed alphabetically)
- Empower:
The Managed Care Patient Advocate
- End of Life Issues
- Gene Therapy
- Guidelines
- Health a to z
- Health Explorer
- An easy, fast and comprehensive way to find health information
on the WWW.
- Healthfinder
- Can lead you to selected online publications, databases,
websites, support and self-help groups as well as the government agencies
and not for profit organizations that produce health information for the
public.
- Health
Information Highway
- From Ohio State University School of Medicine
- Healthinsite
- a comprehensive guide to Health issues, Diseases, Diagnosis
and Treatment from the Australian Government
- Health Talk
- Healthtouch
- Information (including drug information) from many health
organizations.
- HealthWeb
- A collection of consumer health sites from many University
health sciences libraries.
- Hospital
Comparisons (U.S. government analysis)
- Hospital
Ratings
- Human Genome
Project
- Information
for Patients - American Academy of Family Physicians
- Information for the public about the broad range of medical
problems that family physicians are trained to treat.
- Infoseek
Health Channel
- InteliHealth from John Hopkins University
- JH-Insider
- Newsletter from Johns Hopkins University
- Kids Health (from the Nemours Foundation)
- Dr. C. Everett Koop's
WWW Resources
- Laurushealth.com (Try this first)
- A one-stop library of health information
- Life Expectancy
- MedHelp
- MedHunt
- Medical Board of
California
- Medical Matrix
- A collection of consumer health sites.
- Medicare
Compare
- Medicare Compare allows you to "comparison shop" and find
the plans that will work best for you. You can look at plans in a
few different ways. One way is to compare the costs of premiums and benefits
being offered. Something else you might want to
think about is the quality of the plans: how good a job the plan does in
keeping its members healthy or treating them if they are sick.
Good quality health care means doing the right thing, at the right time,
the right way, for the right person--and getting the best possible results.
- MedicineNet
- Up to date review of diseases, drugs, breaking medical news and answers
to questions.
- MedlinePlus
- Search databases -including Medline- for article references and abstracts
- Access medical dictionaries
- Obtain information about medical organizations
- Check out the latest publications and medical news
- Find doctors and hospitals in your area
- Consult the "Health Topics" guide for links on common diseases
- Select clearinghouses which send helath literature about diseases and
disorders
- Learn about clinical trials in progress
- Medsite
Navigator
- MedWeb
- Another extensive collection of consumer health sites.
- Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Gateway Resources
- Miscellaneous Information
Resources
- National Alliance for
the Mentally Ill
- National Health
Information Center
- The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information
referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have
health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to
provide answers. NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science,
Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- National Institutes of Health: Interactive health tutorials
- Neonatal Screening
- Nutrition
- OnHealth
- Breaking medical news stories and in-depth reports
- Pain
- Patient
Care Online
- People Living with
Cancer
- From the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- PersonalMD
- Set up your own on-line medical record
- Public Health
- Physicians
- Check on physicians in your area by name or by specialty
- Seniors Health
- Smoking
- Thrive@health
- Users enter query terms and retrieve fact sheets and
article summaries on disease conditions, drugs, and surgical procedures.
- Wellness Web
- Updates on conventional & unconventional approaches to health care.
Founded by Bart Moran in Villanova, PA.
- Women's Cancer Network
- Verify
Physicians' Specialty Board Cerification
- Virtual
Library
- Ohio State University. Extensive Medical links in the
process of being organized.
- WebMD
- Your Health
Daily
- includes discussion groups