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A Family Health Portrait:
Because family health history is such a powerful screening tool, the US
Surgeon General has created a new computerized tool to help make
it fun and easy for anyone to create a sophisticated portrait of
their family's health. This new tool, called "My
Family Health Portrait" can be downloaded for free and
installed on your own computer. The tool will help you organize
your family tree and help you identify common diseases that may
run in your family. |
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bmj.com British Medical Journal |
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CBS HealthWatch Personal health information and tools |
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CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service Reports on clinical studies going on in all diseases all over the county. |
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CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER |
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The Drug Digest -- Find out about possible drug interactions between your prescriptions, over-the-counter remedies and dietary supplements. Look for "Drug Interactions" and follow the instructions. |
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Ethnic & cultural medicine information from Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA. The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the United States, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. The website also lists Patient Education Resources in a number of languages, including Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Somali, and Spanish. |
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Harvard--Your Disease Risk: The risk assessments offered at this site were designed and reviewed by experts at Harvard’s medical school and teaching hospitals and its School of Public Health. The site is eye opening, using personal health information and colorful graphics to illustrate how simple lifestyle changes can lower your risk for certain health problems. |
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healthfinder® — a free guide to reliable consumer health information, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies. Healthfinder.gov links to carefully selected information and Web sites from health-related government agencies and not-for-profit organizations, includes many online checkups, and offers daily health news in English and Spanish. government site... your guide to reliable health information Just for You: A new (2003) DHHS online health resource of special interest to Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders--multi-lingual information in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Thai, Tongan and Vietnamese. |
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" healthfinder español," a Spanish-language website that helps consumers track down reliable health information quickly and easily on the Internet. |
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Health Information--2005 Toll-Free Telephone Numbers These selected toll-free numbers for organizations provide health-related information, education, and support. These organizations do NOT diagnose or recommend treatment for any disease. |
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www.healthweb.org This site, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is a one-stop site to find noncommercial health web sites that have been evaluated by medical librarians from university medical schools. A visitor to the site simply clicks on one of nearly 70 topics. If a site appears in the list, it has been evaluated by at least one of the more than two dozen medical libraries that support the site. |
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Medem Medical Library award-winning medical library represents the full range of patient education information from medical societies and other trusted sources, unsurpassed in quality, breadth and depth of health care information. |
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| MEDLINE plus Drug Information -- Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medication, and alphabetically listed Health Topics Health topics, drug information, encyclopedia, dictionary, news, directories and other resources. |
MEDSCAPE was designed for professionals. The Medline search engine accesses journal articles and other sources (Use of Medscape is FREE, requiring a simple one-time member registration.) |
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MedNets.com specialized medical search engine |
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National electronic Library for Mental Health The NeLMH is primarily developed for mental health and primary care professionals working in the UK health service. However, the site also features a huge amount of content that is relevant to the general public, patients, survivors, caregivers, social care professionals, and anyone else with an interest in mental health. |
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Consumer Health Information: 1.) Multilingual Health Information, 2.) Specific Languages, 3.) Glossaries by Language, and 4.) Resources with Items in Multiple Languages. |
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Prescription Medicines -- information on the 200 most-prescribed medicines and describes their side effects, clinical studies, and dosage information. |
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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. |
 Medical Dictionary with 65,000 medical terms. WebMD: Diseases and conditions, check symptoms, medical library, drugs and herbs, health tools, medicare Rx benefits and health plan. |
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Social Security Disability Book Online This edition of Disability Evaluation Under Social Security, (also known as the Blue Book), has been specially prepared to provide physicians and other health professionals with an understanding of the disability programs administered by the Social Security Administration. It explains how each program works, and the kinds of information a health professional can furnish to help ensure sound and prompt decisions on disability claims. |
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University of Iowa Virtual Hospital: an online health reference with more than 18,000 pages of medical information. The digital library covers everything from the common cold to kidney transplants to cancer. Contains technical material for physicians and health care providers, but also features basic information tailored to patients and their families about a variety of health conditions. |
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Web MD www.webmd.com the leader in providing services that help physicians, consumers, providers and health plans navigate the complexity of the healthcare system. |
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