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Health and Medical Resources
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading
federal agency for protecting the health and safety of all
Americans. Topics
include birth defects, traveler's health, vaccines and
immunizations, infectious diseases, etc.
Daily Med
DailyMed provides quality information about marketed drugs
Drugs@FDA hot link
This
site provides an online catalog to FDA approved drug products.
Healthfinder
This
site offers a free gateway to consumer health and human services
information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Healthopedia
Healthopedia is a consumer health resource containing information on 1,500 health
topics and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.
Human Anatomy Online
Human Anatomy Online offers an in-depth look at the human body systems and the way in which they work.
Lab Tests Online
A public resource on clinical lab testing from labratory professionals who do the testing.
Mayo Clinic
This site
contains an extensive database on diseases and conditions, healthy
lifestyle planners, and drug information.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus provides up-to-date, quality healthcare information from the world's
largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the
National Institutes of Health.
National Cancer Institute
This site provides
recent, accurate information from the National Cancer Institute
(NCI), the government's principal agency for cancer research.
National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
This
site provides a broad range of healing philosophies, approaches, and therapies that conventional medicine does not commonly use.
National
Institute of Mental Health
This website
from NIMH offers information about the symptoms, diagnosis, and
treatment of mental illnesses as well as brochures and information
sheets, reports, press releases, fact sheets, and other educational
materials.
PubMed
PubMed, a
service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over
11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional
life science journals.
WebMD
This is a
comprehensive site for medical questions and answers. The site is
featured and promoted on the documentary, “Doctors’ Diaries.”
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