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Web Sites for Medicine
- The AEGIS
Page
- This site contains resources that provide up-to-date
news services about AIDS education. News items are included
from city newspapers, news services, wire services, and publications.
The site has a law library that provides legal information about
HIV-related cases. Numerous helpful links are also available.
- The
Alan Guttmacher Institute
- This page is a source of information about sexual
behavior, pregnancy and birth, prevention and contraception,
abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, teenage sexual practces
and pregnancies, and law and public policy.
- The
Basics of MRI
- A hypertext publication that helps students understand
magnetic-resonance imaging. Produced by Joseph P. Hornak, a
professor of chemistry and imaging science at the Rochester
Institute of Technology.
- The
Body: an AIDS and HIV Information Resource
- This site is set up to: lower barriers between
patients and clinicians, demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment,
improve patients' quality of life and to foster community through
human connection.
- CDC
National Center for Environmental Health (HCEH)
- Useful for information about disease, disability,
or injury as related to environmental health.
- Center for International
Health Information
- Has population, health, and nutrition information
for many developing countries assisted by USAID. The Center
for International Health Information (CIHI) serves under contract
as a health data reference bureau for the Population, Health
and Nutrition Center (PHNC) of USAID's Global Bureau. Managed
by IMC with ISTI and Futures.
- Dr. Koop's Community
- Sponsored by former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett
Koop, this site is a way for people to gain access to health
information.
- For Women's Health
- This page is searchable and has information on
various women's health topics and news.
- Healthfinder
- A gateway site developed and maintained by the
U.S. Government's DHHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, guaranteeing the authority and expertise of the authors.
- Healthworld
Online
- A "virtual health village" that includes fully
searchable articles in the ares of natural health, wellness,
self-care and alternative medicine.
- History
of Biomedicine
- Offers numerous links to information about various
cultures including Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Traditional Chinese
Medicine, Classical Islamic Biomedicine, Western Biomedicine,
and more. Also provides many links to information on the history
of diseases. Maintained by the Karolinska Institutet Library
(Sweden).
- InteliHealth
- Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medical Center, this
site contains health information and links to additional medical
information.
- Internet
Mental Health
- For mental health professionals, students, patients,
mental health support groups, and members of the general public
who wish to learn more about mental health. Includes full text
of selected articles from Harvard Mental Health Letter
and Medical Post, among others.
- Mayo Clinic
Health Oasis
- Mayo Clinic homepage. Includes a search index
and information on various health topics.
- Medical Breakthroughs
- This site is for anybody who wants information
about medical breakthroughs.
- MEDLINEplus
- This site provides links and resources for a
variety of health questions.
- MedicineNet.com:
Smart Medicine
- Offers a large amount of "relevant, easy-to-read, in-depth
medical information for consumers" (provided by a network of U.S. board-certified
physicians). Also includes a highly useful online medical dictionary
(MedTerms.com).
- National Center for PTSD
- Center for information on posttraumatic stress disorder. It includes
fact sheets, FAQs, indexes, and links.
- National Institute
of Mental Health (NIMH)
- The home site of NIMH, part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research
agency of the United States Government. NIH is a component of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Highly recommended
are the links to Public Information and Research Activities.
- National
Institutes of Health Consumer Health Publications
- This page contains the most requested publications
of the NIH. You may browse by subject or institute.
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