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Addictions --
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Mental Health --
Nutrition --
Psychology
- Access Excellence
Articles and links for health and bio teachers and students.
- AIDS/HIV
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Information about current public health concerns, statistics, and a guide to health reference by topic are among this site's offerings.
- Deciphering Medspeak
A guide to medical jargon and information on finding reliable medical websites.
- Discovery Health
Health and fitness information from the Dicovery Channel.
- Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)
DrugDigest --
Drugs.com --
Healthline Drug Directory --
National Lib. Medicine --
RxList
- FamilyDoctor.org
"Health information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians."
- First Aid Guide
A guide with interactive learning activiies from BBC Health.
- First-Aid Guide
"Medical emergencies don't occur every day. But when they do, information can help you deal with these situations." From the Mayo Clinic.
- Health and Nutrition: USA.gov
"Official information and services from the U.S. government."
- Healthfinder.gov
"Hand-picked health information from A to Z -- prevention & wellness, diseases & conditions, and alternative medicine -- plus medical dictionaries, an encyclopedia, journals, and more."
- HealthLine
"Healthline Networks offers the easiest way for consumers to quickly and easily find consistently excellent health information on the Web."
- HEALTHMap
"HEALTHmap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health."
- In Search of a Good Doctor
NY Times article with recommendations from physicians about how to find doctors and helpful websites.
- Intelihealth
Articles and data from Harvard Medical School, with information about diseases, healthy lifestyle, personal health, drugs, a medical dictionary, and more.
- Intute: Medicine
"Access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists."
- KidsHealth.org
Includes sections for parents, kids, and teens, "providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence."
- Mayo Clinic
Online site for the Mayo Clinic. With information about diseases, health & fitness, drugs, first aid, and answers from doctors.
- MedicineNet.com
Easy to understand information on everything from common ailments to prescription drugs. Includes a dictionary of medical terms.
- Medpedia
New medical encyclopedia in the form of a wiki editable only by doctors.
- National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
"A partnership of national public service organizations, professional medical associations, and government agencies working together to promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and provide greater access to screening services."
- National Cancer Institute
"Conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer."
- NHS: Behind the Headlines
Background information about "science that makes the news" from Britain's National Health Service.
- National Institutes of Health
"NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability." Resources include but are by no means limited to:
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
A great place to start looking for information on health and fitness topics. The interface is easy to use and kid-friendly articles are clearly labeled.
- Poison Help
Information from the Department of Health and Human Services, including an emergency number and links to local Poison Center websites.
- Public Health Information and Data Tutorial
While designed to "provide instruction for members of the public health workforce on issues related to information access and management", much of the information here would be helpful to anyone.
- PubMed
"PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature."
- RID: Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths
Resources about hospital-spread infections, steps patients can take, statistics, links, and other info.
- Skin Deep
"Skin Deep is a safety guide to cosmetics and personal care products. ... [It] pairs ingredients in more than 25,000 products against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind."
- State Health Facts
Statistics about health care, coverage, and costs in the United States.
- WebMD.com
Diseases, family, fitness, a drug database, a calorie counter, and current health news are covered at this site.
- World Health Organizaion
Information on health and disease around the world.
- Your Guide to Preventing Medical Mistakes
"Health investigates why more than 100,000 people a year are dying from medical errors and millions are being injured, what safety measures may help, and how you can protect yourself during your three points of vulnerability—at the hospital, your doctor’s office, and the drugstore."
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