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- AIDS Resources - The Body bills
itself as a multimedia AIDS and HIV information resource. You'll find
info on everything from basic facts and treatment to nutrition, online
forums and political issues.
- Allerdays - Here you can
take a break from the dusty, pollen-infested world and learn to live a
better life with allergies.
- Allergy Relief Zone -
Allergy suffers can find online relief at this site, which includes
daily allergy facts, office allergy information and tips on gardening
for allergy sufferers. And don't forget to check out this week's
Allergy Alert.
- Alternative
Medicine Internet Resources - Links to sites on homeopathy,
acupuncture, naturopathy, massage, herbal treatments and holistic
health resources.
- Alzheimer's Association - Medical
information related to Alzheimer's Disease is available here. Many
helpful sources of information on drugs and treatment options for the
disease are also online.
- American Medical Association's
(AMA) Offers online Docs - Information on the name, gender,
address, phone number, education, residency training, and board
certification of over 650,000 doctors is covered by the database. In
addition to searching by name or area of specialty, the user can look
for information via city, state, or zip code.
- The American Red Cross - The
American Red Cross has programs dealing with everything from
caregiving and water safety to first aid and HIV/AIDS education.
- Aplastic Anemia Foundation of
America, Inc. - Fighting Aplastic Anemia, Myelodysplastic
Syndromes and other bone marrow failure.
- Arbor Nutrition Guide - Nutrition
information in medicine, diseases, dietetics, public health,
alternative medicine, nutrition education, and journals.
- AMA Health Insight -
AMA Health Insight a new consumer web site, provides daily health and
medical news, First Aid information and much more.
- The American Heart Association -
A great source of information for you and your family about healthy
living, including nutrition and fitness. Are you at risk for heart
disease? Take this simple test and get immediate answers on what you
can do right now to reduce your risk of heart disease.
- The American Lung Association
- When you can't breathe, nothing else matters.
- The Art & Science of Plastic
& Reconstructive Surgery - Ask Dr. Paul Cenac, M.D., P.S.
- Ask Alice
- Columbia University - Ask Alice about general health,
relationships, nutrition and diet, drugs, sex, alcohol, stress, etc.
- Ask the Dietitian - Joanne
Larsen, has made available a listing of informational topics related
to your diet and foods. From allergies or anorexia to gluten or diet
programs to teens and vitamins, there is sound advice here!
- Ask Dr. Weil - He
concentrates on a variety of daily ills that affect us all too often:
stress, lack of exercise, skin cancers, and more. The site has daily
topical Q&A discussion threads, selected sites on preventive and
consumer health information, and audio clips of Dr. Weil's sensible
approach.
- Ask
The Dentist - Let's face it, we all have teeth in various stages
of disrepair. And according to Dr. Loos, information is the best
medicine. Read her weekly column or search for answers in a searchable
database. From Bad Breath to Fluoride Poisoning, chances are, you'll
find your answer here.
- Bill's Net
World
An excellent subject directory - (Aids - Trauma)
- Breathing Lungs - American Lung
Association
The most comprehensive World Wide Web resource for lung health
information.
- Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids
The U.S. largest non-government initiative ever launched to protect
children from tobacco addiction. Includes daily news, press room, kids
corner and online discussions.
- Cancer Directory
This site is a terrific resource for anyone looking for information
relating to the care and treatment of cancer and other related medical
treatments. The Products and Services section includes a wealth of
information on equipment, books and other publications, home care and
diagnostic centers.
- Cancerguide
CancerGuide is dedicated to helping you find the answers to your
questions
about cancer, and especially to helping you find the questions you
need to ask.
- Cancer News on the Net
Cancer News on the Net is dedicated to bringing patients and their
families the latest information on cancer diagnosis and treatment.
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Anyone who uses a computer should know what CTS is and how to prevent
it.
- C. Everett Koop Institute
The Koop Institute leads innovative efforts to improve medical
education and health care.
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
The CDC located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the
Department of Health and Human Services. The Center's mission is to
promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury, and disability
- Children with Diabetes
The on-line community for kids, families and adults with Type I
diabetes.
- The Chiropractic Resource
Organization
This free and extensive web site is maintained by chiropractors - for
chiropractors.
- Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome
A debilitating medical condition, chronic in nature, cause - unknown,
diagnosis - by exclusion, no known verified test, treatment - by
relief of symptoms, life style changes, and occasionally time.
- Children's Vision
Care Center
This site presents parents with FREE information on children's vision
care and eye health. Find out about visual disabilities that affect at
least 12 out of 100 children . . . yet, are frequently unrecognized
and untreated.
- Communicable
Diseases
- Congenital Heart Disease Information
and Resources
Congenital Heart Disease Information and Resources provides
information to families of children with congenital and acquired heart
disease, adults with CHD, and the professionals who work with them.
- Cyber-Psych: How Are We
Feeling Today?
Sleep disorders, trauma recovery, depression, addictions, support
groups, and other compelling topics can all be found on the Net,
courtesy of this page of links.
- Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis, or CF as it is commonly called, is a disease caused
by an inherited genetic defect. This page links to sites that cover
cystic fibrosis in Dutch, English, French, Spanish and German.
- Deaf World Web
Deaf World Web is the largest and leading multi-purpose deaf Website,
providing deaf-related information on all subjects from Socio-Cultural
Resources to References around the world.
- Dental-Related Internet
Resources
Dental-Related Internet Resources contains over 1000 dental-related
sites, such as educational sites, dental labs, dental care, insurance,
mailing lists, and general information.
- Diabetes Test
Do you have diabetes and not know it? Take their test.
- Disaster and Emergency Medical
Services
Excellent links to Medical, Disaster and Law.. all in the area of
Emergency Medical Services.
- Doctors Without Borders
The world's largest private humanitarian relief organization is now
online. When it comes to putting humanitarian aid into practice, MSF
will not permit borders - physical or political - to be imposed. As a
result, MSF may at times operate in rebel-controlled areas, despite
obstructions by the official authorities. Within this site you'll find
a photo gallery depicting recent relief operations, a library of
publications and front-line reports.
- Down Syndrome WWW Page
- Dr. Ruth's Sexnet!
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is America's foremost sex therapist. In addition
to Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex, she has written many other books on
human sexuality, as well as being a well-known lecturer, radio and TV
personality, and a professor at New York University.
- The Electric Apple Journal
Lowell General Hospital of Lowell, Massachusetts, has created this
site with the idea "that an informed patient is in the best
position to make wise healthcare decisions in partnership with his or
her physician." Interested users can take a heart test by
answering a forms-based query and receiving their heart disease risk
factor in email, ask questions of a doctor (in eight different
specialty areas), or find information in 9 different health care
areas.
- Elfstrom's Arthritis
Information
Researched articles about arthritis and other rheumatic diseases
written by physicians, patients and researchers.
- Emergi-Page!
Emergi-Page site, a series of pages dedicated to promoting safety,
health and the Emergency Services!
- Ergo Health
Everybody knows that the key to being a great Web surfer
is...ergonomics! The General Libraries Ergonomics Task Force thinks
it's about time you learned how to sit right. Includes software to
force you to take a surfing break.
- FDA
Your Electronic Source of Information about the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
- First-Aid
By Dr. Handal, MD
- A Forum for Women's
Health
Your internet resource for women's health information. The forum hosts
a collection of facts, information, advice, and suggestions to help
you deal with your health concerns.
- MedWeb
Free medical library listing hundreds of on-line sites.
- Galaxy's
Medical page
- The Gene Letter
Newsletter on the scientific, ethical, legal and social aspects of
genetics. Site offers TOC, searchable back-issues, a directory of
consumer/professional groups, chat and links.
- Gene Map of the
Human Genome
Shows the chromosome location of over 16,000 human genes with links to
the underlying sequence and map data.
- Guide Dog Foundation for the
Blind
Helping blind people get around since 1946.
- HealthAtoZ
HealthAtoZ provides format and search capabilities for both medical
professionals and consumers that save time, Feast your eyes on the
directory and you'll find 163 sites in basic medical sciences, 107
regarding computers and health, and a whopping 261 journals.
- Health-Care Professional
Resource Center
CEU ® provides Extensive Health-Related Resource and Interactive
Forums for Health-Care Professionals, with a focus on Occupational
Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech Pathology.
- Health Explorer
The Health Explorer is the easy, fast, and comprehensive way to find
health information on the Internet. Over 3,000 categorized sites.
- HealthGate
Your online source for health, wellness, and biomedical information.
- Healthy Weight
Weight management resources, including a body mass index calculator.
Your source for news and information on the latest in weight
management "hot" topics plus an Interactive Body Mass Index
calculator to help evaluate your health risk
- Healthwise
Highlights Newsletter
A publication of Columbia University Health Service
- HealthWorld Online
Whether you're seeking consumer information on diseases or need
professional reference materials, a stop here should be the cure for
you. Some key items include an audio clinic, the healthy kitchen and a
directory of online self-help.
- The Heart
At The Heart, learn how to have a healthy heart, the developmental
process of the heart, the history of the heart, and information about
blood vessels and the pulmonary system.
- Heart Homepage
Ask the doctors individual questions at the Heart Homepage, or sign up
to receive a free quarterly newsletter called, "Take Your Health
to Heart." Read the twenty most frequently asked questions about
heart disease.
- Heart to Heart
Volunteers
Heart to Heart Volunteers is a program developed to support and
educate heart patients and their spouses during and after
hospitalization. The site features an index to articles pertaining to
Ask the Doctor, Chief Surgeon's Corner, Heart Health, Heart Smart
Recipes, and more.
- The Heart Information Network
The site provides a wide range of information and services to heart
patients and others interested in learning about lowering risk factors
for heart disease.
- The Hepatitis Information Network
- Hospice Foundation of
America
The Hospice Foundation site is both informative and easy to use --
designed to help patients and their families find comfort and support
in the final days of a terminal illness.
- How
To Talk To Your Doctor
Be assertive and take an active role to improve your health care.
- Huntington's
Disease Information
- IHP Net
Health Resources
Home pages of health-related international and U.S. agencies.
- Infertility Resources
This Web site is designed for people experiencing infertility and
infertility physicians and embroyologists
- InnerBody.com Human Anatomy
On-line
Human Anatomy On-line the place for fun, interactive and educational
views of the human body. This program contains over one hundred
illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of
descriptive links.
- Internet Drug Index
This drug search site, established by a pharmacist, contains a listing
of over 4000 drugs.
- Jonathan Tward's Multimedia
Medical Reference Library
Jonathan Tward's Multimedia Medical Reference Library is like having
your very own medical library online. Plus an extensive Medical Audio
Library where you can listen to over 100 recordings.
- The Kombucha Journal
The Kombucha Journal (a heathy beverage and natural folk remedy, that
everybody can make.) Information is in 12 languages.
- Leukemia Society of America, Inc.
- Lupus Home Page
- Making Medicine Easy To
Understand
The new MedicineNet Web site attempts to cover the top 100 medical
conditions likely to affect a normal person in language anyone can
understand. The articles are written by physicians from a wide variety
of disciplines. When you visit the site, you'll also find a section of
the latest medical news, the chance to ask a physician your questions,
and more.
- Medical Breakthroughs
This valuable site highlights groundbreaking reports each week on
lifesaving discoveries in the world of medicine.
- Medical Matrix
Compiled by a medical library, gives access to current research
bulletins.
- MedicineNet
A Free Medical Reference
- Medscape
Free searching of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE abstracts
database has been added to the wealth of medical information for
practitioners and health care consumers available on the Medscape
site.
- MEL Health
Information Resources
This resource is devoted to developing a collection of health
information links specifically for health consumers.
- The
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
This site offers registered users (it's free) medical information
describing symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and
virtually all the disorders that a general internist might encounter.
- Multilingual
Medical Glossary
Commissioned by The European Commission (DG III) this site represents
a multilingual glossary of technical and popular medical terms.
Browsable in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian,
Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Multimedia
Medical Reference Library
Extensive guide to professional medical resources on the Web.
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
MDA combats neuromuscular diseases with an unparalleled worldwide
research effort, a nationwide program of medical services, and
far-reaching professional and public health education.
- Museum of Questionable Medical
Devices
It contains brief mention of phrenology" reading (the machine
measures the size of bumps on the head)...weight reduction
glasses...soap that washes off pounds...foot powered breast
enlarger...plus links to other medical fraud sites...
- The National Down Syndrome Society
Education - Research - Advocacy
- National Headache Foundation
Your #1 source for headache help.
- National Health Info Center
The National Health Information Center puts health professionals and
consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations
that are best able to provide answers.
- The National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institutes of Health
Begun as a one-room Laboratory of Hygiene in 1887, the National
Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost biomedical
research centers, and the Federal focal point for biomedical research
in the U.S.
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
The National Osteoporosis Foundation is America's leading resource for
people seeking up-to-date, medically sound information on the causes,
prevention, detection and treatment of, osteoporosis.
- The National Spinal Cord Injury
Association
This is the international resource for people living with spinal cord
injury.
- National Stroke Association
National Stroke Association (NSA) is the only national voluntary
health care organization focusing 100 percent of its resources and
attention on stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, research
and support for stroke survivors and their families.
- Neoptx Eye Site
You can now test you eyes on the Internet. Neoptx Eye Site helps
people find the right lens by showing different text sizes as if
theywere being seen through a lens, changing the magnification until
the text is clear.
- NeuroNet
An international database dealing with neurosurgical topics, offering
consultation on clinical cases, neurosurgical journals, image database
and research.
- New England Journal of Medicine
Their extraordinary offerings are consistently being featured on the
national news front, now you can read through full-text original
articles all updated weekly.
- NOAH
NOAH seeks to provide high quality health information for consumers
that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH currently
supports English and Spanish.
- The On-Line
Allergy Center
The site has helpful information on the relief of a variety of
symptoms including nasal congestion, eye redness/soreness, sneezing,
wheezing, coughing, joint pain, intestinal pain, skin
rashes/irritation, itching, hyperactivity, and fatigue.
- The Online
Birth Center
Midwifery, Pregnancy, Birth and Breastfeeding
- Online Checkup
Anybody entering the GlobalMedic Web site can access its variety of
health services based upon an expert system. At their leisure, they
can do a medical check-up and get a medical diagnosis based on their
own symptoms, browse through the Encyclopedia and Drug Book or take
advantage of the chat, list-servs and health store.
- Outbreak
Outbreak is an on-line information service addressing emerging
diseases.
- Outdoor
First Aid Kit
- The Pain Page
Dedicated to chronic pain sufferers and to those who support them.
- Parents' Place
- The
Parkinson's Web
Pharmaceutical Information Network
Home Page
- Prevent Blindness America
Eye Facts and Fun, including Eye Health and Safety Tips, Glaucoma
Information, and the Effects of Computers on Your Eyes.
- Prostate Help
Association
An information service for all types of prostate disease.
- Resources for the Disabled
- Reuter's Daily
Health News
- The RX List
You now have access to a database of over 4,000 drugs. A quick search
will return results of indications, side effects and links tracking
particular pharmaceuticals.
- Shape Up America!
This Dr. C. Everett Koop's site that's provides you with the latest
information about safe weight management and physical fitness.
- The Sleep Well
The Sleep Well was created as a reservoir of information on sleep and
sleep disorders.
- Thyroid Home Page
The Thyroid Home page is dedicated to providing thyroid patients and
their families with accurate and helpful information about thyroid
disease.
- Tylenol
Aches, allergies, cold or flu? The Symptom Analyzer will tell you
which Tylenol to take.
- United Cerebral Palsy Association
To advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of
people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
- WebDental
WebDental is "The World's Premiere Dental Resource." The
site contains a listing of over 170,000 practices and individual
dentists in the United States.
- WebDoctor
WebDoctor features a comprehensive, peer-reviewed index of Internet
medical resources that is designed to provide up-to-date medical
information to practicing physicians. With a special focus on rural
medicine, this site is a great index of medical information on the
net. While these sites are all peer-reviewed by physicians before
being included, the casual browser will undoubtedly find answers to
some oft-asked questions.
- Weight Watchers
- A Forum for Women's Health
Your internet resource for women's health information. The forum hosts
a collection of facts, information, advice and suggestions to help you
deal with your health concerns.
- Women's Health
Over 29 issues of special concern to women including back pain, aging,
alcohol, headaches, depression, breast cancer, stress, osteoporosis
and more.
- World Federation of Hemophilia
Very comprehensive site covering many aspects of hemophilia care and
treatment.
- The World Health Organization
- The World of Multiple Sclerosis
The World of Multiple Sclerosis (WoMS) is an international cooperative
effort utilising experts in all areas of MS to offer current and
useful information to health professionals, researchers, persons with
MS, families and as well as the general public.
- Yahoo's Health Page
- A Year to
Remember...with My Mother and Alzheimer's Disease
Provides many links to Alzheimer's Disease resources, an extensive
bibliography, and a personal story told through poetry, photographs,
and journal entries.
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