Health Websites

General Sites

About.Com Health and Fitness http://home.about.com/health/

Adam.com http://adam.com/

AEGIS (AIDS and HIV) Aids Education Global Information System http://adam.com/

ALS Association (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) http://adam.com/

American Medical Association

http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Diabetes Association

American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000

Body1.com http://www.body1.com/

California Medical Association http://www.cmanet.org/

The medical association supported by 34,000 physicians have put together an on-line network of services.

Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.

CNN Interactive/Health Main Page http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/

Diagnostic Tests http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/diagnostics.shtml

Doctor’s Guide to the Internet http://www.docguide.com/dgc.nsf/ge/Unregistered.User.545434?OpenDocument

Prescription & OTC Drug information for consumers & professionals.

Welcome to Drugs.com, the most popular, comprehensive and up-to-date drug information resource available online. Fast, easy searching on over 24,000 prescription and over the counter medicines.

Food and Nutrition Information Center http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?tax_level=1&info_center=4 The Food and Nutrition Information Center - a leader in food and human nutrition information dissemination since 1971. Provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.

Gray’s Anatomy On Line http://www.bartleby.com/107/ The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Online http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/

Health A-Z https://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/clients/haz/general/custom/default.jsp

Health on the Net Foundation http://nnlm.gov/archive/healthinfoquest/ Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

Health Web http://www.healthweb.org/ The health sciences librarians of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) schools will work cooperatively to develop an interface which will provide organized access to evaluated non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources. The resources will include those currently available as well as new resources developed in collaboration with other organizations

Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/

HealthScout http://www.healthscout.com/

Heart Center Online for Patients (i village Total Health) http://heart.health.ivillage.com/index.cfm

Infection Detection Protection http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/infection/

IntelliHealth (Harvard Medical School) http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/408/408.html

KidsHealth.org http://www.kidshealth.org/index.html Site is primarily concerned with the health of children and teens.

Family Doctor. org http://familydoctor.org/ This Web site is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organizations representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP

JAMA Women’s Health http://search.ama-assn.org/Search/query.html?qc=public+amnews&qt=women%27s+health

KidsHealth: Teens http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/ created for teens looking for honest, accurate information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up. We offer a safe, private place that's accessible 24 hours a day to get the doctor-approved info you need to understand the changes that you (or your friends) may be going through - and to make educated decisions

Lab Tests Online http://www.labtestsonline.org/index.html

Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/

MedicineNet http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp

Medical Images and Illustrations http://www.mic.ki.se/MEDIMAGES.html

Merck: Online Medical Reference http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html

New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/

National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

Open the Door to a Health Heart http://www.healthyfridge.org/ Good nutrition, facts about heart disease and more.

Pain.com: A World of Information on Pain http://www.pain.com

Reuters Health Information http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html Reuters Health (RH) is the world's leading provider of medical and healthcare news. Reuters Health news services are internationally recognized as unbiased, authoritative, timely and dependable, with the reputation for quality that one expects from a Reuters company

Shape Up America http://www.shapeup.org/ The purpose of Shape Up America! is to educate the public on the importance of the achievement and maintenance of a healthy body weight through the adoption of increased physical activity and healthy eating.

Virtual Hospital (University of Iowa) http://www.vh.org/ After 13 years of service, on January 1, 2006, Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital, the Internet's first medical Web sites, ceased operations after serving over 80 million users, due to a lack of funding. However, much of Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital content remains available online

Visible Human http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed.

WebMD http://www.webmd.com/

Women’s Health http://www.healthy.net/scr/center.asp?centerid=6

Yahoo Health http://health.yahoo.com//

Your Gross & Cool Body http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/

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UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

Site of the joint United Nations Program on HIV/AID. It is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports and expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.

Science Interactive Body http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

MMWR-YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEILLANCE—UNITED STATES

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/SS/SS5302.pdf Report on priority health-risk behaviors, which contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among youth and adults, often are established during youth, extend into adulthood, are interrelated and preventable.

Chlamydia—CDC Fact Sheet http://www.cdc.gov/std/Chlamydia/STDFact-Chlamydia.htm What is Chlamydia? How common is Chlamydia? How do people get Chlamydia? What are the symptoms of Chlamydia? What complications can result from untreated Chlamydia? How does Chlamydia affect a pregnant woman and her baby? How is Chlamydia diagnosed? What is the treatment for Chlamydia? How can Chlamydia be prevented?