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The Internet is rich with resources and information about
health. Some is helpful and some is misleading and potentially
harmful. This page has links to sites felt to be reputable
or providing useful information. We hope these links will
help you find the specific drug, disease or treatment information
you are looking for more quickly.
Merck
Medicus
This is the best place to find information on a specific disease,
and is a free service provided by Merck & Co. Inc., a pharmaceutical
company. It includes the Merk Manual, a sort of "Readers Digest"
of medical textbooks; patient handouts for many diseases;
and Dr. Pen, a pointer to other websites for patient information
on diseases. When you enter the Merck site, click on the "Patient
Resources" tab to see these and others listed.
Medline Plus
Super site by the National Library of Medicine - a good place
to start for investigating medical questions
CancerNet
The National Cancer Institute's site for cancer information
HealthFinder
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) site
of pointers to other sites with medical information they find
useful
CDC
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) site is especially
useful for obtaining health related travel information.
National Library
of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine offers Medline, the index
and abstracts of all medical research journals in the world
(just about).
National
Health Information Center
The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health
information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals
and consumers who have health questions in touch with those
organizations that are best able to provide answers.
American Psychiatric
Association
An authoritative site on psychiatric and mental illness. Includes
information sheets on many topics, but not as many topics
as the less authoritative site, Mental Health, by an individual
Canadian Dr. Phillip W. Long, M.D.
HCFA
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the federal agency
that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance
Programs.
Medical
Tribune
The Medical Tribune News Service provides daily electronic
transmission of consumer-oriented articles pertinent to healthcare.
HealthAnswers.COM
A commercial site of medical information, but seems to have
responsible and useful information.
Pediatric Database
This Pediatric Database was designed by Dr. Alan Gandy (MD.,PhD.,FRCP(C))
while enrolled in the Pediatric Residency Programme at the
University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada from
1990-1994.
HealthAtoZ
HealthAtoZ is a comprehensive, well-integrated health and
medical resource developed by healthcare professionals.
Salud.com
Has medical information in Spanish.
Wesley's
Doctor Place
is Dr. Eastridge's own website, geared for doctors to use,
but with lots of links to other sites.
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