ABMS Certified
Doctor Home Page: Certified Doctor Verification Service of the American Board of
Medical Specialties (select "Who's Certified"); also a search function for participating physicians
Acupuncture.com: primer on
acupuncture; FAQ's; directory of licensed acupuncturists; directory of acupuncture schools
Acurian:
information about drug trials; search by state or by disease
Aegis: AIDS
Information Global Information System; search knowledge base by key word;
news
The Alternative Medicine
Homepage: links to Internet resources on alternative, complementary, & integrative
therapies
AMA
Physician Select: compiled and published by the American Medical
Association ("AMA") as a reference source of demographic and
professional information on individual physicians in the United States
American Hospital Directory: includes
all U.S. hospitals that treat Medicare patients; search by name, city, state, zip code or
area code; profiles may include number of beds, accreditation, medical school affiliation,
services provided
The Body: An AIDS and HIV
Information Resource: searchable library of 30,000+documents,continually updated;
interactive q&a forums; site has won numerous awards
Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition: FDA site includes consumer advice, food additives, food borne
illness, food labeling, cosmetics
Centers for Disease
Control: health topics A-Z; reliable information on current health
concerns
Chirobase: a guide
to chiropractic medicine, including a directory of practitioners
Complete Home Medical
Guide: complete text of the Guide from the Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons; 3d rev. ed., 1995; search from the table of contents page
Diagnostic
Tests: from the Harvard Medical School Guide to Family Health; how to
prepare for tests, how they are done, when to expect results
The Disability
Resources Monthly Guide to Disability Resources on the Internet: links to disability
resources; directory of state and local resources; continually updated by this nonprofit
organization
Drugs - RxList: search 4,000+
prescription drug products by name or ID imprint code
eMedicine Online Text
- Emergency Medicine: commercially sponsored site for physicians and the public
Healthfinder: US
Government site with links to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases,
websites, & support & self-help groups
HealthyNJ:a
consumer health site from UMDNJ; searchable information on wellness and
diseases; cosponsored by the NJ State Library and the New Jersey Library
Association
HeartInfo: an
independent educational site that provides provides information on heart disease,
treatment, risks, daily news, nutrition; heart care provider directory, links to other
sites; searchable
HerbMed:
from the Alternative Medicine Foundation; abstracts in plain English from
Medline research articles; for each herb includes warnings about toxicity,
adverse effects, drug interactions, preparations; links to pictures of the
herbs; searchable
Homeopathy Home Page: links to
websites & mailing lists; FAQ's; bibliography
Human Anatomy On-line:
interactive; 100+ images & animations
Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Directory of Accredited Organizations:
search for information and reports on hospitals, health care plans, nursing homes, home
health care providers (look for "Quality Check")
LabTestsOnline:
searchable information on lab tests and interpreting results
Lyme Disease
Foundation: loads of facts and links from this Connecticut
non-profit
Mayo Clinic Health O@sis: the
best site for the lay person; includes current medical news, "ask the Mayo physician
or dietician," a library of articles on a wide range of medical topics, classified
links to other sites; searchable
Medicare -- The Official US Government
Site for Medicare Information: gateway to information on Medicare; includes
"Medicare Compare," a searchable database of managed care plans
MEDLINEplus Medical
Encyclopedia: articles and images organized alphabetically in eight
topical sections: Disease, Injury, Nutrition, Poison, Special, Surgery,
Symptoms, Tests
Mental Health Net: links to
6,000+ online mental health resources
The
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: keyword search or browse the text of the Merck
Manual (Centennial edition, 1999, the latest in print)
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and
Drug Information: alcohol & drug fact sheets; agencies & organizations;
research & statistics; National Substance Abuse Web Index
National
Library of Medicine Healthinfo: a
health gateway site from the National Library of Medicine; includes information from
MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, medical dictionaries, directories of doctors and
hospitals, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and a search databases
section with dozens of databases on topics such as clinical trials, nutrition, AIDS,
cancer, etc.
New England Journal of Medicine Online:
issues from January 1995; full text of some features + abstracts of original & special
articles; full text collections include asthma, breast cancer & molecular medicine
New Jersey Healthcare
Profile: this site includes information on all doctors who are actively
licensed and currently permitted to practice medicine or podiatry in New
Jersey; search for a doctor by name, field of medicine, hospital, county, or
city/town; the profiles provide information about a practitioner's
credentials and education and also about disciplinary actions, hospital
restrictions, and malpractice payments
Nutrition Analysis
Tools: analyze foods for various nutrients;
from the National Agriculture Library
OBGYN.net The Universe of Women's Health:
with sections for women, medical professionals & the medical industry, this is a
comprehensive site offering original content, journals, news; searchable
PubMed: search PubMed
for more than 11
million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals; from
the National Library of Medicine
USDA Nutrient
Database: keyword search; returns values by serving size for proximates, minerals,
vitamins, lipids, amino acids
Virtual Hospital:Virtual
Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the
University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care
providers and patients; includes search and index
