Web Subject Guides
Consumer Health Information
ABMS Certified Doctor Home Page
<http://www.abms.org/>
American Board of Medical Specialists Web site. Free service allows the
public to verify the board certification status, location by city and
state and specialty of any physician certified by one or more of the 24
Member Boards of the ABMS.
AllRefer Health
<http://health.allrefer.com/>
Medical resource provides reliable and comprehensive information and news on diseases, symptoms, tests, surgeries, injuries, nutrition, medications, and poisons. Focuses on family and community health.
America's
Best Hospitals
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/health/hosptl/tophosp.htm>
From U.S. News & World Reports. The list is broken down by subject
area, including cancer, eyes, and pediatrics.
askMEDLINE
<http://askmedline.nlm.nih.gov/ask/ask.php>
A free-text, natural language query tool for MEDLINE/PubMed. Type in a full question using natural language. The site is designed for usability on handhelds although it may be searched on any computer.
Cancer Monthly
<http://www.cancermonthly.com/>
Aimed at cancer patients,
Cancer
Monthly summarizes the latest clinical results of cancer therapies presented
by oncologists, researchers, and other cancer professionals working in
hospitals and research institutions around the world.
ClinicalTrials.gov
<http://clinicaltrials.gov>
Launched by NIH, ClinicalTrials.gov provides patients and member of the
public easy access to information about the location of clinical trials,
their design and purpose, criteria for participation and additional disease
and treatment information.
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
<http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/multi.html>
A collaboration of the NN/LM Consumer Outreach Librarians, This site lists resources available in multiple languages and includes a customized search engine for searching a topic within this list.
Drug Digest
<http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Home>
An evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site.
Genetics Home Reference
<http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/>
National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes or chromosomes responsible for those conditions. healthfinder©
<http://www.healthfinder.gov>
healthfinder© is a gateway consumer health and human services information
web site from the United States government. healthfinderÅ can lead you
to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites,
and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and
not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the
public.
HealthGrades
<http://www.healthgrades.com/>
A source of health care ratings information on the quality of health care
provided by individual hospitals, physicians, and health plans in the
United States.
Healthopedia.com
<http://www.healthopedia.com/>
A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive
and unbiased information in patient-friendly language.
Hospital Compare
<http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/>
This tool provides information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public.
HospitalWeb
<http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalweb.shtml>
Links to hospital and medical center sites.
MayoClinic Com
<http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm? >
This site covers health, nutrition and wellness with free information
from a reliable source. Features include medical news, information on
specific health topics" and "Answers From Mayo Specialists."
MEDEM
<http://www.medem.com/MedLB/medlib_entry.cfm>
A consumer health information site produced by a group of medical societies.
MEDLINEplus
<http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medlineplus.html>
A web site designed by the National Library of Medicine to assist users
in researching health topics. Includes links to MEDLINE and other databases,
medical dictionaries, clearinghouses, libraries, directories, and medical
topics.
Medscape
<http://www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo>
Includes daily headlines and articles on issues in clinical practice.
Also contains FDA reports on drugs and technology, research news from
government agencies, federal policies and clinical practice guidelines,
and issues of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Provides full-text
articles from selected journals.
National Cancer Institute
<http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinformation>
Includes links to the PubMed MEDLINE database, PDQ, and CancerTrials.
The National Women's Health Information
Center
<http://www.4woman.gov/>
The web site is a comprehensive resource for women's health links to all
federal agencies and publications on women's health, and to hundreds of
government- screened private sector organizations. NWHIC also provides
FAQs (frequently asked questions) on top health issues of concern to American
women.
NetWellness
<http://www.netwellness.org/>
A non-profit consumer health web site that provides high quality information
created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the
University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio
State University.
NIH Health Information
<http://health.nih.gov/>
Visitors can access the popular "A to Z" listing of health topics,
browse topics by body location/systems, or use the main "Search"
box. Health databases, such as Clinical Trials, MEDLINEplus, and PubMed,
are one click away.
Infomed Drug Guide
<http://www.infomed.org/100drugs/>
Presents information on 100 drugs. Based on a book published by Infomed-Verlags
AG in Germany and Switzerland. This is an English translation and adaptation
intended for medical and pharmaceutical professionals and students.
NOAH: New York Online Access to
Health
<http://www.noah-health.org/>
NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information
in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
Nursing Home Compare
<http://www.medicare.gov/Nhcompare/Home.asp>
The primary purpose of this tool from the government's Medicare web site
is to provide detailed information about the past performance of every
Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. Nursing Home
Compare contains detailed information on quality measures, inspection
result information, and nursing home staff information.
Oncolink |
<http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/>
A cancer information resource sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to information on specific types of cancer, Oncolink provides
information on psychosocial support, financial support and symptom management.
The Virtual Hospital
<http://www.vh.org/index.html>
The Virtual Hospital is a multimedia medical database at the University of Iowa. It includes multimedia textbooks and teaching files, patient simulations (including recorded sounds, pictures, and film clips), consumer health brochures, and other professional and patient medical information. There are also three electronic journals in radiology.
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