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Resources in the Disciplines
Health Resources
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HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites - Health on the Net Foundation

Government Health Resources
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - information on health (general advice, publications)
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - Consumer Health 
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
  FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  Food and Drug Administration
  Healthfinder - U.S. government consumer health and human services 
  Medline Plus Health Information - by the National Library of Medicine
  National Guideline Clearinghouse for health care professionals - clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials for expert  health care professionals
  National Institutes of Health
  National Institutes of Health -Health Information
  National Institute of Mental Health
  National Library of Medicine
  National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC)
  Public Health Image Library - an extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health (Most are in the public domain.)
  PubMed - National Library of Medicine's search service to access the citations in MEDLINE
  U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services online guide
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Other Health Resources
  American Academy of Family Physicians - patient information site
  American Heart Association
  American Pediatric Association
DrugWatch.com - Drug Information -  a comprehensive website featuring extensive information about medications, drug interactions, and drug side effects.
  Family Health Online Radio Programs
  familydoctor.org - American Academy of Family Physicians
  Gray's Anatomy -" vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index
  Health Videos MSNBC - Health A-Z, online videos, information from health professionals: in-depth articles, Web casts, etc. 
  HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites  - Health on the Net Foundation 
  Institute of Medicine of the National Academes 
  Kids Health
Mayo Clinic online
Med Help International - not-for-profit consumer health network
  MedHunt - medical document finder - sponsored by Health on the Net Foundation 
  Medical Health / Science Libraries on the Web - Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, U.of Iowa 
Medscape - specialty pages for major medical categories, free, full-text clinical medicine articles enhanced with keyword searches, graphics, annotated links to Internet resources, and more,12 easily searchable databases including MEDLINE. Free, but requires registration
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Merck Manual - online medical manuals 
  PDR.net - publishers of the Physician's Desk Reference (must pay a fee to access the PDR, but you can register for free access to health and drug information)
  Nurse.com (a Gannett Company) - jobs, resources, education
  Sci Central - portal to science: health sciences, biological, chemical, physical, earth, engineering, ethics  resources
  Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health
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[virginia montecino][montecin@gmu.edu]
updated April 2011