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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
  Center for Disease Control Media Relations Health Statistics
  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
  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
  National Guideline Clearinghouse for health care professionals - clinical practice guidelines and related abstract, summary, and comparison materials for expert  health care professionals
  National Guideline Clearinghouse - links to patient resources
  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
  BioMedNet - The Internet Community for Biological and Medical Researchers
  DrugFacts.com - "a comprehensive, interactive health care web site for 
pharmacists and drug information professionals"
  Family Health Online Radio Programs
  familydoctor.org - American Academy of Family Physicians
  Gray's Anatomy - "1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries"
  Health on the Net -  not-for-profit portals to medical information on the Internet. A Swiss foundation operating out of Geneva which co-operates closely with the University Hospitals of Geneva, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. The Web team comes from various European countries and the U.S.A. HON uses MedHunt©, HONselect©, and the HON Code of Conduct (HONcode©) 
  Healthology TM - information from health professionals: in-depth articles, Web casts, etc. 
  Health Web -collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. 
  HON Code of Conduct for medical and health Web sites  - Health on the Net Foundation 
  Institute of Medicine 
  Kids Health
Mayo Clinic online
Med Help International - not-for-profit consumer health network
Medem Health Information - "Medem's Medical Library represents the full range of patient education information from our partner medical societies and other trusted sources, and is unsurpassed in quality, breadth, and depth of healthcare information"
  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 
  MedSearch - the on-line healthcare career channel
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Merck Manual - 17th edition published in April 1999 available on web site free of charge. 
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - online abstracts
  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)
  National Research Council
  Nursenet (archives, references, conferences,etc)
  Sci Central - portal to science: biological, chemical, physical, earth, health, engineering, ethics  resources
  Supercourse - Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health
  WWW Virtual Library Medicine/Bioscience
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[virginia montecino][montecin@gmu.edu]
updated Jan 2003