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Resources for Librarians | Service of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Consumer health & human services information. Hot Topics covers 25 popular health/healthcare topics. Smart Choices contains information on making healthcare choices. More Tools contains links to libraries, medical dictionaries, online journals etc. Just For You section has resources grouped by age and ethnicity. Searchable from any page. | |
| 1999 NIH Health Information Index. Clinical Trials database & detailed information about clinical trials. Full-text consumer health publications browsable by subject or institute. Special Programs section has a link to the Office of Rare Diseases with information on 6000 rare diseases..CHID, Combined Health Information Database of health promotion & education materials not indexed elsewhere. | |
| Emphasizes information available from NLM & NIH. Links to: 7 medical dictionaries/glossaries, 3 lists of medical dictionaries, over 30 clearinghouses, 50+ major associations, more than 25 databases and over 25 Consumer Health Libraries. Health Topics, accessible by browsing, searching or selecting a category, contain comprehensive lists of links to authoritative sources of full-text information. Consumers will find the link to run a "canned" search in MEDLINE useful. | |
| Covers food safety & nutrition, human & animal drugs, biological products, cosmetics, medical devices, exposure to radiation, regulations regarding children & tobacco plus more. Consumer Section includes an index of the FDA Consumer magazine with some links to full-text articles & section on newly approved drugs. Patient Section contains a link to the Office of Special Health Issues for info on FDA activities related to HIV/AIDS, Cancer and other special health issues. | |
| "Topics A to Z" is a thorough index of the site including state & local programs, vital records, and specific diseases. Highlights of the Division of Communicable Diseases are the Communicable Disease Index which is 30+ fact sheets on reportable diseases, good vaccination/immunization info & reportable disease statistics by county. NJ Right to Know Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets are provided by the Occupational Health Service. | |
| New
York State Department of Health |
Info for Consumers section contains: a collection of Communicable Disease Fact Sheets, special sections on major health issues such as Alzheimer's Disease, diabetes, heart disease, infant and child health, women's health, and a comprehensive section on Environmental and Occupational Health which includes a useful "Glossary of Environmental Health Terms." |
| "Diabetes Info" provides lengthy full-text info on everything about & related to diabetes. Selected full-text articles from Diabetes Forecast as well as 5 other professional journals published by the American Diabetes Association. Links to categorized and reviewedInternet Resources. Search engine allows you to search the whole site or just selected publications. Links to Research & Legislative sites are also provided | |
| Info on the heart, heart disease and stroke available in 1-3 page easy to read fact sheets or follow the links for richer coverage of each topic. Some fact sheets have good graphical illustrations. Science and Professional section includes AHA medical and scientific statements (including some guidelines). Comprehensive listing of current statistics. Links to the new AHA web site "Living with Heart Failure," a great resource for patients and caregivers | |
| Authoritative reports on all aspects of the liver and its diseases. "Liver Links" is a comprehensive listing of resources for liver information. Personal narratives from liver disease patients. Advocacy section contains links to the foundation's statements & agendas. News section is up to date with a link to the full-text publication, "Chronic Hepatitis C: Current Disease Management from the NIH/NIDDK, November 1999. | |
| Family Village |
Comprehensive coverage of disability resources. Full-text info on specific diagnoses or general disability related topics. Links to associations, chat groups, online journals, newsletters & magazines. Full-text articles from Exceptional Parent Magazine, Special Child Magazine and more. Family Village search engine was not working on 11-17-99. |
| Hardin Meta Directory provides access to the best directory sites in 38 specialties in health/medicine. These sites are developed and maintained by a wide variety of people, including physicians, librarians, nurses, and patients. The overriding feature considered in judging the quality of directory sites is the currency of the site, as reflected in the site maintenance. Keeping up with new sites in the field and checking existing links to make sure they are connecting is a time-consuming job, and one that's particularly well-suited to information-seeking patients, who have an acute interest in keeping up with new developments in their fields. Listed here are examples of high-quality directory sites that are managed by patients (or family members). | |
| Another of the comprehensive consumer sites. Dr. Dean Edell is the star of this site with enhanced coverage of all his daily on-air and TV stories. Notable for its organization (check out the Site Guide and Quickstart Tour) and for its inclusion of Rochelle Perrine Schmalz, medical librarian, as a news columnist and discussion leader. | |
| HealthyNJ was developed by the University Libraries' Consumer Health Information Task Force at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The site, intended "to meet the healthcare information needs of consumers, particularly the citizens of New Jersey, policy makers, and health care professionals," includes disease-specific information, health and wellness, state and county specific resources, and reference sites. "Content on the pages will be selected and developed based on criteria including currency, accuracy, and relevance." | |
| Comprehensive consumer health, disease and drug info site provided through a joint venture between Aetna U.S.Healthcare and Harvard Medical School. Searchable site is updated daily. Free registration enables users to receive email on a variety of topics and search free databases. MedCite features latest cites from medical literature on 15,000+ topics. Displays HON Code symbol. | |
| Updated daily. Comprehensive source of consumer health, disease and drug info produced by a team of physicians, scientists, writers and educators from the renowned Mayo Clinic. Easy to navigate. Displays HONCode symbol. | |
| A non-profit organization. Comprehensive Consumer Health Library contains articles on disease & conditions from the MHI medical library, info from MHI "Ask the Doctor" forums, clinical trial info from Center Watch, MHI glossary entries, articles from the MHI "News Room" and articles from other selected Internet sites. Medical News provided by InteliHealth. Displays HONCode symbol. | |
| Information edited by a network of board certified physicians. Full-text "100% doctor produced" info on Diseases & Treatments, Procedures & Tests, and Medications (listing generic & brand names). Medical dictionary. Alphabetical listing of important health links | |
| Primarily aimed at health professionals, Medscape is built around practice-oriented content. Each Specialty Site gathers, filters, and posts updated content from tens of thousands of medical journal articles, state-of-the-art surveys in disease management authored by experts, Next-Day Summaries from major medical meetings, and more. Medscape also produces 7 clinical eJournals, including Medscape General Medicine (MedGenMed), a primary source, peer-reviewed, general medicine journal that was selected in September 2000 for indexing in MEDLINE. Medscape's selection of free, continuously updated CE activities for physicians, registered nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals is expanding rapidly to meet a growing demand. | |
| Joint venture of 4 authoritative institutions in the fields of both information & medicine. Comprehensive coverage of Health Topics with links to full-text sources. Choice of three different search engines (to search NOAH & elsewhere). "What's New" section is a current list of what topics have been updated and when. One of the first sites to offer health info in Spanish. | |
| WedMD |
Comprehensive consumer health site. Emphasis on relevant, clinically significant info from reliable sources. Content from sponsors, advertisers and partners is clearly labelled. Free membership includes services such as newsletters and WebMD University. |
| Begin your search for alternative health information here to avoid falling into the bottomless pit of ads and "questionable" data on this topic. Created by a librarian, this page links to the Indexes, Guides & Directories of health supersites. Useful and interesting links, especially the Directories of Practitioners and Schools, Training, Licensure sites. | |
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National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) |
NCCAM conducts research and disseminates information to practitioners and the public. Links to Information Resources include the CAM Citation Index, a browsable, searchable subset of the MEDLINE database (1963-1999) including 180,000+ citations. |
| NIH
Office of Dietary Supplements IBIDS Database |
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary supplements. IBIDS was developed and will be maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Citations are currently drawn from MEDLINE (biomedical), AGRICOLA (botanical and agricultural science), and AGRIS (agricultural science worldwide). |
| One of the Big Three (with Cancernet and Oncolink) of huge, authoritative oncology sites. Full-text info on specific cancers is easily found either though the search feature or the quick index. Included are statistics, risk factors, diagnosis and staging, what patients should ask their doctors, new research as well as additional readings and references. Selective list of links to other cancer info sites included. | |
| Nonprofit agency offering free assistance to people with cancer and their families -- information, counseling, support, consultation and referrals. Very accessible site. | |
| Great for patients and families is the PDQ database of peer-reviewed and frequently updated statements summarizing facts on diagnosis, staging, treatment and prognosis for most types of cancer. Clinical trials info and links as well as Kid's HomePage. | |
| Librarian and cancer survivor Karen Parles maintains this site which "widely acknowledged as the definitive consumer site for lung cancer."(BMJ 2000;321:1129-1132). Very up-to-date and user friendly. | |
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OncoLink:
A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource |
The first multimedia oncology resource on the Internet, still one of the best. You can't search for cancer info on the web without visiting Oncolink. Reliable, understandable and frequently updated information on every aspect of cancer. |
| This FDA site focuses on drug treatment for cancer. The section on Approved Oncology Drugs contains information about approved cancer therapies, including what drugs are approved for what diseases, considerations for making decisions about therapies, advice on when to contemplate using unapproved drugs and how to obtain access to unapproved drugs. Also of interest is the section on Regulatory Tools that covers the FDA approval process, specific FDA cancer initiatives, and other regulatory issues related to cancer. | |
| Steve
Dunn's CancerGuide |
This comprehensive site for learning about cancer is an excellent place to begin. Cancer survivor Steve Dunn helps users to find answers but, even more importantly, helps "you find the questions you need to ask." Lots of original content and good links. |
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Drug
Resource Center (InteliHealth) |
Comprehensive drug info site including FDA New Drug Approvals, FDA Actions, Drug News and Disease Specific information centers. |
| RxList
- The Internet Drug Index |
Managed by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D., this is a HealthCentral.com network site that is loaded with general drug information on over 4000 drug products. Notable for its "Top 200" feature providing info on the 200 products that represent 2/3 of all prescriptions filled in the U.S. Reliable information and links. |
| Good basic article from FDA Consumer (October 1995). | |
| The official site of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Good links to professional organizations and ILCA affiliates as well as advocacy sites. | |
| Information intensive site on breastfeeding. Goal is to provide "education, information, support, and encouragement" to women who want to breastfeed. | |
| WABA - World
Alliance for Breastfeeding Action |
Lots of WABA material including documents, activities and the Children's WABAsite. Good links to breastfeeding info in different languages. |
| The Consumer Health Advisory Committee of the South Central Chapter/Medical Library Association Compiled this resource based upon suggestions from librarians. The topics or 'chapters' that comprise the manual are subjects the librarians felt would have been helpful when they began organizing their consumer health collections. | |
| The Medical Library Association's (www.mlanet.org) quick tips for evaluating the reliability of a web site along with links to 10 high-quality consumer health pages. | |
| A nice set of links from the Spokane Public Library guides users from "Good Starting Points" and "Evaluating Health Sites" to selected popular topic sites. | |
| This resource from the OHSU Library is being used in Oregon to train librarians to use and evaluate health information on the Internet. | |
| HEATHINFOQUEST:
Pathfinders to Common Consumer Health Questions |
HEALTHINFOQUEST is a tool designed to encourage
users to gain confidence in their ability to retrieve reliable health
and medical information from the World Wide Web. HEALTHINFOQUEST pathfinders
are designed primarily for information providers such as public librarians
to model the intuitive nature of reference work. The questions addressed
are typical of those received in public libraries. The pathfinders are
also a useful tool for health educators and those who respond to public
requests for medical and health information. HEALTHINFOQUEST is a tool designed to encourage users to gain confidence in their ability to retrieve reliable health and medical information from the World Wide Web. HEALTHINFOQUEST pathfinders are designed primarily for information providers such as public librarians to model the intuitive nature of reference work. The questions addressed are typical of those received in public libraries. The pathfinders are also a useful tool for health educators and those who respond to public requests for medical and health information. |
| The IHC is dedicated to encouraging and supporting high-quality healthcare information on the Internet. The most useful sections on this site are Tips for Health Consumers: Finding Quality Health Information on the Internet and the e-Health Ethics Initiative. | |
| National
Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information |
A good basic introduction to finding info both on the Web an at libraries (public and medical). Clear explanations and a select list of links to NLM resources, other gov't. related sites, how-to sites and tips on evaluating information. |
| STAR
Manual - Guidelines on Handling Medical Questions in the Public Library |
From the Nebraska Library Commission Statewide Training For Accurate Reference Manual, detailed and very useful guidelines for handling medical and legal questions in public libraries. |
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