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Jump toAssociations | Cross-Cultural / Multicultural Health | Dental AssistingFederal AgenciesInternational Organizations | Nursing/Healthcare Professionals | Nutrition & Lifestyle  

Directories & Medical Search Engines

Consumer & Patient Health Information: Web Sites You Can Trust

Evaluating Internet Health Information (tutorial from the National Library of Medicine)

Health Library at Stanford University (directory) and MedBot (search engine)
Good consumer health resources

Health on the Net (directory) and MedHunt (search engine)
International organization dedicated to providing accurate health information

HealthFinder
Reliable health information for the public, from the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.
  SEE ALSO
HealthFinder: Organizations

MedicineNet Links

PubMed  
Provides citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles, as well as links to full text articles and other related resources. For directions on how to use this resource, SEE the PubMed Tutorials.

WebMD

Agencies - Federal

Centers for Disease Control

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Dept. Of Health & Human Services

Environmental Protection Agency

Food & Drug Administration

Medline Plus: Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

National Cancer Institute

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (Prevention Online, PREVLINE)

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine

Office of Minority and Women's Health

OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Agency)

Associations & Organizations -- SEE HealthFinder: Organizations
Cross-Cultural / Multicultural Health

See also International Organizations

Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas

Cross Cultural Health Care Program: Cultural Competency Resource Guide 

Culture Clues  (tip sheets for clinicians working with diverse cultures)

Discover with Diversity Rx

Ethnomed

Minority Health  (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

Minority Health Project  (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Office of Minority and Women's Health

Office of Multicultural Health  (State of California)

Transcultural Nursing Society

Dental Assisting

American Academy of Periodontology

American Dental Association

California Dental Hygienists' Association  

International Organizations

Pan American Health Organization  (includes country health profiles)

Population, Health & Nutrition Information Project

United States Agency for International Development (USAID):  Global Health

World Health Organization

Nursing / Healthcare Professionals

See also  Cross-Cultural / Multicultural Health

Ethics in Medicine (University of Washington School of Medicine)

Institute for Safe Medication Practices

Lab Tests Online (lab test information for consumers)

Lippincott's Nursing Center

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

NursingNet

RNstudents.Com

Transcultural Nursing Society

U.S. Pharmacopeia

Nutrition & Lifestyle

SEE ALSO Culinary Arts: Nutrition

Food and Nutrition Information (American Dietetic Association)

Healthy People Project

MayoClinic.com: First Aid Guide

SmallStep.gov
Information about diet and exercise to help people make improvements through incremental change in their habits.

      
         

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