Benzie Shores District Library
Health and Medical Links
- Achoo Healthcare Online - An excellent Health
Care Directory for everyone. A Great resource.
- allHealth - "Information you need.
Community you can trust"
- AllRefer Health - "Health resource
providing reliable and comprehensive information and news on diseases, conditions,
symptoms, surgeries, medical tests, nutrition, fitness, and poisons. Includes family
and community health."
- AMA Physician Select - "Provides
basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United
States and
its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors
of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine
(DO)."
- America's Health Network - Health, Medical,
Anatomy, and Hospital information.Offers interactive access to their team of physicians,
health information, health news, and much more.
- AmericasDoctor.com - "Real
doctors, real answers, real time, 24 hours a day."
- Alternative Medicine Homepage
- American Cancer Society
- American Heart Association
- American Medical Association - A professional association of physicians and medical
students dedicated to the health of America.
- Home
- AMA Physician Select -
Provides basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in
the United States and its possessions, including more than 690,000 doctors of medicine
(MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).
- Ask Dr. Weil Homepage (Dr. Weil has both
an M.D and solid credentials in alternative medicine. He is a Harvard Medical School
graduate and is on the faculty at the University of Arizona.)
- Benzie County Michigan Area - Healthcare
/ Hospitals section
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- CiteLine, Inc.- An information services
company serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries as well as other
healthcare sectors. They currently offer a line of Web research products and services
that provide organized access to the best medical information available on the Internet.
- CliniWeb - Oregon Health Sciences University
- An index and table of contents to clinical information on the Web, and includes
direct links to MEDLINE searches via the PubMed system at the National Library of
Medicine.
- Doctor's Guide to the Internet
- Medical news and alerts, Internet medical resources, new drugs or indications,
medical conferences and CME/CHE events, medical bookstore. Also, recommended information
and resources for specific diseases and conditions.
- Doctorline - Search on a directory of
690,000 Doctors, Dentists, 20,000 Hospitals, and 18,000 Nursing Homes (as of 2/2000).
- DrKoop.com - Health information, advice
from doctors, and online support groups.
- Essential Links - Medical Resources
- This is the medical section at Essential Links (a useful Internet directory and
search engine).
- Federal Drug Administration (FDA)
- Go Ask Alice! (from Columbia
University) - A health question and answer Internet site.The mission of the site
is to provide factual, in-depth, straight-forward, and nonjudgmental information
to assist readers' decision-making about their physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual
health.
- Great Lakes Orthopaedic
Center
- Hardin Library for the
Health Sciences
- Hardin Meta Directory
of Internet Health Sources
- Harvard
Medical School - Health Publications Online - A source of timely and reliable
health news and education for both the general consumer and the health care professional.
- Health Letters
- Health On the Net Foundation (HOB) - An international
initiative, HON is a not-for-profit organisation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland,
and is dedicated to realising the benefits of the Internet and related technologies
in the fields of health and medicine. HON's purpose is to advance the development
and application of new information technologies, notably in the fields of health
and medicine.
- Health Page at Yahoo!
- A popular Internet directory and search engine.
- Healthcare Publications For Consumers
- Information about both online and hardcopy newsletters, magazines, and books with
practical healthcare information for consumers.
- HealthCentral.com - Links to health
and wellness information, including medical conditions, fitness, nutrition, smoking
cessation, weight loss, and aging. Also available: a health risk assessment tool
to help you learn more about what you can do to improve your health.
- HealthFinder - A free guide to reliable
health information, from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
- HealthGate - Online source for health,
wellness, and biomedical information.
- Healthopedia.com - A medical and health
consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in
patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focussed
health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.
- HealthScout - Consumer health site.
"Leading provider of personalized health management tools including health alerts,
newsletters, Latest Recalls, Mini-Checkups, and family health pages."
- HealthWorld Online - "Resource on
healthy living, alternative therapies and body/mind/spirit health."
- Healthy Ideas -- "Prevention's
Healthy Ideas: the premier interactive health magazine for the latest in weight-loss,
fitness, recipes and natural healing. Find health news, forums, free dieting tools
and menu planners." Part of www.Women.com
- Holistice Medicine Web Site
- Home Birth
Resources
- Homeopathy
- InteliHealth - Home to Johns
Hopkins Health Information - an excellent resource site.
- Internet Mental Health - a site dedicated
to improving the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout
the world.
- Martindale's Health Science
Guide - A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containing
over 52,000 teaching files; over 125,000 Medical Cases; 1,020 Multimedia Courses/Textbooks;
1,450 Multimedia Tutorials; over 3,350 Databases, and over 10,300 Movies. (Fall 1998)
- Mayo Clinic
- Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - Information
on health and medical topics from the Mayo Clinic.
- MEDguide - Medical and Health Search Engine
- Medical Matrix - A Guide to Internet
Clinical Medicine Resources
- Medical Resources Page
- A guide to the many medical resources on the Web.
- MedicineNet - A free medical reference.
- Mediconsult.com - "A patient-focused
health and medical clinic offering medical resources educational material, drug information,
news, community, and support."
- MEDLINE - a database of more than 8.8 million references to articles published
in 4300 biomedical journals available free of charge:
- Medscape - Targeted towards health professionals.
Medical reports and articles for informational and educational purposes.
- MedSurf - Health care guide to the Internet
- MEDWEB - Biomedical Internet
Resources - Offered by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library
- Merck Manual
of Diagnosis and Therapy
- Michigan Home Health
Care and In Home Help
- Multilingual
Glossary of Medical Terms - In nine European languages.
- Multimedia Medical Reference
Library
- Munson Healthcare - Hospitals,
clinics, and medical services throughout northern Michigan, includes facilities in
Traverse City, Leelanau, Kalkaska, and Frankfort.
- National Health Information Center
- National Institute of Health
- NetWellnes Home Page
- NIH Health Information Center - Provides
good places to start for credible health information on the Internet.
- North Flight Emergency Medical Services
(EMS) (Northen Michigan)
- OnHealth - "A personal guide to wellness,
health, and medicine, offering the latest headlines in medical news, local health
guides, discussion groups, live broadcasts and disease information."
- Pan American Health Organization
- Paul Oliver
Memorial Hospital (Frankfort)
- Pharmaceutical Information Network
- Psych Web -
Lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology.
- RxList.com - Online drug database listing
more than 4000 pharmaceuticals and other medicines.
- The Health Network - "The
leading health cable television network, which together with a fully integrated Internet
site, provides health programming and interactive information to help people feel
better and live healthier lives."
- ThriveOnline - Women's health issues
resource.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- World's largest medical library and creator of MEDLINE.
- University of Michigan Health System
- Latest news and research at the U of M and medicine in general. Also, medical tips,
medical resource links, and "Find a Doctor" service.
- University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center (Oncolink)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Veterinary Medicine:
- American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
- The place where veteterinary professionals, pet owners, and animal lovers go to
find comprehensive information on pet care, animal health, veterinary medicine, and
careers in veterinary medicine, public health, and animal health news.
- Care For Pets (by the
AVMA) - featuring sections like: About Veterinarians,
Animal Health, Animal Safety, Buying a Pet, Kid's Korner, Pet Loss, Pet Stories,
Veterinary Technology, and many other resources.
- WebDoctor - A comprehensive
index of Internet medical resources providing physicians with a library of up-to-date,
peer-reviewed professional medical information. Designed by physicians – for physicians,
each link has been carefully reviewed by our panel of physicians.
- WebMD - "Health has a homepage."
News, information, physician directory, support groups.
- Worldwide Wellness Web Resources
- Yahoo! Health - Directory of Internet
health resources.
Health Letters: (most of these are available
at the Library)
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