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Health information |
Government
Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/ gov guide to reliable health information.Gateway to Government Food Safety Information http://www.FoodSafety.gov/
Medline plus health info http://medlineplus.gov/
includes health topics, news, other resources.
FDA Consumer http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/default.htm
" FDA Consumer offers you a wealth of new and in-depth information on
how
to get healthy and stay healthy. It also reports on current FDA
activities
to ensure that the products the agency regulates—food, human and animal
drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, radiation-emitting products,
biologics—are
fit to use.
Nursing home report cards
National http://www.medicare.gov/Nursing/Overview.asp
not
a report card exactly, but has info such as staff per client,
violations,
etc.
Indiana http://www.in.gov/isdh/reports/QAMIS/ltc/repcard/rptcrd1.htm
Choose a county then a nursing home, includes a link to report cards
New Jersey http://www.state.nj.us/health/ltc/hcfa/
Mass. http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2subtopic&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Physical+Health+and+Treatment&L3=Healthcare+Facilities&L4=Nursing+Homes&sid=Eeohhs2
National Institute of Environmental Health Science list of consumer
links
http://library.niehs.nih.gov/consumer/home.htm
links
to environmental and general health sites.
Chapter on evaluating health websites http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/evalsite.html
Other
Family Doctor.org http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html
from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Pamplets
and info
on many different topics.
Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
health
conditions, first aid, etc.
Medical Library Association Encyclopedic Guide to Searching and Finding
Health Information on the Web
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/mlaguide/indextest.html
includes
this page: Part 7: Favorite Overall Sources of Consumer Health
Information
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/mlaguide/free/faves.html
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of the
Medical Library Association refers healthcare consumers to these
resources.
http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html
this site also describes how they chose resources, and says, "The
Medical Library Association and CAPHIS endorse the Criteria for
Assessing the Quality of Health
Information on the Internet of the Health Summit Working Group. These
sites have been reviewed using the HSWG guidelines and other criteria
such as
outlined in this collection of guidelines. These criteria
include: credibility, sponsorship/authorship, content, audience,
currency, disclosure, purpose, links, design, interactivity, and
caveats. Health sciences librarians are uniquely qualified, through our
training and experience, to evaluate the quality of health-related Web
sites.
CAPHIS is listed here http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/profdevelopment.html
Medem http://www.medem.com/
medical information site, sponsored by ama, aap, other medical
society.
Has an on line medical library http://www.medem.com/medlib
with articles and links.
AMA Health Insight: Information for Consumers http://www.ama-assn.org/
click
on patients box.
American Academy of Pediatrics Web Site (AAP) http://www.aap.org/
see especially their family resources page http://www.aap.org/family/
bunch
of info for families.
University of Michigan Health systems http://www.med.umich.edu/
especially see their health info and learning
center
Cedars Sinai learn more about your health http://www.csmc.edu/7.html
with info on various topics
Northwest Memorial Hospital on line health
encyclopedia and learning center http://www.nmh.org/nmh/hlc/main.htm
articles on health topics
Walgreens health library http://www.walgreens.com/library/default.jsp
general articles on health topics
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) Verified
Internet
Pharmacy Practice Sites (VIPPS) program http://www.nabp.net/index.html?target=/vipps/intro.asp&
This program is listed here http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForWomen/ucm118502.htm
and
here http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/ucm079278.htm
NCQA http://www.ncqa.org/
"NCQA
is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to
evaluate
and report on the quality of the nation’s managed care
organizations".
Especially see the report card section at http://hprc.ncqa.org/index.asp
Quackwatch http://www.quackwatch.org/
you
can use this site to check the validity of the site, and to check
questionable
products and claims.
Quackwatch is listed at this page as a source of
info http://www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Publications/quackery.htm
and also listed at the Univ of Illinois at Chicago
Library of the
Health Sciences Peoria http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/altmed.shtml
Docboard http://www.docboard.org/
free info on doctors, but you have to register to
use this system. One part is docfinder. "DocFinder contains the licensing background and disciplinary
information of physicians and other health care practitioners with much
more detailed Medical Malpractice, Hospital Discipline and Criminal
Conviction information from Physician Profile Law states such as First
in
the Nation Massachusetts. "
list of doctor boards for many states are listed here
http://www.liposite.com/infolinks/psresearch/license.htm
http://www.aapd.org/pediatricinformation/ american academy of pediatric dentistry, page of information for the public.
Complementary
and
Alternative Medicine (CAM)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/
bunch
of info, for consumers, etc
Mayo Clinic for CAM http://www.mayoclinic.org/complementary-alternative-medicine/
A CAM center at Columbia http://www.rosenthal.hs.columbia.edu/
includes
info and links.
Some specific
conditions and topics
Complementary and Alternative Medical
http://web.utk.edu/~mbetz/default.html
by
M.D. Betz, including GERD and Its Treatment http://web.utk.edu/~mbetz/gerd.html
gives
a natural treatment
ontario college of family physicians http://www.ocfp.on.ca/English/OCFP/home/default.asp?s=1
says pesticides cause all sorts of medical problems, and they recommend not to use
The report is here
http://www.ocfp.on.ca/English/OCFP/Communications/CurrentIssues/Pesticides/default.asp?s=1
Teflon
EPA's page on Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pfoa/
which
is supposed to be the harmful ingredient in Teflon.
PERFLUOROALKYL ACIDS: What Is the Evidence Telling Us? Kellyn
S. Betts Environ Health Perspect. 2007 May; 115(5):
A250–A256.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1867999
In
addition to revealing a statistically significant correlation
between infants born with higher levels of PFOS and PFOA and decreased
birth weight and head circumference, the Johns Hopkins study unearthed
a correlation between the compounds and the scores the babies earned on
the ponderal index, which measures fetal body mass and can serve as a
rough approximation of nutritional status.
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