Dictionaries
On Line Medical Dictionary Find the disease by letters of
the alphabet.
MEDLINEplus Dictionary Allows you to type the first few
letters of the word followed by an asterisk.
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Consumer Reports Best Buy
Drugs Information that helps you determine which medicines fit
both your bill of health and your
wallet.
Some information is offered
in Spanish.
- Cancer.gov Federal
Government's principal agency for cancer research, training and information dissemination.
Assesses the
incorporation of state-of-the-art cancer treatments into clinical practice.
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) U.S.
government site on disease control.
- Familydoctor.org
This information from the American Academy of Family Physicians has
been written and reviewed by
physicians
and patient education
professionals and is reviewed and updated regularly.
- Healthfinder® National Health Information Center, U.S. Dept of Health & Human
Services.
- HIV InSite HIV
information
- Kidshealth®
- Mayo Clinic The
well-respected Mayo clinic information on diseases and conditions,
healthy living, drug search, first aid etc.
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MEDEM: an
information partnership of medical societies Offers consumer
and more advanced reliable health care information
- MEDLINEplus (English |
Spanish) Contains more
than 700 topics on health and wellness, diseases and drug
information
Includes a medical encyclopedia; dictionary; directories and links to
other authoritative consumer sites.
- NOAH: New York Online
Access to Health Provides
accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased consumer health information
in
English and Spanish.
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Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council "An
independent state agency responsible for addressing the
problem
of
escalating health costs, ensuring the quality of health care, and
increasing access for all citizens regardless of
ability to pay."
(Taken directly from their web site.)
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Well Connected
A library of reports for consumers on common diseases and wellness
issues. Authoritative, in-depth and
updated regularly. Library also subscribes to print editions
of the reports.
Advance Directives in PA Advance directives, Living Wills,
Medical Power of Attorney
Alternative Health
Ask Dr. Weil
Health questions answered by Dr. Andrew Weil
Benefits Government and private medical benefit programs
including prescription drugs, health care etc.
Best Hospitals
US News' list of best hospitals.
Cancer
CHIDonline
(The Combined Health Information Database) Combined database of
Federal Government health related agencies.
Children's Health
Clinical Trials
Clinical Trials.gov
Provides current information about clinical research studies.
It is organized by disease treatment, location,
and
sponsoring organizations. From National Institute of Health.
Clinical Trials
Commercial site dealing with clinical trials.
Doctor Directories
Doctor's Disciplinary Actions Has your Dr. had any
disciplinary action brought against him? From Pa Department of
State,
Bureau of
Professional & Occupational affairs; Or check with
Healthgrades A commercial
site that offers a report including
schools associations, background and disciplinary actions.
Hospital directories of doctors and medical specialists
- Also check the web sites of individual hospitals.
Hospitals
Local and famous hospitals
Johns Hopkins Medicine Consumer information from Johns
Hopkins.
Susquehanna Valley
Medical Resources Area hospitals and medical resources
directory.
University of Pennsylvania
Health System Consumer information from University of Pennsylvania.
Medical Specialists
American Board of
Medical Specialties
Doctor Directory Database of 600,000 doctors arranged by
specialty and geography.
Medline Plus directory of medical facilities and doctors
Doctor's, dentists, specialists, hospitals, compare hospitals
and clinics including
specialized hospitals and clinics, medical libraries.
Drugs
FirstGov for Consumers:
Health Consumer health info from a variety of federal government
agencies
Geisinger's Health System's Health and Wellness info Information
on conditions, procedure, medications, natural & alternative treatments,
medical news and Wellness & therapeutic centers
Go Ask Alice - Columbia University's Health Education
Program. Explicit sexual information
Health Web
Cooperative effort of The health sciences librarians of the
Committee for Institutional Cooperation to work cooperatively to
develop an interface that provides organized access to evaluated
non-commercial, health-related, Internet-accessible resources.
Intelihealth Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health
Information.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Consumer information from Johns
Hopkins
Lab Tests Online Peer
reviewed, noncommercial site on clinical lab testing and the meaning
of the tests.
Magazine Articles
Medscape
Easy to use free site but does require a user to logon.
One of Medscapes' goals is to make available to a
broad medical
audience clinical information with the depth, breadth,
and validity needed to improve the practice of medicine.
Medical Societies
State Medical Societies
Pennsylvania Medical
Society
Medical Urban Legends Check out medical rumors and e-mails.
Medical Urban
Legends Privately maintained site with references.
Mental Health Awareness
Michigan Electronic
Library Official State of Michigan health site. Very clear
portal.
National Institute of Health Consumer health information.
National Library of Medicine The world's largest biomedical
library. Allows you to conduct your own research on medical topics.
National
Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information
National Library of Medicine Specialized
Information Service Toxicology, environmental health,
chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and
specialized
topics in minority health.
National Mental Health
Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
The National Rehabilitation
Information Center
NetWellness Ask an
expert; sites evaluated by faculty from the University of
Cincinnati, The Ohio State University and the Case
Western
Reserve University.
Nursing Home Compare
Detailed information about the past
performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in
the country.
Pamphlets Health
pamphlets from various
federal agencies.
Physician and Sports
Medicine Peer reviewed monthly journal, deals with medical
aspects of exercise, sports and fitness.
Rare Diseases
SARS
Susquehanna
Health System's Health and Wellness Info
Information on the health system's
services as well as recent medical news and vital medical
information, including traditional and alternative approaches.
US Dept of Health and Human
Services A Clearinghouse on Publications and resources.
WebMD Easy to use, consumer
information on lots of topics.
Reports on common diseases and wellness issues. Each report gives
in-depth information on treatments, risk
factors, causes, tests and
preventative measures. Login using your library card #.
Whonamedit is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
This site attempts to present a complete survey of all medical
phenomena
named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this
will include more than 15,000 eponyms and more
than 6,000 persons.
Medical Books
Medical Books are located in the 610-620 section of the library including
the Reference Section.
Circulating books may be taken home. Reference books may only be used in
the library but copies may be made of pertinent information.