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HEALTH AND MEDICINE
Alice
An interactive health question and answer service provided by Columbia University's Health Education Dept.
Bioterrorism Agents and Diseases
CDC Report.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
Excellent site for public health and safety information; includes fact sheets, information and CDC journal articles on diseases and chronic conditions and statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics. Includes full text of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases. Includes travel information. Some pages available in Spanish.
Diseases Database -
General internal medical disorders, symptons and signs, congenital and inherited diseases, infectious diseases and organisms, drugs and medications, and common tests. Intended for healthcare professionals; edited by Dr. Malcolm H. Duncan.
Health Finder
A FirstGov site that provides reliable information on all diseases and conditions, and also on good health practices.
Martindale's Health Science Guide
Medline Plus Health Information
An easy to understand reference site for medical questions
Mental Health, a Report of the Surgeon General
Report issued Dec. 1999 announcing that many American suffer treatable mental illness that do not seek treatment for multiple reasons.
Merck Manual of Medical Information (Home Edition)
Second home ed.
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
Operated by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the American Medical Association, and the American Assoc. of Health Plans, this site offers guidelines for clinical practices from over 100 medical organizations, and can be searched by disease, condition, treatment or intervention method or by issuing organization.
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
English and Spanish source for reliable timely information on a variety of illnesses and conditions.
Your Genes, Your Health, a Multimedia Guide to Genetic Disorders
Includes information on Fragile X syndrome, Marfan syndrome, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy, phenoketonuria, Huntington disease, neurofibromatosis, sickle cell disease, hemochromatosis, Tay-Sachs disease, Beta-thalassemia, Down syndrome, Alzheimer disease, Polycystic kidney disease.
