Medicine > Health
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Frank Davis, University of Kentucky Medical Center Library
- Acurian
- The tools and resources at this site provide information on clinical trials
and new medical therapies-both under development and recently approved.
- Addiction Search
- This site is a good place to start researching addiction issues.
- Bioterrorism
- Kentucky Department for Public Health's website provides information about
bioterrorism, anthrax and smallpox.
- CANCER411.org
- This site provides complete listings of all cancer clinical trials available
worldwide, services and support groups available to cancer patients and
their families, in-depth articles, webcasts and more.
- Center for the Study of Bioterrorism
and Emerging Infections
- The Center's site includes case studies, references, a comprehensive bibliography,
current news and links to government and educational sites.
- Center for Civilian Biodefense
Studies
- This site, from Johns Hopkins University, contains links to fact sheets
and JAMA consensus statements for several disease organisms such as anthrax
and smallpox. It also has background information about biological agents,
news, and FAQ's for the general public.
- Centers for Disease Control
- This website provides many online publications, data and statistics, current
health news and announcements and numerous other health-related resources.
The site can be searched for information specific to Kentucky such as Kentucky:
Most Common Causes of Death .(PDF format) The fulltext of Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report is also available here.
- Chemical Warfare Agents
- From the National Library of Medicine, this site provides information
about the health effects of various chemical agents. It includes a bibliography
and webliography for more information.
- Department of Health and Human Services
- This site provides information and links on the promotion and protection
of health and the provision of essential human services.
- Directory of Health
Organizations
- This directory, from the National Library of Medicine, contains addresses
and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources
including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned
with health and biomedicine.
- DisabilityInfo.gov
- This site provides one-stop online access to disability resources, services,
and information available throughout the Federal government.
- Family Village
- This site, from the University of Wisconsin, integrates information, resources,
and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive
and other disabilities, for their families, and their service providers.
Information is given for specific diagnoses, communication connections,
adaptive products, education, and recreational activities.
- Free Medical Journals
- This site gives you access to some of the most important medical journals,
available online, free and in full-text.
- Health Answers
- Health Answers is a conglomeration of health information that ranges
from answers to commonly asked questions about health to a drug finder that
provides reports on drug uses. This is a first rate site to finding health
information.
- HealthFinder
- Health Finder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human
services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. HealthFinder(r) can lead you to selected online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups,
as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that
produce reliable information for the public
- Health Services Cabinet
- The Cabinet and its various departments and offices are responsible for
overseeing public health services in the state of Kentucky. The Data
Warehouse has numerous reports from the Cabinet, including County Health
Profiles, DPH Annual report, Health Status of Kentuckians, HIV-AIDS and
Home Health Services Reports. (PDF format)
- HealthWeb
- This site contains high quality Internet health resources. It can be browsed
by topic or searched by keyword. Health We is a peer-reviewed project of
medical librarians associated with major universities.
- Heart Center
Online for Patients
- Heart Center Online's website aspires to be "the premier cardiovascular
specialized health care site on the Internet, to provide cardiovascular
patients, their families and other site visitors with the tools they need
to better understand the complex nature of heart-related conditions, treatments
and preventive care, and to provide services and applications that deliver
value to cardiology practices.
- InteliHealth
- More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth.
Agencies include the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies,
major non-profits, other publishers and news media. Information is given
for medications, medical conditions, and wellness.
- Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
- This peer-reviewed periodical allows free full-text access to articles
from specialities including Medicine, Surgery, Nephrology, Pathology, Virology,
Alternative Medicine, etc.
- Kentucky Cancer Program
- This site provides information about cancer control in Kentucky. It includes
links to Community Outreach Programs, the Cancer Registry and the National
Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service.
- Kentucky Cancer Registry (Univ.
of KY)
- "The Kentucky Cancer Registry records the incidence of cancer for the
Commonwealth of Kentucky." Of particular note is Cancer
Incidence Reports which provides access to cancer incidence data published
since 1991.
- KHA: Association of Kentucky Hospitals
and Health Systems
- The association's website includes news, legislation, educational programs,
links to related agencies, links to Kentucky hospitals and much more.
- Kentucky Regional Poison Center
- This site provides information for parents and teachers, an emergency
hotline number, statistics and information about the services of the Poison
Center.
- Lung Cancer Online
- This site provides links to services, support, websites, medical literature,
treatment options and much more.
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education
and Research
- This consumer site has information about diseases and conditions, drug
information, and healthy living tips.
- Medem Medical Library
- This site is maintained by medical societies and other trusted sources
of medical information. It provides information on Life Stages, Diseases
and Conditions, Therapies and Health Strategies, Health and Society and
a Physician Finder.
- MEDLINEplus
- This service from the National Library of Medicine provides access to
information about specific diseases and conditions. It also has links to
consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries,
lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other
languages, and clinical trials.
- OncoLink
- OncoLink gives comprehensive information about specific types of cancer,
updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances. Authoritative
information is updated frequently for all levels, from introductory to in-depth.
- Public Health Emergency Preparedness
and Response
- This site, from the Centers for Disease Control, provides information
about bioterrorism issues including current news, emergency contacts, biological
disease overviews, and learning resources
- Smallpox
- This compilation of information about smallpox comes from Medline Plus.
It includes the latest news, general overviews, coping, research, and more.
- WebMD
- This site provides ideas and inspiration about wellness, health and medicine
for the individual. A great place to find answers to everyday health questions.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 20-Aug-2003 12:25:54 EDT
