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Selected Websites

Health and Medicine

Government Sources:

• Center for Disease Control-- the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people.
• ClinicalTrials.gov -- N. I. H. maintained site with authoritive information on clinical research studies for the patient, family members, and the public.
• Food and Drug Administration
• Healthfinder -- a government gateway to consumer health and human services information web site.
• Health.gov -- A portal to the Web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• HealthyPeople -- Healthy People 2010 challenges individuals, communities, and professionals to take specific steps to ensure that good health, as well as long life, are enjoyed by all.
• MEDLINEplus - National Library of Medicine/National Institute of Health consumer site.
• MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia -- includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
• National Cancer Institute -- Information, clinical trials, research programs, dictionary, and other information resources.
• National Library of Medicine
• National Women's Health Information Center -- Government website created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.
• New York State Physician Profile -- Profiles for all licensed doctors of medicine and doctors of osteopathy who are registered to practice medicine in New York State.

• New York State Professional Misconduct & Discipline

Organizations:

• Adirondack Medical Center -- Local, Saranac Lake hospital.
• American Cancer Society -- Information, options, facts and figures, support programs, etc.
• American Heart Association -- Heart and Stroke Encyclopedia.
• American Massage Therapy Association -- National organization representing more than 47,000 MT's.
• American Massage Therapy Association Information Center -- One source for information and references to conduct research and look for answers to questions about massage, methods and techniques, alternative and holistic care and general information related to massage therapy.
• American Medical Association (AMA)-- Information for and about physicians, and consumer information.
• American Medical Association Publishing-- Current articles and archives of journals published by AMA.
• American Physical Therapy Association
• Bandolier HomePage -- Advice about particular treatments and diseases.
• Board Certified Doctors-- American Board of Medical Specialties.
• BreastCancer.org -- an educational site, includes a "talking" dictionary designed to assist in the use of the complicated language of cancer diagnoses and treatment.
• FamilyDoctor.Org -- A Searchable library from American Acad. of Family Physicians.
• Johns Hopkins Medicine -- A premiere Teaching Hospital.
• The Lyme Disease Network
• Medical Consumer -- Helping you to make informed decisions.
• National Breast Cancer Coalition -- The nation's largest breast cancer advocacy group, works to educate and train individuals to be effective activists and to influence the public policies that affect breast cancer research and treatment.
• The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• National Women's Health Network -- Advocates for national policies that protect and promote all women's health and to provide evidence-based, independent information to empower women to make fully informed health decisions.
• North Country Regional Blood Center-- Blood drives by a local organization.
• Population Reports -- Worlds largest reproductive health database.
• Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline - New York State.
• Public Citizen -- Advocacy Group for health, and safety.
• Radiology -- New York State Radiological Society.

Commercial Resources:

• ICD-9 -- International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision/Diagnostic codes.
• Magill's Medical Guide -- Authoritative source of medical information. Requires "password" for access = northcountry.
• Mayo Clinic Health Oasis -- Information on Cancer - Alzheimer's Disease - Heart Disease and more.
• Medical Radiography HomePage
• Medscape -- One of Internet's biggest collections of medical articles.
• Merck Manual on-line - provides reliable, easy-to-use medical information (17th edition).
• New England Journal of Medicine -- Full text of articles (1993 to present) in this prestigious publication.
• Prevention Magazine -- One of the more "reliable" sources of alternative health information.

Created 2.2.2000 /rev 02.04.2009 by P.F. McIntyre.  Revised 11.04.2009 by L.F. Larkin.

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