Consumer Health / Patient Education General Links
| General health web sites for consumers |
- About.com - Health/Fitness - articles, chat rooms, and news.
Advisories for Health Professionals or Consumers - The Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) and the Biologic and Genetic Therapies Directorate (BGTD) posts safety alerts, public health advisories, press releases and other notices from industry as a service to health professionals, consumers, and other interested parties. - C-Health - from CANOE (Canadian Online Explorer). Includes lots of Canadian health news, lists of associations, disease database, & herbal encyclopedia.
- CMA.ca - look up your symptom, self diagnose, and review pointers provided to determine when you should seek professional help.
- drkoop.com - a company led by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, and others who are dedicated to improving the quality of people's lives by empowering them to improve their health.
- familydoctor.org - from the American Academy of Family Physicians, this site offers patient education documents for common medical concerns and conditions.
- Health Links (Misericordia Hospital) - province-wide telephone health information service, available 24 hours a day
- HealthCentral.com - a network of information services providing consumers with highly personalized interactive tools, including custom newsletters, personalized health information pages and personalized risk assessments. HealthCentral is one of the few sites to actually feature a medical librarian.
- HealthTouch Online for Better Health - an extensive list of specialty and disease categorized single page patient education documents derived from professional organizations.
- Intelihealth - a media company formed as a joint venture between Aetna US Healthcare and the Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Health System.
infohealth Guide to Health Services in Manitoba - a Manitoba Health web site that provides answers to Manitoban's health care questions, lists health services available in Manitoba, and provides health care contacts. - Manitoba Harm Reduction Network - recommendations regarding the development, implementation and evaluation of sexually transmitted and bloodborne infection prevention initiatives.
Manitoba Healthy Living - provides links to subjects such as: Active Living, Health Eating, Sexuality, Chronic Disease Prevention, Injury Prevention, Tobacco Reduction. - Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - offers a wealth of easy-to-understand information on health and medical topics. New material is added every workday, all reviewed for accuracy by Mayo Clinic experts.
- Med Help International - patients can ask questions of doctors--unlike some "ask the doctor" sites, this one meets high standards.
- Medem Health Information - represents the full range of patient education information from leading US medical societies including the AMA.
- MedlinePlus - authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, government agencies and health-related organizations.
- NetWellness - a nonprofit consumer health web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the: University of Cincinnati Case Western Reserve University The Ohio State University.
- NOAH: New York Online Access to Health - a unique collection of state, local and federal resources selected by editors with consumers in mind. Searchers may select from a list of Health Topics which are then narrowed to include definitions, care and treatment, and lists of information resources. Many bilingual resources.
- Sympatico.ca Health - from Sympatico Lycos. Includes some Canadian content.
- Virtual Hospital - a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. Contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
- WebMDHealth - the consumer section of WebMD.com, provides information and services that are contracted from information suppliers as well as their own professional staff. While linking to other sources, they do provide some original content.
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