Health Sciences Metasites, Portals & Gateways

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• ABLEDATA - A premier site on assistive technology & rehabilitation. Can get product information (30,000 equipment items, white canes to voice output programs). Has resource centers (blind, deaf, spinal cord, stroke & brain), forum, a reading room, etc.), links, site search.



• Acupuncture.com - A clearinghouse on TCM therapies (herbal medicine, point selections, U.S. State laws, etc. Has links (colleges, etc.), FAQs.



• Advance Newsmagazines - Can subscribe to online newsletters & search article archives on over 20 specialities (medical laboratory, audiology, rehabilitation, health information, aging, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant, speech pathology, sleep, etc.). Has editorial content (reprints, patient handbooks, etc.), career information (job search, job fairs, etc.), continuing education, buyers guides & product information, resources (references, conferences, etc.), etc.



• AEGiS (AIDS Education Global Information System) - An extensive virtual library. Can search over 750,000 documents, news back to 1983. Has FAQs, a U.S. law library, links in over 30 categories, etc.



• Aetna InteliHealth - Features Harvard Medical School's consumer health information. Covers diseases & conditions, health lifestyle (complementary & alternative medicine, nutrition, etc). Has a drug resource center, interactive tools, etc., site search.



• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Has Agency, clinical information (evidence-based practice, etc.), consumers & patients information. Covers funding opportunities, data & surveys, research findings, quality assessment, public health preparedness.



• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - Has a hazardous materials database, national exposure registry, glossary with over 220 definitions, a science page (abstracts of articles, etc.), etc., site search.



• AIDS Info - Has information on guidelines, drugs, vaccines, clinical trials; an glossary with over 120 downloadable (pdf) pages of definitions; links.



• Anatomy Atlases - Has 6 textbooks & links to 8 digital libraries.



• Bandolier - A knowledge library of systematic reviews of treatments, evidence on diagnosis, epidemiology; essays; a glossary with 150 definitions.



• BehaveNet - Can search, browse 18 directories (forensic examiners, practice & treatment guidelines, etc.). Has clinical capsules terminology with 140 definitions; DSM-IV-TR (text revision), etc.



• BioExchange - A portal for biotechnology & the life sciences. A feature-rich network community with advanced features in e-commerce & wireless technologies. Has a career center for finding & sourcing human resources, news & information, resources & tools about the industry. Supports seeing-impaired & handicapped accessibility services via voice-synthesis support & a Web design compatible with third-party systems.



• CDC WONDER - Can browse information on chronic & communicable diseases, envirnomental & occupational health, etc.



• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Includes information on 11 health & safety topics (disabilities, travelers' health, etc.); downloadable (pdf) publications & products, data & statistics; etc.; a site search.



• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Has portals for professionals, government, consumers.



• Children's Environmental Health Network - A gateway with resources & links to databases, conferences, government policies on protecting fetuses & children; a downloadable (pdf) training manual; site search.



• ChiroWeb.com - Has chiropractor & product directories, over 7,000 articles (spine, injuries, etc.) for patients & consumers, enewsletters, an events calendar, etc.



• CHORUS (Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology) - Can search over 1,100 documents (citations of journal articles, journal articles, medical pictures) on diseases, radiological findings, gamuts, etc. Covers the musculoskeletal system



• CIRRIE (Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange) - Has Center information; a searchable country directory of 500 research centers, government agencies, associations & organizations; browsable rehabilitation conferences; a forum; links; etc.



• CombinChem.net - Has comprehensive information on medicinal chemistry, including news, new products, upcoming symposia, published papers, journals, books, jobs, forums and suppliers. Requires free registration.



• Developmental Disabilities: Topic Home - Has information on autism spectrum disorders, cerebral palsy, hearing loss, mental retardation, vision impairment, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.



• Digital Medical Library - A virtual library with links & resources on wellness, symptoms, diseases, medications, devices, procedures, specialities (acupuncturists, audiologists, nurses, pharmacologists, physical therapists, physician assistants, public health officials, etc.), etc.



• DisabilityInfo.gov - Has comprehensive U.S. government information & links on employment, education, health, technology, community life, civil rights, etc.



• Drug Infonet - Has FAQs, drug (official & patient package inserts) & disease information, hospitals & medical schools online, etc. Can Ask the Doctor.



• Drugs.com - Can search information (uses, side effects, interactions) on over 24,000 approved medications.



• eMedicine - Can search, browse articles by physicians on 7,000 diseases & disorders. Has evidence-based practice guidelines in 62 medical specialties.



• eMedicineHealth - Has health resource (symptoms, diagnosis, treatment), lifestyle & wellness, first aid & emergencies centers; etools (calculators, etc.); drug recalls & alerts, a dictionary.



• ergoweb - Has a product & services buyer's guide, news archive, resources (60 case studies, introduction to ergonomics [glossary, FAQs, etc.], reference materials [standards & guidelines, bibliography with over 3,200 references, etc.), etc., a site search.



• familydoctor.org - An American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) site. Covers conditions A-Z, healty living, etc. Has information for women, men, parents & kids, seniors. Includes tools (drug information, a dictionary with 1,300 definitions, etc.), site search.



• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Has Bureau & War on Terrorism information, reports & publications (Handbook of Forensic Services, etc.), etc., a site search.



• Food & Nutrition Information Center - Has resource lists (weight control, etc.); downloadable (pdf) dietary guidelines & food guide pyramid; links to 40 journals, newspapers, etc.; a Nutrient Data Laboratory; information on supplements; etc.; a site search.



• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Has Organization information, statistical databases (FAOSTAT, etc.), updates on world agricultural production & food supply conditions, etc., a site search.



• Genizah On-Line Database (GOLD), The - Can search catalog databases (Targumic, medical & para-medical, post-Talmudic rabbinic) & over 1,200 annotated manuscript images.



• GrantsNet - Has a Roadmap to Grants (funding opportunities, application, management, administration manual, etc.), FAQs, a site search.



• Health Central - Has information for men, women, kids, seniors; a site search. Covers diseases, weight loss, natural medicine, drug information. Resources include a general health encyclopedia, human atlas, etc.



• Health Information Research Unit (HIRU) - Evidence-based informatics at McMaster University.



• HealthAtoZ - Has channels for men, women, children, seniors, parenting; FAQs; a site search. Covers diseases & conditions (complementary & alternative, mental health; tests & procedures; etc.), lifestyles (fitness, nutrition, etc.), tools (calculators, drug guide with 7,000 medications, etc.), etc.



• HealthCentral.com - Has portals for women's, men's, kid's, senior's health; diet, nutrition, fitness. Includes a health encyclopedia & atlas of diseases & conditions, a people's pharmacy (drugs & herbs, vitamins), site search. Covers alternative & complementary therapies.



• Healthopedia.com - Has a Medical Encyclopedia, information on 11,000 drugs & mediciations, 800 diseases & conditions, 90 symptoms, 200 tests & exams, 150 surgeries & procedures, 70 injuries & wounds, 70 diet & nutrition topics, 160 special topics (smoking, exercise, sports safety, etc.,. Includes 450 pictures & images.



• HIV InSite - A gateway to AIDS knowledge. Has comprehensive information on HIV/AIDStreatment, prevention, policy from the University of California San Franciso School of Medicine.



• Holocaust History Project, The - Has an archive (documents, photos, recordings, essays), over 30 links, a site search.



• Homeopathy Home - A premier site with over 600 pages of directory, reference (ejournals, ebooks, 100 articles), WWW, discussion & chat, etc., a site search. Can Ask questions.



• Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) - U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). Can browse nearly 60,000 images in the prints & photograph collection.



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education, The - Has over 1,900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross & microscopic pathologic findings associated with human disease conditions.



• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) - Has Commission & standards information; Quality Check performance reports on over 15,000 hospitals, nursing homes, etc; enewsletters; links; etc.; a site search.



• KidsHealth - Has portals for parents, kids, teens with doctor-approved health information on children from before birth through adolescence. Covers safety & nutrition, environmental health, etc.



• LOCATORplus - Can search NLM collections, resources (PubMed, NLM Gateway, etc.).



• MayoClinic.com - Covers diseases & conditions (first-aid, infectious diseases, etc.), healthy living (complementary & alternative medicine, food & nutrition, brain & nervous system, etc.), drugs & supplements, etc. Has tools (calculators, decision guides, etc.), a site search.



• Med Help International - Has an extensive librar of non-technical articles on diseases & conditions. Can Ask a Medical Question.



• Medherb.com from Medical Herbalism - Has discussion boards, links in 25 categories (materia medica, therapeutics, etc.), an enewsletter.



• Medical Breakthroughs - Has videos, archived news, links, etc., in 19 channels (alternative medicine, diseases, health, sports medicine, mental health, neurological disorcers, etc.).



• Medicare - The official U.S. government site. Has information on personal plans, drugs, eligibility, coverage, nursing home comparisons, participating physicians, etc.



• MedicineNet.com - A virtual library with U.S. certified doctor information on diseases & conditions, symptoms & signs, procedures & tests, medications. Includes a dictionary with 10,000 definitions.



• MEDLINEplus - Covers over 650 health topics (conditions, diseases, wellness), drug information (over 9,000 prescription & over-the-counter medications), a medical encyclopedia & dictionary, health news, directories (doctors, dentists, hospitals), etc. Has 165 interactive tutorials (tests & procedures, etc.), etc., a site search.



• Medscape - Has free CME activities in 28 specialities, pharmacy, nursing; conference coverage; resource centers for over 60 diseases, patient information on conditions & diseases. Can search MEDLINE, articles in 100 journals, 10 etexts, etc. Requires free registration.



• Merck - Has portals for patients & caregivers, healthcare professionals; a site search. Includes The Merck Manual - Second Home Edition, The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, etc.



• NARIC (National Rehabilitation Information Center) - Has Center information, NARIC's Instant Disability Information Center, etc.



• National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Has Institute information, a site search. Covers cancer topics (Cancer Literature in PubMed, etc.) & clinical trials information, statistics, research, a dictionary with 4,000 cancer terms, site search.



• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - Has Center information, tools (teaching resources, tutorials), the NCBI bookshelf, downloadable data & software, etc., site search.



• National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) - Has Center information, emergency preparedness links, etc., a site search.



• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) - Has Center information; downloadable (pdf) surveys, data systems, publications; links to federal statistics sources; a site search.



• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) - Has Center information, 25 fact sheets (falls, violence, spinal cord, brain injury, etc.), data (interactive statistics & maps, charts, etc.), etc.



• National Clearinghouse on Postsecondary Education for Individuals with Disabilities - Has Clearinghouse information, links in 18 categories (assistive technology, developmental disabilities, etc.), etc., a site search.



• National Health Information Center (NHIC) - Can search a database of 1,800 organizations & government offices. Has downloadable (pdf) publications.



• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), The - Has Institute & work safety information (emergency response, musculoskeletal disorders, noise & hearing loss, etc.), a site search. Includes a pocket guide to chemical hazards, etc.



• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) - Has Institute information, research & consumer health links, etc., and a site search.



• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) - Has Institute, clinical trial, disorders (over 300 diseases & conditions, etc.) information, etc., a site search.



• National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) - Has Institute, clinical trial, etc.), health (hearing & balance, speech & language, etc.) information, etc., a site search.



• National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Has health information, etc., a site search.



• National Library for the Environment (NLE) - Can search, browse links in 7 categories. Has over 1,300 Congressional Research Services Reports.



• National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) - Has information on HIV, STD, TB; links to 19,000 organizations; 26,000 news abstracts; publications on 25 topics, a site search.



• National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) - Can search, browse, compare evidence-based quality measures & measure sets. Has resources (glossary, etc.).



• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) - Has Center information, links (Kennedy Institute of Ethics, bibliographies (assisted suicide, cloning, stem cell), etc. Can search databases (ETHX on the Web, Genetics and Ethics Database).



• National Toxicology Program (NTP) - Has Program & testing information, study results & research projects, etc., a site search.



• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) - A U.S. Department of Health & Human Services gateway to Federal & other resources. Has information on diseases & health care topics; portals for health professionals, women of color, women with disabilities, for Spanish speakers, on men's health; news reports; a calendar of conferences, seminars, etc.; links to medical dictionaries & journals; etc; a site search.



• Native American Ethnobotany - Can search information on over 47,000 foods, drugs, dyes, fibers used by over 290 Native American peoples. Includes 3,800 species from 240 plant families.



• NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) - Has Center & health information (alerts, treatment, etc.), a site search. Covers clinical trails, research, etc.



• NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network) - Has Network information; portals for patients (clinical trials, patient guidelines, links, etc.), professionals (practice guidelines, a drugs & biologics compendium, etc.), industry; a site search.



• NCDDR (National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research) - Has Center information, information on over 20 topics (assistive technology, evaluation & measurement, etc.), etc., a site search.



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc.



• Netting the Evidence - Has a library of links to evidence-based articles & searchable databases, on appraisal & implementation, software, etc.



• NetWellness - Has health news, an African American health overview, an encyclopedia with 3,500 articles, etc., a site search. Can Ask the Experts.



• NMDinfo.net - A clearinghouse & virtual library. Has Rehabilitation Research and Training Center in Neuromuscular Diseases (RRTC/NMD) & clinical trials information, a neuromuscular disease database, FAQs, etc., a site search.



• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health - Can search, browse links & articles on 50 topics (diseases & conditions, alternative medicine, etc.) & to resources (hospitals, pharmacy, evidence-based medicine, statistics, etc.).



• NursingCenter - A gateway with journal articles, clinical resources, career information, continuing education, etc., a site search.



• Nutrition.gov - Food & nutrition information on U.S. government sites. Covers food facts, safety, assistance; lifecycle issues; etc. Has resources (data & statistics, etc.), a site search.



• Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) - Has Office information, FAQs, safety notices, site search.



• OncoLink - Covers types of cancer, treatment, coping, clinical trials. Has a library (book reviews, etc.), etc.; site search. Can Ask the Experts.



• OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) - Has Administration, ergonomics, emergency preparedness, etc. information; laws & regulations; statistical & inspection data; manuals; etc., a site search.



• PedsCCM: The Pediatric Critical Care Website - Has peer-reviewed original content on clinical research (surveys, clinical trials, etc.) & resourcese (case reports, nursing, etc.) integrated with links.



• Pendulum Resources - A gateway to information on affective disorders diagnostics, medicines, alternative treatments, support, stress, etc.



• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe - A hypertext archive of narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, etc., on the arrival, impact, response to the disease between 1348 & 1530.



• Profiles in Science - Can browse full-text archival collections of 20th century biomedical research & public health leaders.



• Risk Assessment Information System, The - Can search toxicity & chemical-specific values. Has a glossary with 500 definitions.



• ScienceDaily - A portal with the latest discoveries in science, health & medicine, the environment, space, technology, computers; from leading universities & research institutions worldwide. Updated 3 times a day, Monday to Friday, Has an archive of over 15,000 stories, links, books, encyclopedia articles, jobs, etc., in hundreds of different topics (astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, etc.).



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• Specialized Information Services (SIS) - Covers toxicology & environmental health (TOXNET, etc.), chemical information, etc.), HIV/AIDS, outreach activieis & resources, health organizations (DIRLINE (Directory of Health Organizations Online) & Health Hotlines.



• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Has Commission information, product recalls & safety news, a library of downloadable (pdf) statistics, etc., site search.



• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Has Department information, information on diseases & conditions, safety & wellness, food & drugs, disasters & emergencies, grants & funding, aging, families & children, etc.



• U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) - Has Department information, a site search. Covers drug trafficking & abuse, law enforcement, drug abuse, etc.



• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - Has Agency information, educational & informational resources, a site search. Covers laws, regulations, dockets. Includes &/or sponsors the Chemicals On Reporting Rules (CORR) Database, ECOTOX Database, Envirofacts Data Warehouse, IRIS Database for Risk Assessment.



• U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Has Administration information; links to its Centers that regulate food, human drugs, medical devices, biologics (blood, vaccines, etc.), animal food & drugs, cosmetics, radiation-emitting products, combination products; portals for consumers, patients, health professionals, etc.; coverate of hot topics (mad cow disease, bioterrorism act, counterterrorism, food pyramid, etc.; etc.; a site search.



• U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL) - Can search the NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA). Has a Food & Nutrition Information Center; West Nile Virus Bibliography, 1965-2004; etc.



• U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) - Has citations, full-text, archives, images, site search.



• UNAIDS - A comprehensive site co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNDCP, UNESCO, WHO, the World Bank. Has speeches; downloadable (doc) FAQs, (pdf, doc) publications, etc.; information by subject, country; a site search.



• Virtual Naval Hospital - Has administration manuals; information & textbooks for patients (medical problems, etc.) & providers (anatomy, biological & chemical warefare, general medicine & surgery, internal medicine, preventive medicine, psychiatry, etc.); a site search.



• World Health Organization (WHO) - Has data on 191 countries, information on health topics, research tools (a statistical information system, etc.).



• www.FoodSafety.gov - Has official U.S. government news & safety alerts, consumer advice, industry assistance, links to federal & state agencies, etc., a site search.



• Your Disease Risk - Has Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention information on cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, stroke. Includes 9 ways to prevent disease.