Nursing/Health Sciences

 
STARTING POINTS
Hardin Directory of Internet Health Sources
Maintained by Hardin Health Sciences Library at the University of Iowa, this site provides pointers to the most complete and frequently-cited resource lists for health sciences.
HealthScout
Rx Remedy, Inc. sponsors this web site containing daily news and online resources for in-depth coverage of health topics.
HealthWeb
Service which includes links to web resources selected by librarians and information professionals.
HealthWorld
Comprehensive information on alternative healing and natural medicine.
Mayo Clinic
Health O@sis site with comprehensive information on all aspects of health and medicine.

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NURSING SITES
American Nursing Association
ANA's "Nursing World" web page offers news, membership information, nursing links, and access to Online Journal of Issues in Nursing.

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DRUG INFORMATION
PharmWeb
Web service for pharmaceutical and health-related information. Select from subject categories or enter keyword(s).
RxList: Drug Index
Internet source for information on pharmaceutical products. Search according to brands, generic names, symptoms, or side-effects.

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine
This site includes information about alternative medicines and therapies as well clinical trials.

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GOVERNMENT SITES
Centers for Disease Control
Produced by the Department of Health & Human Services, site provides access to health information, statistics, and publications from the U.S. government.
National Institutes of Health
Links to extensive resources of federal agencies, including a list of diseases being studied by various institutes.
National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine offers news, general information, publications, and free access to Medline.

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REFERENCE/JOURNALS
American Medical Association
AMA's home page provides numerous links to information on medical education, consumer health, catalogs, physician listings via "Doctor Finder," and employment opportunities.
Free Medical Journals
This site offers free access to medical journals over the internet. These entries are full-text. The site indexes scholarly journals like Annals of Internal Medicine and British Medical Journal. The journals are listed by alphabetic order as well as by specialty.
ICD-9 Search
This site contains the entire list of official disease descriptions and their codes, plus over 50,000 alternate descriptions.
Merck Medicus
Search the Merck Database by keyword(s) or select from categories provided.
 
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CANCER
American Cancer Society
ACS web site is an excellent source of high-quality information for cancer patients, their families, and those interested in learning more.
American Institute for Cancer Research
AICR Online is the premier Internet resource for information on the role of food and nutrition in cancer risk, the cancer process, and cancer prevention.
National Cancer Institute
Cancer information and research for patients and health care professionals.

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MENTAL HEALTH
National Institute for Mental Health
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, this web site contains items of interest to the researcher as well as the lay person on mental disorders.
PsychCentral
PsychCentral's "Web Pointer" includes links to mental health news and related web sites.

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NUTRITION
American Dietic Association
This site contains information about the food pyramid, hot topics, and other nutrition resources on the web. Has lists of subject headings and allows keyword searching and it also has abstracts from the Journal of American Dietic Association.

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