Health Web Resources

The library as a subscription to MD Consult, the online medical database.  It is an outstanding resource.  Inquire with Mr. HB Kelly or Christopher Schlegel in the library for more information.  There is also a Medical Topics File located in the file cabinet along the back wall of the library.  Click here for Medical Topics File Complete Listing. 

• Health A to Z
• Accenthealth.com  Information for healthy living.
• American Health Care Association
• Doctors Guide to the Net  Medical news, updated daily.
• Hardin Meta-Directory of Internet Health Sources  Most frequently cited and linked souces.
• HealthFinder  Gateway consumer health information web site from the Department of Health and Human Services.
• Life Extension Foundation
• Medical Matrix: a Guide to Medical Resources on WWW
• MedWeb  Excellent guides to all aspects of medicine, including physical therapy and sports medicine.
• Mr. Long-Term Care

• Neurosciences on the Internet  Neuroanatomy, biochemistry, medicine, and cognitive neurosciences.

  Journals and Journal Indexes

• Annual Reviews of Biomedical Sciences  Free through the end of 1998, you can do keyword, author or title searches through the archives and current issues of 17 annual reviews, and retrieve the full text articles. By subscription as of 1999.
• Biomedical Journal Title Search  After you've searched Medline, you can look those abbreviated journal titles up here to find out what the full journal titles are.
• Combined Health Information Database  NIH and CDC have combined their databases of bibliographic records.
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine Citation Search  Similar to Medline for alternative medical practices. Browseable and keyword searchable.
• Medical Computing Today  Valuable resource for clinical computing, medical education, medical informatics, and telemedicine, this contains news updates, bibliographies, and backfiles of articles.
• Medical Journal Finder  Links to home pages of medical journals, to free Medline, medical dictionaries, publishers, web medical indexes, and more.
• Medical World Search  Indexes the full contents of major medical web sites, and allows you to search through all of them with a search engine that will automatically look for related terms. Also links you to free Medline at HealthGate and some other search engines so you can automatically run the same search. Registration is free.
• Medline from PubMed  Free Medline searching, with links to the full text journals on PubMed. If you find an article that is exactly what you want you can click on SEE RELATED ARTICLES to get more just like it.
• Medscape  Offers Medline searching free with registration, as well as annotated links and a database of full-text peer-reviewed articles.
• MDChoice.com  Useful for doctors and patients alike, with free Medline (they promise the best search engine on the net for Medline), a patient education center, drug database, and interactive tutorials for doctors
• WebDoctor  Online medical journals.

• WebMedLit  Text of current articles from 16 major medical journals, arranged by broad subject category (AIDS, Cardiovascular, Neurology, Women's Health, etc.). No archive, but an excellent current awareness source.

  Medical Image Sites and Multimedia Instruction

• Global Spinal Cord Project  Web edition of the neuroanatomy coursebook used at University of Wisconsin School of Medicine.
• Guided Tour of the Visible Human
• Human Anatomy and Physiology Case Study Project
• Images from the History of Medicine  Collection of nearly 60,000 images from the National Library of Medicine.
• Krantz Tutorial on Basic Neural Processes
• Medical Images  Index of web sites.
• Martindale Health Science Guide  Includes more than 17,500 teaching files, over 26,500 cases, over 327 courses/textbooks, and thousands of graphic displays and animations.
• Virtual Hospital, University of Iowa

• WebPath  Archived images of pathological findings associated with human diseases.

  Nutrition Information Sites

• Arbor Nutrition Guide  Searchable, clinical info, food science, etc.
• Diet Analysis  Input what you ate today and see how much of your RDAs you've consumed. More generally a site that allows you to assess the weaknesses of your dietary habits.
• Medicinal Food News
• Nutrition Analysis Tool  Follow the step-by-step process to analyze your foods for specific nutritional content.

• USDA Nutrient Base  Will analyze the complete nutritional content of any food item.

Career Preparation

• Healthcare Employment Resources  Excellent set of links prepared by a hospital administrator.
• MCAT Practice Questions and Answers
• Medical Student Resource Guide  Provides Med students with guides to science tutorials and practice exams, info on how to find a residency programs, USMLE test information and reviews, physical exam summaries, case studies, online journals, medical websites, PubMed, and more.
• Medical Schools and MCAT Information from Princeton Review
• Medi-Match  Matches health care professionals with health care employment opportunities
• Monster.Com: Health Care  Job hunting and career information in health sciences

• RehabWorld  Job postings, information, and links for occupational therapy and physical therapy.

  Drug Information Sites

• Medication Information Index  Guide for laypersons for prescribed purposes, side-effects, drug interactions, storage information, etc., for any medications.
• US Pharmacopeia  Drug Information section contains a searchable and browseable database of descriptions, precautions, and side effects of over 750 generic drugs; medication counseling behavior guidelines and Just Ask!, a set of consumer brochures on proper medicine use, accidental poisoning, and understanding medications.

• Virtual Pharmacy  Contains a reference desk, drug databases, interactive anatomy browsers, genetic maps, and more.

  Health Policy, Law, and Economics Issues

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research  This division of Health and Human Services offers info on outcomes research, medical treatment effectiveness, health technology assessment, clinical practice guidelines, info on health care costs and use, insurance coverage. There are also patient education files on various conditions and treatments.
• Disabilities and Managed Care Page  From the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
• Find Law: Health Law
• Health Economics Resource Page
• Health Law Resource  Deals with topics like confidentiality of patient records, healthcare mergers, patient care ethics, physicians' financial relationships, health care provider transactions, legislation affecting health care businesses and current issues affecting the technology and changing economics of the health care system.
• Health Policy Information  Includes an FAQ file, glossary, backgrounder on the healthcare system and entitlements, updates, needs assessment, and statistical data.
• Intergovernmental Health Policy Project  How individual states are dealing with medical care and financing.
• Milbank Quarterly  Journal of public health and health care policy.
• Multinational Comparisons of Health Care  Summary data.
• Patient Care Issues and Bioethics  Includes articles, congressional testimony, reports, and related links.

Healthcare and Hospital Administration

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research  Prime government source, particularly useful for giving access to the Clinical Practice Guidelines, the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, the Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program, Outcomes Research, and the Health Technology Assessment program.
• American Accreditation Health Care Commission  Sets standards of care for managed health care. In Iowa, compliance with these standards is mandatory.
• American Hospital Association
• AHA News
• American Hospital Directory  Look up hospitals and find their general characteristics, services, financial information, utilization statistics
• America's Top HMOs  From US News and World Report.
• Catholic Health Association of the United States  Deals with public policy, long term care, and other issues, and provides daily news and related links.
• Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
• Disabilities and Managed Care Page  From the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
• HealthCare Administrator' and Recruiters' Guide to the Internet
• Health Care Financing Administration  Resource for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance initiative.
• Health Care News Server  News for professionals in health care, managed care and policy making.
• Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates
• Hospitals and Health Networks  One of the premier trade magazines, with article archive.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Materials Management in Health Care  Monthly trade publication.
• Methodist Health Care Home Page

  Occupational Therapy Sites

• A.O.T.A. Home Page  Professional association;includes OT Bib Sys to search the OT literature.
• Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners  Newsmagazine which also includes job listings, "ask the expert" section, etc.
• Hand Rehab Online  Source for case studies, book reviews, a discussion group, case studies, and, upcoming, an online splint lab.
• Nova Southeastern University
• Occupational Therapist.Com
• Occupational Therapy Assistants and Aides  Nature of the jobs, and the qualifications required for it as described in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• OT Online  Newsletter about the profession.
• OT Online Links  Links from OT Online.   One is a database that indexes and abstracts several major OT publications.

• OT/PT Web Page  School of Occupational Therapy at the University of Puget Sound

Physiology, Biomechanics, Anatomy

• Biomechanics Home Page  Outstanding set of links to ergonomics, motor control, computer simulations, gait and locomotion, muscle action, and more.
• Biomechanics Lab, Johns Hopkins  Lab projects include gait analysis, virtual-reality computer-aided preoperative planning, bone defect modeling, the biomechanics of pitching, etc.
• Human Anatomy Online  Over 100 illustrations of the human body, including animations.
• San Francisco Spine Center  Contains articles, statistical data, outcome studies, and more.

• Visible Human Project

  Statistical Data

• Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates
• National Center for Health Statistics

• Statistical Information in the Health Sciences  Links to all important government data collection sources.

  Women's Health

• JAMA Women's Health Information Center  News articles in JAMA on women's health issues, and more.
• Medscape Women's Health  Journal including research news and peer reviewed articles. National Women's Health Information Center--a gateway to news, frequently asked questions, dictionaries, lots more.
• Women's Health  From the New York Times, offering 29 topics with backfiles of articles about them, as well as an annotated guide to over 100 related sites.

• Women's Health  From the Commonwealth Fund:  Program on Women's Health.

  Other Useful Sites

• Acronyms for Health Information Sources  Tells you what the acronyms stand for (including acronyms for medical journals) and links to relevant web sites when available.
• ALS Association  Information on Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Alternative Medicine Internet Links  Guide to chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, osteopathy, holistic medicine, herbal medicine, and other alternative therapies.
• Brain Disorders Network  Research into neurological, mental, and addictive disorders. Includes for many disorders info on its incidence, diagnosis, accepted treatment, pharmaceutical products, promising research, and ongoing clinical trials.
• Clinical Practice Guidelines  Searchable guide.
• Family Caregiver Alliance  Links to resources and information for the families caring for victims of Alzheimers, stroke and other debilitating long-term illnesses. Fact sheets on the conditions, reading lists, and guides to assistive equipment.
• GeroWeb  From the Institute of Geriatrics at Wayne State University.
• HIV-AIDS Information Center  From the American Medical Association, the latest research, news updates, clinical guidelines, patient education materials, prevention fact sheets and more.
• Macular Degeneration Partnership
• Mental Health Home Page
• MedicineNet  General medical reference desk, including a medical dictionary, drug info, and basic info on diseases and treatments.
• Merck Manual  Full text online companion and always up to date.
• Online Medical Dictionary  Alphabetical arrangement and keyword searchable, with hypertext links within definitions.
• PedBASE  Pediatric database which describes over 500 childhood illnesses, symptoms, treatments,
• Reuters Health News  Current health news stories, backfiled stories, medical web sites, and a "case of the week" to practice your diagnostic skills on.
• Resources in Social Gerontology  Documents, statistics, bibliographies, full texts of research on many aspects of aging: community impact of aging, the elderly and religion, ageism in the workplace, Medicare and the medicalization of old age, stereotyping of the elderly, and much more.
• STDs: the Complete Facts
• US Dept. of Health & Human Services
• Virtual Medical Center  

  Health and Safety Issues

• Alcohol: Problems and Solutions  Information on alcohol abuse, and policy and legal solutions to alcohol abuse-related problems.
• Two Angry Moms   Advocacy group for healthier school lunches
• Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Association
• Ask the Dietitian  Questions about eating disorders, food allergies, sports nutrition, junk food, fad diets, and more, answered here.
• Binge Drinking on Campus  Report from the Harvard School of Health that should worry parents and educators.
• Complete Facts about STDs.
• Dating Violence  From the Center for Disease Control provides information about a problem for both male and female students that is far more commonplace than you might think.
• Drunk Driving Fatalities and Injuries  Data from MADD and the National Highway Transportation Administration. Be careful out there, and think twice about the person who's driving.
• Eating Disorders Shared Awareness  Definitions, warning signs, symptoms, how to approach someone you think has the problem.
• Fast Food Finder  Choose your fast food restaurant, choose your menu item, and find out all the nutritional information on it.
• HandiLinks To Women's Health  Including an "Ask a Woman Doctor" file, an FAQ file, research and more.
• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
• Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse
• Rape Prevention Measures  Guidelines for avoiding rape by acquaintances or strangers.
• Sexual Harassment   The official and legal definition.
• SleepNet  Where to go if you're suffering from sleep deprivation, insomnia or other sleep disorders.