Health Resources Subject Guide

"Top Ten most Useful Websites" (listed alphabetically not ranked order) from the Medical Library Association.  

Doctor Search : includes doctor's education, location, certifications, legal actions etc. and Hospital Search for information about hospitals in New York State, and the quality of care they provide. (Source: NYS Department of Health) - See also How to evaluate health information on the web - from The National Library of Medicine.

• Acronyms for Health Information

• Adult Patient Health Topics Contains Wellness and Drugs information in English and Spanish © 1992-2003 the Author(s) and The University of Iowa.

• Advance Directives Subject Guide

• Alzheimer's Disease www.alzheimers.org

• BioMed © 1992-2003 Free A-Z Journals or choose by subject for a complete listing.

• Children:  The Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University

• Cancer

  • American Cancer Society

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology ©Copyright 2002

  • CancerLinks

  • National Cancer Institute

• Complementary & Alternative Medicine - National Institute on Health 

• Drug Information from MEDLINEplus: " Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster™^†, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® ^‡, a product of the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP)."
• End of Life Care, Advance Directives - Department of Health and Human Services 
• Federal Health Information Centers & Clearinghouses form the National Health Information Center
• Food Pyramid
• General Family Health www.familydoctor.org
• Global Health from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Grey Literature in Health Policy & Public Health fields (non-commercial publications)
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Health Education and Sexuality  
• Health Finder - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Health & Medicine Wellness
• Health Sciences Library at SUNY Buffalo
• Health Web - "....is a collaborative effort of more than twenty health sciences libraries to provide access to selective, evaluated Internet-accessible resources."
• Holistic Health

• Mayo Clinic - Informs on health & diseases, drugs, cancer & healthy living.

• Medical Encyclopedia

• Medical Resources Subject Guide  

• Medline Plus Health Information includes Health-related Disorders

• Mental Health ©1998-2004 and Mental Health Disorders © 1995-2003 by Phillip W. Long, M.D.- - anxiety, adjustment, childhood, cognitive, eating, mood, personality disorders, post-partum, neurological.

  • See also  

• American Psychological Association - - browse their sitemap for related topics.
• Internet Mental Health 
• Mental Health Screening Inc. alcohol, anxiety, depression, drugs, suicide.
• Psych Web-- includes a self & social test; altered states including self-hypnosis & other goodies. 
• Psychology Resources Page

• Merck Manual - - medical information  for Health-care professionals. See Also "Other Databases" found on the NLM/NIH Database page

• Multicultural Health©  Georgia State University Department of Anthropology

• Multiple Sclerosis www.nmss.org
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
• National Center for Health Statistics from the CDC (Center for Disease Control)

• National Institutes on Health

• National Women's Health Information Center. From the US Department of Health and Human Services. This website and toll-free call center was created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.

• Neurological Disorder Resources - - Autism, Bipolar, Fetal Alcohol, Tourette's Syndrome etc.This site is maintained by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D. chudler@u.washington.edu

• Nursing Page Subject Guide 

• Palliative Care Palliative care is the support of people who are suffering from an illness from which no cure can be anticipated. 
• Patient Inform.org "is a free online service that provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases."
• Public Health Links (from SUNYAB Health Sciences Library) 
• PubMed from the National Library of Medicine, has 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's, full text articles and related resources.
• Rare Diseases and Terms for rare diseases from the National Library of Medicine
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States. 
• Virtual Hospital is s digital library with hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
• Women and Health © 2000, National Association for Women's Health
• World Health Organization
• Word! A Glossary of Medical Words for kids (Nemours Foundation) or click on Children's Health, Children's Page, and Infant and Toddler Health.from the Health Topicpage and then select Dictionaries/Glossaries .