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Alternative Medicine

Yahoo! Health - Alternative Medicine

This provides access to information on various forms of alternative medicine including acupuncture, homeotherapy, massage therapy and yoga. Yahoo! Health is an excellent online directory of resources.

Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center

Alternative & Complementary Medicine Center is one of the most comprehensive global health networks on the Internet. Also included at this site is a guide to understanding alternative medicine.

National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine

This superior site provides a searchable database or browse an index consisting of approximately 180,000 bibliographic citations from 1963 to 1998, obtained from the National Library of Medicine's Medline database.

Health

Health Answers

Health Answers is a conglomeration of health information that ranges from answers to commonly asked questions about health to a drug finder that provides reports on drug uses. This is a first rate site to finding health information.

Onhealth

This site provides ideas and inspiration about wellness, health and medicine for the individual. A great place to find answers to everyday health questions.

Health Finder

Health Finder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HealthFinder(r) can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public

InteliHealth

Established in 1996, InteliHealth has become one of the leading health information companies in the world. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth's online and offline ventures, including the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, major non-profits, other publishers and news media. This site serves as home to Johns Hopkins health information.

Directory of Health Organizations

This directory is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. This is a great place to find what you are looking for.

Medicine & Nursing

AIDSLINE

"AIDSLINE is an online computer file containing references to the published literature on HIV infections and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It focuses on the biomedical, epidemiological, health care administration, oncologic, and social and behavioral sciences' literature. The file contains citations (with abstracts if available) to journal articles, meeting abstracts and papers, government reports theses and newspaper articles from 1980 to the present."

Medical Subject Headings

This site "comprises NLM's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles, for cataloging books and other holdings, and for searching MeSH-indexed databases, including MEDLINE. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts."

PubMed

"PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals." This site is best used by students medical and health professions and medical professionals.

CancerLit

CancerLit is "a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.3 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years and contains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from 1963 to the present. CANCERLIT is updated with more than 8,000 records every month."

UK Medical Center Library

This site provides links to information resources covering subjects from AIDS to Women's Health. This is a good way to find medical information by topic.

Nursing & Health Professions Internet Directory

This site serves as an Internet directory to information on nursing and related health care professions. This is a first class site.

Nursing and Health Care

This site provides Internet resources for nursing. An excellent site for those in allied health.

American Holistic Nurses' Association-AHNA

The AHNA's website provides a support system and communication network for holistic nurses as well as links to education, certification, and program opportunities for holistic nurses.

last updated: 1/10/01