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For your questions about information
on traditional medicine, alternative medicine, pharmaceuticals,
medical research, environmental health, support groups
for health conditions, treatments, therapies, and much,
much, more.
MedlinePlus
Contains health information
for 750 medical conditions, a medical dictionary and
encyclopedia, information on prescription drugs, over
to counter medications, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
The feature allows you to search by either disease or
by symptoms. Note: If you find an abstract for
a journal article you may request a free copy of the
full article by Interlibrary Loan.
There are links to find doctors, dentists, and eye doctors
either on the local or national level. The “Go
Local” link to Vermont allows you to search for
medical providers local or statewide. If you
are looking for support groups, you can find contact
information for hundreds of groups which would welcome
your participation.
You can link to thousands of clinical test trials for
either enrollment information or results. Perhaps most
impressive you can view video of many surgical procedures!
The National Cancer Institute
T he principal agency for cancer
research and is part of the National Institutes of Health.
The site provides information on cancer topics including
news, clinical trials, statistics, research and funding.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC focuses on issues of public
health. The site contains information on disease, environmental
health, workplace safety, and contagious diseases.
Drugdigest.org
One of the best free internet
sites for information on pharmaceuticals, interactions
and herbal medicines. It includes photographs of medications.
The
American Academy of Family Physicians site’s
information is written and reviewed by physicians and
patient education professionals.
nihseniorhealth.gov
This portion of the National
Institutes of Health site for health information is
formatted for seniors and others who might have visual
or reading difficulties. Special capabilities on this
site includes the ability of change the text size, the
contrast, and turning on “speech” to listen
to the information.
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