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Aging
Administration on Aging
The Administration on Aging (AoA), an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is one of the nation's largest providers of home- and community-based care for older persons and their caregivers.
Nursing Home Compare
"The primary purpose of this tool is to provide detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. Important Information on Nursing Home Compare and other resources, including the Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home, and Nursing Home Checklist are also available to help you with your nursing home choice." Site created by The United States Department of Health and Human Services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
AIDS
JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center
Alternative medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
A federally-sponsored site which has as its purpose "to "facilitate the evaluation of alternative medical treatment modalities" to determine their effectiveness. The mandate [from Congress] also provides for a public information clearinghouse and a research training program."
Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mission: "to contribute to the informed research and practice of complementary and alternative medicine and to foster the development of a more comprehensive and inclusive medical system"
HerbMed
"An interactive, electronic herbal database – provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public. HerbMed® is a project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc, provided as a freely available, public resource."
HerbalGram
American Botanical Council.
Cancer
Cancernet
Cancernet is provided by the National Cancer Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
American Cancer Society
The ACS page has both provider and patient information.
OncoLink
Cancer information provided by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
Complementary medicine: see Alternative Medicine
Drugs: Prescription
RxList
Technical, mainly physician-oriented information about U.S. pharmaceuticals. Much of the information is similar to package inserts and other public drug information.
FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Drug safety records.
Drugs@FDA
Catalog of FDA approved drug products, can search by drug name or active ingredient for information on that drug, also has downloadable database file
Drugs--Illegal Drug Use/Abuse
National Clearing House for Alcohol & Drug Information
Environment
Environmental Protection Agency
National Center for Environmental Health
Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ethics
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
This citation-orientated resource comprises extensive bibliographies and guides to searching for bioethical literature, including information about searching Grateful Med's free Bioethicsline database.
Codes of Ethics Online: The Index
Index of links to codes of ethics of various professional organizations. Site created by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Ethnicity
American Indian Health
"An Information Portal for and About the Health of Native Peoples of the United States." Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine.
Indian Health Service
"The principal federal health care provider and health advocate for Indian people, and its goal is to assure that comprehensive, culturally acceptable personal and public health services are available and accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native people" A major research service is the Native Health Research Database.
Ethnomed
Medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups
Native Health Databases
"The Native Health Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations."
Race and Health
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services's Initiative to Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Health.
Food safety
FoodSafe Program
Hosted by the University of California at Davis, this site is determined to provide scientific and professional answers to consumer food safety issues. See especially their "Hot Topics" page for information about stories in the news.
Fraud
Quackwatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery and Intelligent Decisions
Obviously opinionated, but contains citations to research on all statements made.
General
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
eMedicine
Food and Drug Administration
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. NGC is an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NGC was originally created by AHRQ in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans (now America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP]).
National Institutes of Health
United States Department of Health & Human Services
World Health Organization
Heart Disease/Health
American Heart Association
This has position statements and full medical information on a wide range of heart aspects, diseases, conditions, and treatments.
Infectious Disease
CIDRAP: Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
Information on infectious disease and public prepardness from the University of Minnesota.
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