Web-Medicine
Try these Caring Family approved sites!
- Consumer reports health info: http://www.consumerreports.org/health/ Interesting general info and "pitching quite a few publications for sale"
- Harvard Health Publications: http://www.health.harvard.edu/hhp/index.jsp They will also try to pitch their monthly letters which are quite well written. You may get partway through an article and be required to pay for the rest.
- Johns Hopkins Health after 50: http://www.hopkinsafter50.com/ Lots of well written articles on subjects and pitching their books too.
- Mayo Clinic's "the best" site for all: http://www.mayoclinic.com/ Packed full of awesome, patient oriented literature- even recipes!!
- American Heart Association- a very nice non-commercial site http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000
- What an incredibly awesome site!! http://www.kinderstart.com Not hard core science but well written and practical kids advice Kids growth charts http://www.halls.md/chart/child-growth/pediatric.htm For those who want to have their own growth chart at home!
- Virtual Children's Hospital http://www.vh.org/pediatric/ Great wealth of information without advertising or hype.
- American Board of Pediatrics http://www.abp.org/ Confirm that your doctor is board certified (we all are!!)
- Music to uplift you http://www.cyberhymnal.org Okay- not a medical site- but don't you need a break?
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Aetna bought the
InteliHealth site from Harvard http://www.intelihealth.com
Full of great information from Harvard Medical School, ad- free (save Aetna)
- Dr. Giese's site with other links and tons of information!!! http://www.myhealth.com/myDoctor/indexB.jsp?WSID=246025&ST=73&preview=false
- Dr. Green's pediatrics site with more original information from down under http://www.drgreene.com/
- Internal Medicine newspaper http://www2.einternalmedicinenews.com Very medical-oriented. if so inclined see what we read.
- Maryland General Hospital's great site with a "toggle switch" for Spanish translation http://www.marylandgeneralhospital.com/ency/index.html
- Spanish medical encyclopedia http://www.marylandgeneralhospital.com/esp_ency/index.html
- New England journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/ The most trusted weekly journal has some material viewable for free.
- National Diabetes & Digestive http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/health.htm From the National Institute of Health- good nutrition, dieting and diabetes info
- National Institute of Health Cancer site https://cissecure.nci.nih.gov/ncipubs/ Very good articles written to lay people. in Spanish as well
- National Cancer Institute http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/ Incredible amount of information here!! All meat but written for patients.
- National Organization "Healthfinder" http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/ Incredibly comprehensive site also available in Spanish
- National Institute of Health http://health.nih.gov/ You paid for it- here it is- tons of health information- ad-free
- Medem Medical Library http://www.medem.com/MedLB/medlib_entry.cfm?sid=103AF635-C640-11D4-8C0100508BF1C1F1&site_name=Medem great site used by the AMA
- Pregnancy guide week by week!! http://www.pregnancyguideonline.com/
- Kids Health http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/
- A well-endowed foundation brings a lot of great parenting info to you ad-free Fast-food nutrition calculator http://www.olen.com/food/ Okay this is an awesome resource for someone to doing a lecture on nutrition
- WebMD newsletter-style http://my.webmd.com/webmd_today/home/default More commercials in this than a sitcom- but well-written and interesting info
- Dr. Koop (ex-surgeon general) still has a site! http://www.drkoop.com/ Chock-full of advertisements but very nicely written and laid-out
- American Academy of Family Physicians' site http://familydoctor.org/ Great non-commercial site with lots of great information.
- University of Iowa's Health Sciences http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ Comprehensive site for a serious researcher- links to free journal articles!!
- Health Guide to web sites http://www.emedical.com.au/default.asp?PageId=21
- From our friends down-under (Australia)- fascinating ratings by MD's of various sites http://www.fmnetguide.com/vo1iss1/medsites.html Our own country's guide to web sites for finding great medical information