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Health

Locating a Doctor, Dentist or Hospital
  • American Hospital Directory
  • American Medical Association: Doctor finder
  • American Dental Association: Patient/Consumer Resources
  • new itemNYS Hospital Quality Indicators
  • New York State Dept. of Health: Professional Misconduct and Physician Discipline
  • New York State Physician Profile: after locating name, click on "Education", etc. for more information
  • State Health Facts online: New York  (health demographics)
  •  U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services Hospital Compare:  a quality tool for adults, including people with Medicare

    • Health information
  • Agency for health care policy & research: Consumer Health
  • CancerNet
  • CAPHIS: Consumer & Patient Health Information Section: web sites you can trust
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Chemical Scorecard: Pollutants in our area
  • Deciphering MedSpeak: medical terms for the layperson
  • DisabilityInfo.gov
  • DiscoveryHealth: health information from the Discovery Channel
  • Dr. Koop's Community
  • New York State Department of Health Consumer Information
  • FitnessLink
  •  Flu shots: Adult Immunization Campaign (From NY State)
  • New itemHHS.gov:  List of Codes for certain Designated Health Services (Medicare/Medicaid)
  •  Healthfinder
  • InteliHealth: Johns-Hopkins Health Information
  • LabTestsOnline.org
  • Mayo Clinic: First Aid
  • Medicare: the Official U.S. government site for Medicare information
  • Medline (through National Library of Medicine)
  • Medscape
  • Merck Manual Home Edition
  • National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NIH)
  • National Center for Health Statistics
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • NOAH: New York Online Access to Health  (in English and Spanish)
  • Nursing Home Compare : provides detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country
  • Nutrition.gov: easy access to all federal government information on nutrition, diets, etc.
  • PatientINFORM: easy access to full-text journal articles on medical issues
  • new itemUp to Date for Patients
  • Virtual Hospital  (University of Iowa) :  click on For Patients
  • Virtual Children's Hospital (University of Iowa): information on Children's Health topics
  • WebMD
  • Whonamedit? : the World's most comprehensive dictionary of medical eponyms
  • Your health daily: articles on healthcare topics

    • Complimentary and Alternative Medicine
  • Alt-Health Watch:  HW cardholders access through EbscoHost subscription database
  • HerbMed: scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health (Alternative Medicine Foundation)
  • NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (in English and Spanish)

    • Prescription Drugs
  • HealthNet.com: prescription drug index 
  • RxList: The Internet drug index

    • Medical History
  • MedHist: the guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet



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