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Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
AHCPR was established in 1989, as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services. AHCPR's broad programs of research bring practical, science-based information to medical practitioners and to consumers and other health care purchasers.
Diversity Rx
Promoting language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
Health Info Iowa
HealthInfoIowa is a result of a grant provided by the National Network of Libraries, Greater Midwest Region. The grant provided funds to support access to electronic health information for the public. The Iowa Consumer Health Information Project (ICHIP) manages the grant.
Intelihealth
More than 150 health organizations contribute to this site, including the Harvard Medical School and the National Institutes of Health. The site includes a medical dictionary, a database of disease and condition profiles, and other features, including a "symptom scout."
MDLinx
MDLinx.com, a medical specialists' network, is designed to offer the most current medical news in a particular practice area, to accurately and efficiently search the Web for medical information, and to enable physicians to share and discuss ideas with fellow specialists. MDLinx.com's planned network of 37 specialty sites, is structured so that health care providers can immediately access the specialty areas of most interest to them.
Nursing World
American Nurses Association's home page including Nursing World, Nursing Mall and other member services and reports.
Trauma Information Pages
The Trauma Information Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder), whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. New information is added to this site about once a month.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. The department includes more than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities.
WebMD
WebMD is "a single, secure environment for all communications and transactions among physicians, consumers and healthcare institutions." Topics include finding a physician, current medical news, diet, disease diagnosis and symptoms, etc.
National Library of Medicine
Health Statistics
CancerNet
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
This online copy of the Seventeenth Edition provides and easy to use Table of Contents entry as well as a subject search. Written by over 300 experts, it covers all but the most obscure disorders.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index
RxList is a resource for in-depth drug information covering more than four thousand U.S. products. Each drug entry will contain the following information: description, clinical pharmacology, indications, usage, contraindications, warnings, precautions, drug interactions, adverse reactions, drug abuse and dependence, dosage and administration, and animal pharmacology. The fuzzy logic search engine allows broad searching: drug names, categories, actions, and misspellings.

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