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CDC Health Topics A-Z http://www.cdc.gov/az/a.html
The CDC A-Z Index lists topics with relevance to a broad cross-section of CDC.gov’s audiences. The items are representative of popular topics, frequent inquiries, or have critical importance to CDC’s public health mission. The index will continue to evolve as additional topics are added. There is a subset of Diseases and Conditions A-Z also.

Intelihealth http://www.intelihealth.com/
This comprehensive site is associated with Harvard Medical school and has lots of resources including Adult Health, Pediatrics, Allergy, Nutrition, Fitness, and more; Ask-the-Doc: searchable answers to thousands of questions; Medications: a drug database - the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, including (when available) educational leaflets, photographs of pills, and information from medicine charts that show dosage variations; and even more information from the National Institutes of Health and the National Health Council.

Nutrition.gov http://www.nutrition.gov

A service of the National Agricultural Library, USDA. This searchable site includes information about nutitrion, foods, and a very helpful page on dietary supplements.

PDR.net for Consumers http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/index.html
The main sections of this resource are Disease Overviews, Treatment Options, Drug Information and Clinical Trials. Disease overviews are listed by category The treatment options section focuses on cancer, heart and lung diseases. Drugs can be searched by keyword or by browsing lists. Clinical trials offers information on what they are and where to find them.

The Virtual Body http://www.medtropolis.com/
This site requires Shockwave technology. This is an interactive presentation of four parts of the human body: brain, digestive system, heart and skeleton.







Web MD http://www.webmd.com/
This site provides credible information, supportive communities, and in-depth reference material about health subjects. Good source for original and timely health information as well as material from well known content providers.

Medical Device Recalls http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfTopic/medicaldevicesafety/recalls.cfm
This site, from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, explains about Medical Device recalls, and lists recalls for the last two years.

Medicine Online http://www.medicineonline.net/
Full service medical site with health topics, hospital and physician search, and medical references. Users can sign up for a monthly newsletter. Topics are logically arranged in a left hand menu bar.

MEDLINEplus http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
This directory site is designed to lead the user to resources containing information that will help with researching their health questions. It includes information from MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, medical dictionaries, directories of doctors and hospitals, access to National Institute of Health consumer-related organizations, clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and a search databases section with dozens of databases on topics such as clinical trials, nutrition, AIDS, cancer, etc. Has 2 drug dictionaries to look up medications. Also has a Spanish versions and for some states a Go Local search to find resources locally.

American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) http://www.abms.org/
See the Certified Doctor Verification Service, which tells whether a doctor is certified by one of the 24 approved medical specialty boards in the United States. Can be more up-to-date than the print version, the Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.

DocFinderPlus http://www.docfinderplus.com/
Search for U.S. doctors by state, metro area or zip code, and name. You can further limit the search by specialty, hospital, and HMO. This database is a "product of National Physicians DataSource LLC (NPDS), publishers of The Little Blue Book."

Medical Board of California http://www.medbd.ca.gov/
Use this site to determine if your doctor is licensed to practice in the state, and if they are certified in their specialty. Also has information on how to choose a doctor.

Physician Select - AMA Online Doctor Finder http://webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html
AMA's searchable database contains credential information on all US licensed physicians. Contains over 690,000 MDs and Doctors of Osteopathy, searchable by physician's name and state, or any of over 30 medical specialties and state. See also the Reference Library leads to information on about 20 medical conditions, from asthma to migraines to strokes.