PlaneTree Health Library/General Medicine

General Medicine

A.D.A.M.Medical Encyclopedia: This health illustrated encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Can be accessed through MEDLINEplus.

Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America: Provides basic information on asthma and allergy in written and streaming video form. Also provides information on clinical trials for therapies.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Get up-to-date public health information on ommunicable diseases (e.g. hepatitis, AIDS, tuberculosis, etc.). Invaluable information can be obtained from the Traveler's Healthsection including travel advisories for specific geographic regions,diseases outbreaks, risks and prevention strategies, plus immunization recommendations. Also provides full-text access to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a weekly publication reviewing current reports on communicable disease.

Consumer Product Safety Commission Home Page: The Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent U.S. Federal regulatory agency, works to reduce the risks of injury or death from consumer products by issuing and maintaining safety standards, educating the public, issuing recalls for dangerous products, and performing research.

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics; "MeSH Classified" Resources on Internet: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), is the US National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used to index and catalog bibliographic and other types of biomedical information material.

familydoctor.org: This Web site is operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Information on a large number of health related topics. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.

Health Central: This is a comprehensive consumer health site with information on topics from A-Z, discussion centers, and the online advice of Dr. Dean Edell. Other features include personalized health profiles and advice about finding and using health information from an online librarian, Rochelle Perrine Schmalz, the founding medical librarian of the first PlaneTree Health Resource Center, which opened in 1981.

Health World: A colorful and healthful world is mapped out on this site offering both alternative and conventional medical information - including text on self-care approaches on common problems excerpts from the classic Nutritional Influences on Illness, audio readings from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and links to the Merck Manual and Medline. Many of the advisory board and authors on this site are leaders in the fields of consumer health and complementary medicine. This site also provides a fee-based Internet search service ($50/hr.) that reviews web-sites and includes a brief Medline search on a topic.

HealthWeb: Provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Their selection policy emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in solving their information problems.

healthfinder: The online consumer health information web site produced by the Federal government's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The site offers user-friendly access to its original material (basic information such as fact sheets and frequently-asked-questions on top health concerns), and hyperlinks to Federal, state, local, university and nonprofit consumer health resources, links to online documents, discussion groups, electronic mail lists, and federally sponsored databases.

Healthier US: U.S. government site with plentiful information on fitness. Also, has a list of links to other government fitness sites.

HealthTouch Online for Better Health: An extensive list of specialty and disease categorized single page patient education documents derived from professional and government organizations. In the Health Information Section, find up-to-date information on health, wellness, diseases, and illnesses. Other sections include: Drug Information Pharmacy Search Health Resource Directory and Product Information.

InteliHealth: InteliHealth is a media company formed as a joint venture between Aetna U.S. HealthcareTM and the Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Harvard Medical School and University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. InteliHealth is a subsidiary of Aetna U.S. Healthcare and InteliHealth is funded by Aetna U.S. Healthcare to the extent not funded by revenues from operations. The information is drawn from reliable branded sources. All information and products on the site are looked at by a team of top medical experts before inclusion, to ensure reliability.

iVillage Health and Well Being: Provides medical information not only for women but on a broad variety of medical conditions.

Mayo Clinic.Com: Offers a wealth of easy-to-understand information on health and medical topics. New material is added every workday, allreviewed for accuracy by Mayo Clinic experts.

Med Help International: Use the Search engine to locate conditions. Patients can ask questions of doctors -- unlike some "ask the doctor" sites, this one meets high standards -- HON Code approved.

medem.com: This set of resources are produced by some of the nation's leading medical societies, including the American Medical Association. Medem's Medical Library has a full range of patient education information.

MEDLINEplus: From the U.S. National Library of Medicine - this one-stop site contains many links to information published by government agencies about different health conditions and links to organizations, directories, dictionaries, and clearinghouses. MEDLINEplus also provides access to PubMed the world's largest database of medical literature.

Medscape: This site contains feature articles for health care professionals, patients, and families; and links to related clinical information. Access is free, but a one-time registration is required. They offer free Medline access and some access to full text journals. Updated weekly; email notification of updates is also available.

MedWeb: MedWeb is a catalog of health related web sites maintained by the Emory University Health Sciences Center Library to provide access to biomedical information to improve education, research and patient care. There is a search box, a "Browse by Subject" link, and a health topics list under Consumer Health.

National Health Information Center: Provides the Health Information Resource Database listing over 1000 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. This site also contains synopses from the annual Partnership for Networked Consumer Health Information conference -- great to review for new health information delivery projects.

NetWellness: NetWellness is a Web-based consumer health information service developed by the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with many partners. The medical centers at Case Western Reserve University and The Ohio State University collaborate with the University of Cincinnati to provide the most current and accurate health information.; Anyone with a connection to the World Wide Web can access NetWellness. However, some resources are commercially licensed for specific locations and may be used only from those locations. You can recognize such resources by the statement: "Available only at authorized locations. "Clicking on "authorized locations" gives you a list of sites where you can gain access to the full suite of NetWellness resources.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health: New York Online Access to Health is a unique collection of state, local and federal resources selected by editors with consumers in mind. Searchers may select from a list of Health Topics which are then narrowed to include definitions, care and treatment, and lists of information resources. Many bilingual resources. Includes a Spanish list of resources.

Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults: A U.S. government booklet providing lots of advice on basic health maintenance.

PubMed (previously known as MEDLINE): Is the world's largest database of professional medical literature. It contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Search aids like keyword, subject and related subject searching are provided as well as the ability link to "related articles" when you find an article on your topic. The database also includes citations and abstracts about health care administration, health organizations, and history of medicine databases, plus older records of MEDLINE.
: While PubMed only gives you abstracts of articles, you can order the full-text of the article through PlaneTree for an average cost of $5.00.

Third Age: A site for older adults (the third age follows youth and the middle age) offering an online community for exploration of health and lifestyle issues through web site resources, community forums, chat rooms, personal stories and their own archives. Contains a marketplace of retail items (from books and cards to the gourmet items) and services (travel services, classifieds, real estate).

U.S. Food and Drug dministration: Find out safety information for drugs (for human and animal use), cosmetics, food products, and medical andradiological devices.Free full-text of FDA Consumer magazine articles is available on the site (from 1995) and under the Health Professionals section you can access the Bad Bug Book (offering basic facts on food borne pathogenic organisms and natural toxins).The FDA Web Site Index is easy to use and interesting to browse. Check under "Web sites" for interesting links to selectednon-government sites.

Your Disease Risk: You can find out your risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, or stroke and get personalized tips for preventing them.