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  • AMA Physician Select
    Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the U.S.

  • Web Health Network (WHN)
    The Web Health Network (WHN) is your source for healthcare provider information. At WHN you can view the personal homepage of any Doctor, Dentist and Alternative Healthcare Practitioner quickly and easily by accessing an easy to use search engine. Find Clinics, Hospitals and Insurance companies too.
  •  Medical Resources USA
    This site features American hospitals, health information and medical links, travel information, and other helpful online resources for international patients seeking medical treatment in the United States.
  • Administration on Aging:   offers numerous brochures, primarily on health topics.
  • AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service :   has detailed information about clinical trials of drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS that are open for  enrollment.  The site also has a database of bibliographical references for journal articles about interim results of HIV/AIDs related clinical trials .
  • BCDC National Clearinghouse Servers: offer useful information about HIV/AIDS and numerous links to other Internet sites about the subject.
  • HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service:  has numerous articles, brochures, and other publications about the treatment of HIV and AIDS.  The site is sponsored by seven U.S. public health service agencies.
  • Combined Health Information Database:
      offers sixteen databases that provide bibliographic information about fact sheets, journal articles, brochures, directories, audiovisuals, videotapes, books, bibliographies, program descriptions, monographs, newsletters, and reports about various diseases and conditions.  The site is a joint effort of the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
  •  Medscape: offers free access to MEDLINE, the bibliographic database prepared by the National Library of Medicine that has nine million citations to articles in biomedical journals.  Medscape also provides free access to two other bibliographical databases developed by the National library of Medicine, the AIDSLINE and the TOXLINE databases.
  • National Library of Medicine:  has  dozens of bibliographies on such topics as prevention strategies for HIV risk behaviors, breast cancer screening in women ages forty through forty-nine, cervical cancer, confidentiality of electronic health data, physical activity and cardiovascular health, chronic pain and insomnia, telemedicine, silicone implants, optimal calcium intake, and ovarian cancer.
  • PubMed retrieval System:  provides free searching of all nine million citations in MEDLINE.
  • CancerNet: which is operated by the National Cancer Institute, offers hundreds of files about prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.  It also has abstracts to recent journal articles about cancer and links to more than two dozen other cancer sites on the Internet.
  • National Cancer Institute:  has details about how to  contact the Cancer information Service, which provides information about cancer to the public and health professionals.
  • Department of Health and Human Services Servers:  primarily provide links to internet sites operated by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and agencies such as Administration on Aging, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of Health, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
  • Mayo Health Clinic: this site, provided by the world-famous Mayo Clinic, strives to be "your source of reliable health information". It is updated daily with all information on the site prepared and reviewed by the Mayo staff.

 

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