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Achoo: Internet Health Care Directory: Searchable catalogue of health care resources providing material on alternative medicine, diseases and conditions, exercise and fitness, and nutrition.
Author: MNI Systems
Subjects: health care, health economics, health links
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: index
American Podiatric Medical Association: APMA is a professional organisation which represents American doctors of podiatric medicine. Resources relate to information on various foot disorders and cover diabetes and heel pain, and sports medicine, as well as a list of foot care tips, and a self assessment quiz. An FAQ, news articles, and access to the association's journal, JAPMA, which is fully searchable and offers full text retrieval for many articles, is also provided.
Author: American Podiatric Medical Association
Subjects: health links, health promotion
DeweyClass: 617.585
Resource type: reference data
BONES: Biomedically Oriented Navigator of Electronic Services: Health sciences information for researchers, educators, students, and librarians.
Author: Ohio State University
Subjects: biomedicine, health links
DeweyClass: 610.28
Resource type: index
British National Corpus: A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
Author: Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit
Subjects: english language research, health links, health services, humanities research, text collections
DeweyClass: 001.3
Resource type: book collection, directory
Complementary and Natural Health Directory: Descriptions of numerous complementary and holistic health treatments and details of relevant organisations.
Author: InterConnections
Subjects: alternative medicine, health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: documents
Global Health Network: Links to health information including: international, national, regional, local and non-governmental health organisations; global medical resources, guides to and selected full text of electronic publications; specialised home pages; listings of selected meetings; health networks; available grants and position opportunities, and a listing of selected GHN publications.
Author: University of Pittsburgh
Subjects: global health, health links
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: documents, index
Hardin MD: Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources: List of lists which gives access to comprehensive resource lists in health related subjects. It includes subject listings in large sites such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists.
Author: University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: index
Health Library: Gateway to resources on traditional and alternative medicine including informative web-sites and tips on healthy cooking, and wine making and drinking.
Author: Tech Systems
Subjects: health links, health promotion
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: service
Health on the Net: The purpose of the Health on the Net Foundation is to advance the development and application of new information technologies, notably in the fields of health and medicine. Offers a database of medical sites, hospitals and support services.
Author: Health on the Net Foundation
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: index
Health Science Resources on the Web: Offers a selection of annotated links to health science resources. Listings cover categories such as associations and societies, clinical medicine resources, libraries and catalogues, medical education, research and funding, and evidence-based healthcare.
Author: McGill University Health Sciences Library and Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: index
healthfinder.gov: Healthfinder.gov is coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and its National Health Information Center. Contains information and tools to promote consumer health and prevent disease, with an A-Z encyclopaedia, a quick guide to healthy living, a news section and an interactive health advice feature offering personalised recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Author: US Department of Health and Human Services
Subjects: health links, medical guides
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: documents, interactive guide, moving images, sounds
HealthSites: Provides a searchable collection of annotated links relating to healthcare. Users can select whether to view information, which is divided into categories headed news, medical conditions, national and international health organisations, helplines and patient leaflets, local services, complimentary medicine, and search engines and databases, either from a doctor or patient perspective.
Author: Underwood, Trevor
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: index
HealthWeb: HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the Web selected by librarians and information professionals at academic medical centres in the US Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers.
Author: HealthWeb
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: index
IHP Resource Links: Home pages of health related international and US Agencies. Includes links to major gateways, health reference sources, education resources and information on health management and informatics.
Author: Interfaith Health Program
Subjects: health economics, health links
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: index
Intute: Subject based directory of Internet resources for education and research. Main headings include arts and humanities, health and life sciences, science and technology, and social sciences.
Author: Intute
Subjects: health links, humanities links, internet resource directories, science links, social science links
DeweyClass: 025.04
Resource type: index
Intute: health and life sciences: Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to health and life sciences.
Author: Intute
Subjects: agriculture links, forestry, health links, medical links, natural history, nursing, veterinary science
DeweyClass: 570
Resource type: index
Martindale's Health Science Guide: Contains details of over 60000 teaching files, 129000 medical cases, 1100 courses or textbooks; 1500 multimedia tutorials, 3700 databases, and 10600 movies on health and medicine related topics.
Author: Martindale, Jim
Subjects: health links, medical education
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: index
Medical Search Tools: Links to over 30 searchable medical directories and services, including ACHOO, Medical Matrix, Reuters Health and The Virtual Hospital.
Author: Worldwide Nurse
Subjects: health links, medical links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: index
NAMS: North American Menopause Society: Founded in 1989 the NAMS's main aim is to promote the understanding and raise awareness of various issues relating to menopause and women's health. Full text surveys, abstracts of the journal Menopause, news, facts, and statistical information are available. Additional online resources have been evaluated by the NAMS and are grouped into categories, which include government, educational institutions, and nonprofit and commercial organisations.
Author: North American Menopause Society
Subjects: health links, women's issues
DeweyClass: 612.6
Resource type: documents
NHS Gateway: Provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about the NHS and general health issues, offering access to a range of health related Web resources.
Author: Department of Health
Subjects: health links, health services
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: directory
Patient UK: Collection of information about health issues for non-medical users. Includes an alphabetical index of terms with links to associated resources. Also provides listings of terms under broad subject areas such as child, eye, and dental health. Collection is keyword searchable.
Author: Kenny, Tim & Kenny, Beverley
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: index
Trawling the Net: Selected links with descriptions to over 30 online databases of interest to UK National Health Service staff which are available without subscription.
Author: Booth, Andrew
Subjects: health links
DeweyClass: 610
Resource type: document