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Medical Information: Links to sites to help you find a variety of medical Information
This SubCategory of Links last updated on 01/26/2006
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| Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center - ADEAR - A Service of the National Institute on Aging - NIA
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General information, treatment and research of Alzheimer's Disease.
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| BMI - Body Mass Index: Introduction | DNPA | CDC
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Body Mass Calculator from the CDC. BMI stands for Body Mass Index. It is a number that shows body weight adjusted for height. BMI can be calculated with simple math using inches and pounds, or meters and kilograms. For adults aged 20 years or older, BMI falls into one of these categories: underweight, normal, overweight, or obese.
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| Complete Home Medical Guide
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A comprehensive home reference that teaches you about your body in sickness and health, presented by The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Also included in the appendixes are a glossary of common terms, an updated and greatly expanded directory of health organizations and resources, and a listing of regional poison control centers. Finally, you will find convenient forms you can use to keep your own family medical records.
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| Consumer Drug Info
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Welcome to the Consumer Drug Information page. Each of the Consumer Drug Information Sheets posted on this site gives general information about newlyapproved prescription drugs. Only information about drugs approved since January 1998 appears on this page. Since these drugs are newly approved, they may not yet be on the market. For more information on drug availability, please check with your physician, pharmacist or other health care provider.
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| Diagnostic Tests ? The Family Health Guide
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What do you have to do to prepare for a MRI? Will having a liver biopsy be painful? Will I need to do anything special afterward? How soon will it be safe to go home after a cardiac catheterization and what are the risks? How soon will the results of that antibody test be back? This site by Havard Medical School provides information on diagnostic tests on many medical procedures from simple throat cultures to bone marrow biopsies.
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| familydoctor.org
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Health information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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| Genome Projects - The Institute for Genomic Research
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Founded in 1992, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a not-for-profit research institute whose primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms including viruses, eubacteria (both pathogens and non-pathogens, archaea (the so-called third domain of life), and eukaryotes (plants, animals, fungi and protists such as the malarial parasite).
TIGR's Genome Projects are a collection of curated databases containing DNA and protein sequence, gene expression, cellular role, protein family, and taxonomic data for microbes, plants and humans.
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| Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
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Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body
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| Hospitals Worldwide - Hospitals Search
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Worldwide hospital database, search by country or keyword
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| Human Anatomy Online - InnerBody.com
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Welcome to Human Anatomy On-line the place for fun, interactive and educational views of the human body.
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| InteliHealth.com
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InteliHealth's expert editors "consumerize" health information to make it accessible to the widest possible audience. To promote quality, health information developed by InteliHealth is reviewed and approved by leading medical experts.
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| KidsHealth - the Web?s most visited site about children?s health
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This site delivers doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, this resource provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use.
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| Long Term Care and Long Term Care Insurance - Free LTC Quote and Insider's Guide
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We offer an abundance of Long Term Care Information and Resources, Free Long Term Care quotes, Free Long Term Care Insurance Insider's Guide. You may need long term care insurance and we can help. LTC Articles, LTC Interviews, LTC Discussion Board, LTC Resource Center
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| MayoClinic.com - Medical and health information for a healthier life from Mayo Clinic
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Mayo Clinic's award-winning consumer Web site offering health and medical information, news and self-improvement and disease management tools. Mayo Clinic's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge of Mayo Clinic for all your consumer health information - nutrition, cancer, diabetes, mental health, children, drugs - related to medicine and illness and diseases.
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| MedicineNet.com - Medical References - First Aid Index
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First Aid Reference - MedicineNet 100% Doctor produced healthcare information written for you to make informed decisions about your health concerns
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| MedlinePlus: Medical Encyclopedia
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The Adam 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.
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| Medscape Health
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The premier source of health information on the Web gives you expert advice on family wellness, weight and diets, heart health, fitness, cancer, doctors, sex and AIDS, pregnancy, drugs and much more.
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| MedTerms.com - Medical References
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Free, 100% doctor-produced e-encyclopedic medical dictionary designed to be of use to everyone concerned about health.
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| National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health
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National Eye Institute?s Web site; topics covered include eye health, eye research, eye safety, eye diseases, vision, vision research, and vision disorders
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| National Human Genome Research Institute - Home Page
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Home page of the National Human Genome Research Institute, the arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health dedicated to advancing human health through genetic research.
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| Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World
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Research and articles on the three best-known human senses: vision, hearing and smelling. Learn how humans see, how we hear and how we smell. From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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| The Common Cold
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A comprehensive source of information on the common cold that facilitates informed decisions about cold prevention and treatment.
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| U.S. National Library of Medicine
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology.
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| Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure, NHLBI
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This site, for people who want to learn about preventing and controlling high blood pressure. Based clinical guidelines and research studies, it provides up-to-date practical information on high blood pressure.
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| YourSurgery.Com
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The goal of this site is to educate the average individual by providing a comprehensive library of surgical procedures presented in an easy to understand format. Designed to be an additional and complementary source of information to a doctor?s care, the site provides a basis for the patient to generate questions for his/her personal surgeon, and acts as a resource for physicians with which to educate their patients. Equipped with simple diagrams and state of the art animation, site is a resource for patients and their families, physicians and students.
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