Mountain Region Family Medicine Selected Links to Information on the Internet

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The Internet is rich with resources and information about health. Some is helpful and some is misleading and potentially harmful. This page has links to sites felt to be reputable or providing useful information. We hope these links will help you find the specific drug or disease or treatment information you are looking for more quickly. Please bear in mind the following guidelines for judging the content of any information you find on the Internet:
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Merck Medicus
This is the best place to find information on a specific disease, and is a free service provided by Merck & Co. Inc., a pharmaceutical company. It includes the Merk Manual, a sort of "Readers Digest" of medical textbooks; patient handouts for many diseases; and Dr. Pen, a pointer to other websites for patient information on diseases. When you enter the Merck site, click on the "Patient Resources" tab to see these and others listed.
Medline Plus
Super site by the National Library of Medicine - a good place to start for investigating medical questions
CancerNet
The National Cancer Institute's site for cancer information
HealthFinder
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) site of pointers to other sites with medical information they find useful
CDC
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) site is especially useful for obtaining health related travel information.
National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine offers Medline, the index and abstracts of all medical research journals in the world (just about).
National Health Information Center
The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.
American Psychiatric Association
An authoritative site on psychiatric and mental illness. Includes information sheets on many topics, but not as many topics as the less authoritative site, Mental Health, by an individual Canadian Dr. Phillip W. Long, M.D.
HCFA
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Programs.
Medical Tribune
The Medical Tribune News Service provides daily electronic transmission of consumer-oriented articles pertinent to healthcare.
HealthAnswers.COM
is a commercial site of medical information, but seems to have responsible and useful information.
Pediatric Database
This Pediatric Database was designed by Dr. Alan Gandy (MD.,PhD.,FRCP(C)) while enrolled in the Pediatric Residency Programme at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada from 1990-1994.
HealthAtoZ
HealthAtoZ is a comprehensive, well-integrated health and medical resource developed by healthcare professionals.
Salud.com
Has medical information in Spanish.
Wesley's Doctor Place
is Dr. Eastridge's own website, geared for doctors to use, but with lots of links to other sites.

Special link: The Dirty Rotten Liver Blues, by Haley Vincent

(Dr.Vincent's daughter Haley touched us with her smiles, courage and her special song.)

 

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