Health Guides


www.americanheart.org Official home page for the American Heart Association, this site offers excellent information regarding heart attacks and strokes, from an interactive risk assessment to prevention, treatment and recovery. Also contains information regarding how to show your support through donatations and volunteerism.

www.fda.gov Sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Association, this site has received numerous web related awards for it's content and clarity. Looking for some information in particular? Use the index or the search function.

www.healthfinder.gov A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Healthfinder can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, websites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

www.healthtouch.com Healthtouch Online is a resource that brings together valuable information from trusted health organizations. Contains a vast amount of information on health issues, as well as a drugs and pharmacies.

www.healthweb.org HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in meeting their health information needs.

www.meds.com Medicine OnLine, published by UltiTech, Inc. of Stratford, CT., offers medical information and education in oncology, Medline literature searches, Daily Oncology News Digest, Cancer Forums discussion groups, and reports from medical meetings in Conrad Notes for health care professionals, patients, and other interested consumers

www.medscape.com Provides access to several medical areas such as the clinical management series, practice guidelines, treatment updates, journal scans, full journals, conference summaries and schedules, patient resources, and more. And if you can't find what you're looking for, use the search options to perform simple or advanced searches on full-text articles, MEDLINE, the World Wide Web, or any of Medscape's nine databases.

www.oncolink.upenn.edu/specialty Through OncoLink you can get comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances. The information is updated daily and is provided at various levels, from introductory to in-depth.You may begin your search with a guided tour or go on your own.