Medicine and Health

General Medical Reference
General Information | Databases |
Electronic Resources (Subscription Databases) |
Reference: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | Online Journals (most are free) |

Clinical Trials | Consumer Health Info |
Health Insurance Data | Health Statistics | Lab Tests |
Occupation/ Profession Information | Organizations and Associations |

Anatomy
General Anatomy |
Organs: Bones | Brain | Ear | Eye | Heart | Lungs | Muscles | Skin |

Areas of Study
Cancer | Genetics | Geriatrics | Mental Health |
Obstetrics and Gynecology |Occupational Therapy |
Pediatrics | Surgery | Urology |

Other Medical Topics
Biology | Disabilities and Access | Diseases and Conditions |
Drugs: Medical Prescriptions; Drugs and Alcohol: Abuse and Misuse |
Medical Ethics | Medical Images | Nutrition | Therapeutic Recreation |

Medicine and Health by State
Rhode Island | Connecticut | Massachusetts |

Library Resources: The Library owns many books, media and periodicals that cover a wide range of related topics. Click on the buttons below each listing of websites to access the online catalog for a listing of materials on related topics that are in the Library. To search the online catalog for any other related topics, click on this button:

General Medical Reference
There are many Internet Resources for general medical information as listed below. A good place to start your search for General Information is at Medline Plus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Here you will find Health Topics, Drugs & Supplements, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Current News, Directories and more.

General Information
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
URL: http://www.ahcpr.gov/
Information for consumers and health care providers. [08/05]
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
URL: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/
Atlas of how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. [08/05]
Family Health International (FHI)
URL: http://www.fhi.org/en/index.htm
Includes online health-related books, reports, and periodicals. [08/05]
Global Health
URL: http://www.globalhealth.gov/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA ) [08/05]
Health.gov
URL: http://www.health.gov
Federal government portal to health resources available via the Internet from the national government. [03/09]
HONCode (Health on the Net Foundation)
URL: http://www.hon.ch/visitor.html
Check the credibility of the medicine/ health site through HONCode or check for topical information. [10/06]
MayoClinic.com
URL: http://www.mayoclinic.com
"Mayo Clinic Health Information's award-winning consumer Web site offers health information, and self-improvement and disease management tools. MayoClinic.com's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for all of your consumer health information needs, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to nutrition, exercise and pregnancy." [06/06]
MedicineNet
URL: http://www.medicinenet.com
Doctor-produced healthcare information. [08/05]
Medscape
URL: http://www.medscape.com
From WebMD. [08/05]
National Mental Health Information Center -- Center for Mental Health Services
URL: http://www.mentalhealth.org/
Provides mental health topic guides, pubications, and resources. From SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.) [10/06]
NLM's Databases & Electronic Information Sources
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/
Excellent, easy to use reference for the National Library of Medicine's source material. [08/06]
Office of the Surgeon General
URL: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/
From "America's chief health educator," this website provides health and wellness news and information, including public health priorities, health reports and publications, speeches and events, testimonies to congress, and other information in the areas of health and human services. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. [10/06]
Profiles in Science
URL: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/
Biographies of prominent 20th century biomedical scientists. Includes Reports of the Surgeon General. National Library of Medicine. [08/05]
Reuters Health Information Services
URL: http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html
Medical and health care news from Reuters News Services. Includes industry briefings, health e-line, vertical newswires, multilingual health news products, and articles. Subscriptions are also available. [08/05]
Rhode Island Department of Health [08/05]
URL: http://www.health.state.ri.us/
Science Learning Network [08/05]
URL: http://www.sln.org/

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Databases
Bookshelf, NCBI
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=books
Online medical books. "The Bookshelf is a growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly by typing a concept..." NCBI = National Center for Biotechnology Information. [10/06]
Diseases Database
URL: http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/
"... a cross-referenced index of human disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation findings etc. This site provides a medical textbook-like index and search portal covering areas including General internal medical disorders, Symptoms and signs, Congenital and inherited disorders, Infectious diseases and organisms, Drugs and medications, Common haematology and biochemistry investigation abnormalities." [08/05]
Medline Plus
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aboutmedlineplus.html
A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Includes directories, drug information, dictionaries, interactive tutorials, a medical encyclopedia and other resources. [08/05]
Medpedia
URL: http://www.medpedia.com/
Website for a "project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine and the body among medical professionals and the general public." Features articles about health conditions and issues. All contributors are either physicians or have Ph.D.s in a health science. Provided in association with the Harvard Medical School; Stanford School of Medicine; University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; University of Michigan Medical School; and others. [05/09]
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
URL: http://www.guidelines.gov/
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. [08/05]
NLM Databases & Electronic Resources
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/
Portal for dozens of databases. U. S. National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health). [08/05]
PubMed
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
"PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources." Includes FAQs, tutorial, services and resources. Many databases can be searched at one time, via Entrez. [08/05]
PubMed Central
URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
"The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature." [08/05]
Virtual Hospital: a digital library of health information
URL: http://www.vh.org/
Links to information on many kinds of conditions and procedures. (University of Iowa) [08/05]

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Electronic Resources

EBSCOhost consists of a number of databases that contain full text and full image publications including scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals and magazines as well as citations and abstracts for other articles. From the main database page, select the appropriate individual databases to search. Choose from databases listed below.

Medicine and Health related Databases included in EBSCOhost :

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, and also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health, searchable full text for nearly 300 journals.
Clinical Pharmacology
Up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
MEDLINE®
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences,allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Coverage of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 525 peer-reviewed titles, covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

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Clinical Trials
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
URL: http://www.centerwatch.com/
This searchable website provides resources and clinical trials listings for both patients and professionals. [12/04]
National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)
URL: http://www.guidelines.gov/
The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) is a comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. [08/05]

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Consumer Health Info
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
URL: http://www.ahcpr.gov/
Information for consumers and health care providers. [08/05]
CAPHIS: Consumer and Patient Health Information Section
URL: http://caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/consumerAll.html
Medical Library Association links to health and medical information. [08/05]
Health Central
URL: http://www.healthcentral.com
"HealthCentral provides the latest consumer health information including news, mini-checkups, health library, encyclopedia, quizzes, tools." Commercial site owned by HealthCentral Network that provides connections to community of experts. [10/06]
Health Finder: Consumer Health Information [08/05]
URL: http://www.healthfinder.gov/
InteliHealth
URL: http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/408/408.html
Features Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information. A commercial website of Aetna Inc., a health insurance provider. [08/05]
MayoClinic.com
URL: http://www.mayoclinic.com/index.cfm
Consumer health news and information on medical concerns including diseases and conditions, timely topics, drugs and supplements, health tools and guides, books, and newsletters. [04/05]
WebMD [08/05]
URL: http://www.webmd.com/

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Medline Plus
URL: http://medlineplus.adam.com/
NLM (National Library of Medicine) and NIH (The National Institutes of Health) have reliable and extensive source material in the form of Medical encyclopedia, health topics, dictionaries. [08/05]
Medword
URL: http://www.medword.com/basics.html?source=Overture
Includes tables of combining forms, Greek and Latin adjectival and verbal derivatives, prefixes, and suffixes. [08/05]
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp
17th edition, 1999. [08/05]
MT Desk
URL: http://www.mtdesk.com
Comprehensive medical glossary of 1000's of terms, word lists, medical operative reports, resource listings. Excellent online resource -- hosted and maintained by Elsevier (longtime reknowned medical publisher) for medical transciption professionals. [03/09]
WebMD Medical Library
URL: http://www.webmd.com/medical_information/medical_library/default.htm
Commercial site with A > Z health information. [10/06]

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Online Journals (most are free)
HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles
URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
"HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!" Stanford University. [06/06]
EHP Online: Environmental Health Perspectives
URL: http://www.ehponline.org/
"...a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences..." [10/06]

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[Health Insurance and health statistics may overlap in terms of data found on National and other websites. ]
Health Insurance Data
America's Health Insurance Plans
URL: http://www.ahip.org/
Try the Facts and Figures page for quick, concise reports and figures on health plans. "AHIP's principal purpose is to represent the interests of our members on legislative and regulatory issues at the federal and state levels, and with the media, consumers and employers." AHIP [06/06]
America's Uninsured: A Closer Look
URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/briefings/Americas_Uninsured_Crisis.asp
Statistics related to health and health care coverage. The National Academies: Advisors to the Nation on Science, Engineering and Medicine. [03/09]
Center for Studying Health System Change
URL: http://www.hschange.org/
Statistics, reports, surveys, tons of data and articles on the health care issues. [06/06]
Health Insurance Data: U. S. Census Data
URL: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html
Reports, briefs and data collected on healthcare in the United States by the U. S. Census. Good raw data, but may be difficult to use. [06/06]
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
URL: http://www.meps.ahcpr.gov/
"...a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States." Access the databases online from present back through 1996. [06/06]
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates: Model Based Estimates for Counties and States
URL: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/sahie/index.html
From the U. S. Census Bureau. [06/06]

Health Statistics
Alcohol: Data/ Statistical Tables
URL: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/QuickFacts/default.htm
Variety of data relating to alchol abuse including stats on driving accidents, risk factors, health-related stats, etc. NIAAA, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH. [08/06]
BRFSS: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
Turning Information into Health: a series of Interactive maps, databases and resources based on surveys, questionnaires, and relevant source materials. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. [06/06]
Health Policy Center, Urban Institute
URL: http://www.urban.org/center/hpc/
"examines how the healthcare market and government policy affect how much care costs, who pays the bills, and who lacks access to care. Researchers analyze Medicare, Medicaid, and private coverage." [06/06]
Health: Statistical Resources on the Web
URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
Continually updated links from the University of Michigan Government Documents Center.[06/06]
National Center for Health Statistics
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
[06/06]

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Lab Tests
Lab Tests Online
URL: http://labtestsonline.org/index.html
"A public resource on Clinical Lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing. Peer-reviewed, non-commercial, patient centered." Search by Tests, Conditions & Diseases, or Screening. [05/06]
Applied Science and Engineering Technology Laboratories
URL: http://www.asel.udel.edu/
Administered by Nemours Foundation and the University of Delaware. Links to the Delaware Assistive Technology Initiative (DATI), Extended Manipulation Laboratories, the Natural Language Interfaces Group, and the Speech Research Laboratory. [12/04]

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Occupation/ Profession Information
MedicalAssistant.net
URL: http://medicalassistant.net/
Includes information, links, and articles for professional medical assistants. Click on “Free Career Resources” for links to certification information and other educational training tools. [12/04]
National Center for Competency Testing
URL: http://www.ncctinc.com/
Information on certification tests for medical assistants and medical office assistants. Website also includes conference notes, news, products, and member services. [12/04]
Occupational Outlook Handbook -- Occupational Therapists
URL: http://stats.bls.gov./oco/ocos078.htm
Career description and employment outlook for Occupational Therapists provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Outlook Handbook. For other occupations, search the Occupational Outlook Handbook. [12/04]

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Organizations and Associations
American Medical Association (AMA)
URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/
American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) [10/06]
URL: https://www.apta.org
American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF)
Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) [02/09]
URL: http://www.aorn.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) [10/05]
URL: http://www.caahep.org
National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations (NCCATA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
National Health Information Center (NHIC)
National Rehabilitation Information Center (NRIC)
North American Menopause Society (NAMS) [10/06]
URL: http://www.menopause.org/
Occupational Outlook Handbook
URL: http://stats.bls.gov./oco/
Information on allied health careers.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Sensory Integration International ( [02/09]SII Site no longer exists-- shut down 02/08 for Occupational Therapists)
Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

General Anatomy
Anatomy Laboratory Manual
URL: http://homepage.smc.edu/wissmann_paul/anatomylabmanual/
Images assembled by Paul Wissman, Life Sciences Department, Santa Monica College. [08/05]
Gray's Anatomy [08/05]
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/107/
A Guided Tour of the Visible Human, National Library of Medicine
URL: http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/tour.html
Animations and images from 18,000 digitized sections of the body illustrate introductory concepts in anatomy. [08/05]
Course Specimens and Dissections, Dr. James A. Strauss
URL: http://www.bio.psu.edu/people/faculty/strauss/anatomy/biology29.htm
Labeled photographs of various animals, human systems of the body. [05/06]
Human Anatomy On-line [08/05]
URL: http://www.innerbody.com/
The Virtual Body
URL: http://www.ehc.com/VBody.asp
Illustrations and animations of the brain, skeleton, heart, and digestive tract. [08/05]

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Bones
The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
URL: http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/xrays/
Access Excellence Resource Center, National Health Museum. [08/05]
Patient Education, Mid-South Orthopedic Associates
URL: http://www.midsouthorthopedics.com/education.htm
Animated illustrations of knee, hip, and shoulder surgery. [03/09]

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Brain
The Whole Brain Atlas
URL: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
MR images of the brain prepared by the Departments of Radiology and Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Neurology. [08/05]

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Ear
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
URL: http://www.asha.org/default.htm
"Professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 118,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists." [08/05]
American Tinnitus Association (ATA)
URL: http://www.ata.org
Tinnitus prevention and treatments. [03/09]
Hearing and Hearing Disorders
URL: http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/audiology.html
Judith Kuster, Department of Communication Disorders and Speech Clinic Director at Minnesota State University, Mankato: a digital library of informative online sources for hearing. [08/05]

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Eye
American Academy of Ophthalmology
URL: http://www.aao.org/
Information for professionals, as well as reports and educational materials. The misson is: "To prevent avoidable blindness and severe visual impairment through public service and education." [03/06]
American Glaucoma Society [03/06]
URL: http://www.glaucomaweb.org
Glaucoma Foundation
URL: http://www.glaucomafoundation.org
"Established in 1984 by Dr. Robert Ritch, The Glaucoma Foundation is the premier not-for-profit organization committed to leading the fight against glaucoma and to identifying new treatments and cures." [03/06]
Glaucoma Research Foundation
URL: http://www.glaucoma.org/
"Since 1978, the Glaucoma Research Foundation has funded innovative research and provided educational materials about glaucoma." [03/06]
MedlinePlus: Glaucoma
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/glaucoma.html
Excellent starting point for research. The National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine. [03/06]
The National Eye Institute
URL: http://www.nei.nih.gov/
(NEI) (National Institutes of Health) [08/05]

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Heart
All About Blood (AABB)
URL: http://www.aabb.org/Content/About_Blood/Facts_About_Blood_and_Blood_Banking/
American Association of Blood Banks. [03/06]
AHA Journals
URL: http://www.ahajournals.org/
Searchable full-text journals include: Circulation; Circulation Research; CV Surgery Online; Hypertension; Stroke; and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. American Heart Association. [08/05]
American Heart Association (AHA)
URL: http://www.americanheart.org
Basic information, treatment, care, exercise and wellness, encyclopedia, statistics, and related links. [10/06]
American Stroke Association
URL: http://www.strokeassociation.org
Division of the American Heart Association. [10/06]
Franklin Institute Online presents The Heart: An Online Exploration
[URL: http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html] Includes QuickTime movies, sound files, and other illustrations and multimedia clips show x-ray images of the heart, the arteries, the capillaries, how to take a pulse, etc. Franklin Institute Online. [02/09]
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
URL: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health, this excellent resource also includes the A- Z Diseases and Conditions Index. [08/05]

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Lungs
American Lung Association
URL: http://www.pulmonologychannel.com/
Excellent resource on all lung-related topics such as tobacco, COPD, etc. [10/06]
Pulmonology Channel
URL: http://www.pulmonologychannel.com/
Includes anatomy, glossary, overviews, causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment for many common pulmonary and respiratory conditions. [08/05]
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) [08/05]
URL: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health, this excellent resource also includes the A- Z Diseases and Conditions Index.

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Skin
Dermatologic Image Database
URL: http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/ImageBase.html
Dept. of Dermatology - University of Iowa College of Medicine. [08/05]
Dermatology Online Journal
URL: http://dermatology.cdlib.org/
University of California, California Digital Library.[08/05]