Health Websites
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Patient and Consumer Health
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Health Professional
American Family Physician Journal - Sponsored by The American Academy of Family Physicians, this reliable medical journal can be searched by health topic or date of publication. CME credits are also available.
Pubmed - PubMed is a free service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes some links to full text articles and other related resources.
Patient and Consumer Health
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - Sponsored by the Department of Health and Humans Services, this web site offers information about health and safety issues including publications, statistics, traveler’s health, and vaccination and immunizations. Information is available in English and Spanish.
MedlinePlus - A service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, MedlinePlus provides access to information about specific diseases and conditions and has a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, drug information, a directory to find hospitals, physicians, and support groups, and user-friendly tutorials and surgical videos. Health information is available in Spanish and English. MedlinePlus has links to Clinical Trials and Senior Health.
PEACHI: Patient Education And Consumer Health Information - Developed by Mercer Medical Library, PEACHI is a comprehensive consumer health information bibliography. You can find information about specific diseases and conditions from government agencies and individual organizations.
Spanish
CDC en Español - This Spanish version of the CDC site is not an exact translation of the English version, but is customized for the Latino community.
English to Spanish Medical Phrases List - Free downloadable database for use with the Palm operating system. Categories include anatomy, conditions, medical history, hygiene, etc.
Medline Plus in Spanish - This consumer health site, a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, is available in Spanish. Includes over 560 health topics, and the ability to link from English to Spanish is helpful for non-Spanish speaking health care professionals.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition en Español - This is the Spanish version of this authoritative resource on health information.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health - Sponsored by organizations such as the New York Public Library and the New York Academy of Medicine, NOAH offers consumer health information on a variety of topics in both English and Spanish.
A su salud - This resource by the South Texas Community College includes links to information about commercial, educational, government, and non-profit resources in Spanish.
