Interested in researching a medical topic? Here are reliable links to medical information, of various levels. Go through it quick and easy, then go back and dig in. Have a question? E-mail dr.nancy@drsculerati.com
to best understand, look it up in more than one site check the sources ....Scroll down...one against the other different types of sites have different color background
- + : lay level info written by professional communicators; vetted by top level experts
- + : Provides a reliable picture of mainstream consensus in simplified terms
- + : Offers gateways to state-of-the-art resources
- -- : Always worth a look, but lay level info aimed at minimally educated people, high school level or below
- often gives generalities instead of useful insights
- simplifications seem credible but may distort & mislead
- --: High level information usually in unadulterated scientific or medical jargon that require advanced training to decipher
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lay level information provided by the National Institutes of Health, including the National Library of Medicine
expert and professional level, links to original research and medical reviews used by doctors and research scientists. Also includes some consumer health links.
Extensive lay level resource on DNA, genes, chromosomes and genetic conditions
- Science.gov
Federally funded search engine - more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites
- CDC - Center for Disease Control
- CDC - 2008 Travel Advice :The Yellow Book
What immunizations are needed for different parts of the world? Expert advice on international travel.
- TOXnet (Toxicology Information)
Research & Patient Advocate Organizations
- + : Patient information written by professional communicators; vetted by top level experts
- + : Provides information from patient point-of -view
- -- : Always worth a look, but sometimes self-serving
- -- : May have idiosyncratic point-of-view
These are non-profit groups that actively promote research and improved patient care. Each is independant, all have positive track records for making a difference.
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- NCCN The National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Excellent information - expert quality, lay level 'readable'
- Alliance of professionals, parents & patients
These (just below) are links recommended by Candlelighters
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
- JDRF
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American Brain Tumor Association
- National Organization for Rare Disorders
- + : good place to find support groups, info on unusual conditions
- + : Offers reading lists
- + : Offers sites that give strategies for dealing with insurance issues
- -- : Expertise is not uniformly high quality
- -- : Some sites may be "fronts" for self-interested groups (eg pharmaceutical companies, etc., sellers of nutritional supplements)
- -- :Some may advocate fringe treatments
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Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network - U Conn Health Center Library
- A Forum for Librarians in the Area of Consumer Health Information.
- A Top Swedish Medical School & Center
Each Medical, Surgical, and other allied Health Science Profession in the USA has a professional academy that oversees education, training and certification of professionals. Their sites are gateways into the underpinnings of each profession and provide useful links to the public.
- + : Patient information written by professional communicators; vetted by top level experts
- + : Using the specialty boards links to learn about qualifications can arm you with what you need to evaluate doctors in different specialties
- -- : Each specialty sees things from a different point of view, check overlapping specialties to get a bigger picture (did your child break a leg? look up 'leg fractures' in Pediatrics and Orthopedics sites, not just one or the other)
- -- : Each specialty is a self-advocate
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- American Board Of Medical Specialties
- ABMS - 24 Specialty Boards
- The link to the right is a gateway to all of them
- American Academy of Family Physicians offers an excellent lay level Encyclopedia
- American Academy of Ob & Gyn
- American Academy of Otolaryngology
- Ear Nose & Throat
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Psychiatric Association
- American College of Surgeons
(Recognized Centers of Excellence with Excellent Websites)
- + : Patient information written by professional communicators or by experts who write well; vetted by top level experts
- + : The links chosen have high quality education - unlike some equally good centers for healthcare.
- + : These links provide the highest level of care for the areas indicated
- -- : Each institution is a self-advocate, more likely to cover services they provide.
- The quality of the websites here are good, as are the institutions - that's why I chose them. Realize that there are great websites sponsored by low quality - meaning pretty terrible- doctors, health services and institutions- and -quite often- fine institutions and providers with lousy websites. Please don't let this list mislead you in that regard. Judging the quality of a physician or of hospital services just by the website is a mistake.
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- Mayo Clinic
- Broad Expertise
- Texas Heart Institute
- Heart & Circulatory System
- CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH INFORMATION CENTER
- Broad Expertise
- NYU CHILD STUDY CENTER
- Child & Adolescent Behavior, Psychology & Psychiatry
- Nemours Kids Health
- General Pediatric and Adolescent Information
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Information
These are all good dictionaries, and although there is no obvious bias in any of them that I can detect, still - it's generally better to use more than one source. If the word is important or has proved difficult to understand, look it up at each site rather than just one.
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HARDIN LIBRARY FOR THE HEALTH SCIENCES
List of Medical / Health Sciences Libraries on the Web