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Bibliography: General Health Resources


General Health Resources:

Electronic Journals ~ Grant Opportunities ~ Healthcare Gateways ~ Local Resources ~ Medical Databases ~ Medical Reference ~ Research and Clinical Guidelines ~ Especially Good Sites for Medical Professionals
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Electronic Journals
Alternative Health News Online - http://www.altmedicine.com/
American Medical Association Publications - http://www.ama-assn.org/scipub.htm
BMJ: British Medical Journal - http://www.bmj.com/
Harvard Health Publications - http://www.countway.med.harvard.edu/publications/Health_Publications/.index.html
Healthy Ideas - http://www.healthyideas.com/
JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) - http://jama.ama-assn.org/
The Lancet - http://www.thelancet.com/
MedWebPlus: Electronic Publications - http://www.medwebplus.com/subject/Electronic_Journals.html
New England Journal of Medicine - http://www.nejm.org/
Reuters Health Information Services - http://www.reutershealth.com/
Grant Opportunities
American Heart Association - http://www.americanheart.org/research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Grants Funding Page - http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/dpos/topics/grants.html
The Foundation Center - http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/index.html
Funding Opportunities - http://www.mcg.edu/grantscontracts/Funding.htm
Grant resources on the Web: Where to Look When You Need Funding - http://www.ala.org/acrl/resjuly99.html
GrantsNet - http://www.hhs.gov/progorg/grantsnet/
National Institutes of Health Funding Opportunities - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
National Institutes of Health Grant Application forms (PHS 398) - http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/forms_toc.html
National Library of Medicine Grants Page - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/extramural.html
Notices of Funding Availability from the Federal Register - http://ocd.usda.gov/nofa.htm

Healthcare Gateways

About.com Health/Fitness Directory - http://home.about.com/health/
Achoo - http://www.achoo.com/main.asp
BioSites: A Virtual Catalog of Selected Internet Resources in the Biomedical Sciences - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/biosites/
Bookmarks for Best Medical and Health Resources - http://www.infopeople.org/Wksp/Past/1999/Medical/medbkmrks.htm
Health Information Resources - http://nhic-nt.health.org/AlphaKeyword.htm
healthfinder - http://www.healthfinder.gov/
HealthWorld Online - http://www.healthy.net/
MARTINDALE'S HEALTH SCIENCE GUIDE - http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Medical.html
MDChoice.com - http://www.mdchoice.com/ (HONcode)
Medical Matrix - http://www.medmatrix.org/
Medline Plus - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
MedMarks: Medical Bookmarks - http://medmark.org/
MedWebPlus - http://medwebplus.com/subject/
NOAH - http://www.noah-health.org/
Open Directory: Health - http://dmoz.org/Health/


Medical Databases
CHID - http://chid.nih.gov/
Clinical Trials - http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/b
Health Hippo - collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care - http://hippo.findlaw.com/
Health Reference ASAP - check at your local library
Medline - http://www.healthy.net/Library/Search/Medline.asp
PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Medical Reference
Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources - http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acr.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/
Columbia Complete Home Medical Guide - http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/texts/guide/
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations - http://www.jcaho.org/
Merck Manual - http://www.merck.com/
Virtual Hosptial - http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/ (HONcode)
Research & Clinical Guidelines
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - http://www.ahrq.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/
Food & Drug Administration - http://www.fda.gov/
National Guideline Clearinghouse - http://www.guideline.gov/
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) - http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/

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Created by Kay Benjamin, Last updated April 5, 2001.