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	Health-specific Search Tools	Health Research Pages
Health News Pages	Professional Associations	Online Journals

 

Health and Medicine-specific Search Tools:

• Achoo:
  • This health care-specific search engine also has a main directory to narrow down your search of such topics as Human Life, the Practice of Medicine and the Business of Health. The Human Life directory is especially helpful. It includes sites dealing with the Structures & Functions of the Human Body, Human Health, Human Diseases, and Human Behavior & Experience.
• HealthAtoZ:
  • A health/medicine database of close to 15,000 sites in 27 different categories from Allied Health and Alternative Medicine to Women's Health.
• Yahoo - Health:
  • Yahoo is a search engine. This is a page of general health links. A good place to get started on your health topic searches.
• Yahoo - Sports:
  • Same as above but the topic is sports.

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Health Research Pages:

• Ask the Dietician:
  • Hundreds of questions on nutrition answered by the nutrition expert, Joanne Larson, MS, RD, LD.
• Alcohol-Info.com:
  Subtitled, Topics in Alcohol Research, this site serves as a resource for information on current topics in alcohol research. Topics include: Alcohol-induced blackouts, College drinking, Alcohol and the teenage brain and links to alcohol-related sites.
• The Biology Project:
  • The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology, developed at The University of Arizona. This is the most comprehensive biology site that I have seen. There are also areas of this site that are particularly relevant to health education, including: the Introduction to Immunology tutorial, the sexually transmitted disease problem set, the Birth Control problem set, the Lung Toxicology problem set, and the Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Development activity.
• Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics:
  • This web site is for lay persons, health care professionals, and researchers. This site allows you to search through a collection of links for many specific diseases and disorders. This is a great place to start your search for information about specific diseases.
• Gatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI):
  • Provides reliable sportsmedicine information. Targeted towards trainers, physicians, coaches, nutritionists, and others interested in the field of sportsmedicine. Nothing fancy, just good, solid research in the field of sportsmedicine.
• Go Ask Alice Homepage:
  • From Columbia University's Health Education Program, a rather large database of questions (and answers) to common health concerns.
• MedicineNet:
  • A free medical resource in easy to understand language. This site includes a database of different diseases and their treatments, a medical dictionary, a pharmacy section that list different prescription drugs and their side-effects. A comprehensive and valuable site.
• Nova Online:
  • Includes excerpts and transcripts from Nova TV programs. Also incudes a lot of multimedia (i.e., audio and video) files.
• The Fitness Partner Connection:
  • This is a mega-hyperlist of fitness links. I haven't checked them all out yet, but if you've got some time, this is a pretty impressive list.

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Health News Pages:

• Health News:
  • This is a good starting point for health news searches. This page contains links to many health news pages.
• CNN Health:
  • This page gives up-to-the-minute health-in-the-news stories. Great for researching current events in health. Includes some audio narration of the news files.
• Medical Breakthrough:
  • Like the CNN site above, this site catalogues current news articles in medicine and sportsmedicine. Current news as well as video clips enliven this site to health enthusiasts.
• USA Today Healthline:
  • Up-to-the-minute health stories in the news. Also includes an index of past health news articles which can be searched by health topic.

 

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Professional Associations:

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD):
• American Dietetic Association:
  • Sound nutritional advice on numerous topics.
• American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA):
  • An association that certifies health/fitness professionals and provides continuing education credits for various fitness certifications.
• American Medical Association:
• American Heart Association:
• American College of Sportsmedicine (ACSM):
  • The world's premiere sportsmedicine organization. This group sets the "standards" for information about sport and exercise.
• Center's of Disease Control homepage:
  • The best place to learn of infectious diseases. Also, infectious disease (including AIDS) statistics.
• National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA):
  • Discusses what an athletic trainer is, how to become a member of NATA, and career opportunities for NATA certified athletic trainers.
• National Cancer Institute:
  • This site includes a wealth of information on Cancer. Many links.
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
  • The Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) was established by Congressional mandate, in 1992, as a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Congressional mandate establishing the NCCAM stated that the Center's purpose is to "facilitate the evaluation of alternative medical treatment modalities" to determine their effectiveness. The mandate also provides for a public information clearinghouse and a research training program.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute:
  • This site includes heatlh information, scientific resources, research funding, news and press releases, committees and meetings, clinical guidelines, studies, labs, and technology transfer sections. A lot of good information under the health information link. Includes information intended for the general public, as well as for health professionals.
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism:
  • The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. NIAAA also provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the severe and often fatal consequences of these problems
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development:
  • The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NICHD conducts and supports laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research on the reproductive, neurobiologic, developmental, and behavioral processes that determine and maintain the health of children, adults, families and populations.
• National Institute on Drug Abuse:
  • NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA supported science addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research. NIDA was established in 1974, and in October 1992 it became part of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. The Institute is organized into divisions and offices, each of which plays an important role in programs of drug abuse research.
• National Institutes of Health:
  • The NIH supports and conducts health and medical research. There is also info here about the history of medicine.
• National Institute of Mental Health:
  • The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) can be stated forthrightly and simply: To understand mind, brain, and behavior, and thereby to reduce the burden of mental illness through research.

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Online Journals:

• Electronic Journals in Sports and Sportsmedicine:
  • This is a list of various online publications in the sports and sportsmedicine disciplines. This is a good starting point for research. Page maintained by Michele Chittenden (Liaison Librarian), Stauffer Library Reference Unit, Queen's University.
• Meducation-Journals:
  • A hyperlist of 88 medical, science and health journals. Many of these online journals have abstracts and even full-text articles.
• The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online:
  • The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online is your source for primary care sports medicine clinical and personal health articles--and for helpful resources like our Sports Medicine Clinics and Fellowships lists. But we're also your link to the rest of the sports medicine community.