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When you have cancer, heart disease or other medical conditions, you want information to help you understand the disease and find out about the latest treatment options. Following is a list of resources that have their own Web sites with a mission to educate.
 
American Cancer Association www.cancer.org
American Heart Association www.americanheart.org
American Lung Association www.lungusa.org
American Prostate Society www.ameripros.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. www.cdc.gov
Eldercare Web Site www.elderweb.com
Food and Drug Administration www.fda.gov
Health Finder is a gateway consumer health information web site. www.healthfinder.gov
Health Web is a site established by librarians and information professionals from major academic medical institutions in the Midwest. www.healthweb.org
HIV InSite is a project of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) AIDS Research Institute. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
Mayo Clinic is an extension of the Mayo Clinic's commitment to provide health education to patients and the general public. www.mayoclinic.com
Medem is a site which was launched in the fall of 2000 as a project of the leading medical societies in the United States. www.medem.com

 

National Women's Health Information Center is a gateway to selected women's health information resources. www.4women.gov
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health is a unique collection of state, local, and federal health resources for consumers. www.noah-health.org
Oncolink:  A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource provides information on the various forms of cancer and issues of interest to cancer patients and their families. www.oncolink.upenn.edu

MEDLINEplus is a consumer-oriented web site established by the National Library of Medicine, the world's largest biomedical library and creator of the MEDLINE database.

 www.medlineplus.gov
National Library of Medicine, part of the government's National Institutes of Health. www.nlm.nih.gov
A nonprofit, one-stop directory of links to voluntary health agencies, professional associations, and medical nonprofits and businesses. www.nationalhealthcouncil.org
Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health. www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu
Express Scripts, a major pharmacy-benefits manager.  Allows users to check for potential interactions between the drugs they use, as well as food and alcohol. www.drugdigest.org
Quest Diagnostics, a leading diagnostics-testing company.  Its health library offers information on medical tests, medications, support groups, and general health topics. www.questdiagnostics.com

 

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