DICTIONARIES & DIRECTORIES:

First Call For Help
http://www.firstcall-mn.org/
Search the First Call For Help database for Minnesota services and agencies by county, or call their toll-free information and referral help line at 1-800-543-7709. Health information that may be available through this source includes support groups in your area and directory information about organizations that provide home health care, medical resources, assistive devices, and counseling.

Medicare: The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/
This Medicare site includes two directories that allow you to locate and compare Medicare providers and certified nursing homes throughout the U.S.

National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus
http://medlineplus.gov/
An excellent site for information about health and medicine! It includes medical dictionaries, directories of hospitals, physicians, chiropractors, and psychologists,  indexes to medical journal articles (Medline), specialized databases (e.g.. Drug Information from United States Pharmacopeia, CANCERLIT, and others), and links to reliable health and medical information provided by government health agencies, hospitals and clinics, and associations of medical specialists.

On-line Medical Dictionary
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/
Scroll down to the search box and type in the word or phrase that you want defined.

On-Line Doctor Finder
http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
Search this database to find physicians by name, specialty, or location.

AMA Health Insight
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3457.html
Consumer health information about "Specific Conditions" and about health, in general, from the American Medical Association.

American Heart Association National Center
http://www.americanheart.org/newhome.html
Find out what the warning signs of heart disease and stroke are, assess your risk of heart disease, learn how heart disease and strokes are treated and can be prevented, and how to live with heart failure by reading the "Heart and Stroke A to Z Guide".

Blueprint for Health
http://blueprint.bluecrossmn.com/
Great source for information on wellness -  Fitness & Nutrition, Lifestyle & Wellness, Women's Health, Men's Health, Senior Health, Children's Health, and Pregnancy & Baby - but also has a Medical Library, Herb Index, Drug Database, and information on specific Ills & Conditions and on Alternative Health care.

Food and Nutrition Information Center
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
Click on "FNIC Resource Lists" for links to information about the nutritional needs of specific age groups and the role of nutrition in preventing and combating diseases.

Go Ask Alice!
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/index.html
Frank and informative answers from Columbia University Health Services to questions college students ask about sexuality, sexual health, alcohol and drugs, relationships, fitness and nutrition, emotional well-being and general health.

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/default.htm
Lists websites and organizations to contact for information about health and medical topics from acne to Zidovudine (AZT).

HealthWeb
http://www.healthweb.org/index.cfm
Links, selected by medical librarians, to information on medical conditions, medicine, and health-related fields.

Information From Your Family Doctor
http://familydoctor.org/
Scroll down to find information provided by the American Association of Family Physicians about the human body, common health problems, and about men's, women's, children's, and senior citizen's health.

KidsDoctor
http://www.kidsdoctor.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?articles_cat.html
Advice from a pediatrician on children's medical and behavioral problems.

Mayo Clinic Health O@sis
http://www.mayohealth.org/
With an emphasis on wellness, the Mayo Clinic's Health O@sis provides information about allergies & asthma, Alzheimer's, arthritis, cancer, children's health, digestive problems, heart disease, medicines, men's and women's health, nutrition, and medical news.

Merck Manual Of Medical Information
http://www.merck.com/pubs/
Click on "The Merck Manual of Medical Information" to "Search the Book" or browse its "Contents".

National Women's Health Information Center
http://www.4women.gov/
News, publications, and links to women's health information. This site also includes health information for Spanish-speaking women (Recursos en Espanol) and for health professionals who work primarily with women.

NOAH: Health Topics and Resources
http://www.noah-health.org/
Links to medical information from "Aging and Alzheimer's Disease" through "Tuberculosis". Also available in Spanish as Preguntale a NOAH sobre temas de salud y recursos.

RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/
An Internet drug index.

RxMed
http://www.rxmed.com/
Click on "Patient Handouts" for facts about over 400 health problems.

Welcome to the American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/
Click on "Cancer Resource Center" for descriptions of different types of cancer, how the cancer is detected, what its symptoms are, how it is treated and prevented. This site also includes information on alternative and complementary therapies, cancer drugs, and statistics on cancer rates.

Wellness Web: The Patient's Network
http://wellweb.com/
Information about major illnesses and diseases and how to treat and prevent them using conventional, alternative, and complementary therapies.
 

Health Index
http://www.tds.msus.edu/
Click on "Search TdS WebPALS", go to "Search Magazine Articles and Other Reference Databases" and select "Health Index" from the drop-down menu to search for citations to, and frequently the full-text of, over 205 medical journals and consumer health magazines, health-related articles from 1,500 general interest magazines, and 500 pamphlets and newsletters about health and medicine. Available only to TdS library card holders.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Top news stories about public health research. Also includes, under "Disease Trends", the latest morbidity and mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.

New England Journal of Medicine On-line
http://www.nejm.com/content/scripts/search/search.asp
Search for articles from the New England Journal of Medicine from 1990 to the present or browse issues printed since 1993, courtesy of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Search the PubMed database for citations to and summaries of over 11 million medical journal articles printed since 1964.

MENTAL HEALTH:

Facts for Families
http://www.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/index.htm
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides the full-text of over 75 pamphlets to assist parents in coping with common childhood problems like bedwetting and in getting help for serious disturbances such as teen suicide and post-traumatic-shock after a natural disaster. Available in English, French, German, and Spanish.

Mental Health Net
http://mentalhelp.net/
Read the highlights of recent news articles about psychiatry, psychology, and mental health, link to self-help groups or webpages related to mental health, or learn more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, or other mental health problems.

NIMH - For the Public
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/index.cfm
Full-text of publications from the National Institute for Mental Health on anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, depression, Alzheimer's Disease, ADHD, autism, eating disorders, learning disabilities, medications, and schizophrenia.

STATISTICS:

Health Statistics
http://www.health.state.mn.us/stats.html
Minnesota health statistics.

Minnesota Health Profiles
http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/datanetweb/health.html
Select the entire state or a specific county to get statistics collected in 1998 about births, deaths, teen pregnancies, leading causes of death by age group, motor vehicle injuries, economic costs of smoking, food- and water- borne disease outbreaks, and other Minnesota health statistics.

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Health statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.