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FamilyDoctor.org (Spanish)
This web site offers clear, printer-friendly patient
education hand-outs for a wide variety of common medical
concerns, conditions, wellness tips and over-the-counter
medicines in both English and Spanish. Physicians and patient
education professionals at the American Academy of Family
Physicians write and review all the information on the site.
The content is targeted to U.S. citizens.
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html
Healia
This 'beta' search engine features technology to evaluate the
quality of Web content and return only reliable sites.
'Personal Search' filters allow users to find and categorize
results according to specific target audiences, subtopics and
user preferences. Healia provides a health-optimized spell
checker and expanded equivalents of common medical
abbreviations and acronyms. Use the search box at the top of
this page.
http://www.healia.com/
Health Information Literacy Program and Tutorial
Developed by the (U.S.) Medical Library Association, the site was created to assist health professionals and patients in dealing with the large volume of available information to make
informed health care decisions. The information is organized in two broad categories: Resources for Health Information Professionals and Resources for Health Consumers. Information includes a health literacy tutorial, toolkit for trainers and various resources for different consumer
groups.
http://www.mlanet.org/resources/healthlit/index.html?focus_20090625
Human Anatomy Online
This interactive web site features animations, graphics, and
descriptive links for the skeletal, digestive, muscular,
lymphatic, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, male
reproductive, female reproductive, and urinary body systems.
It is targeted to children, parents and schools.
http://www.innerbody.com/index.html
MayoClinic.com
MayoClinic.com offers easy-to-understand consumer health and
medical information for more than 35 disease and lifestyle
categories. Instructional slideshows on topics such as baby
baths, blood sugar testing, and labor positions are
available. Editors include over 1,200 physicians, scientists,
writers and educators at the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit
institution with more than 100 years of history in patient
care, medical research and education. The site is an
extension of the Mayo Clinic commitment to provide health
education to patients and the general public in the United
States.
http://www.mayoclinic.com
MedlinePlus (Spanish)
Widely regarded as the gold standard of consumer health
information, MedlinePlus offers links to accurate and current
medical information that has been evaluated by the National
Library of Medicine (U.S.) on more than 750 health topics. It
includes drug information, an illustrated medical dictionary,
the latest health news, surgery videos, and interactive
health tutorials. The site has been translated into Spanish
with links to Spanish-language information on the Internet.
All the pages are printer-friendly. The first website any
health consumer should visit on the Internet.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials
MedlinePlus licenses interactive health education resources
from the Patient Education Institute. These tutorials use
animated graphics to explain over 165 procedures or
conditions in easy-to-read language. The tutorials are useful
for non-English speakers, those with vision disorders, or
those for whom literacy is a concern. Many tutorials are
available in Spanish as well as English. NOTE: These
tutorials require a special Flash plug-in, version 6 or
above. If you do not have Flash, you will be prompted to
obtain a free download of the software before you start the
tutorial.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
MedlinePlus Multiple Languages (Multiple Languages)
MedlinePlus includes health information on a wide variety of
conditions, diseases and procedures in over 40 languages.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html
Medpedia
The Medpedia
wiki is the collaborative encyclopedia and resource for information about
health, medicine and the body. It is an
open platform connecting people and information to advance science. Contributing to the wiki is limited to
physicians or those who have a Ph.D. who have registered with the project. Access to information is by a keyword search
engine. The project is a collaborative
effort by the Harvard School of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, UC
Berkeley School of Public Health and University of Michigan Medical School.
http://www.medpedia.com/
NLM Gateway
NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search
simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S.
National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM
services to initiate searches from one Web interface,
providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information
resources or databases. The gateway is targeted to the
Internet user who comes to NLM not knowing exactly what is
there, or how best to search for it.
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd?GMOverview%26loc=lhc
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