Essential Health Links: Patient-Education/General Patient
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FamilyDoctor.orgHealia
Human Anatomy Online
MayoClinic.com
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials
MedlinePlus Multiple Languages
NLM Gateway
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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/
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://medlineplus.gov
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
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
The Patient Education pages of Essential Health Links are
advised by Christie Silbajoris, MSLS, AHIP, Director,
NC Health Info, Health
Sciences Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(U.S.) and Karen Crowell, MLIS, Clinical Specialist, Health
Sciences Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(U.S).
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Updated: 3 November 2008