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• 3D Human Anatomy Resource - A unique dynamic human anatomy resource that provides you with stunning 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education, for patient education, for your students or for your own presentations.
• A.M. Best: Health - Health insurance and managed care organization information and ratings.
• Adam - A leading online provider of health, medical, and wellness information. Products contain physician-reviewed text, medical illustrations, multimedia, interactive tools and technology that provide highly effective health and medical education resources.
• Advance Directives - Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later on.
• Air War College: Military Medicine - Extensive resources, including medical doctrine, medical readiness; first-aid; special ops medicine; combat medicine; anthrax; infectious diseases; space medicine; telemedicine; health hoaxes; genetics, DNA and forensics; and more.
• Alberta Health - The ministry that sets policy, legislation and standards for the health system in Alberta, Canada.
• American Medical Association (AMA) - AMA home page. JAMA and AMNews, policy information, directories of medical societies, links to peer-reviewed medical journals.
• American Medical Association (AMA): DoctorFinder - Physician locator.
• Amedeo - Medical literature guide.
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentists - Dedicated to improving and maintaining the oral health of infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special health care needs.
• American Association of Endodontists - Specialty organization for endodontics (root canal treatment) recognized by the ADA.
• American Board of Medical Specialties - Check physicians' board certification status, medical education and work history. Updated daily, BoardCertifiedDocs provides instant access to complete and verified professional credentials on 580,000 board certified physicians. Also, visit the ABMS official Is Your Doctor Board Certified page.
• American Dental Association (ADA) - Professional association of dentists provides services and initiatives in education, research, advocacy and the development of standards.
• American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) - The largest professional organization representing the interests of dental hygienists.
• American Hospital Directory - Provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals. Information is built from Medicare claims data, cost reports, and other public use files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• American Medical Association - Information on virtually every licensed physician in the U.S. and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (M.D.) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (D.O).
• American Osteopathic Association (AOA) - To find an osteopathic physician (D.O.), contact your state osteopathic medical association by phone, E-mail, or through their Web site. Clicking on the state provided on this site will provide you with this contact information.
• American Podiatric Medical Association - Find a podiatrist by entering an address and/or city, state ZIP to center your search within the USA.
• Anatomy-Resources.com - Comprehensive offering of anatomical models. Used by colleges, universities and medical schools to educate students, hospitals to train their staff, and doctors for patient education.
• Ancilla Systems - A major Midwestern, Catholic sponsored healthcare organization.
• Andreas Vesalius: On the Fabric of the Human Body - Annotated translation-in-progress of Andreas Vesalius' seminal Renaissance anatomy work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem: On the Fabric of the Human Body.
• Anthem - Find an Anthem health plan and apply online.
• ASBMR Bone Curriculum - A a project of the Education Committee of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. ASBMR's mission is to promote excellence in bone and mineral research, foster integration of clinical and basic sciences and facilitate a translation of our science to health care and clinical practice.
• Ascension Health - The largest not-for-profit healthcare system in the world, as well as the largest Catholic health system in the U.S.
• Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
• Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors (DocFinder) - Health professional licensing database information provided by Administrators in Medicine's (AIM) member state medical and osteopathic boards.
• Biobot Analytics - Inspired by the potential of wastewater epidemiology, Biobot is the first company in the world to commercialize data from sewage.
• bioethics - The moral implications of science, medicine and research, supported by the University of Pennsylvania, Center of Bioethics.
• BioMed Central - Provides an efficient service for authors wishing to publish research reports in every field of biological sciences and clinical medicine, using a full peer-review process. Places all research published by BioMed Central on PubMed Central in full and without delay, ensuring permanent visibility, immediate listing in PubMed and easy linking to other related information.
• BioMedNet - Life sciences portal for biological medical researchers.
• Blood Tests and Interpreting Blood Test Results - Find questions and answers about blood tests and information about interpreting blood test results such as the CEA, HCG, hemoglobin, amylase, and CBC.
• BMI - BMI is a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. BMI appears to be as strongly correlated with various metabolic and disease outcome as are these more direct measures of body fatness. In general, BMI is an inexpensive and easy-to-perform method of screening for weight category, for example underweight, normal or healthy weight, overweight, and obesity. Also see Calculate Your Body Mass Index.
• Blood Pressure
  • Know Your Blood Pressure Numbers
  • Prehypertension
• Body1 - A leading developer of deep, rich content e-health communities known as Knowledge Cooperatives (KnowCo's) and a primary on-line source for leading edge health information, products and services.
• Breathing - The Proper Technique - Breathing techniques and exercises are becoming an important part of almost all healing disciplines. Studies show that a proper inhale and exhale technique, if exercised at proper intervals, has measurable medical benefits to include stress reduction.
• Barnett-Briggs Medical Library - Located at San Francisco General Hospital. Library collection, database and web resources, books and journals.
• British Medical Journal (BMJ) - General medical journal website. This site contains the full text of all articles published in the weekly BMJ since January 1994.
• Buying Medical Products Online - U.S. Food and Drug Administration information site.
• Annual Report to the Nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2010 - The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States.
• Cardiology News & Articles - Current cardiology news for clinicians from top medical journals.
• California Board of Chiropractic Examiners (CBCE) - Protects Californians from fraudulent or incompetent practice of chiropractic; 2) examines applicants for licensure in order to evaluate entry level competence; and 3) enforces the Chiropractic Initiative Act and Regulations Relating to the Practice of Chiropractic.
• California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting - Partnering with news organizations across the state to explore questions about the quality and costs of health care and about Californians' ability to access it.
• California Medical Association (CMAnet) - CMA represents more than 34,000 physicians. Dedicated to the health of all Californians, and to promoting and protecting the science and art of medicine.
• Caring Bridge - People around the world turn to CaringBridge for health journey communications. CaringBridge is a free online tool for sharing health updates. It is an easy and ad-free way to communicate health news to family and friends—all in one place.
• CareScout - Elder care resources and directory of nursing homes and assisted care facilities.
• CBSHealthWatch - Quality information and interactive tools to help consumers and their families manage their daily personal health.
• Center for Complex Infectious Diseases (CCID) - Determines the nature, origin, disease associations, modes of transmission, methods of diagnosis and responses to therapy of complex infectious diseases.
• Center for Law and the Public's Health - A primary, international, national, state, and local resource on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, legislators, judges, academics, policy-makers, and others.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Agency services, information, and resources. Also see Find Physicians and Other Clinicians.
• CenterWatch - A leading source of news, directories, analysis, and proprietary market research for clinical research professionals and patients. Provides patients and their advocates information on clinical trials, specific drugs, as well as other essential health and educational resources.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - A U.S. agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. Promotes health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Parasitology Diagnostic Web Site - Parasites and parsidic diseases, diagnostic procedures, diagnostic assistance. Concise reviews of parasites and parasitic diseases, including an image library and a review of recommended procedures for collecting, shipping, processing, and examining biologic specimens.
• Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) - A a public hospital providing direct patient care for people with mental health and addiction problems. The Centre is also a research facility, an education and training institute and a community based organization providing health promotion and prevention services across the province of Ontario, Canada, and is a Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization collaborating centre.
• Chirobase - A skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories and current practices.
• Citeline - Comprehensive provider of real-time R&D intelligence to the biopharma industry and now provides information and analytical services to over 250 companies and institutions around the globe.
• ClinicalTrials.gov - A registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. Provides information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
• Cochrane - A global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health. Cochrane contributors - 37,000 from more than 130 countries - work together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest. Also see Cochrane Nordic, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care..
• Compassion and Choices - Works to improve care and expand choice at the end-of-life.
• Complete List of DSM-IV Codes - Basic codes provided and explained. Also see Wikipedia entry Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
• Confused Names - The Institute for Safe Medication Practices provides this listed of confused drug names, which includes look-alike and sound-alike name pairs.
• Coroners - Listing of coroner and medical examiner offices in California.
• CPT Code/Relative Value Search - Provides users of CPT the opportunity to perform CPT code searches and obtain information about Medicare's relative value payment amount associated with the codes. Searches can be performed using 5 digit CPT code numbers or key word(s) in the code description.
• CPT Codes and Medicare Payment Information - The AMA provides official Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) the most widely accepted medical nomenclature used to report medical procedures and services under public and private health insurance programs. Also, search CPT code and obtain information about Medicare's relative value payment amount associated with the codes.
• CPT Coding, Medical Billing and Insurance - Many of the AMA's coding products are now available for immediate download. Upon purchase, you can obtain the CPT, ICD-9-CM, HCPCS, and CPT/RVU ASCII data files, as well as CPT Assistant and Clinical Examples in Radiology Newsletter back issues.
• Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) - Established in 1980 for human service professionals to address the need for training in safe, respectful, noninvasive methods for managing disruptive and assaultive behavior in a way that is compatible with staff's duty to provide the best possible care.
• CRISPR Therapeutics - Focused on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious human diseases.
• Cuba Solidarity/Project InfoMed - Allows direct access by physicians, medical students, researchers and remote family doctors to major medical databases in Cuba and around the world. Allows Cuban medical personnel to make direct contact with foreign colleagues.
• Denis Browne Splint - A light aluminum splint applied to the lateral aspect of the leg and foot, used for clubfoot. Also see Wikipedia entry for clubfoot.
• Dental Related Internet Resources - Directory of resources.
• dentalxchange - A leading provider of Internet-based tools and e-commerce solutions for dental industry. The company brings together dentists, manufacturers, suppliers, dental professionals and patients to educate, evaluate and integrate the dental community and its resources.
• DEXA (DXA) Scan: Bone Density Test - A DEXA scan is an imaging test that measures bone density (strength). DEXA scan results can provide helpful details about your risk for osteoporosis (bone loss) and fractures (bone breaks). This test can also measure your body composition, such as body fat and muscle mass. Also see:
  • DEXA Scan (Dual X-ray Absorptiometry) to Measure Bone Health
• Diagnosis Codes (ICD-9) Commonly Used in the Chiropractic Office - This is a cross-section of the ICD-9 Codes commonly used in chiropractic offices, listed by body region and complaint. These codes were compiled from the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision by PMIC.
• Diagnosis-related Group (DRG) - A system to classify hospital cases into one of approximately 500 groups, also referred to as DRGs, expected to have similar hospital resource use, developed for Medicare as part of the prospective payment system. DRGs are assigned by a "grouper" program based on ICD diagnoses, procedures, age, sex, discharge status, and the presence of complications or comorbidities. DRGs have been used since 1983 to determine how much Medicare pays the hospital, since patients within each category are similar clinically and are expected to use the same level of hospital resources. DRGs may be further grouped into Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs).
• Diagnostic Code Descriptions (ICD-9) - These diagnostic codes are based on the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases developed by the World Health Organization, commonly referred to as ICD9.
• Diagnostic Medlab - Medical testing laboratory based in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Diagnostic Tests - Information on diagnostic tests in the following categories: Blood Disorders; Bones, Joints, and Muscles; Brain and Nervous System; Digestive System; Ears, Nose, and Throat; Eyes; Health of Men; Health of Women; Heart, Blood Vessels, and Circulation; Hormonal Disorders; Infertility, Pregnancy, and Childbirth; Lungs; Skin, Hair, Nails; Urinary System.
• Discovery Health - Health, stress, heart, plastic surgery, weight, loss, pregnancy, sex.
• Doctor's Guide - Comprehensive source for peer-reviewed literature, case studies, webcasts and more.
• DoctorDirectory - Physician directory and search tool.
• Doctors Without Borders (MSF): Life in the Field - The National Geographic presents brief introductions to approximately 30 of the hundreds of projects that Doctors Without Borders (MSF) runs - snapshots of MSF's work in more 80 countries around the world.
• Doe Report - Popular web site for medical demonstrative evidence with over 14,000 medical illustrations, medical animations and anatomical models.
• Doody Enterprises - Specializes in providing literature update services through weekly e-mail updates customized to each reader's specified areas of interest and Web sites built for medical librarians and health care and health information professionals. Also see Doody's Core Titles, a collection development tool featuring the most extensive database of expert reviews of books and software in the health sciences, now with nearly 20,000 reviews. Bibliographic information on 90,000 book and software titles in 120 specialties.
• Drug- and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) - World Health Organization webpage.
• E-dental - Source of clinical, professional, drug, licensure, regulation, research, patient education, legal, and ethical dental information. Leading-edge content about oral health and hygiene, legal affairs, practice management, information technology, computerization, benefits/insurance, public health, and more. News and information about dentifrices, crowns, bridges, implants, fluoride issues, biomaterials, restorative dentistry, esthetic dentistry, sterilization, prostheses, lasers, and other dental products, supplies, and services.
• ECG Library - An electrocardiogram (ECG / EKG) is an electrical recording of the heart and is used in the investigation of heart disease. This library is a collection of realistic looking recordings which will help improve your ECG skills.
• Echocardiogram - An echocardiogram is a test in which ultrasound is used to examine the heart.
• eldercareLocator - A public service of the U.S. Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families.
• Electronic Research Administration (ERA) Commons - For the purposes of exchanging research grants administration information, the NIH provides this "commons", a virtual meeting place where NIH extramural grantee organizations, grantees, and the public can receive and transmit information about the administration of biomedical and behavioral research.
• Emergency Contraception Website - Emergency contraceptives are methods of preventing pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse. They do not protect against sexually transmitted infections. Emergency contraception can be used when a condom breaks, after a sexual assault, or any time unprotected sexual intercourse occurs. Emergency contraceptives available in the United States include: emergency contraceptive pills and the copper-T intrauterine device.
• EmergencyLink - Allows you to store your emergency info, share it with family and friends, and has an Emergency Response Service that includes a free emergency ID Kit.
• Environmental Health - This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic.
• EPA's SunWise School Program and UV Index - The ozone layer shields the Earth from harmful UV radiation. Ozone depletion, as well as seasonal and weather variations, cause different amounts of UV radiation to reach the Earth at any given time. Developed by the National Weather Service (NWS) and EPA, the UV Index predicts the next day's ultraviolet radiation levels on a 0-10+ scale, helping people determine appropriate sun-protective behaviors.
• ePocrates - Leading clinical drug reference guide designed for the Palm OS platform.
• Everything You Want to Know About Depression - Symptoms, cuases, and explanations of various approaches and treatments for depression.
• Family Medical History - Gathering a complete and accurate family medical history is becoming more important as genetic medicine explains more diseases. Tools provided by the AMA have been developed to aid both the physician/healthcare provider as well as the patient.
• Family Practice Notebook - Compendium of diagnosis and management of common medical problems: Cardiovascular, Medicine, Dental, Dermatology, Emergency, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, General, and, Practice, Management, Geriatric, Gynecology, Hematology, Oncology, HIV, Infectious, Disease, Jokes, Laboratory, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Prevention, Psychiatry, Pulmonology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Sports, Surgery.
• familydoctor - Medical information for the family from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
• FamilyPractice - Offers family physicians multimedia tools for sharpening diagnostic skills, and CME provided by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
• Find-a-Code - Medical billing codes, descriptions, and fees: ICD-9-CM, CPT, HCPCS, ABC Codes, ICD-10-CM/PCS, PQRI, Medicare Policies - LMRP/LCD/NCD, NCCI Edits, Fees/RVUs, Alerts, and more.
• FIRSTConsult - Information on over 20,000 disease-specific topics.
• Flu Trends - Explore flu trends around the world.
• Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and and Natural Toxins Handbook (FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book) - This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health.
• Foot and Ankle Conditions - Information for broken bones and injuries, diseases and conditions, treatments and surgeries, health and safety.
• FreeMD - Symptom triage to help you decide when, and where, you should seek care when you have symptoms. FreeMD performs a medical interview, just like a real doctor. During the interview, you answer questions about your symptoms and past medical history.
• Funeral Planning - A consumer information and education resource on funeral planning, financing funerals, funeral products and services, and grief support and counseling. You can also post free online obituaries and find out how to help your child handle grief. Ask the experts or browse the archives of past questions and answers. Free funeral home locator. You can also learn about pre-planning what's involved in donating a body to science, and find information on caskets, cremation urns, cemeteries, embalming, and other products and services. Search online for obituaries/funerals nationwide at Free Online Obituaries.
• Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) - The purpose of a Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is to provide an objective measure of a patient's/client's safe functional abilities compared to the physical demands of work.
• General Dental FAQ - All about dental care, dental procedures, dental specialties.
• Get Body Smart - Human anatomy and physiology including tutorials and quizzes on the skeletal, muscle, nervous, circulatory, respiratory and urinary systems.
• Glia - Working hard to create Free/Libre open source medical hardware that is high-quality, and low-cost.
• global health.gov - Addresses global health and the link between domestic and international health issues.
• Global Library of Women's Medicine - A comprehensive reference to current clinical practice for clinicians and other medical professionals.
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - This Bartleby.com edition features 1,247 vibrant engravings - many in color - from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with over 13,000 entries.
• Grey Literature Report - Focuses on gray literature resources (documentary material that is not commercially published) from the medical field and includes an extensive listing of agencies and organizations that produce health-related materials. Maintained by the New York Academy of Medicine.
• Guide to Wheelchair and Assistive Technology Choices - A web guide to wheelchair and assistive technology choices, wheelchair views and reviews, and related information and articles.
• Hand Kinesiology - The variety of movements available to the human hand and wrist are the result of its unique bone and joint structure, ligament structure, muscle arrangement, and nerve distribution.
• Hardin Library for Health Sciences - Medical information, e-journals, popular resources, and articles from The University of Iowa.
• Harvard Health Online - Harvard University health publications, special reports, newsletters, and books.
• Harvard Medical School (HMS) - One of the world's preeminent institutions in medical education and research. The School has nearly 8,000 faculty and 17 affiliated facilities.
• Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide - Supplementary information to the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, a 1300 page book on wellness and illness.
• Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide: Diagnostic Tests - Explains latest research, treatments and diagnostic tests.
• Healia - Personalized health search engine.
• HealingWell - Health resource guide to medical news, articles and information, community message boards and chat rooms, free email, newsletters, books, disease-related web sites, and medical directories for patients, caregivers, and family coping with disabling diseases, disorders, or chronic illness.
• Health and Human Services (HHS) - U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of Americans and providing essential human services.
• Health Encyclopedia - From AARP.org.
• Health Encyclopedia - From Kaiser Permanente.
• Health Hippo - Policy and regulatory materials related to health care.
• Health Information for Older Adults - Resources provided by CDC.
• Health News - Health news, medicine, medical journals.
• Health on the Net Foundation (HON) - Respected not-for-profit portal to medical information on the Internet. HON co-operates closely with the University Hospitals of Geneva and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
• Health Over Profit - Individuals, members and current or past leaders of organizations that are working to achieve a national improved Medicare for All healthcare system.
• Health Pages - Rate your doctors, find a physician, compare insurance plans and explore your health care options.
• Health Physics Instrumentaion Museum Directory - Official repository for historical radiological instruments by the Health Physics Society. Contains more than 1,000 objects.
• Health World Online - A virtual health village where you can access information, products, and services to help create a wellness-based lifestyle.
• Healthcare Channel (HCC) - Digital video channel dedicated to professionals in healthcare, business and policy. The HCC is a multimedia video portal for video interviews, coverage of medical meetings, public rountable discussions, and written articles.
• Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) - A set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT). Such coding is necessary for Medicare, Medicaid, and other health insurance programs to ensure that insurance claims are processed in an orderly and consistent manner. See Free 2009 HCPCS Codes database.
• HealthCentral - Medical information, up to date news, and a doctor-approved health encyclopedia of diseases and conditions.
• HealthFinder.gov - Health information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• HealthGrades - Valuable information about the quality of health care provided by individual hospitals, physicians, and health plans in the U.S.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) - Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.
• Healthline - Health information, guided by the principles of responsible journalism and publishing.
• HealthMap - Google's disease alert HealthMap integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers.
• HealthVault - Collect, store, and share your health information with Web sites and doctors. Also see the Microsoft HealthVault Developer Center.
• HealthVideo - A leading producer of streaming health content, offering daily health webcasts addressing a variety of health issues.
• Healthwise - Health plans, employers, governments, and other organizations turn to Healthwise to help reduce health care costs, manage demand, assure quality of care, and satisfy constituents.
• HelpGuide - A trusted non-profit guide to mental health and well-being. Stays on top of developments in the psychological, social, and medical sciences, both through its own research and via its collaboration with Harvard Health Publications.
• History of Nursing - Appreciate the historical figures that laid the foundation for modern nursing as we know it over 150 years ago. One hundred annotated links to related museums and libraries, nursing history archives, military nursing history, historic figures in nursing, and general nursing history.
• Home Health Provider - Serves the needs of those who are involved in renting, selling, and providing home health services to patients, including, but not limited to, HME providers and HHA providers.
• Hospital Network - Serves the information needs of materials managers, purchasing directors, purchasing agents, buyers, central service directors, managers, and supervisors, infection control practitioners, operating room directors, managers, and supervisors, surgical services directors, managers, and supervisors, and others involved in hospital purchasing.
• How to Stop Snoring - Learn what causes snoring and how you can cure it. Includes self-help tips and remedies.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) - A nonprofit medical research organization that employs hundreds of leading biomedical scientists working at the forefront of their fields. The Institute is one of the world's largest philanthropies, with laboratories across the United States and grants programs throughout the world. Its headquarters and conference center are located in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
• Human Anatomy Online - Animations, graphics, descriptive links. Interactive, educational views of the human body.
• Human Anatomy Resources - Anatomical models and charts.
• Human-Anatomy - Human anatomy picutres and medical software. The Human Anatomy software is unsurpassed in conveying complex anatomical & pathological information. All structures and musculature are modeled and labeled including nerves, deep and superficial muscles, blood supply, skeletal structures and unique features for each individual body part.
• Human Genetics and Medical Research - Produced in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
• ICD-9 and ICD9CM Codes Search - The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is the classification used to code and classify mortality data from death certificates. The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is used to code and classify morbidity data from the inpatient and outpatient records, physician offices, and most National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) surveys. Search for the definitions of ICD9/ICD9CM codes.
• Influenza Encyclopedia: The American Influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 - An estimated 650,000 Americans lost their lives to the infamous and tragic 1918-1919 influenza epidemic, a small but significant fraction of the approximately 50 million deaths the disease caused worldwide. Countless more were left without parents, children, friends, and loved ones. Communities across the country did what they could to stem the rising tide of illness and death, closing their schools, churches, theaters, shops and saloons. Doctors, nurses, and volunteers gave their time - and, occasionally, their lives - to care for the ill. These pages contain the stories of the places, the people, and the organizations that battled the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919.
• Info for Teens - Information about sexual health provided for teens by Planned Parenthood.
• Infoline Los Angeles - Access to the latest information on any health and human services program in the Los Angeles area. Also, collects and provides collects statistical information related to services needed and to gaps and duplications in services.
• InteliHealth - Health information priovided by Aetna.
• International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - Part of the World Health Organization. IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer prevention and control. The Agency is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and disseminates scientific information through publications, meetings, courses, and fellowships.
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) - IHME measures health throughout the U.S., using its library of health data, the world’s largest and most comprehensive, and a global collaborator network of more than 3,500 physicians, researchers, policymakers, and analysts. IHME identifies, investigates, and interprets the causes and effects of disease, injury, and death for every year since 1990, and provides evidence and tools enabling stakeholders to interpret and make results relevant for their communities.
• International Radio Medical Centre (CIRM) - C.I.R.M. is the oldest existing organisation providing radio-medical assistance in the world, having been founded in 1935 by Professor Guida, who first understood the importance of health-care for seamen and of giving them the possibility and comfort of access to the professional advice of a doctor at all times. C.I.R.M. is headquartered in Rome, where specially trained physicians and radio operators are on continuous duty. In addition highly qualified specialists in all medical branches can be consulted. The duty-doctor, by means of consecutive calls, maintains regular contact with the ship requiring radio-medical assistance until their arrival in a port with adequate medical facilities or until the complete recovery or evacuation of the patient.
• International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) - Committed to improving the care of patients with infectious diseases, the training of clinicians and researchers in infectious diseases and microbiology, and the control of infectious diseases around the world.
• It's Your (Sex) Life - Guide to safe and responsible sex.
• James Lind Library - The James Lind Library has been launched to mark the 250th anniversary of the publication of James Lind's Treatise of the Scurvy. Lind's 1753 book contains a systematic review of what had been written about scurvy, which was killing thousands of people every year, as well as one of the earliest accounts of a fair comparison of different medical treatments. Lind showed that oranges and lemons were more effective than other treatments for scurvy. At the core of the James Lind Library are pages illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments. These pages contain examples from nearly a hundred books and journal articles, illustrated by images of the key passages of text. New records are being added continuously, as well as biographical material, portraits, translations, commentaries, and other relevant material.
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) - Evaluates and accredits nearly 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the U.S. The Joint Commission is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
• Kaiser Permanente - America's largest not-for-profit health maintenance organization, serving 8 million members in 11 states and the District of Columbia.
• Lab Tests Online - Public resource on clinical lab testing and topics relating to them: cholesterol, psa, pap smear, pregnancy test, cbc, lipid profile, hdl, ldl, cardiac markers, cardiac risk, hiv testing, glucose testing, glucose monitoring, crp, lytes, electrolytes, hpv, aids testing, testing for cervical cancer, testing for heart disease, testing for diabetes, testing for thyroid disease, testing for osteoporosis, testing for multiple myeloma, testing for chlamydia, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, testing for STDs, prostate cancer screening, screening tests. See Test Index.
• Laboratory Network - Information about laboratory chemicals, products, systems, services and equipment, including analytical instruments, computer hardware and software, chromatography equipment, separation systems, filtration systems, liquid handling equipment, and more.
• Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator - Questionnaire followed by explanations explaining how each item is related to your longevity potential.
• Long Term Care Provider - Source of information for professionals delivering post-acute care. These professionals provide care to elderly patients in a variety of settings, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day care, subacute care facilities, rehabilitation facilities, senior housing, skilled-nursing facilities and hospices.
• LUMEN - Loyola University medical education network.

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