nursehealth

Site Name	Site Description
American Cancer Society	Find our about current strides being taken against cancer from the American Cancer Society.
American Heart Association	The American Heart Association page is designed to provide education and information on fighting heart disease and stroke.
American Lung Association	Home page of the American Lung Association.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)	CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
ETOH	Government produced index to drug and alcohol literature.
Food and Drug Administration	Find out about current actions of the FDA and its approval process.
HSTAT	HSTAT is a free, electronic resource produced by the National Library of Medicine that provides access to full-text documents useful in health care decision making. HSTAT includes: clinical practice guidelines, quick-reference guides for clinicians, consumer brochures, and reports and protocols from many different government agencies.
HospitalWeb	Comprehensive collection of American hospitals which have a presence on the internet.
InteliHealth	"InteliHealth is a media company formed as a joint venture between Aetna U.S. HealthcareTM and the Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Health System." Of specific note in this site is its drug information, medical dictionary, and current health releases sections.
Interactive Patient	"The Interactive Patient" at Marshall University School of Medicine is a truly unique Interactive World Wide Web Program that allows the user to simulate an actual patient encounter."
Martindale's Health Sciences Guide--2000	A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containing over 49,000 teaching files; over 124,000 Medical Cases; 864 Multimedia Courses/Textbooks; 1,350 Multimedia Tutorials; over 3,350 Databases, and over 10,300 Movies.
MedWeb	Comprehensive collection of links to WWW resources for almost every aspect of medicine including nursing.
MMWR	Access the current CDC produced Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report or search for a past issue using a topic search.
National Center For Health Statistics	This site is to provide users access to the health information that NCHS produces. Users can browse the publications and statistical tables,download selected public-use data files, conduct on-line database queries and searches in Wonder, track progress toward Healthy People 2000 Objectives, or access FASTATS from A-Z.
New York Online Access to Health	Collection of consumer health related topics. Search for specific diseases or conditions or look for general areas of interset.
New York State Nurses Association	Official page of NYSNA. Current legslative issues are discussed as well as conference announcements and listings of job openings.
NIH Web Search	This search utility from the National Institutes of Health provides the ability to search for documents of health related interest from over 100 selected U.S. government produced web sites.
Oncolink	"OncoLink was founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information. Through OncoLink you can get comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances."
USDA Nutrient Database	Gives nutrient information for most foods.
World Health Organization	Get a a current or past WHO Report of find out more information about the organization and its resources.
Yahoo! Nursing Organizations	A listing of nursing associations with a presence on the Internet.

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