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General Medical Information Sites
Health Finder
The U.S. government's directory of authoritative health information including links to online journals, medical dictionaries, and prevention and self-care information.
MEDLINEplus
Provides access to 500 health topics, medical encyclopedias and dictionaries, and links to self-help groups, clinical trials, preformulated PubMed searches, lists of hospitals and physicians health and information in Spanish and other languages.
  

Drug and Pharmacy Information
CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
Includes information on new drug therapies in research and those recently approved by the FDA.
Drugs.com
A drug information database for consumers and medical professionals, providing information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, treatment notes for specific diseases and conditions, and topical articles and news related to pharmaceuticals.
Herb Research Foundation (HRF)
A nonprofit research and educational organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.
Longwood Herbal Task Force
Joint effort of Boston's Children's Hospital, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Includes monographs with references to scientific evidence as well as consumer and clinician leaflets plus drug/herb interactions.
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
  

Evaluating Health Information
Deciphering Medspeak
The Medical Library Association's site helps translate common "medspeak" terms. It includes tips on how to identify quality health-care information on the Internet.
  

Foreign Language
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Facts for Families
Available in English, Dutch, and French.
CAPHIS Resources in Spanish for Consumer Health Information
Quality resources and links from the Medical Library Association's Consumer Health and Patient Information Center (CAPHIS).
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages
From the European Commission, languages include: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
On-Line Diabetes Resources: Non-English Web Sites
Descriptions of and links to Web pages dealing with diabetes in languages other than English.
  

Hoaxes and Rumors
Health-Related Hoaxes and Rumors
The Center for Disease Control offers facts and relevant links with accurate information to refute rumors and hoaxes circulating in the media and via e-mail.
Hoaxbusters
In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, the Computer Incidence Advisory Capability Web site of the U.S. Department of Energy discusses how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some of the history of Internet hoaxes.
  

Multicultural
CCHCP -- The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
The site contains cultural profiles useful to health-care providers or community liaisons including free, downloadable files on the Arab, Cambodian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Lao, Mien, Oromo, Samoan, Somali, South Asian, Soviet Jewish, and Ukrainian cultures. Additional profiles can be purchased.
EthnoMed
Sponsored by the Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington in Seattle, contains information about cultural beliefs and medical issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle. Includes cultural profiles for Somalis, Cambodians, Vietnamese, and others as well as foreign language patient materials
Healthweb Minority Health
Sites dealing with general aspects of minority health and links to sites for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native Americans, and others.
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
Links to general resources dealing with transcultural health and health care for various religious faiths including the Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Islam, and ethnic groups, including Hmong, Thai, and Cambodian.
  

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