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| General Sources |
| Aetna Intelihealth - |
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Information on diseases, treatment and medications.
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| American Dental Association Oral Health Topics |
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Provides you with information and resources about various issues related to you and your family's oral health care. Select from the category listing or choose from the alphabetical listing to find a specific topic. |
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| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
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Focused on environmental health and disease prevention and control including travelers’ health and immunizations and vaccines. |
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| Family Doctor |
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Operated by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), a national medical organizations representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical students. All of the information on this site has been written and reviewed by physicians and patient education professionals at the AAFP.
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| Health Finder |
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Your guide to reliable health information, sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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| HIV InSite |
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Comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco.
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| KidsHealth |
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Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. |
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| LGBT Health Channel |
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LGBThealthchannel.com is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health information website. It serves as an online resource for LGBT community members, allies, and health care providers who want to learn about LGBT health issues, discuss issues in our online forum, or locate LGBT-friendly providers. The health education content was developed by Fenway Community Health, a nationally recognized leader in medical and mental health care for the Boston LGBT community. The website is managed by Healthcommunities.com, a company committed to providing reliable physician-monitored online education via its consumer websites and via websites managed for doctors all over the U.S. |
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| MayoClinic |
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Resources to help you and your family stay healthy.
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| Medical Library |
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Medem's award-winning Medical Library represents the full range of patient education information from our partner medical societies and other trusted sources, and is unsurpassed in quality, breadth and depth of health care information.
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| Medicare Rights Center |
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Medicare Rights Center (MRC) is the largest independent source of health care information and assistance in the United States for people with Medicare. Founded in 1989, MRC helps older adults and people with disabilities get good, affordable health care. |
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| Medline Plus Health Topics |
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A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. |
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| Merck Manual – Home Edition |
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Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information about prognosis. Based on the world's most widely used textbook of medicine—The Merck Manual—but written in everyday language by 300 outstanding contributors. Provided free of charge on the Internet by Merck & Co., Inc., as a public service. |
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| MerckSource |
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A world of health information at your fingertips. MerckSource offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We've designed this website with your health and medical needs in mind. Best of all, it's free and it has absolutely no advertising. No distractions. Just credible, unbiased health and medical information at your fingertips. |
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| National Cancer Institute |
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Provides users with information to help users better understand their health, diagnosed conditions, and the current range of approaches related to cancer treatment, prevention, screening, and supportive care.
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| National Institutes for Health |
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A-Z index of NIH health resources, clinical trials, MedlinePlus, health hotlines, and more. |
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| NOAH |
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New York Online Access To Health NOAH- provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
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| PDRhealth |
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Information on prescription medications, clinical trials and health subjects. |
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| Riverside County Community Health Agency |
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Complete directory of County Public Health Office services. |
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| Web MD |
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WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. You can trust that our content is timely and credible.
The WebMD content staff blends award-winning expertise in medicine, journalism, health communication and content creation to bring you the best health information possible. Our esteemed colleagues at MedicineNet.com are frequent contributors to WebMD and comprise our Medical Editorial Board. Our Independent Medical Review Board continuously reviews the site for accuracy and timeliness
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| Finding a Physician or Dentist |
| AMA Physician Select |
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The American Medical Association’s searchable database of licensed medical doctors in the US |
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| ADA Find a Dentist |
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The American Dental Association’s database of member dentists throughout the US |
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| Physician License Lookup |
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The Medical Board of California online service to verify physician licensing and standing |
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