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Contents: 1. General Health Resources 2. Evaluating Health Information Online 3. Finding Articles on Health & Wellness 4. Health Information in Different Languages

General Health Resources — including information on diseases & conditions:

"Key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet." --- healthfinder.gov - Espanol

Information on diseases and conditions, healthy living and patient advocacy including a Search by Symptom. --- familydoctor.org - Espanol

Easy-to-understand comprehensive overviews of diseases and conditions. --- www.mayoclinic.com

Information on health and safety. --- www.cdc.gov - Espanol

• A-Z Index of Health Topics

Links to U.S. government resources on various diseases and conditions. --- www.science.gov

Clearinghouse of health and medicine information from U.S. government agencies. --- www.science.gov

Health information on Life Stages, diseases and conditions, Therapies and Health Strategies, and more. --- www.medem.com

Information on diseases and conditions including hospital and physician info, medical encyclopedia and dictionary, info on medical drugs and links to clinical trials. --- medlineplus.gov - Espanol

• Cool Feature: MEDLINEplus Easy To Read Version

Directory of links to websites with health information. Includes diseases, conditions and other health topics. --- www.noah-health.org - Espanol

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Evaluating Health Info Found on the Internet:

You can trust the Library to evaluate and provide reliable online health resources on this and other Library web pages. But if you like to use search engines and other non-Library tools to search the Internet for health information, the following websites may be of great help to you.

"Use these tips to help decide if a Website is a reliable source of health care information." --- www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/

"This tutorial teaches you how to evaluate the health information that you find on the Web. It is about 16 minutes long." --- www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html

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Finding Articles on Health & Wellness:

Articles Online:

"Physician-reviewed articles that not only include news summaries, but also actionable information and perspective." --- www.medpagetoday.com

"National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature."

Find full-text JAMA articles from 1998 to 6 months ago. --- jama.ama-assn.org

Article Delivery Services:

"Loansome Doc allows users to order full-text copies of articles from a medical library (local fees and delivery methods may vary)," from PubMed and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway. --- www.nlm.nih.gov/loansomedoc/loansome_home.html

Searches NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Info), PubMed and GenBank databases DAILY using your customized searches. Free registration required. --- pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie

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Health Information in Different Languages:

Health and Wellness Trusted Website. Access over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages. --- library.med.utah.edu/24languages/

Health information resources in non-English languages. --- nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/multi.html

Health information in nearly 60 languages from a variety of sources. There is a link to the English version of each foreign language collection or article, except where so noted. --- healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/foreign/_intro.html

• Neat Feature: Tutorial on How To Find Information in This Multilingual Section