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Consumer
Health and Patient Education
Cone Health Library Pathfinders
The CH Medical Library Staff has created lists of reputable
resources on various health conditions, diseases, and wellness
issues. Most of the resources featured are electronically
available online. Topics are:
Aging,
Asthma,
Bariatric Surgery, Breastfeeding,
Cancer, Cardiology,
Diabetes, Grief
and Bereavement, Hip
Replacement,
Knee
Replacement,
Palliative
Care, Perinatal
Education, Spinal
Surgery,
Stroke,
Surgery, Women's
Health, and Información
Salud Español.
Recommended
Consumer Health Resources
familydoctor.org
Health information reviewed by the American Academy of Family
Physicians. Includes drug information, herbal and alternative
remedies (Micromedex product), self-care flowsheets, and listing
of family physicians and practices.
Gateway
The NLM Gateway presents a single interface that lets users
search in multiple retrieval systems. Offers citations, full
text, video, audio, and images.
Guilford Health Online
Guilford Health Online is a collaborative effort among various
health and information agencies to organize and present a variety
of local and global health resources to the citizens of Guilford
County.
Healthfinder
Gateway to consumer health information from the United States
government and includes links to selected online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help
groups, as well as government agencies and not-for-profit
organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
*Spanish version of
Healthfinder
Health
Source: Consumer Edition
*(available from
within the Moses Cone Library)
This database provides consumer oriented information on many
health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and
nutrition, child care, sports medicine, and general health.
Includes searchable full text for over 150 consumer health
journals, abstracts and indexing for nearly 175 general health,
nutrition and professional health care publications.
Informed
Health Online
Evidence-based information for patients, clinicians and others
— summarizes Cochrane systematic reviews.
Lab Tests Online
Up-to-date information on clinical lab tests that include test
descriptions, conditions and diseases linked to certain tests,
screening guides, news, and in-depth articles.
MEDLINEplus
Links to medical dictionaries, health care directories, diseases,
and consumer health databases with many full-text resources.
*Spanish version of MEDLINEplus
Merck Manuals
The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition
uses everyday language to present information about diseases,
diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Sections of the Home
Edition are currently online. The Merck Manual of Geriatrics
focuses on the medical problems of the elderly. The Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is available at this site.
*Spanish version of the Merck
Manual Home Edition
NOAH
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) seeks to provide high
quality full-text health information in both English and Spanish
for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
Strong mental health focus.
PubMed Health
PubMed
Health
offers up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, drugs, treatment
options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness
research from institutions around the world. PubMed Health is produced by the
National Center for Biotechnology Information, a division of the National
Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
United
Way of Greater Greensboro - Call United Way 2-1-1; Directory of
Community Services in Guilford County
Services search presents an A to Z option for searching keywords
to find matching service programs.
UpToDate Patient Information
Content written for patients and family members by physicians who
are experts in their field. Articles updated continually based on
new medical findings and reviewed by multiple experts for
accuracy. UpToDate is also making its physician content
available. These professional articles provide a detailed
discussion of medical research and current expert
recommendations, and contain links to summaries of important
medical studies.
Alternative
Medicine
HerbMed
HerbMed® provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data
underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based
information resource for professionals, researchers, and general
public.
MedlinePlus:
Alternative Medicine
The consumer web site of the National Library of Medicine has put
together an easy reference to keep up with the latest research on
alternative medicine. There are sections on the latest news,
general overviews, clinical trials, research, information on
specific conditions, organizations, children's health, and
information en Espanol. It also links to related Internet sites
and other pages within MEDLINEplus on similar topics.
National Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
NCCAM provides bibliographical citations from reputable medical
journals on subjects related to alternative medicine; information
for researchers, and general information for consumers on
alternative care.
NOAH:
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) site provides
full-text health information to consumers in both English and
Spanish. It includes links to various alternative healing
approaches, health conditions and concerns, and other resources.
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