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- Best Nursing Homes and Short-Term / Long-Term Rehabilitation Care Facilities:
- Nursing Home Comparisons rated by Medicare
- Nursing Homes and Long-Term / Short-Term Care Ratings, add your zip codes for places near you. Rated by U.S. News & World Report
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) information about orthopaedics, finding an Orthopaedist, articles about diseases and syndromes, treatments and rehabilitation, parts of the body, and more.
- American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA)
- American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
- Hand & Wrist
- Foot Problems
- Hip & Thigh
- Knee & Lower Leg
- Back
- Neck
- Shoulder
- Elbow
- What is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is a nonprofit association founded in 1876 to work for reform in medical education. Originally representing only medical schools, the Association now includes 125 accredited U.S. medical schools, 16 accredited Canadian medical schools, 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, 90 academic and professional societies representing nearly 100,000 faculty members, and the nation's medical students and residents.
- American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM)
- American Chiropractic Association
- American College of Rheumatology (ACR)
- American Dental Association (ADA)
- American Diabetes Association (ADA)
- American Dietetic Association (ADA)
- American Hospital Association (AHA)
- American Journal of Orthodontics & Dentofacial Orthopedics (AJO-DO)
- American Medical Association (AMA) publications
- JAMA®, the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Network Open™ and the 11 JAMA Network™ specialty journals
- American Nurses Association Nursing World
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
- Amerigroup provides healthcare access and quality for low-income Americans by developing innovative managed health services for the public sector
- Arthritis Foundation
- Mediflow, the waterbase pillow Canadian manufacturer
- Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists New
- ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
- Dentistry for the Disabled Child and Adult
- Dental Lifeline Dental Lifeline Network is a national nonprofit organization, founded in 1974, that provides access to dental care and education for people who cannot afford it and have a permanent disability, or who are elderly: age 65 or older or who are medically fragile.
- Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Department of Veterans Affairs is a worldwide resource that provides information on VA programs, veterans benefits, VA facilities worldwide, and VA medical automation software.
- Drug Information Portal of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Health & Human Services Freedom of Information Act.
- Elsevier a multiple-media publisher of scientific, technical and health information products and services
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- FDA Drug Information The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) ensures that safe and effective drugs are available to improve the health of the people in the United States.
- FDA – Understanding Over-the-Counter Medicine has educational materials that provide information on using over-the-counter (OTC) medicine, including the safe use of daily aspirin therapy, tips for parents, and the safe use of OTC pain relievers and fever reducers. (Most materials are available in PDF format for immediate downloading or printing.)
- FDA – Using Acetaminophen and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs Safely
- FDA approves first blood sugar monitor without finger pricks
- FDA's MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
- Report a Serious Medical Product Problem Online
- MedWatch Consumer Voluntary Reporting form FDA-3500B fillable PDF form (1.35 Mb .pdf)
- What is a Serious Adverse Event? An adverse event is any undesirable experience associated with the use of a medical product in a patient. This page identifies when an event is serious and should be reported to FDA.
- FDA For Consummers
- FDA Consumer Safety Alerts and Recalls for drugs, biologics, medical devices, and dietary supplements (the RSS feed also runs in our right sidebar.)
- FoodSafety.gov is the gateway to food safety information provided by government agencies.
- Foot and Ankle Institute
- Games for Health a journal that applies cutting edge games and game technologies to a range of public and private policy, leadership, and management issues to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications.
- Hospital Locators
- American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA)-Accredited Veterinarian Hospital Locator
- List of Hospitals in Canada
- Find a Hospital. Top-rated hospitals provide better outcomes.
- How to dispose of unused medication: State Prescription Drug Return, Reuse, and Recycling Laws
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- Indian Health Service The Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI)
- Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) LHNCBC conducts research and development in biomedical informatics and the use of advanced communications and computing technologies to improve how NLM brings clinical data and health information to consumers, health care providers, and researchers. LHNCBC is an intramural research division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott, a division of Wolters Kluwer health information services, publishes medical texts, journals, applications, workflow tools for doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.
- Medical Disability Certificate form (242 Kb .pdf) A Note from Your Doctor for returning to work.
- Medicare
- Medicine.net provides reliable doctor-produced health and medical information. MedicineNet® is a network of U.S. Board Certified Physicians and Allied Health Professionals.
- MedLinePlus Drug Information for Drugs, Herbs and Supplements. Browse by generic or brand name. From the National Library of Medicine.
- MedlinePlus Encyclopedia
- Medscape patient information newsletters
- MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program report adverse drug reactions and medical device malfunctions to the FDA.
- MedWatch Consumer Voluntary Reporting (FORM FDA 3500B) ( fillable PDF form .pdf)
- MedWatch Instructions for (FORM FDA 3500A SUPPLEMENT) (.pdf)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Health Observances days, weeks, or months devoted to promoting particular health concerns. From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS)
- NCCIH HerbList™ App is research-based information about the safety and effectiveness of herbal products.
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Medical articles collection topic-specific archive of articles published in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Office on Women's Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- OrthoInfo Diseases and Conditions
- Patient Advocate Foundation
- Pain Management see the post Pain Management
- Physiological and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Physiological and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- The Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa
- Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
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Public Health Image Library (PHIL) website
- QuackWatch Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D. This site focuses on health frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct.
- Reporting Serious Problems to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (see also MedWatch
- Reiter's Scientific and Professional Books
- RxList and Pill Identification Tool Drugs A-Z, Pill Identifier, Supplements Information, Symptom Checker, and Diseases Dictionary
- ScienceDirect the world's largest full text database of scientific articles
- SNOEZELEN® sensory stimulation therapy
- Spine-health.com offers peer-reviewed information written by physicians for patients with back and neck pain.
- Sports Medicine Information
- Sports Medicine News from ScienceDaily, the latest research news about sports medicine
- U.S. News & World Reports: Sports Medicine News news about sports medicine
- The Physician and SportsMedicine Online a source for primary care sports medicine clinical and personal health articles and a resource for Sports Medicine Clinics and Fellowships.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition also cosmetics and women's health
- Virtual Hospital Tour: Cleveland Clinic
- Visible Human Project A human being, sliced up into tiny little slide-show size pieces
- WebMD
- Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute (WEMSIE)
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- Orthopaedic Resources
- Pain Management
- Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Equipment Resources
- Sports Medicine and Sports Management Resources
- "What Should I Do With Unused Medications?"
- Wheelchairs and Scooter Resources