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Adam
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This popular consumer health site grew out of a series of Cd-ROMs for the medical education market. It includes selections on men's, women's and children's health, as well as diet and nutrition, first aid and mental health. One of the highlights is a "Health Illustrated" section featuring full-color medical artwork.
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America's Doctor
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Launched on America Online in september 1998, America's Doctor expanded to the web in March. It has news, bulletin boards and shopping, but the coolest thing about this site is that it lets you have a private, realtime, one-on-one chat-room conversation with a physician, therapist or other health-care physician specialist 24 hours a day.
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Drug Infonet
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This independent, unsponsored site was created 2 years ago by Kelly Little, a pharmaceutical market researcher in New Jersey who simply says she "saw a need." She provides a range of valuable and clearly organized information, including details from package inserts and consumer phamplets for many drugs, links to manufacturer's sites, and "Ask the Expert" section and other resources.
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HealthAnswers.com
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This is an all-purpose health site run by Health-way Online Inc. of Austin, Texas. Features includes news from Reuters, articles from Physician's Weekly, a drug database and "health centers" gathering resources on dozens of topics, from alternative medicine to weight control.
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Health Central
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A general-interest health site with all the standard resources, as well as special reports by popular TV and radio doctor Dean Edell. The site also has customized health-risk assessment and personal record-keeping tools. Other columnists include a medical humorist and a medical libarian.
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Healthfinder
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This is the government's directory of authoritative health information, featuring a variety of menu lists with links to online journals, medical dictionaries, minority health and prevention and self-care. Information is obtainedfrom U. S government agencies; national voluntary, nonprofit and professional organizations; and academic institutions and libraries.
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HealthAtoZ.com
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This is a family-oriented site with personalization features including "My Health AtoZ" which lets users customize the home page with news and features targeted to their interests. The site also just added "E-Mate", an interactive calendar and organizer that lets families store and manage personalized information on line.
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InteliHealth
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A joint venture of Aetna US Health care and the respected Johns Hopkins University Hospital and Health Care system, this award-winning news site rounds up the latest tools and references (dictionaries, database indexes, hospital locators), has experts check them out and puts them in a reader-friendly package. The 1999 Webby Awards said InteliHealth is "like an EKG with attitude".
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Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
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One of the oldest and best-known consumer sources of Health Information. Editors arephysiciains at the Mayo clinic, and an emphasis is placed on providing timely information, with revision dates noted. Looks in the library section for an extensive list of reference articles written by Mayo clinic staff.
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MedHelp International
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An independent, nonprofit organization founded by two people who met in an on-line medical support group in 1993, this site focuses on resources for patients and their families.
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MedScape
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The popular information site, organized by medical specialites, is geared to physicians, who can receive customized home pages on medical topics in their areas of interest. A consumer version is promised soon; look for heavy cross-promotion on the TV and radio properties on CBS, which recently purchased a stake in MedScape.
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National Institutes of Health
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The umbrella site of the government's health research institutes included information about consumer publications, toll-free numbers for medical information and Medline Plus, the National Library of Medicine's new consumer-oriented site. It contains a selected list of quality resources on common diseases and conditions, as well as citations with abstracts to 9 million research articles published in 3,900 biomedical journals.
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OnHealth
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This independent, ad-suppoted site provides practical, consumer-friendly information from respected sources, such as major medical journals and hospitals. Resources include information on 250 health conditions, 1,000 in-depth articles, a drug database and an herbal index.
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WebMd
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This site, with sections geared to both doctors and consumers, offers medical news, personalized health information and support communities.
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