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The Internet provides an endless variety of medical sites. The following links may be useful as a starting place to locate more information. We have categorized these links into cardiac, general medical, medications, and nutrition. Please report any non-working links to us via the Contact Us form.
CARDIAC
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/index.shtml
Emedicine's online medical reference includes an emergency medicine site with dozens of cardiac-related articles. Though written at the advanced professional level, the breath and scope of these articles make them worthwhile to those patients who are familiar with technical terminology.
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/hw/cardiology/consumers.html
Health Web's cardiology page lists numerous sites of interest to the cardiac patient, all written for the health-care consumer.
http://www.heartinfo.com/
HeartInfo is an independent, educational site that provides a wide range of information and services to heart patients and others interested in learning about lowering risk factors for heart disease.
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/biosci.html
The Heart: An Online Exploration from the Franklin Institute Science Museum and Unisys Corporation features an electronic tour of the heart. The tour guide takes you through each section of the heart, recommends additional resources, and provides a brief glossary.
http://www.amhrt.org/newhome.html
The American Heart Association's home page, where you can find information regarding food & nutrition, exercise, legislation, tips on talking to health care providers, and support group contacts. Included is the American Heart Association's 1998 Heart and Stroke A-Z Guide, which provides a complete collection of full-text resources as well as their Biostatistical Fact Sheets.
http://women.americanheart.org/
The American Heart Association Women's Web site gives women of all ages everywhere the facts on women's heart disease and stroke. You'll learn what risks women face for heart disease and stroke and how lifestyle changes can lower those risks.
GENERAL MEDICAL
http://www.med-library.com/medlibrary/
Multimedia Medical Reference Library with search engine to find a multitude of medical sites.
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/HSGuide.html
Martindale's Health and Science Guide, a multimedia specialized information containing over 55,500 teaching files; over 126,300 Medical Cases; 1,055 Multimedia Courses/Textbooks; 1,450 Multimedia Tutorials; over 3,430 Databases, and over 10,400 Movies.
http://www.innerbody.com/default.htm
Human Anatomy On-line contains over 100 interactive and educational views of the human body, with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH
Intelihealth, a web site sponsored by Johns Hopkins, has many varied and interesting articles, links, and facts, and even sponsors customized e-mail announcements on the topics of your choice.
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
MedWeb, The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library of Emory University's search engine allows you to enter the topic of your choice and receive up-to-the-minute information on your subject.
http://www.healthgate.com/
HealthGate features free, unlimited access to the complete MEDLINE database, the largest and most widely utilized medical database in the world, and also to the complete CANCERLIT database. Among its other medical databases are AIDSLINE, the EMBASE Specialty Series, including EMBASE Drugs and Pharmacology, and PsycINFO. HealthGate also offers a wide range of continuing medical education courses, consumer databases, reference books, and patient information services.
http://www.mediconsult.com/
Mediconsult.com is a Consumer Health Marketing company specializing in using Internet tools to improve health outcomes and business performance. Mediconsult.com is completely independent of any hospital, drug company, HMO, hospital, or other health care organization.
http://www.nih.gov/
This site, sponsored by the National Institute of Health, contains NIH health resources such as CancerNet, AIDS information, Clinical Alerts, the Women's Health Initiative and the NIH Information.
MEDICATIONS
http://pharminfo.com/
Pharmaceutical Information Network's site includes information on drugs, resources for patients, clinical trials, patient newsgroups, web sites and various therapeutic-specific information centers.
http://www.fda.gov/default.htm
The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is one of our nation's oldest consumer protection agencies. Its approximately 9,000 employees monitor the manufacture, import, transport, storage and sale of about $1 trillion worth of products each year. It's job is to ensure the safety of food products, cosmetics, medicines and medical devices, radiation-emitting products such as microwave ovens, and even the feed and drugs for pets and farm animals. This site provides access to a large array of information on these subjects.
NUTRITION
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
The USDA's Nutrient Database for Standard Reference allows you to search for your favorite food and find out its makeup.
http://www.olen.com/food/
Based on the book, "Fast Food Facts," by Olen Publishing, this site allows you to look up the nutritional information on more than 1,000 menu selections from American's most popular fast food restaurants.
http://www.mymenus.com/
Search for a recipe by word, phrase, or ingredient. Plus, you can search for meal plans or recipes according to categories (weight loss, international, vegetarian, gourmet, diabetic, meat, etc). This site groups recipes by nutritional content, has dietary exchange information, and allows you to make a customized shopping list in accordance with the floorplan of your local supermarket.
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