Oncolink . Another
good cancer website is this University of Pennsylvania site. Information
on topics such as cancer causes, types of cancer, screening and prevention,
clinical trials, etc. . is presented in file folders
Cancer
Risk Calculator from Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention This
website, from the Harvard School of Public Health, allows you to estimate
your risk of cancer risk by type (breast, colon, etc.). It is designed
to offer recommendations for lowering your risk of cancer.
National Cancer Institute This
site provides information on different kinds of cancer, treatments, clinical
trials, risk factors and related publications and other links.
CancerWeb:
Screening for Cancer This site allows you to
link to several other cancer sites. The site gives an Overview of Cancer
as well as information on specific cancers. This area discusses evidence
of disease, number of cases, mortality, etc. The site also has updated
information from the NIH
The website for the Gail Model Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is http://bcra.nci.nih.gov
Clinical
Trials
Clinical Trials Listing for the
National Institute of Health
This website is a service of the NIH developed by
the National Library of Medicine. The site was developed to provide patients,
family members and members of the public current information about clinical
research studies. This is a search engine and allows the user to browse for
information by condition or by study sponsor. There are various areas of
resource information listed.
Weight Management: obesitymemphis.com is a local obesity website. Calculate your BMI and learn about new obesity treatments and information.
DIETARY ANALYSIS http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
Database for dietary composition of thousands of foods. www.weightwatchers.com An online and local weight loss center. Helps participants make smart food choices by counting points instead of calories. There is a participation fee.
e_Diet.com An online weight loss center. Helps particiapants with calorie counting, meal planning, and exercise routines. There is a participation fee
Supplements:
HERBS AND SUPPLEMENTS www.mskcc.org/mskcc.html/11570.cfm
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site provides and unbiased look at herbs, dietary supplements, and alternative cancer treatments.
Wellness: www.americanheart.org
General information and risk assessment for heart disease www.nof.org
General information for osteoporosis www.cancer.org
American Cancer Society information on prevention, signs and symptoms of
cancer www.diabetes.org
General information for diabetes www.ahrq.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htm
The US Preventive Services Task Force site provides the consensus of public helath officials and hundreds of other experts on tests and treatments for more than 80 potentially preventable diseases and conditions.
OBESITY FACTS
Do you know that ………
Approximately 2/3 of the adult American population is overweight or obese
As little as 30 pounds of extra weight can classify you as obese
Co-morbidities associated with obesity include hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, depression, gallstones,ulcers, reflux, sleep apnea, stroke
Losing as little as 5-10% of your body weight can improve any existing co-morbidities.
EATING DISORDERS FACTS
Do you know that…
Anorexia Nervosa is characterized as self-starvation and excessive weight loss
Anorexia Nervosa has the highest death rate of all mental health conditions
Bulimia Nervosa is characterized as binge eating followed by some sort of compensatory behavior such as self induced vomiting. People who struggle with bulimia often appear to be of average weight
Binge eating disorder (BED) is characterized as binge eating with no compensatory behavior. Approximately 1-5% of the general population is affected
General Health
Healthfinder A
site sponsored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services
(DHS), is a searchable directory which helps users find information about
a given health topic on-line -- anything from information on cosmetic ingredients
to head injuries to rheumatoid arthritis to the history of medicine. It
includes sites created by government agencies, universities and not-for-profits,
health-related journals as well as contact information for health organizations.
Medscape.com i s
a very comprehensive and useful website for medical
information. It provides CME courses, interactive "exam room" interesting
cases,
including "EKG of the week." It has free access to thousands of
Medscape articles as well as drug and disease specific information. It also
serves as a search engine for several medical databases
Virtual
Medical Center (http://vlib.org/Medicine.html)
This website has information on a vast array of diagnoses that can be accessed
by clicking on a subspecialty. The site also has information on such medical
topics as parasites, lab tests, toxicology, radiology, and on and on. You
can even get information on travel warnings, world weather , entertainment,
passports, health -related conferences, etc. from this site.
UT
Weblinks This UT site gives links to UT medical
departments, off site medical links and sites of interest in Memphis (including
the Elvis Presley homepage!).
Problems with headaches... Here are three informative
sites
Consumer
Health Resources
This site is sponsored by the Biomedical Libraries
at DartmouthCollege. It provides a selection of useful links that are
designed to help consumers find information on a wide range of health
related topics.
The Harvard AIDS Institute
The Harvard AIDS Institute is dedicated to conducting
and catalyzing research to end the worldwide AIDS epidemic.
Good source of information about both childhood and adult immunizations. Lots of links to other sites.
Menopause
The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is pleased to introduceMenopause
Flashes, a complimentary monthly e-mail newsletter for consumers. You’ll
probably want to subscribe, too, so you’ll
know what they are reading. NAMS hopes that this new service will be of help
to you!
OSTEOPOROSIS
RESOURCE CENTER ON MEDSCAPE, free registration required to access this site.
Medscape has created the Osteoporosis Resource Center,
a
collection of timely medical news and information on conditions
associated with bone loss and fracture. The Osteoporosis ResourceCenter includes news, conference summaries, articles,
MEDLINE
abstracts, practice guidelines, and links to professional
organizations and much more. Let the Osteoporosis Resource
Center keep you informed.
Yahoo Medical Resources
Page
Topics of interest are divided into specialty topics,
such as osteopathy, clinical chemistry, oncology, etc. Clicking any category
links you to many more health -related weblinks
U.S. National Library of Medicine
This site provides information on library publications,
research programs, "new and noteworthy" findings. It also includes
a host of links such as Medline, Pubmed, NLM Gateway and Medline plus which
gives options such as publications on the web (including the Merck Manual
and other full length text resources
The World Health Organization (International
Home Page)
This site allows you to select a variety of connects sites that provide epidemiological
information from other parts of the world. It also has links to many other
areas such as mental health, infectious diseases, traveler's health, etc.
British Medical Journal
BMJ puts out twice a year the publication "clinical
evidence" which reviews the current literature on many topics (from
infectious disease to mental health disorders to CHF...). They present the
studies in a concise form and critique the study designs. They include information
on the relative risk, odds ratios, control group, sample size, etc. This
publication can be viewed on the website along with other ways to review
the medical lit. Clinical evidence is an excellent way for providers to quickly
stay current on many common illnesses/diseases. It also links to pubmed and
Medline search pages.
Medical
Translation There is a web page available put together by
a pharmacologist at the University of Gent that provides some common
medical translations for 9 European languages. This is available at: An Antibiotic
Selection Guide website--with a wealth
of information at Johns Hopkins.
Self Care
An online health care media publishing company strives to keep its readers
at the top of the medical information releases. The site provides consumers
with easy-to-read and comprehensive medical data. Check it out at: www.medicinenet.com
Familydoctor.org Health
information for the whole family from the American Academy of Family Physicians
MedConnect A
user-friendly site that includes information on a variety of medical
problems, "top health news," free CMEs, health policy updates
and more.
Tobacco Information and Prevention
Sources (tips). Provides information on tobacco
addiction, related diseases, tobacco industry documents and links to other
sites related to tobacco.
JOE CHEMO
The site is based on the character Joe Chemo, an
anti-smoking parody of Joe Camel. The site is highly interactive and allows
visitors to test their "Tobacco IQ," get a personalized "Smoke-o-Scope," and
send free Joe Chemo E-Cards. There is also extensive information for teachers,
anti-smoking activists, health care providers, journalists, and smokers who
wish to quit.
Women's Health
Just in time for the new academic year, www.4collegewomen.org, a new
health Web site for college age women developed by students for students, is
launched by Brandeis University. The first of its kind, the portal provides
a rich trove of trustworthy and noncommercial health information, assembled
by students based on the vision and with the supervision of Dr. Susan
Blumenthal, M.D., a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis and U.S.
Assistant Surgeon General and an expert in e-health and women's health.
Pap Smear and HPV. A good site about HPV and the implications of HPV found on a pap smear.
www.4woman.gov Women's Health Issues sites maintained
by Dept. of Health and Human Services. Reliable health care information
on many topics and conditions is provided. Critical resources such as online
dictionaries and medical journals and news messages are easy to access.
