HSA's Communicable Disease Web Page

• American Academy of Pediatrics -"Committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults" is their motto.

• American Academy of Family Physicians - The American Academy of Family Physicians is the national association of family doctors. It is one of the largest national medical organizations, with more than 89,400 members in 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.

• American Medical Association - AMA home website includes access to a wide variety of medical information, journals, resources, etc.

• Baxter Int'l - medical products and services

• Bristol-Myers Squibb- health and personal care products

• California Healthcare  Foundation - "To expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of the people of California."

• California Healthcare Foundation - Health Reports - The California HealthCare Foundation has sponsored a special health thematic issue of Health Affairs, the preeminent health policy journal. Thirteen articles by distinguished authors explore the impact of the Internet on the shape of the health care system, regulation and the role of government, and the social consequences and challenges on care.

• California Perinatal Dispatch Center - Provides emergency access to the perinatal system for high-risk maternity patients and critically ill neonates. 

• Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research from Brown University presents the Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End-of-Life Care.

• Cyber-Medicine.org - List of highly rated medical links with statistics about various diseases.

• Doctor's Guide

• Doctor's Guide to the Internet - Medical professional's guide to Internet resources

• Eli Lilly and Company - pharmaceutical research

• The Good Doctor Oaths...

• Health Affairs - One of the major periodicals in its field with the largest number of paid subscribers. Each issue of Health Affairs is read by an estimated 35,000 people.

• Health on the Net Foundation - Contains a search engine, library of conferences and publications.

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Directs national health programs that improve the Nation's health by assuring equitable access to comprehensive, quality health care for all. HRSA works to improve and extend life for people living with HIV/AIDS, provide primary health care to medically underserved people, serve women and children through State programs, and train a health workforce that is both diverse and motivated to work in underserved communities

• ICD-9-CM - 6th Edition provided by UC Davis HS Center for Medical Informatics.

• Internet Resource Discovery Tools

• Medscape- Major medical website portal with many links for consumers and medical professionals.

• Medical World Search - Search nearly 100,000 Web pages from thousands of SELECTED medical sites.

• Medicine Net Numerous news articles pertaining to medical research, a search engine as well as useful links.

• MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources

• National Institute of Health - Federal government website provides access to a wide variety of medical related information and resources.

• National Library of Medicine - Resource access to MEDLINE and other medical resources and information.

• National Library of Medicine - PubMed - The National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.

• National Network of Libraries of Medicine(NN/LM) - The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by: 1) providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information; and, 2) improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers.

• New York Online Access for Health - City University of New York website with extensive medical information for health consumers and medical professionals.

• Nursing Center.com - "The Internet's Premier Destination for Nursing Information!"

• NursingNet - Internet resources for all disciplines of nursing

• Nurses Portal Home - Search engine, news articles and links to other sites containing nurse's resources.

• PDR Net - Online PDR and Medical References site includes PDR online, plus information resources for physicians, mid-levels, nurses and health care consumers.

• Physician's Guide to the Internet - Keeping physicians up to date on Web resources

• Physicians Online Network

• Public Health Training Network (PHTN) - Instructional assistance for Public Health practitioners.

• UPIN or Unique Physician Identifier Number

• U.S. National Library of Medicine

• Virtual Hospital - Contains a vast array of resources for both patients as well as doctors and health care providers. Contains online textbooks, and numerous other medical resources

• WebDoctor -  A comprehensive index of Internet medical resources that provides physicians with a virtual library of up-to-date, peer-reviewed professional medical information."
  
  

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