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| Consumer Resources: Health: Listings |
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- Acor: links to cancer info, and online bulletin/messageboards
- Advance Directives, health care proxies, forms for each state
- Aging Parents & Elder Care: advice, checklists, and resources
- Assisted Living state by state listings/how to shop for
- Cancer and other disease Risks Interactive Calculator from Harvard
- Care Guide: searchable database of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, more
- Care Scout: nursing home ratings, assisted living locator
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Certified Doctor: find out if your doc is board certified
- Clinical Trials of drugs database
- Clinical trials of new drugs, searchable database of trials, results
- Clinical Trials searchable by disease and state
- ClinicalTrials.com: lists results of clinical trials (coming late 2008)
- Colon Cancer Alliance: support/info for colorectal cancer
- ConsumerLab: tests nutrition supplements, etc., and publishes reviews
- Consumer Reports Medical Guide
- Cosmetic Surgery costs, descriptions, q&a
- Ask the Dentist
- Dentistry: Consumer Guide to
- Dental Care price comparisons in 300 cities
- Ask the Dietitian
- Disease risk (figure yours via interactive questions) from Harvard
- DocBoards: links to state medical boards licensing doctors
- Doctors, Top Doctors search [free search is limited]
- Doctors, Top Doctors in New York
- Drug coupons for free or discounted prescription drugs
- Drug Effectiveness Review Projects: reviews medical literature
- Drug Interaction Checker from Drugs.com
- Family Doctor: Advice from American Academy of Family Physicians
- Food and Drug Administration Consumer information
- FDA Consumer Magazine
- Food and Nutrition Information (available electronically)
- Food eating guidelines from the USDA
- Food Fraud Database: reports of adulterated food, cheaper ingredients substituted
- GoodRx: prescription drug comparison price checker
- Healthcare Blue Book: find "fair" prices for specific medical procedures by zip code
- Health Choices: NCQA quality ratings of health insurance plans
- Healthfinder: searchable US govt health megasite
- Health Fraud (National Council Against..)
- Health.Gov: federal government's listings of health sites
- Health Grades: ratings of hospitals, doctors, and health insurance plans (double check disciplinary actions with your state medical board)
- Health insurance plan evaluation and accreditation
- Health insurance and medical consumer ed brochures
- Health Insurance Info: state by state coverage options
- HealthMetrix: compares HMOs for seniors on Medicare
- Health information by topic from Harvard Medical School
- HealthWorld Online (mega-site)
- HIV InSite: Gateway for AIDS Knowledge (megasite)
- Hospice information, rights and cautions
- Hospitals: best ones by area and specialty (US News & World Report)
- Hospital quality comparisons from Dept. of HHS
- InteliHealth: comprehensive health information, partly from Harvard
- Journals (science/health) search via Highwire Press
- Junk Science (debunks public health studies, statistics)
- KidsHealth.org: educational activities for kids & parents
- Lab Tests Online: explains medical lab tests; meaning of results
- National Lead Information Center
- Long Term Care Clearinghouse (from US government)
- Mayo Clinic: health conditions A to Z
- MDHub: send a fax question/request to your doctor (380,000+ listed)
- MedHelp: major medical site w/quality information
- Medical Breakthroughs (weekly news updates)
- Center for Medical Consumers: patient rights, safety advocate
- Medical ID Theft: frequently asked questions, report
- Medical Information Bureau: the insurance/medical record "credit" bureau
- Medical journals: free access to full text articles
- Medical and Dental Procedure Cost Estimates from Fair Health Consumer Cost Lookup
- Medicare consumer information (Official US Govt site)
- Medicare Rights Center
- MedicineNet: general health site by doctors, drug/food interaction checker
- MedLine Plus: National Library of Medicine health research site
- Mednar: comprehensive health search
- MedPub/Free Medline version from Uncle Sam
- Medscape: health information by doctors for doctors
- MedTrial: current trials of experimental drugs/procedures
- Merck Manual of Medical Information (1600 page encyclopedia)
- Merck Veterinary Manual: health guide for pets and animals
- National Library of Medicine LocatorPlus
- NeedyMeds.org: prescription drug discount programs finder, discount card
- Nursing Home Compare: inspection ratings from Medicare
- Nursing Home Fines and Deficiencies from ProPublica
- Nursing Home list with summary of violations
- Nursing Home Watch List: where there was actual or potential harm
- Blonz Guide to Nutrition, Food & Health sites
- Optical Advisor: primer on glasses, frames, contacts, mfr listings
- Patients Guide to the Internet
- Pill/Drug Identifier: enter the code on a pill to identify the drug
- Prescription Drug programs, free/discounts for unisured
- Prescription Drug discount card (free)
- Prescription Drugs Discount Cards comparison study by Consumer World
- Prescription Drug information by drug, from PDR
- Prescription Drug Reports from Oregon: unbiased evaluations
- Quack Watch: A Guide to Health Fraud and Quackery
- Quackery/Anti-Quackery webring
- Quality Check: compare accredited hospital, care organizations
- Questionable Doctors: Public Citizen site with stats on disciplinary actions
- RealAge: test to see how old your health practices say you really are
- RxAssist: application info for free prescription drug programs for the poor
- Senior Living Alternatives
- Smart Medical Consumer: helps find medical billing errors
- Surgery Online: watch live and actual archived cosmetic surgery procedures!
- Tobacco research including B&W "Secret" Collection
- US Dept. of Health & Human Services
- VegSource: vegetarian mega-resource
- Vitals: find doctors and their background
- Vitamin Reference Guide
- Water Quality Association consumer information
- Wrong Diagnosis: Enter a symptom, get list of possible causes
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