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Medical Resources

Evaluating Medical Sites 
Sites for Medical Journals

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  Includes travelers' health guides
       National Center for Health Statistics Birth and death data; survey results
• Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
• MEDLINE Plus From the National Library of Medicine--includes generic and brand-name drug information
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Library of Medicine   
• Science.gov: Health & Medicine Authoritative selected sites
• World Health Organization
• Cancer.Gov
• Drug Information from Food and Drug Administration

• Massachusetts Department of Public Health

• Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network 
• Oncolink: A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Resource Center 

Evaluating Medical Sites

• Health on the Net Foundation  (HON) A not-for-profit Swiss organization whose mission is to guide lay persons and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information.

• National Council Against Health Fraud  A private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems

Medical Journals/Letters

For access to printed journal articles, have your Central MA library card or QCC password for remote access. Use library databases for remote access to journal and newspaper articles and reference sources; library card  is required for off campus access.

• National Library of Medicine
• Harvard Health Publications-Harvard Medical School
• New England Journal of Medicine On-line Includes complete text of many features of print journal and abstracts of original research
• Online Medical Journals List from Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical

 
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