Links to websites for medical information
This link takes you to the National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library. It produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. NLM has a number of databases, most of which are more appropriate for academic purposes.
One of the more useful databases for most people is MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html Here you can find information about health topics, drugs and supplements and even cool surgery videos. There is an online medical dictionary and a tool for calculating your body mass index, BMI. It also features a mobile version of the website http://m.medlineplus.gov/ Health information is available in a number of languages http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html Not everything is available in every language, but it seems that diabetes and heart disease are covered in languages I've never even heard of, for example in Chamorro, which turns out to be spoken by only 95,000 people worldwide and is native to the Marianas.
When I search for medical information, I typically google it, but then select a result from a reliable website such as one of the NLM sites.
NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library. It produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched billions of times each year by millions of people around the globe. NLM has a number of databases, most of which are more appropriate for academic purposes.
One of the more useful databases for most people is MedlinePlus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html Here you can find information about health topics, drugs and supplements and even cool surgery videos. There is an online medical dictionary and a tool for calculating your body mass index, BMI. It also features a mobile version of the website http://m.medlineplus.gov/ Health information is available in a number of languages http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html Not everything is available in every language, but it seems that diabetes and heart disease are covered in languages I've never even heard of, for example in Chamorro, which turns out to be spoken by only 95,000 people worldwide and is native to the Marianas.
When I search for medical information, I typically google it, but then select a result from a reliable website such as one of the NLM sites.
