Healthfinder
Government-created compendium of online health resources chosen for their quality.

Family Doctor.org
Patient education materials from American Academy of Family Physicians.

Medem.com
Patient health care information from AMA.

Medicinenet
Information on diseases, treatments, drug information, a medical dictonary, and medical news. Written by board-certified family physicians and subspecialists

WebMD
Online support group information.

Immunization Action Coalition
Immunization information, including multilingual materials

Body Mass Index Calculator
Assess proportional body weight.

Professional Information

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Equipment Distribution
Information about services and equipment for hearing impaired patients

Minnesota Department of Health
Information on immunizations and public health.

Immunization Action Coalition VIS
Vaccine Information Statements in many languages

Minnesota Department of Health VIS
Vaccine Information statements

MnVFC website
Minnesota Vaccine for Children Program. Updated forms for orders, inventory, reports

Minnesota Board of Medical Practice
Health Professional Finder and other information

Minnesota Department of Health - Tb
Tb patient education materials (multilingual)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Health Information, the CDC Travel Page on travelers' health, publications, statistics, and funding information from the CDC.

Food and Drug Administration
Information on foods, human drugs, biologics, medical devices, animal drugs, cosmetics, toxicology, and FDA news.

National Institutes of Health
NIH events, funding opportunities, and scientific resources. Health information such as CancerNet, AIDS information, Clinical Alerts, Women's Health Initiative, and NIH Information Index (a list of diseases under investigation at NIH).

U.S. National Library of Medicine
Includes free MEDLINE (http://wwwindex.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemdl.html), access, NLM publications, research, and special information programs.

NeedyMeds.com
Listing of indigent patient drug programs

Rx Assist
Directory and on line links to drug manufacturers patient assistance programs and form downloads.

AHRQ
Clinical Information from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

MedEc Interactive
Online Access to Stedman's Medical Dictionary, the PDR, an online drug interaction program, Medical Economics, and other journals by the publisher. (Free to physicians with DEA number.)

InfoPoems.com
Software links for POEMs (patient oriented evidence that matters). Database search for evidence based medicine articles.

University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook
Full-text online handbook about common problems encountered in family practice.

American Academy of Family Physicians
Family medicine information, CME.

American College of Physicians
Internal medicine specialty information.

First call for Health
Directory of local service resources, sponsored by United Way.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Clinical Practice Guidelines

Medical Journals

American Family Physician
Offical journal of the Academy. Full text articles and CME quiz now online.

Archives of Family Medicine
The AMA's journal of research and practice in family medicine.

Emerging Infectious Diseases
A peer-reviewed journal published by the CDC which analyzes and tracks new infectious diseases around the world. Full text available online.

Family Medicine
The Official Journal of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.

Family Practice Management
This journal from the AAFP teaches the business of family medicine. Full text articles and CME quiz now online.

Journal of Family Practice
Web site for the journal with information for authors, links for family physicians and full text of its POEMs (patient oriented evidence that matters -- formerly the JFP Journal club).

Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA, the AMA's most famous journal, publishes primary research on medicine and public policy for health professionals.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Data in the weekly journal is based on reports to the CDC by state health departments. (Issues are available as .pdf (porable document format) files which require Adobe Acrobat Reader (available free from Adobe) to be viewed.)

New England Journal of Medicine
Weekly journal reporting the results of important medical research.

Pediatrics
Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Annals of Internal Medicine
Journal of the American College of Physicians.

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