| American_Self-Help_Group_Clearinghouse Database of over 900 national and international self-help support groups for various health problems. Local self-help clearinghouses worldwide. How-to's on starting groups. |
| Dream_Foundation Grants wishes to s battling terminal illness. Provides resources, stories, services, sponsorships, and donation information. |
| Fairygodmother_Foundation Volunteer charity that grants wishes nationally to s facing terminal illness. Provides information about upcoming events, donations, and contacts. |
| Health_Diaries A community of people writing diaries and blogs about personal experiences with health conditions from cancer to mental health. |
| Article_Sciences Scientific article search and order engine, a service provided by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. |
| Entrez Simultaneously search multiple life sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). |
| Gateway The National Library of Medicine Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
| Healia Personalized consumer health search engine. Using specialized algorithms, it attempts to evaluate the quality of health-related content found on web pages. |
| Kosmix Categorized search engine for health topics. |
| Med411 A medical search engine and portal. |
| Med_Help_International_Search Consumer medical search engine comprising articles, patient support groups, glossary, and Q&A. |
| MedHunt A tool from Health on the Net that searches the full text of 60,000 medical documents. Searches can be narrowed by location or type of source. |
| Medical_World_Search This tool has the ability to query other search engines, also provides a discussion forum, medical spelling and drug acronym devices. All users must register and pay annual membership fee. |
| Medic8_com Directory and medical search engine for healthcare professionals. |
| U_S__Non-Commercial_Medical_Search_Engines Dr. Claudia Krenz provides search boxes and instructions for eleven specialist search tools, mainly maintained by the National Library of Medicine. |
| VivÃsimo_ClusterMed Sends requests to the PubMed search engine and clusters the search results. |
| Worldhealthcare_net A UK based medical search engine providing informative resources from around the globe. |
| AllAfrica_com_-__Health_and_Medicine_News Principal newsfeed source for news and reports on health issues in Africa. [English, French] |
| AlphaGalileo Internet press center for European science, medicine and technology. |
| Baltimore_Sun_-_Health_&_Science Recent and archived news plus breaking news and in-depth reports. |
| BBC_News_-_Health Coverage of news about health including audio and video, topics in depth and guides and reader discussion forum. |
| BCBS_Health_Issues Healthcare Headlines allows users to read and search media releases related to healthcare. |
| BNA\'s_Health_Care_Professional_Information_Center This news center provides samples of news, analysis, and source materials targeted to health administration and policy professionals. |
| CBC_-_Health_and_Science_News Top stories, headlines, and indepth coverage from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
| CNN_-_Health Presents latest news and features with special sections on diet and fitness, conditions and parenting. Includes video clips, health library, special reports and resources. |
| Datamonitor\'s_Healthcare_News Healthcare news and opinion from national and trade press resouorces plus a 30 day archive. |
| FDAnews An electronic division of Washington Business Information Inc. with news on drugs, medical devices, and biologics. |
| Focus_On_-_Health_News A consumer information site dedicated to important medical-legal issues and rare medical conditions. |
| GlobalHealthReporting_org Provides news and information on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria to journalists, researchers, policy makers and NGOs. |
| Guardian_Unlimited_Special_Report__Medicine_and_Health Ongoing collection of news and features about current issues including diseases and conditions, preventative medicine, the NHS and drug companies. Includes interactive guides, Dear Doctor, related spe |
| Harvard_School_of_Public_Health_-_World_Health_News News digest covers critical public health issues from around the world, offering a combination of original reporting with news stories and commentaries from newspapers and magazines worldwide. |
| HeadlineSpot_com_-_Health_News Health news, medical journals, magazines. |
| Health_Issues_-_Idea_House Conservative, pro-free market analysis of health-care issues from national center for policy analysis. |
| Health_News_-_Lifeclinic_com Daily updated news of health-related topics. |
| Health_Online News and health information brought to you by the St Petersburg Times. |
| Health_Research_Group_News Information and news for consumer oriented reforms in health care system. |
| health_telegraph_co_uk Health news, features and advice from the Telegraph newspaper. Includes a searchable archive of health stories. |
| InteliHealth__Health_News Web site contains daily health news briefs from major media, a topic related archive of recent news stories, and medical commentaries from Harvard Medical School faculty. |
| International_Herald_Tribune_Health_and_Science Provides international health and science news and articles. |
| IrishHealth_com Health and medical information for Irish users. Requires free registration to access information. |
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