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General Health Sciences Websites
- Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityAHRQ produces evidence to make health care safer. The website include information for consumers, health care professionals, and researchers.
- Centers for Disease Control and PreventionThe CDC detects and responds to new and emerging health threats, both foreign and in the U.S.
- Health United StatesHealth United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics from the CDC.
- Medscape from WebMDYou will have to create a login to read the full content, but it is free. Medscape includes information on diseases and conditions, procedures, calculators, and drugs, OTCs, and herbals (including a drug interaction checker).
- Michigan Community Health InformationIncludes information on prevention of diseases and conditions, services and programs, statistics and reports and much more.
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthNCCIH focuses on the usefulness and safety of alternative and complementary interventions and their roles in improving health and health care.
- National Center for Health StatisticsNCHS is the nation's principal health statistics agency. You can find statistics on diseases and conditions, injuries, life stages and populations, and health care and insurance.
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication DisordersNIDCD conducts and supports research in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, taste, smell, voice, speech, and language.
- National Institutes of HealthThe NIH conducts and supports research on human diseases, human growth and development, biological effects of environmental contaminants, and the understanding of mental, addictive and physical disorders.
- Office of Minority HealthOMH develops health policies and programs to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations.
- Post-Graduation Resources for Social WorkThis link takes you to our library guide that includes links to websites and free databases relevant to social work.
- Religious Diversity: Practical Points for Health Care ProvidersBrief lists of points for health care providers to keep in mind when caring for patients from a number of different religious traditions.
- World Health OrganizationWHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system and provides leadership on global health matters.
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