Health, Medicine & Nutrition

HEALTH/ MEDICINE
How to Research a Medical Topic Online - from consumerreports.org.
PubMed - MEDLINE citations and abstracts are available as the primary component of NLM's PubMed. Includes references to articles indexed from 1966 to the present.
Latest Herbal Medicine literature via PubMed™.
Free Medical Journals.com - full-text journals.
NOAH Health Topics and Resources
The Complete Home Medical Guide(Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
The American Health Foundation - the nation's foremost preventive medicine research facility.
Health - from NetGuide. Includes alternative medicine, diseases & conditions, exercise & fitness, mental health and more.
Go Ask Alice! - from Columbia University's Health Education Program. Ask and read questions and answers about sexuality, fitness and nutrition, emotional health, etc.
Herbal Remedies - from prevention.com
Herbal Remedy Quiz - from enn.com. Includes links to featured books on natural medicines and much more on the rest of site.
Healthy Living Centers - from mayohealth.org. Includes "Food and Nutrition center" and links to other "centers" such as the "Women's Health Center" page. Option to ask questions to Mayo specialists.
Health - a searchable database from oneworld.net It contains tens of thousands of documents on health issues from their partners' websites.
CorpWatch: Pesticides - looks at environmental, health and political consequences.
CorpWatch: Pharmaceuticals - follows the debate on drug patents and patients rights.

WOMEN'S HEALTH & SEXUALITY

NUTRITION
The American College of Nutrition - established in 1959 as a professional organization to promote scientific endeavor in the field of nutritional sciences.
Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists
Organic Consumers Association - promotes food safety, organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and internationally.
How to Get All Your Vitamins from Food - from ivillage.com. Written by Sue Gilbert, M.S., Nutritionist. Recipes could be more vegetarian-oriented since it is a healthier diet.
Satya - a monthly magazine of vegetarianism, environmentalism, and animal advocacy.
VegDining.com - online guide to vegetarian restaurants around the world.
Food First - The Institute for Food and Development Policy - member-supported nonprofit highlights root causes and solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.

PUBLICATIONS
The Complete Home Medical Guide - full-text book from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Free Books 4 Doctors.com - free full-text books online.
Free Medical Journals.com - free full-text journals online.
HighWire - free full-text science articles online.
Health & Fitness Publications - from findarticles.com. Includes search option.
Find Articles - Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine - enter a search in the box and it will look in the encyclopedia. Be sure to skip past the "sponsored listings" to get to the articles listed below them.
Journal of the American College of Nutrition - no full-text; table of contents with with abstracts available from 2000 to present.
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (JAMWA) - some issues free online.
The Lancet
Preventive Medicine - subscription required to view articles, but abstracts and table of contents (1993-present) are available for viewing without a subscription.
Satya - a monthly magazine of vegetarianism, environmentalism, and animal advocacy.
Rachel's Environment and Health News - read past articles online free.
Peer review and the origin of AIDS -- a case study in rejected ideas - by Brian Martin. Published in BioScience, Vol. 43, No. 9, October 1993, pp. 624-627.

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