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allnurses.com (formerly Worldwide Nurse)
Open Access
Contents/Info: Extensive resources for the nursing profession: a calendar of professional events, lots of links to related resources, information about US, CA and UK Nursing Boards, nursing education and employment, medical specialties, medical resources (including medical search tools).

American Medical Association  FullText 
Contents/Info: AMA's website includes information for physicians, consumer health information, journals, and policy and advocacy position papers. 

Anatomy of the Human Body (Gray's Anatomy)  FullText | Internet Resource | Reference Tool | EBook 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: Full-text version of the 1918 edition of Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: The CDC strives to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. 

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: This website provides "MeSH classified" resources about diseases, disorders and related topics on the Internet. 

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: Moffitt's website provides cancer information, information for patients and medical professionals, and cancer research resources. 

Hardin MD: Nursing  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: The Hardin MD website claims to "list the best sites that list the sites" relevant to nursing. 

Health on the Net Foundation  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: A guide for both lay users and medical professionals to reliable sources of healthcare information in cyberspace. 

healthfinder  FullText | Internet Resource | Reference Tool 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, healthfinder is a guide to reliable health information. 

HealthWeb Nursing Pages 
Open Access
Contents/Info: Covers a variety of topics including career information, professional organizations, clinical nursing and research resources. This site is maintained by the Taubman Medical Library at the University of Michigan.

KidsHealth.org  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: This site provides three separate portals to health information specifically tailored to parents, kids, and teens. 

Lippincott's Nursing Center 
Open Access
Contents/Info: Good selection of articles from AJN, American Journal of Nursing as well as a dozen others, including MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. Full contents of the AJN Career Guide in the Career Center and many full-text articles in Continuing Education.

MEDLINEplus  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: This site provides up-to-date, quality health care information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. 

MedWeb  Some FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University. 

Merck Manual: Home Edition  FullText | Internet Resource | Reference Tool 
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Contents/Info: The Home Edition of the Merck Manual transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. 

National Center for Biotechnology Information  | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: A national resource for biotechnology, the NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software to study the human genome, etc. 

National Institute on Aging  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: Reports on a wide range of topics from specific health diseases to treatment and research. 

National Institutes of Health  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: NIH strives to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

Nightingale 
Open Access
Contents/Info: From the University of Tennessee Knoxville-College of Nursing, offers general medical information on a wide range of topics. 

PREVLINE (Prevention Online)  FullText | Internet Resource 
Open Access 
Contents/Info: This is the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, a service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

US National Library of Medicine  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: The NLM website provides access to the world's largest medical library as well as to NLM's own Medline and Medlineplus databases. 

World Health Organization  FullText | Internet Resource 
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Contents/Info: WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health, defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 

              


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