Medical / Health Resources

AMA Atlas of the Body
  American Medical Association Atlas of the Body. 

BioMed Central
  Publisher of 179 peer-reviewed open access biomedical research journals. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the nation’s premier public health agency—working to ensure healthy people in a healthy world.

Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services
  A practical and comprehensive guide to clinical preventive services. A cornerstone of the Put Prevention Into Practice (PPIP) initiative developed by the US Public Health Service's Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
  Medical dictionary illustrated with 475 color drawings and tables and more than 123,000 total entries (with pronunciation), 30th ed., 2003.

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
  The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication.

Health, United States, 2007
 

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics compilation of more than 150 health tables, charts, and statistics identifying trends in the health of Americans.


Magill's Medical Guide (at Salem Health Online)
  Up-to-date compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers.

Mayo Clinic
  Provides useful and up-to-date health information and tools to empower and help people better manage their health.

MedicineNet
  Links to online medical information including medical dictionaries, disease and treatment indexes, pharmacy and drug indexes, etc. 

MEDLINE  (via PubMed Search Service)
  MEDLINE and other National Library of Medicine resources available through the national PubMed search service.

MEDLINEplus Consumer Health Information
  Consumer health information site providing access to extensive information on diseases and conditions, includes medical encyclopedia and dictionaries.

Merck Manuals
  Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy commercial web site.

National Library of Medicine
  Medical and health information services and databases including the "Visible Human Project" providing online anatomical displays.

NCLEX Online Test Prep Review
  Free NCLEX Practice Exam questions and review provided by the "testprepreview.com" web site.

PSB Test Online Study Guide
  Cape Fear Community College, NC online study guide for the Psychological Services Bureau (PSB) health occupations aptitude exam.  For general information about the exams also visit: 

http://www.psbtests.com


Southern Medical Association
  Includes information about professional development opportunities via satellite and multimedia delivery.

Surgical Instruments - Miltex Web Site
  Pictures of surgical instruments via the Miltex surgical product catalog.

Surgical Instruments - SSR Web Site
  Pictures of surgical instruments via the SSR surgical instruments vendor site.

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
  Medical dictionary illustrated with over 500 full-color drawings. Disease entries include symptoms, diagnosis and treatment ; entries also include pronunciations, abbreviations, and etymologies (word origins), 20th ed., 2005.

Virtual Body at ehc.com
  Information on the heart, brain, skeleton, and digestive system ; including some computer animations.

WebMD
  Provides online services that help physicians, consumers, providers and Health plans navigate the complexity of the health care system.