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CAAT: Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing

  • 1. CAAT: Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
  • Provider:Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
  • Keywords: biomedical ethics , biomedical research , education , laboratory , research , toxicology , animal welfare
  • Description: "We promote humane science by supporting the creation, development, validation, and use of alternatives to animals in research, product safety testing, and education. We seek to effect change by working with scientists in industry, government, and academia to find new ways to replace animals with non-animal methods, reduce the numbers of animals necessary, or refine methods to make them less painful or stressful to the animals involved." The CAAT website also provides educational materials to download, links to related sites, most notably to its own ALTWEB, "the global clearinghouse for information on alternatives to animal testing."

CalculateMe

Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)

  • 3. Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA)
  • Provider:CNIA (Canadian Nursing Informatics Association)
  • Keywords: Canada , education , informatics , journal , nursing
  • Description: "The Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) exists to help nurses across Canada to learn, share, research, and create informatics-related projects and experiences that can help to boost the competencies, theory, and practice of informatics on a national level." We start you at the Resources section, which links to nursing and allied health informatics sites, primarily in Canada and the U.S., and to educational institutions internationally offering online courses in informatics. Full text articles from the Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics are also available here.

cancer.gov

  • 4. cancer.gov
  • Provider:National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Keywords: cancer , clinical trials , consumer health , research , U.S. Government , news , patient education
  • Description: This comprehensive website from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) links the user to detailed information on cancer types, clinical trials, cancer statistics, and funding and research. An agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NCI conducts and supports cancer research as well as providing in-depth information on all aspects of these diseases to the public, including rehabilitation and ongoing care. NCI has launched several programs like the pilot Community Cancer Centers Program with the purpose of bringing improved care to more Americans and promoting international collaboration and cooperation among practitioners and researchers.

CancerBackup.org

  • 5. CancerBackup.org
  • Provider:Macmillan.org (UK)
  • Keywords: cancer , consumer health , drugs , education , healthcare professional , patient education
  • Description: This British cancer website provides information for patients, caregivers and physicians on all aspects of cancer: types, treatments, coping with treatment side effects, pain, etc. Visitors may also communicate about their questions with oncology nurses. Free publications written by expert healthcare providers are available to order in print or to download, and a forum/chat website called "What Now?" is also featured, in which patients share their experiences and provide support to each other.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

ccLearn

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response- Hurricanes

  • 8. CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response- Hurricanes
  • Provider:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Keywords: consumer health , disaster , federal agencies , public health , family , social services , healthcare professional , animal welfare , hurricane
  • Description: This page of the CDC's Emergency Preparedness section contains planning tips, lists supplies needed for survival, and provides or links to recovery information specific to hurricanes and similar major storms. Common health and safety concerns surrounding the aftermath of hurricanes are addressed. Information compiled for the benefit of specific groups-- health care professionals, citizens with chronic conditions or disabilities, shelters (housing humans or pets), response and cleanup workers, evacuees, schools and pregnant women is also provided here. Public Service Announcements are also available, as podcasts or videos.

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response: Hurricane Information for Health Care Professionals

CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response: Natural Disasters and Severe Weather

CDC H1N1 Flu (Swine Influenza) page

CDC SNAPS: Snap Shots of State Population Data

  • 12. CDC SNAPS: Snap Shots of State Population Data
  • Provider:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Keywords: census , data , public health , demographics , population , emergency preparedness
  • Description: SNAPS provides local-level community profile information nationwide. It can be browsed by county and state or searched by ZIP Code. It provides a "snapshot" of key variables for consideration in guiding and tailoring health education and communication efforts to ensure that diverse audiences receive critical public health messages that are accessible, understandable and timely.

CDC Travelers’ Health

  • 13. CDC Travelers’ Health
  • Provider:Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
  • Keywords: consumer health , images , disease , maps , podcasts , travel medicine
  • Description: Travelers’ Health provides information on required vaccinations, travel-related diseases and the latest news updates on disease outbreaks, for health care professionals and the general public. Under Resources, links to CDC podcasts on travel health topics are available.

Cells Alive!

Center for Mental Health Services

  • 15. Center for Mental Health Services
  • Provider:US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  • Keywords: consumer health , mental health , social sciences
  • Description: From the website: The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is the Federal agency within the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that leads national efforts to improve prevention and mental health treatment services for all Americans. CMHS pursues its mission by helping States improve and increase the quality and range of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services for people with mental health problems, their families, and communities.

Center for Studying Health System Change

  • 16. Center for Studying Health System Change
  • Provider:Center for Studying Health System Change
  • Keywords: healthcare policy , healthcare system , industry , sociology
  • Description: The mission of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is to inform policy makers and private decision makers about how local and national changes in the financing and delivery of health care affect people. HSC strives to provide high-quality, timely and objective research and analysis that leads to sound policy decisions, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the American public. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is a nonpartisan policy research organization located in Washington, D.C. HSC designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system to inform the thinking and decisions of policy makers in government and private industry. In addition to this applied use, HSC studies contribute more broadly to the body of health care policy research that enables decision makers to understand change and the national and local market forces driving that change.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service

  • 18. CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service
  • Provider:CenterWatch
  • Keywords: clinical trials , consumer health
  • Description: In addition to furnishing information about clinical trials to patients and healthcare or research professionals, CenterWatch publishes newsletters, books and directories, and conducts custom research for patients and professionals. CenterWatch presents one set of resources targeted to patients and the general public, and another for medical and pharmaceutical professionals.

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

  • 19. Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
  • Provider:University of Oxford
  • Keywords: education , evidence-based medicine , healthcare , healthcare policy , medicine , networking , systematic reviews
  • Description: The CEBM (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine) "provides free support and resources to doctors, clinicians, teachers and others interested in learning more about EBM." Some of the many resources here include: a section providing free and open-access teaching materials, like PowerPoint files of lectures and workshops; links to guides to critically evaluating the medical literature; and links to the websites of other groups around the world that promote and teach the tenets of evidence-based practice.

CHI: Precision Medical Data Mining

  • 20. CHI: Precision Medical Data Mining
  • Provider:CureHunter Inc.
  • Keywords: decision support , drugs , evidence-based practice , pharmaceutical , point-of-care , research , scientist , search , physician , reports , deep web , vaccine , biologics
  • Description: This integrated search, data retrieval and analysis utility does semantic searching of the NLM Medline archive for pharmaceutical and biological-agent treatments of diseases, returning evidence-based results in seconds. Experts' names are listed in hypertext. WARNING: This search engine is NOT a free service. We provide this link for informational purposes only. An individual subscription or per-report payment is required. Available to medical professionals in research interface and mobile versions; a patient interface is also available. Individual pdf reports can be purchased, with ongoing updates included lasting for a 3-year period.

Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers - 2nd ed., 2007

Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education

Clinical Queries (PubMed)

ClinicalTrials.gov

  • 24. ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Provider:National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine
  • Keywords: clinical trials , consumer health , federal agencies , NLM , U.S. Government , NIH
  • Description: Provides information on clinical trials sponsored by federal agencies like NIH and on trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Most clinical trials in the database are located in the US and Canada. Included: purpose of the trial, who may participate, locations, and contact information for learning details.

CMA INFOBASE: Clinical Practice Guidelines

  • 25. CMA INFOBASE: Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • Provider:Canadian Medical Association
  • Keywords: Canada , clinical practice guidelines
  • Description: A searchable database of practice guidelines "produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel." Also includes a downloadable Handbook on Clinical Practice Guidelines, intended "to promote systematic development and effective implementation of clinical practice guidelines. This document provides updated guidance on how to use clinical practice guidelines to achieve optimal outcomes of patient care."

ComPADRE- Digital Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education

  • 26. ComPADRE- Digital Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education
  • Provider:American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), American Astronomical Society (AAS), American Institute of Physics/Society of Physics Students (AIP/SPS), American Physical Society (APS)
  • Keywords: astronomy , physics
  • Description: The ComPADRE partnership "...helps teachers and learners find, and use, high quality resources through collections and services tailored to their specific needs. Many authors and organizations are creating this rich educational content and faculty training opportunities, but wider accessibility and dissemination are needed. Authors are developing simulations, curricula, and multimedia for a wide range of topics and all education levels; science education researchers are developing research-based models of effective teaching and learning; organizations are providing workshops for teachers to improve their knowledge and skills; and students are communicating about learning physics. ComPADRE is supporting these author/user communities through discovery, organization, description, and sharing of their resources to achieve greater effectiveness for physics and astronomy education."

Connexions

  • 27. Connexions
  • Provider:Connexions Project/Rice University
  • Keywords: courseware , curriculum , e-books , education , multidisciplinary , publishing , student , faculty , mashups , textbooks , modular , repository
  • Description: Connexions is a collaborative repository environment for the archiving, creation and publishing of online educational materials, like textbooks. The course material, using xml, is packaged in stand-alone, modular format, in order to facilitate the compilation of educational materials according to the needs of individual learners. Please see http://cnx.org/aboutus/ for a full description.

ConsumerMedSafety.org

  • 28. ConsumerMedSafety.org
  • Provider:Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
  • Keywords: advocacy , consumer health , drugs , pharmaceutical , pharmacy , safety
  • Description: This website comes from the nonprofit organization ISMP (Institute for Safe Medication Practices) in partnership with the FDA, the American Hospital Association, the Joint Commission of Healthcare Organizations and others. The ISMP aims to help prevent medication errors through collecting and analyzing reports of medication-related hazardous conditions, near-misses, errors, and other adverse drug events and making the information available to consumers and the health care community. Consumers are encouraged to contribute information here via a forum for reporting medication errors. This site offers a feature (free registration required) called "Get Your 60 Second Medication Check," which lists potential side effects, treatment duplication and drug interactions for various medications. Patient information inserts are also available full text, in .pdf format.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics

  • 29. Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
  • Provider:Harvard University Library's Open Collections Program
  • Keywords: books , digital , history of medicine , infectious disease , journal , policy , research , sociology , full text , images
  • Description: This resource is a "...digital collection of resources for students of the history of medicine and for researchers seeking a historical context for epidemiology." (MLA News, Novermber/December 2008.) This collection provides general background information on diseases and epidemics worldwide, and is organized according to significant episodes of contagious disease. A timeline of dates of diseases and epidemics between 1494 and 1948 highlights events covered in the collection. Includes more than 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula and manuscripts.

Critical Thinking Web