RxWebLinks - Patient Information
Your Medications • Your Health • Cancer Information Sites
Information about your medications
- MEDLINEplus Health Information - www.medlineplus.gov
Site links to patient drug category and health monographs, medical dictionaries, health professional directories and other resources such as organizations and health libraries. - SafeMedication.com - www.safemedication.com
Provides easy-to-read information on over 700 drug products. Information is provided from ASHP resources. - WebMD Health - www.webmd.com
Multim Information Services provides documents for prescription and herbal medications. Drug news and product recalls are listed. Links to health information and news are provided. - Healthtouch - www.healthtouch.com/level1/menu.htm
Search for basic information on hundreds of prescription medications - DrugDigest from Express Scripts - www.drugdigest.org
Provides drug and disease state information for consumers. - DrugInfoNet - www.druginfonet.com
Official and patient package inserts and general health information - MayoClinic.com - www.mayoclinic.com
Provides information on more than 8000 prescription and OTC medications from the Micromedex System. Health Information is also available. - National Council on Patient Information and Education - www.talkaboutrx.org
Links to timely guidelines, tips, and resources to help patients use their medications safely and appropriately. - Quackwatch - www.quackwatch.org
This non-profit site provides information to combat health-related frauds, myths and fads related to products, health advice and advertising.
Information about your health
- Healthfinder - www.healthfinder.gov
From US Department of Health and Human Services - Healthy People 2010 - www.health.gov/healthypeople
Provides preventative health information, forms and other resources to Americans. - Mayo Clinic Health Oasis - www.mayohealth.org
Current health news, information about specialty areas
Cancer Information Sites
- HOPE - http://www.hopeguide.org
Huntsman Online Patient Education (HOPE Guide).
Access to current reliable information on cancer diagnosis treatment and prevention. - CancerNet - www.cancer.gov
Consumer information on cancer drugs and research. Can search CancerLit, a database that indexes articles from the medical literature. - OncoLink - oncolink.upenn.edu
The University of Pennsylvania provides information on cancers, treatment opitions, coping with cancer, and other resources. An ask the expert option is provided.
