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Clincal Trials Information

From time to time, people find themselves, or a loved one, stricken with a serious disease. By learning more about the disease and about the functioning of the human body:

• You are better able to communicate with your doctors and health care providers.
• You can make better choices in selecting specialists and treatment centers.
• You can learn how to participate in appropriate clinical trials of newly developed procedures and experimental drugs.

• MEDLINEplus is set up to provide easy access for lay people to Medline information on health topics of greatest interest to the general public. It also has links to medical dictionaries. It is maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• The Mayo Clinic Health Oasis provides information on cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, heart disease, and many other topics.
• Columbia University Medical Guide
• Southern California Birth Providers -- Certified Nurse Midwives for Homebirth.
• Understanding Genetic Testing by the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Human Genome Research provides basic information about gene testing and key genetic concepts.
• Med Help International - The Virtual Medical Center for Patients.
• Prescription 2000 and Clinical Pearls
• Outlines in Clinical Medicine
• BestDoctors.com Worldwide Healthcare Services
• Dr. Dean Edell - Health Central
• RxList the internet drug index, is useful despite all the ads.
• Drugstore.com
• American Family Physician
• FDA - US Food and Drug Administration
• The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a lot of information on diseases and Public Health statistics.
• The Medscape DrugInfo database combines the National Drug Data File from FirstDataBank, and the American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information reference from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). Find information on drug-drug and drug-foodinteractions, uses and dosage, preparations, adverse effects, and four other categories for every drug. Patient education handouts are also available for printing and distributing at the time of prescription.
• dmoz index of medical libraries
• PubMed provides complete access to the Medline database of Biomedical journal articles maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health.

Cancer:

• The National Cancer Institute also maintains an informative website called the NCI Cancerlit Database.
• The Clinical Cancer Center at Stanford University contains information on cancer treatment and prevention, clinical trials, professional training, and news.
• Oncology.com is a commercial site with lots of targeted advertising.
• The Cancer Cure Foundation is a non-profit organization providing information on alternative/integtative therapies, including referrals, since 1976. Their web site includes a Directory of alternative clinics and a guide to the Mexican cancer clinics.

Clinical Trials:

• ClinicalTrials.gov is a service of the US National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui
• A database of clinical trials can be found at CenterWatch. You can use this site to find a wealth of information related to clinical trials, such as a searchable listing of more than 35,000 industry- and government-sponsored clinical trials, as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
• The CenterWatch can also be accessed from the Medscape site.
• HopeLink.com is being established to help patients find, learn about, and become enrolled in appropriate clinical trials.
• More links to information on clinical trials and regulatory issues: http://www.pano.com/Links/Clinical_Trials___Regulatory_A/clinical_trials___regulatory_a.html

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• Additional Nutrition links compiled by John D. Furber.
• Additional Medical Research links compiled by John D. Furber.
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