Useful Links by Subject - Nursing
NURSING
Reuters Health
This site contains news items from Reuters for professionals, industry and consumers. Updated daily.
Mayo Clinic
An index of articles on diseases and conditions, drug information, a healthy living section, as well as health quizzes are found on this site.
Food and Drug Administration
A site to provide accurate timely information about food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices that are regulated by the FDA. Also includes a hot topics section.
American Medical Association
Site contains current news as well as select full text articles from journals such as JAMA, American Medical News, and Archives of Internal Medicine.
American Red Cross
Site contains current news releases, a Red Cross virtual museum, summaries of services offered, programs and publications.
National Cancer Institute
A searchable site with information on research programs and funding, clinical trials, cancer information and statistics.
National Institutes of Health
Publications and fact sheets, news items, grant opportunities, and more are available from this searchable site.
World Health Organization
Health related statistics on member countries, health topics from AIDS to Zoonoses, press releases and upcoming events are all found on this searchable site.
State Health Facts Online
Individual state profiles, compare data between states in such categories as women's health, medical costs, Medicare, HIV & AIDS, and more.
NetAnatomy
NetAnatomy is designed to teach human anatomy to students of the health professions, including undergraduate medical, health sciences, and nursing students.
Health News Review
From Gary Schwitzer, professor of health journalism at the University of Minnesota, links to and rates health news reported in major newspapers and wire services on accuracy, balance and completeness. Also explains some concepts which frequently appear in news stories with little or no explanation, like absolute risk vs. relative risk.
Drugs.com
The Drugs.com mission is to be the Internet’s most trusted resource for drug and related health information resource. We will achieve this aim by presenting independent, objective, comprehensive and up-to-date information in a clear and concise format for both consumers and healthcare professionals.
PDRhealth
PDRhealth is part of Thomson Healthcare, which offers a wide range of e-solutions, publications, drug databases, and communications vehicles to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers, and managed-care organizations. We serve the healthcare market for The Thomson Corporation.