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Novel Routes for Allergen Immunotherapy
Safety of Antipsychotics in Nursing Home Residents
Forms & Resources
Roles & Tasks
The CareBrigade system allows a Patient, supported by at least two friends or loved ones, to create a customized plan for supporting the Patient’s physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being during any short-term debilitating medical treatments like radiation or chemo, or following surgery. The CareBrigade supports the Patient’s complete healing during at-home recovery, including creating a space for miracles.
Links for Consumers and Patients
Campaign ZERO Checklists for Hospital Patients
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
At CenterWatch, our mission is to be the leading source of clinical trials information for both clinical research professionals and patients. To support our mission, we offer several professional, educational and informative services and resources from news and analysis on the industry to trial listings seeking study volunteers. For more information, click on the links below under the appropriate category.
CenterWatch offers several services and resources specifically to patients. With our Clinical Trial Listing Service we are able to provide patients unbiased information on clinical trials, with a clinical trial database that contains thousands of currently enrolling trials. Information on drugs and new medical therapies are available to review. CenterWatch also provides patients with health and educational resources about clinical trials and other health information.
Directory of Health OrganizationsHealth Associations
The Empowered Patient Coalition
The Empowered Patient Coalition is a consumer and advocate-led effort to inform, engage and empower the public to assume a greater role in their own medical treatment and in becoming a driving force for meaningful health care reform.
Community Blogs and Support Groups
CheckOrphan
CheckOrphan is a non-profit organization located in Basel, Switzerland and Santa Cruz, California that is dedicated to rare, orphan and neglected diseases. CheckOrphan offers users an interactive and dynamic platform for all these diseases. This strategy allows visitors to be updated daily on all the latest news and interact with people internationally.
Complementary and alternative medicine
Consumers & Patients AHRQ
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Information from AHRQ’s research helps people make more informed decisions and improve the quality of health care services.
FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts
FDA Potential Signals of Serious Risks/New Safety Information Identified from the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS)
Medical consumer information resource contains comprehensive
and reliable content in patient-friendly language on over 1,500
health topics, 70 focussed health centers, 450 medical illustrations and daily health news.
Aetna InteliHealth‘s mission is to empower people with trusted solutions for healthier lives. We accomplish this by providing credible information from the most trusted sources, including Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Established in 1996, Aetna InteliHealth has become one of the leading online health information companies in the world. Our health information includes health news and content as well as access to tools and risk assessments. Aetna InteliHealth is a subsidiary of Aetna and is funded by Aetna to the extent not funded by revenues from operations.
Medindia.com (or .net) is Asia’s premier health portal providing a range of services to both healthcare consumers and the medical professionals
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National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology
Developed to serve the information needs of the health services research (HSR) community, HSR Information Central is a research portal of health services research resources providing numerous Internet links to data, funding announcements, reports, podcasts, discussion groups, and more. The National Library of Medicine’s HSR Information Program, coordinated by the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology, initiated the project. The first partner to join in populating the Web site was the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). NLM has received links from the National Cancer Institute, AcademyHealth, the Cecil C. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) at the Veterans Administration.
Patient Power® is built on a library of programs, which continues to grow with the addition of each week’s new webcasts. These programs feature top medical experts and inspiring patients from some of America’s leading medical institutions.
Patient E-mail Notification Service
Severe Pneumonia in Intensive Care
Patient Safety & Medical Errors
Search Clinical Research Studies Protocol Database — Clinical Trials, Clinical Studies, Medical Research, Clinical Trial, Clinical Study, Clinical Research, Protocols at the NIH Clinical Center, Research Studies, Research, Study, Trial, Protocol, NIH, National Institutes of Health
Quackwatch has grown considerably. To help visitors with special areas of interest, we maintain 23 additional sites for autism, chiropractic, dentistry, multilevel marketing, and many other hot topics. We are also closely affiliated with the National Council Against Health Fraud, which cosponsors our free weekly newsletter, and with Bioethics Watch, which highlights issues of questionable research on humans. Our Internet Health Pilot site provides links to hundreds of reliable health sites. Our Casewatch site contains a large library of legal cases, licensing board actions, government sanctions, and regulatory actions against questionable medical products.
US Department of Health and Human Services
Web-Savy Patient
This list of links can direct you to a number of useful organizations and services including those mentioned in the book, as well as new resources that may be helpful for you.
