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Bay Area Resources[BACK TO TOP]

San Francisco Department of Public Health
Community Health Network of San Francisco - Primary Care Clinics
San Francisco Network of Support for Community Living
Resource guide for seniors and adults with disabilities, as well as their caregiver and service providers in San Francisco. Information available in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, French and Portugese.

C.A.R.E. (Cancer Awareness, Resources and Education) Program at SFGH
Educational series conducted in English, Spanish or Cantonese for people with cancer.

Blogs on Medical Information[BACK TO TOP]

UCSF Blogs
Health Commentary with Dr. Mike Magee

Complementary & Alternative Medicine[BACK TO TOP]

National Center for CAM
The authoritative website on CAM. Provides information on research, research funding, clinical trials, and CAM education for professionals. For consumers, this site provides definitions and links to resources

Stanford University School of Medine --CAM Program
CAMPS is a project of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. The project aims to increase information about the effectiveness of CAM and its integration with conventional therapies. The website has links to current and completed research studies conducted by CAMPS researchers.

Consumer Health Resources[BACK TO TOP]

American Medical Association – Doctor Finder
Search for basic professional information on virtually every AMA member doctor in the United States.

CalMedicare – Medicare Information for Californians
Information about Medicare benefits for people who live in California.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC seeks to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling diseases, injury and disability. The site covers health and safty topics including infectious diseases, environmental health, workplace safty, and travelers' health.

Krames Online (Gwinnett Medical Center Health Library)
This site covers over 4,000 topics on health and medication and is written for patients in easy to follow health sheets.

MedlinePlus®
Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 750 diseases and conditions. There is alsodrug information, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. This website also available in Spanish.

Public Health Resources on the Internet (at Sheldon Margen Public Health Library of UC Berkeley)


General Reference[BACK TO TOP]

Dictionary.com
Oxford English Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus II
Wikipedia


Multicultural Health Resources[BACK TO TOP]

SPIRAL (Selected Patient Information in Asian Languages)

AIDS/HIV[BACK TO TOP]

AIDSinfo
California Department of Public Health Office of AIDS
UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
The Body
HIV⁄AIDS Bureau
Project Inform
San Francisco AIDS Foundation


Cancer[BACK TO TOP]

American Cancer Society
American Society of Clinical Oncology
California Breast Cancer Research Program
California Cancer Registry
The Cancer Project
National Cancer Institute
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship


Diabetes[BACK TO TOP]

American Diabetes Association
Information also avaiable in Spanish

Diabetes Health Center from WebMD
MedlinePlus: Diabetes
Diabetes.com