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- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- Community Health Network of San Francisco - Primary Care Clinics
- Bay Area Consumer Health Libraries
- 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.
- Health Care Access: a guide to healthcare programs in San Francisco - 2008
A summary of key health care resources in San Francisco, including eligibility criteria. This booklet was developed by the San Francisco Bringing Up Healthy Kids Coalition, local organizations dedicated to health and well-being by increasing health care coverage among San Francisco’s children and youth.
- 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
UCSF Blogs
Health Commentary with Dr. Mike Magee
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
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
Bay Area Consumer Health Libraries
Directory includes information about local consumer health libraries open to the public, addresses and phone numbers.
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
Dictionary.com
Oxford English Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus II
Wikipedia
Multicultural Health Resources
SPIRAL (Selected Patient Information in Asian Languages)
Health resources in Arabic at the Henry Ford Health System
EthnoMed
The Ethnomed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US. The information available to patients are in languages including Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Hispanic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, and Vietnamese.
Suc Khoe la Vang - Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project
Chinatown Public Health Center (San Francisco)
MedInfoRus - Medical Information in Russian
AIDS/HIV
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
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
C.A.R.E. (Cancer Awareness, Resources and Education) Program at SFGH
Educational series conducted in English, Spanish or Cantonese for people with cancer.
Diabetes
American Diabetes Association
Information also avaiable in Spanish
Diabetes Health Center from WebMD
MedlinePlus: Diabetes
Diabetes.com
Disability Resources
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