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CANADIAN
INFORMATION
Canadian Food Inspection
Agency
Food regulations in Canada, Consumer Information, Food Safety, pathogens,allergy
alerts, includes Guide to Food Labeling and Advertising.
Canadian
Health Network - Réseau Canadien de la santé
Bilingual site funded by and in partnership with Health Canada that
directs you to health info that you can trust. / Des informations
sur la santé réunies par le Réseau canadien sur
la santé de Santé Canada.
Canadian Institute
for Health Information
Includes Provincial health expenditures.
Canadian Medical Association -
CMA Online
Includes doctor's guide to complete internet resources. Medical news
and conference database.
Direction
de santé publique de Montréal (English site)
Health
Canada Site / Santé Canada en-direct
Bilingual. Information about Health Canada and related agencies as well
as health and medical information. Searchable. / Le site de Santé
Canada.
Medical
Research Council
Bilingual. Major Federal Agency responsible for funding health research
in Canada. Includes information on funding and grants, newsletters,
and searchable database.
Public Health Agency of Canada / Agence de sante publique du Canada
INTERNATIONAL GENERAL RESOURCES
CAPHIS
Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medical Library
Association refers healthcare consumers to trustworthy health resources
on the Internet.
FIMDM
Health News Review
A website from the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making,
Inc.
MEDLINE
Plus
MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institues of
Health and other trusted sources on over 500 disease and conditions.
Mayo
Clinic
An award-winning consumer health website from the Mayo Foundation for
Medical Education and Research offering health and medical information,
news and self-improvement and disease management tools.
Medem Medical
Library
Connecting patients and physicians
online, this online network has its own library with articles tailored
to various life stages and social groups, containing information about
diseases and conditions, therapies and health, strategies, and health
and society.
SANTÉCOM
Recherche de documents sur la santé publique québécois
dans une base de données comportant plus de 13,000 monographies
ou rapports traitant de santé publique.
Santé
Web
Un véritable réseau de médecins pouvant vous informer
sur la presque totalité de vos problèmes.
CISMeF-Catalogue et Index des Sites Médicaux Francophones
Cliniweb
Index and table of contents to clinical information on the web. Search
or browse over 10,000 links.
Santé:
La Toile Du Québec
French only. A list of health care resource sites hosted in Quebec.
healthfinder®
A website developed by the National Health Information Center, U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services, and supported by U. S. Government
financing.
BIBLIOTHÈQUES
/ LIBRARIES
National Library of Medicine
The American NLM website offers access to free Medline and NLM publications,
as well as consumer health information.
McGill University
Health Sciences Library & Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Access to the McGill MUSE catalogue via the web, as well as consumer
health information and resources for health professionals.
Montreal
General Hospital - Medical Library
The hospital library website
links to consumer health information.
McGill
University Health Center
Links to McGill University teaching hospital web sites: The Montreal
Children's Hospital, The Montreal General Hospital, The Montreal Neurological
Hospital, The Royal Victoria Hospital.
Santé
Montréal
La Régie régionale de Montréal-Centre met à
votre disposition de l'information générale sur l'organisation
des services de santé et des services sociaux sur le territoire
de l'île de Montréal.
CLSC
Métro - Montréal/Westmount
Postal codes served by this CLSC: H2X, H3A, H3G, H3H, H3Y and H3Z.
National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The NCCAM website provides information about a range of topics related
to complementary and alternative medicine. The site has sections for
alerts and advisories, treatments and therapies, diseases and conditions,
and dietary and herbal supplements.
Alternative
Medicine Home Page
Gateway site with information
on complementary, alternative, innovative, and integrative therapies
from the Falk Library of Health Sciences (University of Pittsburg).
Alternative
Medicine: Information For Patients, Their Families, Friends, And Health
Care Workers
Tom Fleming's page from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Includes
site reviews and alphabetical lists.
HerbMed
Scientific information about medicinal herbs.
DRUG
REFERENCE
Drugs
and Lactation Database (LactMed)
This site provides a "peer-reviewed and fully referenced database
of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the
data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects
on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider."
Searchable by drug name. Part of the National Library of Medicine
Toxicology Data Network (ToxNet).
Drugs
and Medical Devices Directorate, Health Canada
Product specific information for drugs approved for use in Canada.
Searchable database, and links to various subheadings: Canadian Drug
Identification Codebook (CDIC), Crisis Management, Drug Product Database
(DPD), and Notices of Compliance.
FDA Homepage
U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Info about various products and
regulations including approved drug products, cosmetics and tobacco
etc.
Medline
Plus Drug Information
A searchable database of prescription and over-the-counter drugs by
generic and brand names.
CODES OF CONDUCT AND ACCREDITATION
Health
on the Net Code of Conduct
The Health On the Net Foundation, based in Geneva, has elaborated
the Code of Conduct to help standardise the reliability of medical
and health information available on the World-Wide Web. The HONcode
defines a set of rules to hold Web site developers to basic ethical
standards in the presentation of information and ensure readers always
know the source and the purpose of the data they are reading.
American
Accreditation HealthCare Commission (URAC)
Web sites
that receive the URAC Health Web Site Accreditation Seal are evaluated
against the URAC Health Web Site Standards to ensure that they deliver
quality health content and services.