Medicine: East Meets West

Dr. Jakubowski

Interesting Internet Sites on Alternative/Traditional Medicine

ALTERNATIVE

• OFFICE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
• THE ALTERNTATIVE MEDICINE HOMEPAGE Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburg
• THE NEW MEDICINE HOME PAGE
• THE ROSENTHAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburg
• CHILEL QIGONG HOMEPAGE The ChiLel Qigong Home Page, with links to the Huaxia Zhineng Qigong Center, the world's larges medicineless hospital
• ACUPUNCTURE Information about acupuncture and other traditional Chinese therapies
• CHINESE MEDICINE AND HEALTH Homepage.
• CHINESE INFORMATION SERVICE SYSTEM on Traditional Chinese Medicine
• HerbMedŽ - an interactive, electronic herbal database – provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public.
• The Special Nutritionals Adverse Event Monitoring System from the FDA.  Search for adverse effects of herbs and traditional drugs.
• Dietary Supplement Information from the NIH

TRADITIONAL

• THE OFFICE OF DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION at the NIH.
• THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION features authoritative information on heart disease risk assessment.
• THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
• MAYO CLINIC HEALTH O@SIS features medical information from the Mayo Clinic.
• JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION with archived articles from the journal and a helpful online doctor finder
• NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
• THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL gateway to medical information
• UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY WELLNESS LETTER HOMEPAGE features information from the number 1 newsletter on preventative medicine.
• HEALTHFINDER
• MEDSCAPE MedscapeŽ, for health professionals and interested consumers, features thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed articles, medical news, Medline, and interactive quizzes. Updated daily, and Free!.
• GOVERNMENT INTERNET SITE designed to help consumers find accurate health information.
• WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
• HMS BEAGLE, a online magazine for biomedical researchers
• IFIC FOUNDATION web site on food safety and nutrition.
• ANTIOXIDANTS and cardiovascular disease.
• BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL WORD dictionary
•  BLOOD PRESSURE Information for the Inter-Americna Society of Hypertension.

ASIAN STUDIES/MISC.

• Asian Studies WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY
• China HEALTH AND NUTRITION SURVEYS
• History of Chinese MATHEMATICS
• The China EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NETWORK
• Common CHINESE PHRASES
• Images of CHINESE TREASURES   from the National Palace Museum in Taipei

Last update on March 6, 1998