Website Resources

Health Links

These websites provide information on Educational tools, disease topics, symptoms, medications, and diagnostic procedures.  They are reliable sites and are not listed in any particular order.

Be sure to check our comprehensive Whole Foods Plant based resources, Medical diseases Support Organizations, Ayurvedic Resources, Meditation , yoga centers page also.

Please check our separate Links for the innumerable resources listed for your ease:

Medical Support Organizations

Favorite Health and Healing Quotes

Ayurvedic Resources:

Ayurvedic Supplies: Herbs, Oils,  spices and food supplies

Meditation and Yoga center, Vedic astrologers

Whole food Plant Based resources: Comprehensive List of various Plant Based resources

Local Integrative and CIH practitioners:

Rogue Valley, Southern Oregon:

Other Medical Links:

Anatomy:

Anatomy Atlases (Note:  graphic content!):
www.anatomyatlases.org

Drug Reference:

PDRhealth:
www.pdrhealth.com

Drugs.com is the most popular, comprehensive, and up-to-date source of drug information online

https://www.drugs.com/

UpToDate medical information for Patients and Caregivers

https://www.uptodate.com/home/uptodate-subscription-options-patients

Evidence-Based Medicine, Healthcare Quality, Clinical Trials:

National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC):
www.guideline.gov

The Cochrane Library:
www.cochrane.org

Medical literature database and research articles:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research Homepage:
www.ahrq.gov
20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors:
http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/care-planning/errors/20tips/index.html
Consumers and Patients:
http://www.ahrq.gov/patients-consumers/index.html

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence: United Kingdom:
www.nice.org.uk

Clinical Trials information:
www.clinicaltrials.gov

General Health:

American Journal of Managed Care: Personalized Preventive Care Leads to Significant Reductions in Hospital Utilization:
http://www.ajmc.com/publications/issue/2012/2012-12-vol18-n12/personalized-preventive-care-leads-to-significant-reductions-in-hospital-utilization/1

Medline Plus: Consumer Health Information: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/?hp

American College of Physicians Health Care Topics:

http://www.acponline.org/patients_families/products/

OHSU Library Consumer Health Resources: www.ohsu.edu/library/consumerhealth/

WebMD – includes drug info and symptom checker: www.webmd.com

Merck Manual (includes commercial info and links)
Home Edition:www.merck.com/consumer/
Professional Edition: http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/index.html

Healthfinder: www.healthfinder.gov

Mayo Clinic Website: www.mayoclinic.com

New York Public Library: Best of the Web: Health & Medicine: http://www.nypl.org/weblinks/health

Up To Date: http://www.uptodate.com/home/uptodate-benefits-patients

Health Question-Answer Site:

Go Ask Alice:  http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/

Medical Literature Databases:

Medline PubMed – National Library of Medicine literature search engine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

OHSU Library Health Information Request:
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/library/research-assistance/health-information-by-mail.cfm/

Nutrition:

Nutrition, Food, and Diet Information:
www.nutrition.gov

Organic vs Conventional:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/organic-food/art-20043880?pg=2

https://ucdintegrativemedicine.com/2015/08/the-straight-truth-about-organic/#gs.phzec1

for clinicians:

https://imconsortium.org/well-being-resources/

https://www.nutritioncme.org/

https://foodfacts.mercola.com/
https://www.mercola.com/

Food and Supplements safety:

The list below provides information gathered from press releases and other public notices about certain recalls of FDA-regulated products.

https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

Dietary supplement labels contain valuable information about supplement products. It is important to always read the label and follow the directions.

http://www.crnusa.org/resources/how-read-supplement-label

My General advice about choosing Integrative modalities:

Be an informed consumer:
https://nccih.nih.gov/health/decisions

How to go about selecting a CAM practitioner:
https://nccih.nih.gov/health/tips/selecting

Several Other Helpful Links:

Helpful Consumer Guides:

food babe

https://foodbabe.com/

EWG

https://www.ewg.org/

https://www.ewg.org/consumer-guides

Mercury in fish

https://www.seafoodwatch.org/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090207170618/http://www.gotmercury.org/article.php?list=type&type=75

joann gruber with PDF’s

https://ashlandintegrativecare.com/resources

Anti Inflammatory diet.pdf: Anti-Inflammatory: 351.64 KB : Tart Cherry Juice.pdf

FOOD-RELATED WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Organic Foods

Organic Consumers Association
www.purefood.org
Organic Farming Research Foundation
www.ofrf.org
Organic Trade Association
www.ota.org

Organic Gardening and Organic Seeds

Organic Gardening
www.organicgardening.com
Seeds of Change
www.seedsofchange.com
Victory Seeds
www.victoryseeds.com
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
www.southernexposure

Educating Children
Let’s Get Growing! Company Catalogue
www.letsgetgrowing.com
The Edible Schoolyard
www.edibleschoolyard.org

Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) and Gardening

American Community Gardening
Association
www.communitygarden.org
Greenpeople
www.greenpeople.org
Local Harvest
www.localharvest.org
Organic Consumers
www.organicconsumers.org

Food Co-ops
Co-op Directory
www.coopdirectory.org
Greenpeople
www.greenpeople.org
Local Harvest
www.localharvest.org
Organic Consumers
www.organicconsumers.org

Composting and Herb Gardening
Avant-Gardening
www.avant-gardening.com
Organic Gardening
www.organicgardening.com

Vegetarianism
Vegetarian Resource Group
www.vrg.org
International Vegetarian Union (IVU)
www.ivu.org
North American Vegetarian Society
www.navs-online.org
Vegan Fusion
www.veganfusion.com

Modern Food Concerns

Food and Water
www.foodandwater.org
Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP)
www.safetables.org
Humane Farming Association
www.hfa.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
www.peta.org
Pesticide Action Network, North America (PANNA)
www.panna.org
Citizens for Health
www.citizens.org
EarthSave
www.earthsave.org

Water Testing

Watercheck National Testing
Laboratories
www.ntllabs.com

Environmental Groups and Initiatives

Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
The Sierra Club
www.sierraclub.org
Natural Resource Defense Council
www.savebiogems.org
Friends of the Earth
www.foe.org
Rainforest Action Network
www.ran.org
Worldwatch Institute
www.worldwatch.org
Green Restaurant Association
www.dinegreen.com

World Hunger Organizations

Food First (Institute for Food
and Development Policy)
www.foodfirst.org
Food Not Bombs
www.foodnotbombs.net
The Hunger Project
www.thp.org
The Hunger Site
www.thehungersite.com