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:
Favorite Health and Healing Quotes
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
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://ucdintegrativemedicine.com/2015/08/the-straight-truth-about-organic/#gs.phzec1
for clinicians:
https://imconsortium.org/well-being-resources/
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:
- Organic Consumers Association
- National Vaccine Information Center
- Mercury Free Dentistry
- Regeneration International
- Grassroots Health
- Fluoride Alert
- Center for Nutrition Advocacy
- Cornucopia Institute
- Vitamin D Council
- Alliance for Natural Health USA
- Institute for Responsible Technology
- Caminos de Agua
- Organic and Natural
- American Botanical Council
- IFOAM – Organics International
- CANWI
- MRSA Survivors Network
- Rabies Challenge Fund
- AHVMF
Helpful Consumer Guides:
food babe
EWG
https://www.ewg.org/consumer-guides
Mercury in fish
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