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Fast Food Facts Interactive
All information is derived from the handbook Fast Food Facts published by the consumer division of the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.

HospitalWeb
A list of USA and global hospitals on the Web. Provides a simple and globally accessible way for patients, medical researchers, and physicians to get information on any hospital in the world is the goal.

Mayo Clinic: Health Oasis
Reliable health information from Mayo Clinic.This site is directed by a team of Mayo physicians, scientists, writers and educators. Search the site, consult a glossary of medical terms, or find information through the Mayo Health Reference Library.

Medicine.net
Find out about diseases and conditions, procedures and tests, medications, consult a medical dictionary and more.

Medscape
The Web's largest collection of free, full-text clinical medicine articles enhanced with keyword searches, graphics, annotated links to Internet resources, and more.

Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home edition
Easy-to-use medical information.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th edition
General medical text with easy-to-use medical information.

Statistics

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
National statistics on principal diagnoses, procedures and other medical information.

Country Health Data
From the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the site contains a wealth of statistical information on the countries in the Americas. In addition to providing demographic indicators, the "Basic Country Health Profiles", also contains profiles, summaries, analysis, and trends of health for the countries.

Center for International Health Statistics
Country Health Profile Series includes Health Statistical Reports of basic demographic and health data, and Country Health Profile of health conditions and trends in selected countries.

Health Statistics
A compilation of annotated sites, researched by librarians and originally published in College and Research Libraries News, are reputable, referenced and dated.

National Center for Health Statistics
The NCHS is the primary federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics. Contains statistical tables, publications, links to other sites, and "Fastats", an alphabetical listing of brief statistics on diseases and health statistics of states.


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