Health Law Research Guide: Other

Federal government website on AIDS. Includes programs, policies and issues, funding opportunities, resources.

US News & World Report

Definition, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment of common mental disorders

From the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases

From the Mayo Clinic

An online collection of signed, peer-reviewed articles on hundreds of disorders that arise in emergency settings, on emergency medical systems, on managing emergency departments, and on legal aspects of emergency medicine. Published by eMedicine, a part of the WebMD Health Professional Network that includes Medscape.com

The 13th Edition Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, a.k.a. the “Pink Book,” provides physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and others with the most comprehensive information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent.

American Medical Association

A free Internet rating service that grades US hospitals, physicians, health plans, nursing homes, and more.

John Hopkins Medicine' s Health Library. Browse by diagnosis, drug, pathogen, management, or resistance tool, or to search by keyword.

Tabular and graphic data from the CDC on AIDS and HIV, including data by state, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure to HIV, sex, race/ethnicity, age group, vital status, and case definition category.

Current medical news, medical information by specialty, peer-reviewed articles, links to on-line medical journals, and multimedia resources.

A comprehensive source of information from the federal government about mental disorders, diagnosis, medications, and research.

NYAM houses significant historical materials in medicine and public health and includes collections containing many of the formative texts of medicine and allied fields from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

Located in Queens, New York, this library provides access to online/print public health journals, and houses more than 8,000 books and approximately 1,000 videos on a variety of health topics.

From the Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center.

A non-profit, non-commercial source for those suffering directly or indirectly from spinal cord injuries or diseases of the spine, by quadriplegic M. Ginop.