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Getting Accurate Medical Information
FIND ACCURATE HEALTH INFORMATION In this site, the U.S. government helps us find accurate medical information online. Google will return vast amounts of information on any medical query, but a good deal of Google’s health information is by cranks and quacks. HEALTH FINDER information is scientifically accurate. And here’s their section on drug interactions. I discovered I was taking a potentially dangerous combination when I used it. So please do check out your medications, herbal remedies, and over-the-counter medicines to make sure there’s no dangerous interactions. It could just save your life! http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Home ASK THE FACULTY OF THREE LEADING UNIVERSITIES NET WELLNESS says it has over 55,000 pages of health information on hundreds of diseases and wellness issues. But that’s only the beginning. Its ASK AN EXPERT feature allows YOU to ask their medical experts questions. Read about it here: http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/help/aaehelp.cfm You can also “click on any of over 100 health topics to find in-depth information on hundreds of diseases and wellness issues.” SHOULD YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS BE ONLINE? The medical group I use has computerized my medical records. This is convenient for them and for me. It would be even more convenient if I stored my records in one of the online medical records depositories, ready to be shown to any physician anywhere. But is this dangerous? Might my highly personal records – along with my social security number and date of birth – wind up in the wrong hands? Might I be refused health insurance coverage because of something some medical professional wrote into the record? This article, Michael Gerber’s “New Ways To Manage Health Data,” presents the pros and cons.
http://www.consumer-action.org/press/articles/ DR. DONNICA DEBUNKS HEALTH MYTHS She’s good. She takes you for a brisk walk down the primrose path of common errors, debunking as she goes. Then she gives you a chance to learn more. http://www.drdonnica.com/myths/index.htm AMA’S ATLAS OF THE HUMAN BODY It enables you to study such things as the effects of stroke, the respiratory system, the reproductive systems, and other basic functions of the body. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT YOUR KNEES If your knees are giving you twinges, you may wonder if exercise will make things worse. Here’s an authority’s opinion: Other than traumatic injury, Dr. Vetter notes, very few activities are actually harmful to the knees. "Even with running, with all the pounding up and down, there is not a single study that shows running is particularly damaging to the knees," she says. "As long as you’re keeping active and keeping your legs healthy and strong, and you’re doing that by running, that’s fine. Unfortunately, she added, "the kneecap is really a bad system" in terms of being able to handle certain kinds of pressure. Dr. Vetter cautioned against using stairs as part of an exercise regimen and against using knee extension machines that place weight on the ankles in an "open chain" exercise completed by straightening the leg. She said that both of these activities place tremendous pressure and torque on the patella and can be damaging. Click below for the whole article. If you scroll down the article to “Avoiding Injury,” you’ll find valuable recommendations by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002271.html IF YOU LIKE TO WATCH HEALTH VIDEOS TAUMED is a virtual health community. They say, stead of shuffling through countless web pages of irrelevant information, we have created a user-experience whereby consumers can connect quickly with the most relevant health information.” http://www.taumed.com/aboutus/aboutus.jsp Even if you don’t want to sign up for TAUMED’s health studies, they’ve got all these great health videos. Check them out here: http://www.taumed.com/video/browse_featured.jsp HOW IS REVOLUTION HEALTH DOING? REVOLUTION HEALTH, one of the new kids on the block, wants to become the top online medical site. How is it doing? Here’s its “healthy living” section: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/ And here’s “Mom Central”:
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