Health Links - Alphabetical List: f - j

Health sources listed alphabetically. Please go to the online form if you know of a site that should be listed with these. I am particularly interested in local sites. You may also send along your comments.

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Go Ask Alice!
http://www.goaskalice.columbia. edu/index.html

According to the site: "Go Ask Alice! is the health question and answer Internet site produced by Alice!, Columbia University's Health Education Program—a division of the Columbia University Health Service.

This site has three primary features:

1. New Alice! Q&As of the Week gives you the latest inquiries and responses—this section is updated every Friday. 
2. Search Alice! lets you find health information by subject via a search of the Go Ask Alice! Archives containing over 1,500 previously-posted questions and answers. 
3. Ask Alice! gives you the chance to ask Alice! a question. 

The mission of Go Ask Alice! is to provide factual, in-depth, straight-forward, and nonjudgmental information to assist readers' decision-making about their physical, sexual, emotional, and spiritual health."

Hardin Meta-Directory
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/m d/index.html

This site is a product of the University of Iowa. From the site description:

As the name "meta directory" implies, Hardin MD is a "list of lists" - Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. 

Health Finder
http://www.healthfinder.org/

Healthfinder® is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government. Healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public. Launched in April 1997, Healthfinder® served Internet users over 1.7 million times in its first year online.

Healtheon
http://www.healtheon.com/com/index. html

This site is a commercial site that offers a searchable database of medical terms and much information about the medical industry. According to Healtheon, their mission ". . . is to leverage advanced Internet technology to connect all participants in healthcare, and enable them to communicate, exchange information and perform transactions which cut across the healthcare maze. This will simplify healthcare, reduce costs, enhance service and result in higher quality, and more accessible healthcare." 

Welcome to HIT - Health Information Tennessee 
http://web.utk.edu/~chrg/hit/main/ind ex.htm

Health Information Tennessee is a pilot project to disseminate data to identify population health problems and high risk groups, and to assess need for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in Tennessee. This is an official web site of the Tennessee Department of Health and The University of Tennessee, Community Health Research Group.

HealthWorld Online 
http://www.healthy.net/

We have created HealthWorld Online to act as your 24-hour health resource center--a virtual health village where you can access the information, services and products to help design a wellness-based lifestyle. You will meet many of the leaders in natural health, wellness, self-care and alternative medicine as you navigate our Internet health network, experts who have dedicated their lives to educating consumers and professionals in the health care of the future--Integrative Health--blending the best of conventional and alternative/ complementary medicine. 
 

iVillage.com: the women's Network 
http://www.ivillage.com/

This site is a comprehensive women's network, an electronic magazine, dedicated to address women's issues, from career and family to health and fitness. Over one million members.
 

JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association 
http://www.ama-as sn.org/public/journals/jama/jamahome.htm

The Journal of the American Medical Association maintains a series of easy-to-use, peer-reviewed collections of resources on specific conditions.