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In Connecticut

24-Hour Crisis Intervention Services in CT (CT Dept. of Health)

Community Health Centers in CT (CT Dept. of Health) 

Connecticut League for Nursing

Connecticut Pharmacy Prescription Drug Prices database (Attorney General's Office)

Connecticut Physician Profiles

Connecticut Mental Health Resources

Connecticut State Medical Society 

Connecticut’s Network of Care for Behavioral Health (searchable database)

Filing Complaints About Healthcare Providers with the CT Department of Health (online complaint form)

GreatkidsCT (CT State Library)

Guide to Nursing Schools/Programs in CT (Connecticut League for Nursing)

Nursing Home Facilities Licensed by the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health

Office of Health Care Access State of Connecticut

State of Connecticut Child Day Care Licensing Program

State of Connecticut Regulatory Action Reports (actions taken against licensed individuals and organizations by the Connecticut Department of Public Health)

General

America's Best Hospitals (US News & World Report annual survey) (Updated Annually)

Conversations between Dr. Bernadine Healy and Dr. Bruce Lytle, Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic - Navigating the Hospital; Q & A: The Team; Q & A: The Cutting Edge (video)

American Heart Association Professional Journals (Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology; Circulation; Circulation Research; Hypertension; Stroke)

BioMed Central (Biomedical research, peer-reviewed)

Cancer.Gov
(National Cancer Institute)

Clearinghouses
(Health Information Centers):

Aetna InteliHealth

Healthfinder
(US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Healthfinder (espanol)
(US Dept. of Health & Human Services) (español)

Health Information in Languages Other Than English (National Network of Libraries of Medicine)

Mayo Clinic.com 

Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses 

MEDLINEplus
(National Institutes of Health)

Medline Plus Spanish Version 

Toll-free Numbers for Health Information 

Virtual Hospital (A Digital Library of Health Information) (University of Iowa)

Clinical Trials (search) (National Cancer Institute)

Clinical Trials Databases
(National Institutes of Health)

Clinical Trials Portal (International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) - comprehensive information on on-going clinical trials (registry) or results of completed trials (database) conducted by the pharmaceutical industry

Combined Health Information Database
(National Institutes of Health)

Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) and Press Release (June 27, 2007)

Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages (24 Languages Project)

Consumer Health Resources on the Internet (UCONN Health Center)

Deciphering Medspeak (Medical Library Association)

Directory of Health Organizations (National Library of Medicine)

Drug Information
(National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health)

Drug Information Portal (National Library of Medicine)

Evaluating Websites for Consumer Health Information (UCONN Health Center)

FamilyDoctor.org

Family Health Guide (Harvard Medical School)

FDA-Approved Drug Products (searchable database)

Find A Doctor or Dentist, General and Specialized (National Library of Medicine)

Find a Hospital, Clinic or Healthcare Provider, General and Specialized (National Library of Medicine)

Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective (World Cancer Research Fund International/American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007)

Harvard School of Public Health Symposia (streaming media)

Health & Medicine at the National Academies

Health Information in Multiple Languages (MedlinePlus)

Hospital Compare (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) (now includes Hospital Death (Mortality) Rates for specific conditions)

InfoLine (call "211") 

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Interactive Media Library (NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) 

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) 

Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA)
(citations and abstracts) (searchable)

JournalJunkie (podcasts for medical practitioners)

KidsHealth 

Medical Dictionary Index (MedicineNet, a network of doctors)

MedicineNet.com 

MedLine Plus Health News (past 30 days)

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
(17th Edition) (searchable)

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Institutes of Health)

National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
(searchable database)

The New England Journal of Medicine
(Tables of Contents & Abstracts) (searchable)
(Full-text articles six months and older available with free registration)
(Search all MEDLINE abstracts; limit search by specific diseases)

NIHSeniorHealth (National Institutes of Health)

Nursing Home Compare (provides detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country)

Open Access Journals

PsychCrawler
(American Psychological Association)

Public Health Code (all regulations pertaining to CT Dept. of Health)

PubMED and PubMed Tutorial
(over 15 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and
additional life science journals back to the 1950's)
(National Library of Medicine)

PubMed Central (Life Science Journals, peer-reviewed)

Rare Disease Database (National Organization for Rare Disorders)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (U. S. Dept.of Health and Human Services)

Teaching and Learning Resources (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)

Tufts University OpenCourseware

The World Health Report (World Health Organization)