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Consumer Health Information on the Internet

Did you miss our Consumer Health Information on the Internet workshop?

Here are some resources for finding reliable health information on the Internet.

Did you miss our Consumer Health Information on the Internet workshop?

Here are some resources for finding reliable health information on the Internet. Remember that the information you find online should supplement, not replace medical care.

Information should be current

Information should be reliable

Is the author or content provider given?

Are the author’s qualifications given?

Is the organization reputable?

Look at the web address for clues:

.gov = government

.edu = education

.org = organization (non-profit, research, or professional)

.com = commercial entities

Helpful Websites

MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing
Guide to evaluating the quality of health information on websites.

MedlinePlus
The National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it includes information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.

Healthfinder.gov
Includes resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations. Coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its health information referral service, the National Health Information Center.

Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
Search doctors who were selected after peer nomination, extensive research, and careful review and screening.

American Board of Medical Specialties
Find out if your doctor is Board Certified by an ABMS Member Board. You must create a free account in order to search the database.

New York State Physician Profile
Find information on a doctor’s medical education, and any legal actions taken against the doctor.

PatientsLikeMe
Enables people to share information that can improve the lives of patients diagnosed with life-changing diseases.

National Institutes of Health Senior Health
Health and wellness information for older adults from the National Institutes of Health. Users can enlarge the text or hear the text read aloud.

Lab Tests Online
Research and understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases. Produced by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

RxList Pill Identification Tool
Identify your pill or medication.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is the Federal Government’s lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.

Black History Month

February is Black History Month.

Books

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich
A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name by Ann Nixon Cooper with Karen Grigsby Bates
Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Cary D. Wintz

Harriet Jacobs: A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave by Jennifer Fleischner
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White

DVDs

The Color Purple
For Colored Girls
Killer of Sheep
Only the Ball Was White
Passing Strange: The Movie

American Film Institute’s List of the 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time

1. Casablanca – 1942

2. Gone with the Wind – 1939

3. West Side Story – 1961

4. Roman Holiday – 1953

5. An Affair to Remember – 1957

6. The Way We Were – 1973

7. Doctor Zhivago – 1965

8. It’s a Wonderful Life – 1946

9. Love Story – 1970

10. City Lights – 1931

11. Annie Hall – 1977

12. My Fair Lady – 1964

13. Out of Africa – 1985

14. The African Queen – 1951

15. Wuthering Heights – 1939

16. Singin’ in the Rain – 1952

17. Moonstruck – 1987

18. Vertigo – 1958

19. Ghost – 1990

20. From Here to Eternity – 1953

21. Pretty Woman – 1990

22. On Golden Pond – 1981

23. Now, Voyager – 1942

24. King Kong – 1933

25. When Harry Met Sally – 1989

26. The Lady Eve – 1941

27. The Sound of Music – 1965

28. The Shop Around the Corner – 1940

29. An Officer and a Gentleman – 1982

30. Swing Time – 1936

31. The King and I – 1956

32. Dark Victory – 1939

33. Camille – 1937

34. Beauty and the Beast – 1991

35. Gigi – 1958

36. Random Harvest – 1942

37. Titanic – 1997

38. It Happened One Night – 1934

39. An American in Paris – 1951

40. Ninotchka – 1939

41. Funny Girl – 1968

42. Anna Karenina – 1935

43. A Star is Born – 1954

44. The Philadelphia Story – 1940

45. Sleepless in Seattle – 1993

46. To Catch a Thief – 1955

47. Splendor in the Grass – 1961

48. Last Tango in Paris – 1972

49. The Postman Always Rings Twice – 1946

50. Shakespeare in Love – 1998

51. Bringing Up Baby – 1938

52. The Graduate – 1967

53. A Place in the Sun – 1951

54. Sabrina – 1954

55. Reds – 1981

56. The English Patient – 1996

57. Two for the Road – 1967

58. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – 1967

59. Picnic – 1955

60. To Have and Have Not – 1944

61. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – 1961

62. The Apartment – 1960

63. Sunrise – 1927

64. Marty – 1955

65. Bonnie and Clyde – 1967

66. Manhattan – 1979

67. A Streetcar Named Desire – 1951

68. What’s Up, Doc? – 1972

69. Harold and Maude – 1971

70. Sense and Sensibility – 1995

71. Way Down East – 1920

72. Roxanne – 1987

73. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir – 1947

74. Woman of the Year – 1942

75. The American President – 1995

76. The Quiet Man – 1952

77. The Awful Truth – 1937

78. Coming Home – 1978

79. Jezebel – 1939

80. The Sheik – 1921

81. The Goodbye Girl – 1977

82. Witness – 1985

83. Morocco – 1930

84. Double Indemnity – 1944

85. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing – 1955

86. Notorious – 1946

87. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – 1988

88. The Princess Bride – 1987

89. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – 1966

90. The Bridges of Madison County – 1995

91. Working Girl – 1988

92. Porgy and Bess – 1959

93. Dirty Dancing – 1987

94. Body Heat – 1981

95. Lady and the Tramp – 1955

96. Barefoot in the Park – 1967

97. Grease – 1978

98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – 1939

99. Pillow Talk – 1959

100. Jerry Maguire – 1996

From the American Film Institute.

2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010.
Among the nominees:

BEST NOVEL

Caught by Harlan Coben
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron
The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
Snow Angels by James Thompson

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
The News Where You Are by Catherine O. Flynn
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis
Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler

BEST FACT CRIME

Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South by Alex Heard
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin by Hampton Sides
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr