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Sites for general information on health and medicine
This Seattle Public Library site contains health, wellness, and medical sites that the staff of the Science and Social Science Department has found to be informative and helpful. Links included here access both general and specific medical information sites. They also cover subjects from broad and local viewpoints. For historical information, explanations of these links, additional sites, or help with related print collections, contact the Science and Social Science Department.
(206) 386-4620
HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals, as well as consumers, in meeting their health information needs.
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) administers Medicare, the nation's largest health insurance program, which covers 37 million Americans. Medicare provides health insurance to people age 65 and over; those who have permanent kidney failure; and certain people with disabilities.
Sites for specific eye conditions and vision concerns
American Academy of Ophthalmology: Eye Diseases and Conditions
This site provides a source of information on eye conditions of the young and the elderly, other eye-care issues, and low vision resources.
The National Eye Institute's Office of Health Education and Communication responds directly to requests for information on eye diseases and vision research. Publications are available at no charge. This office cannot diagnose diseases, offer specific treatment recommendations, or provide physician referrals.
Royal National Institute for the Blind: Understanding Eye Conditions
Eye conditions that can lead to blindness, and their treatments, are explained succinctly here.
NOAH: National Organization of Albinism and Hypopigmentation
This site exists to provide information about albinism and NOAH. It's a place where people with albinism, their families, and those who work with them can ask questions and share their experiences.
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery: Cataracts
The mission of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery is to raise the standards and skills of anterior segment surgeons through clinical and practice management education and to work with patients, government, and the medical community to promote delivery of quality eye care.
This site contains information about Pink Eye.
The Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to fighting glaucoma, the world's leading preventable cause of blindness.
This site has answers to your frequently-asked questions (FAQs), as well as comprehensive information about glaucoma. The GRF funds and stimulates research nationally and internationally.
The NKCF is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization intended to improve the quality of life of persons with keratoconus. It does this by making educational material available to them, their families, and their eye care professionals; developing support groups on a local level; and presenting seminars on all aspects of this condition.
This foundation provides patient education and current research findings.
This foundation publishes current research and breakthrough discoveries and provides a means for interaction between those with macular degeneration.
This nonprofit organization provides links to e-mail discussion groups.
The World Health Organization (WHO) leads an international alliance of interested parties to work for the global elimination of trachoma - an infectious disease responsible, at present, for at least 15% of the world's blindness.
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Content Modified: 10 November 2005
11/16/2004