General Health Websites

The resources listed here are intended to provide general information. Please consult your health care provider for individual information on your specific condition.

Air Quality Health Index (Environment Canada)

Atlantic Breast Cancer Net

Breast Cancer Action Nova Scotia

Canadian Health Network
Health information service supported by Health Canada. Find excellent resources from health information providers across Canada. The CHN seeks to establish itself as Canadians' premier source of "health information you can trust."

Health Canada - Warnings-Advisories

Family Doctor.Org
The American Academy of Family Physicians' Information From Your Family Doctor. Provides informative articles to give you background information on a health topic.

MayoClinic.Com
Offers a wealth of easy to understand information on health and medical topics. All reviewed by Mayo Clinic professionals.

Medem.com
A full range of patient health information produced by leading medical societies including the American Medical Association.

Medlineplus
Developed by the US National Library of Medicine this site offers excellent and well-organized health information. Find pages of topical links, health dictionaries and directories, drug information, and current health news.

Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition
The online interactive edition of the 1997 comprehensive consumer text of the same name.

New Brunswick Surgical Care Network - Provides general information about surgery in New Brunswick; key initiatives of surgical access management as well as wait times for patients who have already received surgery.

New Brunswick Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists

WebMed Links
From the Canadian Medical Association, provides links to various Canadian and US sources of patient education information.

*This selected list of general health sites has been reviewed based on criteria such as credibility, sponsorship, currency, audience and interactivity.

Resources and Web-sites- Telehealth Links

Canadian Society of Telehealth
http://www.cst-sct.org/

Telemedicine Information Exchange
http://www.telemed.org/

American Society of Telemedicine Providers
http://www.atsp.org

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