Health

For nurses and students with disabilities. Offers annotated links to equipment, mentors, employment, financial aid, legal issues and research.

Site containing nursing theories and reviews.

A professional network for nurses where you can create a personal profile, view our online magazines, detailed job search, post journals, forum discussions, upload videos, connect with other local nurses.

A blog created by a nurse for nurses. Collaborate and contribute on our blog and forum with like-minded individuals.

Anime cartoon about an undergraduate in Japan.

Offers courses in natural and holistic nutrition through distance education; participants earn the designation "Registered Holistic Nutritionist".

Subscription service for locating jobs in dietetics in the USA and especially California, Employers list for free.

An independent expert report on the relationship of diet, nutrition and physical activity to chronic diseases issued jointly by FAO and WHO in 2003. Contains link to full PDF report for download.

Reviews and summaries of published scientific information about astaxanthin and its possible applications to human health.

Advocates the use of whey proteins in nutrition. Describes nutrition facts and functions complete proteins have in diet.

Help to define the best fat for your own food application.

Free nutrition software for Linux and DOS, which records and analyzes meals with the USDA nutrient database.

Discusses the effects of hydrogenated oils in the human diet, with numerous references to scientific studies.

Community organization providing information, events, news, exercise programs, and food facts.

A resource for all of the US government nutrition campaigns and programs. Includes articles, lists and links.

From the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management Biosafety and Bloodborne Pathogens.

Features information on biosafety, radiation, chemical and asbestos, and hazardous materials safety.

The DES provides technical, regulatory, and related management services to the University of Maryland community in order to achieve a safe and healthful campus environment in compliance with environmental and life safety regulations and standards.

Undergraduate degree in Safety prepares students for careers in safety management and loss control consulting.

The AIHA is "..dedicated to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental factors arising in or from the workplace that may result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community."

Provides many 'home grown' academically derived educational resources (also available as FAQs) as well as vetted and updated 'links' relating to Occupational and Environmental Health and Medicine.

This group administers testing for individuals to become a Certified Safety Professional.

The IIRSM is a professional body for health and safety practitioners, based in UK. "... to advance professional standards in accident prevention and occupational health throughout the world."

Provides occupational safety information through Safety Smart Magazine, newsletters, clip art posters and poster software.

Non-profit consumer organization investigates all methods, types and systems of preventative health care and natural therapeutics (including natural remedies in alternative medicine and health care). Based in Burnaby, BC, Canada.

Non-profit organization created for the support, recognition, registration, and as a referral service for certified Craniosacral Therapists and students.

Non-profit educational organization representing herbalists. Provides peer-review in U.S. for professional herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants. Based in Canton, Georgia.

Research, education, diagnosis and treatment of the problem of surgical infection.

A voluntary association of physicians in the United States which sets standards for the medical profession and advocates on behalf of physicians and patients.

Fosters interdisciplinary transfer of ideas and theories by offering a common platform through which to report valid experimental surgical research.

Association of physicians caring for those in Texas.

Provides medical information and education through congresses and courses. View announcements and register online.

Medical specialty society for physicians and other professionals in medical quality management and clinical quality improvement.

Information and educational seminars and conferences on functional medicine.

A searchable catalog of FDA approved drug products both prescription and over the counter. The database includes information such as therapeutic equivalents and links to documents relating to approval.

Practical advice for patients who can’t swallow tablets, their carers and healthcare professionals who administer medicines to patients with swallowing difficulties.

Drug dosing tools including pharmacokinetic and infusion rate calculators, drip rate charts, and protocols.

Provides a free drug safety report, checking medications for side effects, treatment duplication and drug interactions. Includes FAQ and team profiles.

Pharmacy benefit program for workers' compensation specifically designed for self-insured employers and insurance carriers.

Provides pharmaceutical care and prepares graduate and postgraduate students to provide leadership in scholarship and practice. The department generates and disseminates knowledge to assure the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medications.

Offers a Doctor of Pharmacy degree curriculum in rural and primary care pharmacy practice. The class size is small and is taught by regular professors. Located in Laramie.

Introduction to Art therapy. Links, articles, and forum.

Resource and exchange for anyone interested in the healing potential of art.

Information about programs, courses, research and the department.

A membership organization that supports, develops and promotes doulas in the Puget Sound, Washington area. Providing free referrals to certified labor doulas and committed to finding a doula for every woman who wants one, regardless of ability to pay.

Provides all physical therapy services for passaic/ morris counties. Find details about the services, directions, insurance and contact details. Located in Pequannock, NJ.

Therapeutic recreation services for long term care. Forms, seminars, inspirational poems, and information about benefits of TR.

Includes program information, an application as well as general career information.

Resources for graduate students and professionals, including a dedicated message board and pointers to speech disorder sites and lesson plans.

Articulation and language continuing education courses for speech-language pathologists and therapists in the form of audio and video self-study courses, live seminars.