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	MayoClinic.com URL: http://www.mayoclinic.com/ ODP description: Clinical experts provide current medical information and news on health topics. Page title: Mayo Clinic medical information and tools for healthy living - MayoClinic.com Page description: Mayo Clinic offers award-winning medical and health information and tools for healthy living.
	Revolution Health Group LLC URL: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ ODP description: Provides advice and guidance to help individuals manage their health care, with product comparisons, membership plans, and an online store. Page title: Revolution Health - Start your Revolution Page description: Healthy living resource providing tools, information, forums, blogs and support to help you manage your health and wellness. Learning centers include diet, nutrition, fitness, weight loss, condition centers such as diabetes, cancer, and depression, treatments, drugs, vitamins, alternative medicine, beauty tips, skin care, hair care, pharmacy, how to quit smoking.
	Healthfinder URL: http://www.healthfinder.gov/ ODP description: A guide to reliable consumer health information from the Federal Government Page title: healthfinder.gov - your guide to reliable health information Page description: healthfinder.gov is a free guide to reliable health information, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
	The Merck Manual - Home Edition URL: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html ODP description: Transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. Page title: THE MERCK MANUAL MEDICAL LIBRARY: The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition
	MedlinePlus URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ ODP description: The National Library of Medicine's authoritative and current database of health information for consumers and health professionals. Coverage includes conditions and diseases, drug information, dictionaries, physician and healthcare directories, and links to other medical resources. Page title: MedlinePlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
	Discovery Health URL: http://health.discovery.com/ ODP description: Offers news and a variety of health information resources. Page title: Discovery Health :: Homepage Page description: Want to know about a disease and its treatment? Looking for a weight loss or fitness program? Want information on infertility, pregnancy and parenting? Interested in healthy living to reduce your risk of heart disease? You're in the right place! Discovery Health - your resource for health information, tips, tools, expert advice and support.
	NIH Health Information URL: http://health.nih.gov/ ODP description: Gateway to publications and online resources for consumers and professionals. Page title: Health Information - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Page description: The Health Information page is the central point of access to all NIH consumer information
	Dr. Koop's Community URL: http://www.drkoop.com/ ODP description: Former Surgeon General Koop's resources for health information. A wide variety of topics, an encyclopedia, pharmacopeia, and resources guide. Page title: Dr. Koop - Trusted, Reliable and Up To Date Health Information
	CNN Health URL: http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/ ODP description: Health news, chats and advice from CNN. Page title: CNN.com - Health
	Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics URL: http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html ODP description: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Comprehensive listings of links to medical information, most reliable, some not. Page title: Diseases and Disorders
	AARP - Health URL: http://www.aarp.org/health/ ODP description: Guide to health-related topics and issues of concern to older Americans, such as diseases, government policy, prescription drugs, and self-care. Page title: Health and Healthly Living, Exercise and Wellness, Medicaid and Drug Benefits - AARP Page description: Healthy living, wellness and fitness for people over 50; understanding insurance, prescription drugs, and drug benefits, guide to Medicare, news and more.
	eMedicine Health URL: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/ ODP description: Information for consumers on the symptoms and treatment of nearly every type of disease and health condition, first aid procedures for accidents and injuries, and physical and the emotional well-being that contribute to general wellness.
	Health A to Z URL: http://www.healthatoz.com/ ODP description: Includes a directory of more than 50,000 professionally-reviewed Internet resources, supportive online communities, and a calendar.
	Agency for Health Care Policy and Research URL: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/ ODP description: Consumer health and patient information on health plans and insurance, prescriptions, conditions and diseases, surgery, quality of care, quitting smoking, and prevention and wellness. Page title: Health Care: Consumers and Patients Index Page
	How to Evaluate Health Information on the Internet URL: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Information/internet ODP description: National Cancer Institute's fact sheet helps consumers help decide whether the health information they find on the Internet or receive via e-mail from a Web site is likely to be reliable. Page title: How To Evaluate Health Information on the Internet - National Cancer Institute Page description: This fact sheet contains information to help people decide whether the health information they find on the Internet or receive via e-mail from a Web site is likely to be reliable. National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet 2.10
	Health Hippo URL: http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html ODP description: Health law, policy and regulatory materials. Organized deep links to US government health care resources. Page description: Health law, policy and regulatory materials. Well organized deep links to government health care resources.
	Accent Health URL: http://www.accenthealth.com/ ODP description: Health TV network produced by CNN and delivered to medical waiting rooms across the US. Includes programming guide, articles, and tips for living a healthy lifestyle. Page title: Information for healthy living (accenthealth.com) Page description: The only healthy lifestyle TV network designed specifically for patients in medical waiting rooms. Delivered to over 11,000 medical waiting rooms nationwide, the award-winning AccentHealth programming, produced in conjunction with CNN provides health-related information to approximately 18 million visitors each month.
	HealthAnswers URL: http://www.healthanswers.com/ ODP description: Contains health news and information, including a health encyclopedia.
	MDAdvice.com URL: http://www.mdadvice.com/ ODP description: Provides health and medical information, health tips, resources, experts, news, chats, and community support. Page title: MDAdvice.com - The Reliable Health Information Source Page description: Your Online Health Destination. Free current health information, a health library, resources, daily medical news, drug information, articles, references, experts, support groups, real-time interactive tools, and more.
	U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Buying Medical Products Online URL: http://www.fda.gov/oc/buyonline/ ODP description: Resource for consumers to help them make better buying decisions when shopping online. Includes information on how to determine if a site is legitimate, how to spot health fraud, and how to report fraudulent sites. Page title: Buying Medicines and Medical Products Online