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Medical Information Links:

• American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology:
  www.abog.org
• American Cancer Society:
  www.cancer.org
• American Heart Association:
  www.americanheart.org
• American Lung Association:
  www.lungusa.org
• American Medical Association:
  www.ama-assn.org
• American Medical Women’s Assocation:
  www.amwa-doc.org/
• ASRM: American Society for Reproductive Medicine:
  www.asrm.org/ (technical, but has some good, basic fact sheets)
• Endometriosis Research Center:
  www.endocenter.org
• Health A – Z:
  www.healthatoz.com (good basic information)
• Ivanhoe:
  www.Ivanhoe.com (information on new studies, medical breakthroughs, etc. –excellent links to other web sites)
• Medline:
  http://medlineplus.gov/ (excellent information, easy to use)
• Mednets:
  www.mednets.com (searches medical databases — excellent resource, but fairly technical)
• Merck Manual:
  www.mercksource.com/ - (excellent resource, allows you to look up specific conditions/symptoms)
• National Association for Women’s Health:
  www.nawh.org
• National Institutes of Health:
  www.nih.gov
• National Women’s Health Information Center:
  www.4woman.org (great information and easy to use)
• North American Menopause Society:
  www.menopause.org/
• OB-GYN.net:
  www.OBGYN.net (excellent resource! gives both general and very technical information for ob/gyn conditions)
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome information:
  www.pcosupport.org/
• WebMD:
  http://my.webmd.com (WebMD is a great web site, has a section that allows you to look up symptoms and see possible diagnosis and/or related information)
• Women’s Health Interactive:
  www.womens-health.com/index.phtml

Guidelines for Medicine:

• For the latest recommendations from the CDC about HIV postexposure prophylaxis ("Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposure to HIV and Recommendations for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis" ),
  go to the following link: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5409a1.htm
  
   
• For the new TB standard for health care workers, go to:
  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5417.pdf
  
   
• Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings:
  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5116a1.htm
  Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force (This article sets the new standards for handwashing--gives interesting statistics on who is and isn't washing their hands and discusses the effect of antiseptics on skin, bacteria, gloves, etc.--actually easy to read and pretty interesting)
  
   
• Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5110.pdf
  
  
• Immunization of Health Care Workers
  http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00050577.htm
  
   
• Guideline for infection control in health care personnel, 1998
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/guide/InfectControl98.pdf
  
   
• Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis(Information about hepatitis B booster recommendations and post-exposure prophylaxis can be found in the Appendix section, Table 3)
  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5011a1.htm
  
   
• Guidelines for Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia
  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/RR/RR4601.pdf
  
  
• Bronchoscopy-Related Infections and Pseudoinfections-NY 1996 and 1998 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4826.pdf
  
   
• Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of Infections Among Chronic Hemodialysis Patients http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/RR/RR5005.pdf
  
   
• Nosocomial Infection and Pseudoinfection from Contaminated Endoscopes and Bronchoscopes–Wisconsin and Missouri
  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00015286.htm
  
  
• APIC Guidelines for Hand Washing and Hand Antisepsis in Health-Care Settings
  http://www.apic.org/pdf/gdhandws.pdf
  
  
• Guidelines for Handwashing and Hospital Environmental Control, 1985
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/guide/handwash.htm