• Mayor's Health Line - assists residents in getting health insurance and access to state assistance programs, provides information on flu vaccination sites in the City of Boston, helps in primary care provider location, and other health questions and concerns
• Online Doctor Finder - AMA Physician Select (American Medical Association)
• Physician Profile System (Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine)
• Specialty Verification (American Board of Health Specialties)
  
• Licensee Information on Dentists and Dental Hygienists (Massachusetts Board of Registration in Dentistry), click on type of search (personal, license number, or business) and pick dental hygienist or dentist.
  

Information on health and medicine

• MEDLINE/PubMed from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  
• MEDLINEplus MEDLINE plus health information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine database.
• American Medical News (American Medical Association)
  
• InteliHealth Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information site.
  
• Medical Dictionaries links compiled by MEDLINE plus.
• New England Journal of Medicine
  
• SafeMedication.com from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
  
• Consumer Health Information from the Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Clinical Trials
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
  
• Health periodicals and magazine articles may be searched (abstracts and/or full-text) using the online Health Reference database: (This database has articles on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.):
  
  • Health Reference Center Academic (Gale Group)
    
• Many pharmaceutical manufacturers have special programs to assist people who can't afford to buy the drugs they need. Needy meds is a site designed to help locate these programs.
  

Information on medical conditions

• American Cancer Society
• American Dental Association
• American Diabetes Association
• American Heart Association
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USPTO)
• Consumer Health Internet Resources
• DisabilityExchange.org
• Disease & Condition Information from the Mayo Clinic
• The Mental Health Information Network
• New England INDEX Information on Disabilities

Hospitals, Health Systems and Hospices in Massachusetts

• Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts
• Links to MA Hospitals and Health Systems

Medical Associations

• American Medical Association
• Massachusetts Dental Society
  

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