Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center
School of Dentistry
Winter 2003
Ingenta, a commercial provider of full-text publications, now gives online access to the full-text of the Journal of the American Dental Association starting with 1998. The journal entry in the library catalog (innopac.lsuhsc.edu) has a link to this site. Once you retrieve the JADA entry, (see the illustration below) click on the link to Ingenta, and then select the desired volume and issue. JADA full-text is available from any PC on the LSUHSC network.
Top
consumer web sites
The Consumer and Patient Health Information Section (CAPHIS) of the
Medical Library Association (MLA) has recently put together a list of
the “Top Ten” Most Useful Websites for health consumers.
These sites were evaluated on strict criteria: credibility,
sponsorship/authorship, content, audience, currency, disclosure,
purpose, links, design, interactivity, and disclaimers. These
are the sites, in
alphabetical order:
Cancer.gov
www.cancer.gov
This website has a large number of articles and informational
handouts for both health professionals and patients, searchable
by type of cancer or body location. There
is also a section that explains possible oral complications of
chemotherapy or radiation.
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) www.cdc.gov
A valuable resource for both the health professional and the
consumer, the CDC has a site
on oral health resources including
state-by-state reports, device evaluation forms, a “Brush up” quiz
for parents and water fluoridation maps.
familydoctor.org
www.familydoctor.org
This website is for the consumer and has handouts that can be printed and distributed to patients.
Some of the handouts are in both English and Spanish. A
search on “oral” or “dental” will bring you to many of these
links.
healthfinder®
www.healthfinder.gov
A government site produced by the Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and
Hospitals, healthfinder has a section on health issues including oral
health, sections for parents, and a section for children to do their own
searching, enter art contests, play games, and search the Internet
safely.
HIV InSite
hivinsite.ucsf.edu
HIV InSite is a comprehensive site that includes research, treatment
options, and a section profiling the oral manifestations of HIV.
Kidshealth®
www.kidshealth.org
Kidshealth®, a product of the Nemours Foundation, is a great site with dental information written
for the adult, adolescent, and child.
Mayo Clinic
www.mayohealth.org
Oriented to adults searching for health information, this site has a
drug information section and several articles on dental health
conditions.
MEDEM
www.medem.com/MedLB/medlib_entry.cfm
MEDEM is an information partnership of leading medical societies and
contains articles on various dental and oral health issues
including baby bottle tooth decay, tooth development, and tobacco use.
MEDLINEplus
www.medlineplus.gov
MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine’s own consumer health
site, is in English and Spanish.
Searchers can look for information on diseases or conditions, or drugs references,
or browse a medical encyclopedia. MEDLINEplus
has links to articles, handouts, and informational sites by the
experts.
NOAH: New York
Online Access to Health www.noah-health.org
This comprehensive site combines information from
the experts into one forum. In
English and Spanish, NOAH covers basic oral hygiene, common problems and procedures,
special problems, pediatric dentistry, and information resources.
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