Don’t have access to a computer?
Operators at the 1-800-MEDICARE hotline can walk you through the MedicareRx benefit at the Peninsula Library System: Get Answers Online: Medicare Part D and Medicare Rx A collection of annotated links to sites about "Medicare, Medicaid, and the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit aka Medicare Part D and Medicare Rx." From the Peninsula Library System, "a consortium of 34 public and community college libraries" on the San Francisco peninsula.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
allows people to compare  the quality of hospital care all over the US.

Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's Flu Shot Finder, site is a simple zip code search. Enter a zip code and you'll get a table of places to get flu shots, including place name, address (and phone number), date, and times.

New, MedlinePlus Adds Tutorial on Evaluating Internet Health Information
"Evaluating Internet Health Information is a 16-minute narrated slideshow. The tutorial runs automatically, but you can use the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen to go forward, backward, pause, or start over. Using fictional "good" and "bad" Web sites, the tutorial walks the user though a comparison of the two, pointing out features to look for concerning the information provider, funding source, quality, and privacy. The tutorial uses plain language and narration and is appropriate for users at a broad range of reading levels."

MedPage Today [pdf]
Developed by The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a team of administrators and physicians, MedPage Today is a clearinghouse of new and compelling medical news information. Along with these accessible and well- written updates, the site also includes Teaching Brief articles which help clinicians and consumers to understand the implications of these new
discoveries and developments in the medical world. From the left-side of the homepage, visitors can peruse the latest news updates by specialty, including psychiatry, nephrology, pediatrics, and others. Visitors who find that they return to the site frequently may also want to sign up to receive email updates every morning in their inbox. Overall, the site will be of interest to medical practitioners as well as the lay public.

Medline National Library of Medicine
offers free abstracts of articles published in 3,800 biomedical journals.

Nat'l Library of Medicine (NLM). => PubMed-NIHJ <> http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ Medline Search Engines - MEDLINE QUERY

Medline Plus
offers hour-long videos of operations performed in U.S. hospitals since January 2004. The procedures include orthopedic, cardiac, gynecologic, and weight loss surgeries, and tonsillectomy and lung cancer operations. "Please note that you cannot send in questions by email, though the webcast may say that you can, because you are not seeing these videos live." Includes transcripts of the programs.

America's Top Physicians Consumers’ Research Council of America

eMedicine Journal

PA License Verification

The Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
has had a  site called "Your Disease Risk,"  which calculates the  likelihood of getting five different diseases in the US.