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Find easy to read local health and wellness information with links to local resources and services, sections for men, women, kids & teens, as well as an A-Z List of health and wellness topics. Free health information brought to you by the Lycoming County Library System and Susquehanna Health.

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An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. Users can access information on infectious and communicable diseases, immunizations, traveler’s health concerns, and more. Surveys and reports on diseases, both nationally and internationally.

Provides patients, family members, health care professionals, and members of the public easy access to information on clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions. This website contains approximately 7100 clinical studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry in over 77,000 locations.

Tackle It and move on. This website aims to help you deal with those worryisome and embarrassing health problems that are difficult to talk about with anyone. An extremely helpful web site. Unlike most self help sites, it goes out of its way to be evidence based to the point of providing frequent references...In addition to all this useful advice, the web site is also filled with a great deal of whimsical pieces of information.

The American Academy of Family Practice offers well-written, easy-to-understand health and medical information.

Question and answer format. Ask Alice about sexuality, sexual health, relationships, nutrition and diet, alcohol and other drugs, stress, etc. Questions are submitted anonymously and answered publicly by Columbia University’s Health Education Program.

Comprehensive search engine devoted to medical and health related sites. Includes news updates and patient education resources.

A gateway to consumer-oriented medical and human services information provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It can lead you to online publications, clearinghouses, and links to more than 1250 other selected sites.

This site includes content from the Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Includes suggestions on healthy living as well as a variety of conditions and diseases.

Provides up-to-date information to health care consumers on a wide variety of clinical laboratory tests.

The home of the Human Services Directory, a comprehensive listing of human services providers in Lycoming County. Serves as an Internet portal for health information.

Easy-to-read, timely articles on health topics. Information and illustrations are reviewed by a team of Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists.

The official U.S. government site for Medicare information.

Health information from the National Library of Medicine. Extensive coverage on a wide variety of topics, including diseases and conditions, drugs, and lists of hospitals and doctors. A Spanish version of this site is also available.

This medical dictionary site also contains information on diseases and conditions, procedures and tests, and medications.

A federal agency, the website provides general health information, publications, wellness information, A-Z index of NIH health resources, clinical trials, health hotlines, MedlinePlus, and drug information.

Provides timely research-based information for all Pennsylvania citizens on important current and emerging issues pertaining to nutrition, diet, health, and food-related issues.

Web visitors can quickly and conveniently access current health statistics, request a copy of a birth certificate, browse through the Department’s catalog of publications, locate the nearest local health department, and learn the latest information on public health issues.

This nonprofit corporation, whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies, has an enormous amount of original information to guide health information seekers.

This resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing and state legislation. All 50 states and over 400 topics are covered.

A searchable directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs that shows the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism and drug abuse problems.

Health information and services for consumers, physicians, employers and health plan members. Features include the Symptom Checker.