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• Explore the Audiovisual Department's reference collection:
  • Chiro Clips v.1-2
  • Medical Illustration Library: Sobotta Back / Spine
  • MediClip Anatomy I-II
  • MediClip Grants Atlas Image Collection

 

• If creating your own still or video "clips", get signatures on the Audiovisual Department's media consent form before incorporating   images of people into your work.

• Always check for copyright ownership of images on the Internet, starting with Web site itself.  For a review of the issues, see Copyright Basics.

Images in health science

Look further on the library's Links by Topic page.  Resources listed under Diseases, Neurosciences, and Teaching Resources, etc. may contain useful images.

Images from the History of Medicine 

 

Images of general topics

www.morguefile.com

www.fontplay.com/freephotos/index.htm

openphoto.net/

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators#Image  Lists many sources of images such as DCnature, Flickr, and Open Clip Art Library.

office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx  Has several participants including Animation Factory and iStockphoto.

Audio

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators#Audio  Lists many sources of audio files.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx

 

Video

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators#Video  Lists many sources of video.

www.archive.org/details/prelinger

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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/  NCCAM's view of chiropractic is found at http://nccam.nih.gov/health/chiropractic/index.htm.

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Chiropractic Resources

American Chiropractic Association 

"Patients"
http://www.amerchiro.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=13&T2ID=61    Site describes chiropractic care and feature short articles on health topics.  It also includes news, history of chiropractic, and more.

International Chiropractors Association

"Chiropractic Quickfacts"

http://www.chiropractic.org/chiroinfo/index.htm     Site includes links to a parents guide to chiropractic, and information about the importance of posture.

General Resources

Healthfinder

http://www.healthfinder.gov/     Maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services, the site includes a virtual health library, links to organizations, information about health care delivery and insurance, news and an "online checkups" feature.  In English and Spanish.

MedlinePlus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/      Maintained by the National LIbrary of Medicine, the site contains thousands of articles grouped by more than 700 topics on diseases, conditions and wellness.   It also includes interactive tutorials, prepared by the Patient Education Institute, and links to drug information, a medical encyclopedia, dictionary, news, directories, and organizations.  In English and Spanish.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

http://www.noah-health.org/    NOAH links to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.  It includes an alphabetical index and a topical listing of content by body area or disease category.

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California HealthCare Foundation

http://www.chcf.org/     Analysis of issues and legislation in health care delivery, financing, and insurance. Information on such topics as Medi-Cal, Medicare, nursing homes, and prescription drugs from an independent philanthropy.

Dietary Supplements Labels Database

http://dietarysupplements.nlm.nih.gov/   Information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbs and other botanicals, amino acids, and others. 

California Society of Enrolled Agents http://www.csea.org    Tax professionals offer Disaster Services and Preparedness tips to prepare yourself in case of a major disaster, casualty, or theft for home and/or business.  Has inventories, guides and other documents related to insurance claims, federal assistance, and the IRS.

Earthquake Preparedness Handbook 

http://www.lafd.org/eqhbtext.htm  Text version from the Los Angeles Fire Department.  Concise and comprehensive guide is formatted to allow easy printing (about 20 pages).  Version with pictures also available.

Diseases, Disorders, and Related Topics  http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html  Links from the Karolinska Institute University Library.

Drug Information Portal

http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

National Library of Medicine's portal to 12,000 drugs.Search results include links to related drug information in MedlinePlus, AIDSinfo, Medline/PubMed, LactMed, HSDB, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE, DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.

Drugs@FDA

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm

A catalog of FDA approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs. Includes drug approval letters, labels, and review packages.

LactMed

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT

Contains over 450 drug records, with information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider.

MedlinePlus Drug Information

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMasterT, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient®, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).

The library catalog lists many books and videos about exercise and exercise therapy.   If you are interested in exercise prescription software, send a message to the library director requesting a list of vendors.

Exercise Library   http://www.acefitness.org/getfit/freeexercise.aspx

Create a workout based on the depicted exercises.  "From basic to advanced workouts, proper form is essential. Create your own workout depending on the amount of time you have and the equipment available to you."  Choose from the categories for agility and balance, arms, back, chest, core, legs, and shoulders. Exercises are both described and shown in photographs, and correction of common errors is explained. Downloads of a workout for exercises requiring a stability ball or a stretch band are available. From the American Council on Exercise (ACE).

Growing Stronger: Strength Training for Older Adults  http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/growing_stronger/   Written instructions for workouts and more resources for healthful living.  From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

See How:  Stretching and Strength Training     http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/fitness/SM00103 Slide shows and video clips demonstrating stretching and strengthening exercises, such as balance exercises, core exercises with a fitness ball, abdominal crunches, bench press, and leg press. From the Mayo foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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California Board of Chiropractic Examiners http://www.chiro.ca.gov/ recommends that its site be reviewed monthly for regulatory and informational updates.  The website has links for consumers, licensees, and business of the Board including regulations and procedures.    

The CBCE requires chiropractors applying for state licensure to pass the law and professional practice examination.  It contains questions that may reference the law in any of the codes or regulatory sections.

The Study Guide for the Law and Professional Practice Exam (75 p.) is outdated and is no longer provided on the Board's site (per query to the Board, November 2007).

There are several links to review in the Board's site:

• Exam Information refers to the Chiropractic Initiative Act and also lists links to applicable sections of the California Code of Regulations;
• the Chiropractic Initiative Act of 1922 (PDF, 9p.) with references to amending statutes;
• Laws and regulations relating to the practice of chiropractic (based on Title 16.  Professional and Vocational Regulations   Division 4. State Board of Chiropractic Examiners)  (PDF, 61 p.)
• the Decisions Pending includes drafts of proposed regulations.

The Westlaw service also provides access to Barclay's Official California Code of Regulations.  

 

To use the Westlaw service:

• Click on: List of CCR Titles
• Click on: Title 16. Professional and Vocational Regulations (PDF)
• Click on the plus sign "+" for Division 4, State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
• Click on the plus sign "+" to review Articles 1-9 and each Section in this Division.

 

The 29 California codes are posted online at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html. 

Here are some options for finding full text of the codes that apply to chiropractic:

• To see full text of an entire code:

  Checkmark one of the codes, leave keyword text box blank, click Search.

• To search selected codes by keyword (chiropractic or chiropractor/s): 

  Checkmark one or more codes, enter keyword chiropract* in textbox, expand Limit to "200" documents, click Search.

• To search all the codes by keyword (chiropractic or chiropractor/s):

  Checkmark “All” codes, enter chiropract* in keyword textbox, expand Limit to “200” documents, click Search.  (As of April 2007, the search engine reported 108 documents and displayed the 87 that represent the current versions of the law.)

   

The following codes include at least one section that mentions chiropractic:

More instructions for searching the codes database are available at California Law Help Page Index.

BrainInfo  http://braininfo.rprc.washington.edu/menumain.html A website contributed by the University of Washington that helps one identify structures in the brain and provides many different kinds of information about each structure.

Electronic Atlas of the Developing Human Brain http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihg/EADHB/   Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle, and the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh

Nervous System Diseases http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C10.html  Links from the Karolinska Institute University LIbrary.

Neuroanatomy & Neuropathology on the Internet  http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/anatomy.htm  Compiled and designed by Katalin Hegedüs, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Neuroguide.com:  Neuroscience Anatomy and Physiology  http://www.neuroguide.com/neuroresac_3_neuroscience_anatomy.html#anatomy

edited and maintained by Neil A. Busis, M.D.

NeuroLogic Exam: an Anatomical Approach

http://medlib.med.utah.edu/neurologicexam/html/home_exam.html by Paul D. Larsen, M.D. and Suzanne S. Stensaas, Ph.D.  Includes videos and quizzes.

HEAL (see description in Teaching Resources) has made 180 videos from the NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach and PediNeuroLogic Exam: A Neurodevelopmental Approach accessible at Google.  Visit http://video.google.com and search "health education assets library" to see the records.

Slice of Life http://slice.utah.edu/sol/soldigital/index.html by Suzanne S. Stensaas, Ph.D. and Paul E. Burrows at the University of Utah.  Ongoing project offers 1000 Neuroscience Images on the Web and Digital Brain Atlas.

American Cancer Society  http://www.cancer.org

American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/

California Department of Health Services  Statistical Resources

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/home/statistics/

Health Resources and Services Administration  http://www.hrsa.gov

Health Politics: Your Guide to Important Trends in Health

http://www.healthpolitics.org/   Author and teacher, Mike Magee, M.D. offers links to online resources and open-access to the video lecture and slide show used in his weekly programs. The site examines current healthcare research and policy for many of the most pressing healthcare topics.

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health http://www.noah-health.org High quality full-text consumer information in English and Spanish. 

Reuse: the Heart of Waste Prevention

California Integrated Waste Management Board

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/reuse/

Computers, Cell Phones, Electronics, Videotapes, etc.

Computer Recycling Center / Computers & Education  

http://crc.org/  Drop off points for computers, electronic gadgets, and surplus electronic parts in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa.  Business pickup of multiple items. Important advice on erasing hard drives to protect proprietary information. Call (888) 887-3372.

Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)

http://www.epeat.net/  Lists specific brands and models of computing equipment that meets design standards intended to minimize heavy-metal toxins and maximize safe recycling.

eRecycle.org

http://www.erecycle.org/search.asp  Search by California county for a recycler who accepts a specific type of electronic waste, from batteries to VCRs.

ewastedropoff.com

http://ewastedropoff.com/content/home  A schedule of special drop-off days at shopping centers and schools.  Primarily Eastbay and Southbay.  Pickup is by ASL, the largest e-recycler in Northern California.  They dismantle electronics at a warehouse in San Jose.

Shelter Alliance

http://www.shelteralliance.net/company/index.cfm   As a service to Life West students and staff, the Data Services department collects and contributes cell phones with batteries to this organization, dedicated to responsible cell phone recycling.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition

http://svtc.etoxics.org/  This organization encourages manufacturers to take extended responsibility for greener design and the proper recycling of their products.  It also promotes environmental justice, exposing the fact that 80% of e-waste in the U.S. is shipped to Asia or to prisons where unprotected workers and poor waste management result in pollution.  Site provides more information about the Take Back campaign.  Some companies, like Dell, HP, and Apple, are already taking back their old products for recycling and details are available for other companies as well in The Take Back Campaign's link to " Recycling Your Computer" (PDF, 10 p., updated in August 2007).  Site also links to to responsible recyclers in each state who have signed a pledge of stewardship.

TechSoup: Recycled Hardware

http://www.techsoup.org/products/recycle/

Advocates donating to a refurbisher rather than directly to a school or charity in order to ensure operability of equipment.  Refers to "Ten tips for donating a computer" that lists commercial and freeware for cleaning discs before donating or selling.

Household Hazardous Waste

Junk Mail Reduction Campaign from Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition.  http://stopjunkmail.org/.  Order the "Stop Junk Mail" kit, or read its content on the Web.  Reduce postal mail, e-mail, faxes, and telemarketing calls.

This list includes the more comprehensive sites.  See also specific topics listed at top.

Publisher Sites

Thieme

WinkingSkull.com  is an interactive study site that includes drawings with on/off labeling and a testing function.  It is based on the Thieme Atlas of Anatomy series.  Free registration.

Resource Databases

BioMed Central

Databases on the Web – Medical Imaging

http://databases.biomedcentral.com/browsesubject/?sub_id=2013  Briefly annotated links to database sources, such as Mediscan (medical images for use int he media) and Public Health Image Library.  

BIOCHEMHUB  http://biochemhub.com/  “The online biology and chemistry education center”  is a directory of resources from educational Web developers, Schmidel & Wojcik.

HEAL  http://www.healcentral.org/

The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. Requires free registration. 

Infomine: Biological, Agricultural, & Medical Sciences http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=bioag

Scholarly Internet resource collections, with excellent search engine from University of California.

Medical Images and Illustrations http://www.mic.ki.se/MEDIMAGES.html

List of free and copyrighted resources from Karolinska Institute University Library.

MedWeb @ Emory University  http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/

Includes learning resources among the comprehensive lists maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library.  In the search box, combine terms such as:  skin image, neurology tutorial, etc.

MERLOT  http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.  Relevant section is Science & Technology:  Health Sciences. See also the resources listed under the  “Communities”: Biology, Health Sciences, Teaching & Technology.

Virtual Hospital  http://www.vh.org/index.html

This digital health sciences library ceased being maintained in January 2006, due to lack of funding, despite 80 million visitors in the past 13 years.  It was developed by the University of Iowa, for health care providers, patients, teachers and students.  It contained textbooks and booklets, many illustrated with photographs, drawings, and video clips.  The most recent archived version of the site is available from April 2005 at the Internet Archive.

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Directory assistance – Free services

The convenience and available functions at these services change regularly.  They typically offer searching in these categories:  people, business, and reverse look-up by phone number in white and yellow pages.  Cell phone numbers are not included.  Most services are supported by advertising.

http://www.free411.com/ 

1-800-FREE-411

1-800-3733-411

Government category, as well as residences and business, is available via the phone number. Use Business category for government at the Web site.  More about free 411. 

http://www.anywho.com/

Also includes links to international phone books on the Web.

http://www.411.com/

White pages, a link to Superpages.com yellow pages for business, reverse lookup by address or phone, plus area codes and postal zipcodes.

http://www.whitepages.com/

Also includes reverse lookup by address, plus area codes and postal zipcodes.

More about Free 411

Rated as 88% correct compared with 92% for pay services.    Source:  CBS News.  “The 411 on directory Assistance” in The Early Show: Consumer Watch. [posted June 14, 2006]

Description of how it works, and law regarding use of cell phone numbers by telemarketers.  Source:  Mikkelson, Barbara and David P.  “Free 411” in Urban Legends Reference Pages.  [posted December 2005]

Consumer Advocacy

Telephone companies charge about $.50 for the first three calls in the month for local directory assistance.  Additional requests for numbers outside the immediate area cost up to $2.00 and more per call, depending on the land or wireless carrier.   Source:  Turn: the Utility Reform Network  http://www.turn.org.  This consumer advocacy group offers advice on shopping for cell phone service.