Links that lead to off-site pages about health.
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Anatomy
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Chicago
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Chicago Home Fitness [chicagohomefitness.com].
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'Your complete source for treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes, spinners, rowers, steppers, home gyms, weight machines, free weights, accessories, and other home exercise equipment.'
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2000 N. Clybourn Ave. Chicago, IL 60614. 773-770-0162.
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1555 N. Halsted St. Chicago, IL 60622. 312-943-2300.
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CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Related: ECC (Emergency Cardiovascular Care) and AED (Automated External Defibrillator).
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Official
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CDC.gov. Centere for Disease Control and Prevention.
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DHHS.gov. US Dept. of Health & Human Services.
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NIH.gov. National Institute of Health.
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Red Cross
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WHO.int/en/. 'The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.'
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Wikipedia
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Miscellany
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Cure Zone [CureZone.com]. 'Educating instead of medicating'
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DEBRA (Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of America) [DebRAa.org].
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I saw the Channel 4 documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off, which chronicled the life and death of English EB sufferer Jonny Kennedy. It was very moving.
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'This Web site is your entry point to the only national non-profit organization dedicated to both promoting research to find new treatments and a cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa and providing information and support for people with EB and their families.'
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GodServer.com. 'Web's Largest Alternative Health and Spiritual Directory'
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Good sleep, good learning, good life [SuperMemo.com/articles/sleep.htm]
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HealthNewsDigest.com. 'Current and breaking news on health, science & technology, medicine and the environment'
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IronCompany.com. The place online to buy fitness equipment, especially stuff related to free weights.
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KidsHealth.org. 'the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence.'
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Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health [mum.org]. A wee bit more fun then looking up the Menstrual cycle on Wikipedia.
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Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT) [nismat.org]
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'the first hospital-based facility dedicated to the study of sports medicine in the country—was established at Lenox Hill Hospital in 1973. Since its founding as a research, teaching and clinical center, NlSMAT's approach to the treatment of athletic injuries has brought a new perspective to the relationship between exercise and fitness in all age groups. Its ongoing work provides information relevant to everyone who participates in exercise or sports, whether it is a child at play or an elderly person exercising to keep fit, a weekend athlete or a marathon runner.'
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Lots of nifty stuff such as these:
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PDRHealth.com. 'part of Thomson Healthcare [thompsonhealthcare.com], which offers a wide range of e-solutions, publications, drug databases, and communications vehicles to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers, and managed-care organizations.'
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Tennessee Craniofacial Center [craniofacialcenter.com]
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'The Tennessee Craniofacial Center, part of the Erlanger Health System, is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Center, led Larry A. Sargent, M.D., specializes in the evaluation and treatment of patients of all ages with craniofacial deformities.'
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Amazing before and after photos.
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"The Anatomy of a Head Injury" [http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~cahr/headfall.html]
- trusera.com. A social site for health issues. "Trusera is an online health network where you can find and share real-world experiences. Come experience the Power of Been There.™"
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WebMD.com. 'the leader in providing services that help physicians, consumers, providers and health plans navigate the complexity of the healthcare system. Our products and services streamline administrative and clinical processes, promote efficiency and reduce costs by facilitating information exchange, communication and electronic transactions between healthcare participants.'
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Medscape.com. 'Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and education tools.'
Health Clubs, Fitness Centers, and Gyms. Workout in a gym whether big or small. Workout at home or anywhere as well. Don't forget your local parks too. I'm mostly listing clubs that have locations local to Chicago and I'm familiar with.
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Lists
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National chains of clubs. Oddly no official Gold's Gyms or Powerhouse Gyms in Chicago.
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Local clubs
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Cheetah Gym [cheetahgym.com]. Around 3 locations
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Chicago Fitness Center (CFC) [chicagofitnesscenter.com]. # 3131 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657. 773-549-8181.
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East Bank Club (EBC) [eastbankclub.com]. Hi end. Swimming. 500 North Kingsbury Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610, (312) 527-5800.
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Lakeshore Athletic Club (LAC) [lsac.com]. Around 4 locations.
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Lincoln Park Atheletic Club (LPAC) [lpaconline.com]. 1019 West Diversey Parkway, Chicago, IL 60614, 773.529.2022
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Union League Club of Chicago (ULCC) [ulcc.org]. Hi end. Established 1879. Swimming. 65 W. Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60604. 312-427-7800.
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AAFP.org. American Academy of Family Physicians.
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HealthLawyers.org. 'Leading health law to excellence through education, information, and dialogue, the [AHLA] American Health Lawyers Association (Health Lawyers) is the nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field.'
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AMA-Assn.org. ' From tobacco to adolescent health, from AIDS to Medicare, the American Medical Association speaks out on issues important to patients and the nation's health. AMA policy on such issues is decided through its democratic policy-making process, in the AMA House of Delegates, which meets twice a year.'
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JCAHO.org. 'The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 16,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, not-for-profit organization, JCAHO is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, JCAHO has developed state-of-the-art, professionally based standards and evaluated the compliance of health care organizations against these benchmarks.'
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MedicalPayments.com (aka Info-X-Inc.com ). 'Over 800 hospitals and hundreds of physician groups across the country rely on Info-X — today's leading supplier of medical necessity intelligence -- to quickly resolve compliance and reimbursement issues, reduce Medicare denials and potential fraud, shorten revenue cycles and cut operating costs.'
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IngenixOnline.com. (aka MediCode.com). 'Ingenix simplifies the complex business of health care through a comprehensive suite of coding, billing, reimbursement and compliance products. We offer a wide array of formats and services, including Web-based tools, books, desktop software, and print and electronic updates. '
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WWMedical.com. Worldwide Medical. 'Matching primary care and multi-specialty clinicians to practice settings since 1969'
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AMIA.org. 'The American Medical Informatics Association is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care.'
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EMRUpdate.com. 'There are over 400 electronic medical record products on the market today. This site serves to list and compare the existing electronic medical records currently available. We offer a forum for feedback and a comparison table of over 70 of the most popular EMR products on the market. This site is not sponsored or associated with any of the vendors.'
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HL7.org. ' Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven's domain is clinical and administrative data. Our mission is to: "To provide standards for the exchange, management and integration of data that support clinical patient care and the management, delivery and evaluation of healthcare services. Specifically, to create flexible, cost effective approaches, standards, guidelines, methodologies, and related services for interoperability between healthcare information systems." '
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IMIA.org. 'The International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989. ... IMIA plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of healthcare and research in medical, health and bio informatics.'
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List of Medical Clearinghouses [W]
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MedPlus.com. 'an established leader offering products and services that enable health care professionals to efficiently collect, store, retrieve and manage medical information'
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PCC.com.
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VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture). One of the closest things to a standardized EMR/EHR. Related to VA (Veterans Affairs) hence "VistA" instead of "Vista". This is the open source version of the DHCP (Decentralized Hospital Computer Program) that the VA has been working on since the early 1980s.
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Wikipedia
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Miscellany
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Hardhats.org. 'a web site dedicated to fostering a virtual community for the worldwide users of the VISTA software!'
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InterSystems.com
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VistA-Office.org. 'An evaluation version of Vista-Office EHR, a new high-quality electronic health record (EHR) system for use in small physician offices, has been released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS). CMS, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) of the Department of Veterans Affairs have collaborated to configure VistA, the VHA's electronic health record technology, to the private physician office setting.'
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WorldVistA.org. 'seeks to make healthcare information technology more affordable and more widely available worldwide. In particular, WorldVistA is focused on further developing and supporting the growing global VistA community. '
2008-06-17 13:49:42Z