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Bryn Mawr Urology Has the Experienced Team
Robotic laparoscopic prostatectomy and Da Vinci robotic prostatectomy are the ways to perform minimally invasive radical prostate cancer surgery.
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USEFULL TOOLS, DRUGS, AND UROLOGY INFORMATION
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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.
DRUG INFORMATION
The Food and Drug Administration
includes info on approval of new products.
Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
Wondering if your prescription or over-the-counter drug has an approved generic counterpart? This U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) resources provides consumer information about federally approved generic equivalents of drugs. Searchable by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant holder, application number, and patent. Includes an FAQ. From the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
Familydoctor.org: Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medicines Fact sheets on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, which are "medicines you can buy without a prescription from your doctor." Some of the topics covered include drug interactions, drug-food interactions, allergic reactions, groups at risk for adverse effects (such as children and pregnant women), active ingredients in OTC medicine, and specific OTC drugs such as antihistamines and pain relievers. From the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
Over-the-Counter Medicines: What's Right For You?
Guide to understanding and deciding whether to use nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. Subjects include how to read a label, drug interactions, checking for expired medicine, pregnancy and breast-feeding, giving OTC medicine to children, child-resistant
packaging, and protecting yourself from tampering. From the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).
Herbal Safety Web
by the The University of Texas at El Paso and UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program Sheets, which cover from Aloe to Wormwood. Herbs are listed with their common and scientific names. Click on a name and you'll get an extensive fact sheet including a picture of the plant, where it's found, what it's used for and how it's used, and most importantly a list of safety hazards and possible drug interaction problems.
RxList
provides an online drug index, searchable by generic or brand name, with side-effects information and more.
Drugs.com Offers Pictorial Identification Guide for Pills
Pill Identifier and Drug Image Library. You can get to it by using the "Pill Identifier" tab at the top of the page. The identifier has a wizard that walks you through a series of questions. You provide various pill information, including pill form (tablet or capsule) and shape. You then provide pill color and imprint, imprint is optional and does not have to be complete. Search results include a picture of the pill, most pills had images of both the front and the back, but others had just ones side imaged, generic and brand names of the drug, strength, imprint (if any), and manufacturer. Both the generic and brand names are hyper linked to more information.
UROLOGY INFORMATION
Uroscopy and ring of flasks. Wellcome Library, London From: Epiphaniae medicorum Published: 1506 Collection: Rare Books
Topical Urology Video Library
Famous Surgeons in History
In 1809 Ephraim McDowell was called to see Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford in a log cabin in Motley's Glen, Green County. She had a large ovarian cyst and underwent on elective oophorectomy on Christmas day (without anaesthesia). It was performed with the simplest of instruments in the front room of McDowell's house and surgery. The whole procedure took 25 minutes. She made an uncomplicated recovery [... We took out fifteen pounds of a dirty, gelatinous looking substance. After which we cut through the fallopian tube, and extracted the sac, which weighed seven pounds and one half….]
General Urology
American Foundation for Urologic Disease
American Urological Association
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information
NIDDK Health Information - Kidney Diseases
NIDDK Health Information - Urologic Diseases
The Digital Urology Journal
Cancer (general)
American Cancer Society (ACS)
Bladder Cancer WebCafe
National Cancer Institute
Testicular Cancer
Erectile Dysfunction
NIDDK Health Information - Erectile Dysfunction
Incontinence
Simon Foundation for Incontinence
Urinary Incontinence
Interstitial Cystitis
Interstitial Cystitis Association
The Interstitial Cystitis Network
Kidney
American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP)
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information
National Kidney Foundation
Kidney & Urology Foundation of America
Prostate
About Prostate
CaP CURE
Prostate Cancer Research Institute
Prostate Health Directory
National Prostate Cancer Coalition
Reproductive Health
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
RESOLVE
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
American Social Health Association (ASHA)
Testicular Cancer
TC-Cancer.com
