The following list of recommended sites is brought to you courtesy of True North.

True North is a non-traditional health care practice located in Falmouth, affiliated with Mercy and specializing in the holistic approach to patient care. Services range from physician visits (family medicine, comprehensive women's health care, functional medicine and psychiatry) to massage, acupuncture, Healing Touch, Rubenfeld SynergyT, Pediatric Hypnotherapy, Shamanic Healing and more.

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Best All Around Educational Site

www.mayoclinic.org/healthinfo/resources.html
This award-winning site is the most promising portal for consumer health information of every kind.

Other excellent resources include:

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Current Health News
• Latest Clinical Studies
• Consumer Health Information (on a variety of topics)
• Women's Health
• Supplement and Health Products Safety
• Cancer
• Heart Disease
• Yoga
• Acupuncture
• Energy Therapies
• Shamanic Healing
• Rubenfeld Synergy Method
• Health and Environmental Issues
• Nutrition
• Others We Like
• Other Sites

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

• www.nccam.nih.gov
  This is the web site of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes for Health. The NCCAM is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training researchers and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
• www.holisticmedicine.org
  The American Holistic Medical Association site includes publications and additional links.
• www.functionalmedicine.org
  The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) is a nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to develop skills and knowledge in health care delivery by integrating science-based best practices into effective, cost-efficient treatment approaches.
• www.noetic.org
  The Institute of Noetic Sciences is at the forefront of research and education in consciousness and human potential. The Institute conducts and sponsors research into the working and powers of the mind, including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention and intuition.

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Current Health News

• www.reutershealth.com
  This consumer-oriented medical news service delivers about 25 healthcare news stories each day.

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Latest Clinical Studies

• www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier
  Bandolier is an evidence-based medicine e-journal website from Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The site offers clear, often graphic, summaries of interesting clinical studies and groups of studies, sprinkled with wry British wit.
• www.shef.ac.uk
  This is an extensive referenced and linked evidence-based medicine website.
• www.cochrane.org
  A world-wide collaboration has yielded the Cochrane Library's abstracts of studies which is now the world's premier effort to summarize multiple, sometimes conflicting, clinical studies. (Full text articles require subscription; most hospital libraries subscribe.)

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Consumer Health Information (on a variety of topics)

• www.medlineplus.gov
  This site, sponsored by the National Institutes for Health National Library of Medicine, is a high quality, publicly-funded resource for consumer health information on conditions, diseases and wellness, and is updated daily. Also offers drug information, medical encyclopedia and dictionaries and other useful resources.
• www.healthfinder.org
  This is a free guide to reliable consumer health services information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder can lead you to selected on-line publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites and support groups, as well as government and non-profit organizations that provide reliable information for the public.
• www.hopkinsafter50.com
  This site requires a paid subscription (a few free articles are available) but does provide access to reliable health information for those over 50. Helps separate fad from fact. Edited by Johns Hopkins experts from a variety of fields.
• www.berkeleywellness.org
  One can subscribe through this site to the Berkeley Wellness Letter. While a paid subscription is required, this Letter is an excellent source of information about nutrition, longevity, fitness, preventive medicine and dietary supplements. Leading edge research is reported and evaluated, and then translated into practical advice for daily living.
• www.clevelandclinic.org
  The Health Information Center on this site offers information on a variety of health topics.

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Women's Health

• www.drnorthrup.com
  Dr. Christiane Northrup's site features archived newsletters offering timely information on a variety of women's health topics. Also, the Body Wisdom link is a nice reference for starting to identify your mind-body-spirit connection to particular health conditions. Dr. Northrup is a member of True North's Advisory Board.
• www.awhonn.org
  Site for the association of women's health and ob-gyn nurses. Women's health advocacy, and political/legislative action information for women health professionals are offered. Their "Healthlinks" to other sites on the Web is convenient.
• www.nwhn.org
  A nonprofit women's health advocacy organization, this site has no advertising and accepts no funds from tobacco, pharmaceutical, or medical device manufacturers. Their information packets are inexpensive and comprehensive.
• www.healthywomen.org
  The site for national women's health research center provides information for laypeople and professionals. Pharmaceutical support, but you can hardly tell.
• www.ourbodiesourselves.org
  This is the site of the original Women's Boston Health Collective, perhaps the first women's health advocacy organization in the United States. Currently working on international health issues for women, they still publish that classic self care book "Our Bodies Ourselves" in several languages.
• www.melpomene.org
  The Melpomene Institute is a nonprofit organization whose activities focus on supporting women's issues around physical activity. They sponsor research about women and exercise and offer resources for things like healthy playgrounds and support cultivation of physical culture for women of all ages.
• www.jiwh.org
  Jacob's Institute for Women's Health is a nonprofit which publishes an excellent women's health journal and sponsors interesting research projects around women's health issues. Publishes especially valuable state by state data books on women's health indicators, and a statistical review summary on women's health issues overall.
• www.healthy.net
  This is the site for healthy world online; check out the "healthy woman center." Tends to have lots of advertisements but the article content is pretty reliable and entertaining reading. A good place to start to research something your friend told you. You can link to Medline from this site.
• www.4woman.gov
  This site, of the National Women's Health Information Center, addresses issues for women of color, women with disabilities, young women. Almost too much information!
• www.mum.org
  This site of the Menstrual Health Museum is a good (and rather entertaining) information about menstrual product alternatives.

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Supplement and Health Products Safety

• www.supplementwatch.com
  This is a good place to look up your vitamins and supplements, or things you may have read or heard about. Advertisements are low key and unobtrusive, and information is timely.
• www.fda.gov
  The Food and Drug Administration web site provides FDA news, safety alerts, product approvals and detailed information on selected "hot topics".
• www.consumerlab.com
  The Consumer Lab provides independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health, wellness and nutrition products. Results of Consumer Lab tests are published here.
• www.alternativedr.com
  This site contains information about many pharmaceuticals, in case you have a question like how does it work, what if you miss a dose, etc.
• www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/intro.html
  This site features facts about selected dietary supplements from the National Institutes of Health.
• www.drkoop.com
  This is a good site for looking up drug-drug and drug-supplement interactions - just enter the drug or supplement names and it tells you whether they're compatible or not, special precautions. This is particularly valuable for the older adult taking lots of different medicines from lots of different prescribers, plus their own program of supplements.

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Cancer

• www.oncology.com
  This website, sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, is dedicated to helping patients and their families find accurate, reliable and oncologist-approved information about cancer.
• www.cancersource.com
  This site offers complete and current cancer-related information, including latest news and research. Membership is free.
• www.bbc.co.uk/health/cancer
  This section of the BBC (of Great Britain) site features cancer treatments, information sources, cancer message board and live chat transcripts.
• www.annieappleseedproject.org
  This is a very personal site, geared to cancer patients and organized by a breast cancer patient and activist, Ann Fonfa. Please bear in mind when visiting this site that Ms. Fonfa is not a physician, and has no medical training. The site is extensive and "seeks to spread news, views and information about access to alternative cancer therapies."
• www.cancer.gov
  The National Cancer Institute site includes information on types of cancers, treatments, causes, prevention, screenings, coping, resources, literature and news.
• www.oncolink.com
  This site of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center includes news, treatment options, clinical trials, resources, library and more.
• www.mdanderson.org
  The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is ranked as one of the top two cancer treatment centers in the nation.
• www.cancerguide.org
  This informational site, developed by cancer survivor Steve Dunn, is designed help cancer patients find the best treatment available for their disease by finding and understanding the best and latest information. Please note that Mr. Dunn is not a medical or health care professional.
• www.mskcc.org
  This is the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site.

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Diabetes

• www.diabetes.org
  The American Diabetes Association is a leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Its website offers diabetes-related educational information and the latest news and research on these topics. Provides links to many other related sites.
• Could you have diabetes and not know it? There are 18.2 million Americans with diabetes -- and nearly one-third of them (or 5.2 million people) do not know it! Take this test to see if you are at risk for having diabetes.

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Heart Disease

• www.americanheart.org
  The American Heart Association website offers heart health and heart disease-related educational information, and the latest news and research on these topics. Provides links to many other related sites.
• www.deliciousdecisions.org
  This site features heart health recipes.

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Yoga

• www.riveryoga.com
  River Yoga is a yoga facility in Westbrook, Maine owned by Leslie Hoey.

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Acupuncture

• www.medicalacupuncture.org
  This site, of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture, offers consumers general information, research, conditions for which medical acupuncture may be indicated, frequently asked questions and numerous other acupuncture-related resources are available.

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Energy Therapies

• www.healingtouch.net
  This is the site of the healing Touch International, whose educational program has been endorsed by The American Holistic Nurses Association. Healing Touch is an energy therapy that encompasses many non-invasive techniques that utilize the hands to clear, energize and balance the human energy field.
• www.energymedicinepartnerships.com
  The Energetic Healing Program offers Certification as a Specialist in Energy Medicine through The International Alliance for Health and Healing. Energetic Healing assists people with basic and complex health issues using energy-based principles and interventions.

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Shamanic Healing

• www.spiritpassages.com
  This site describes the work of shamanic practitioners Evelyn Rysdyk and Allie Knowlton, who practice at True North.

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Rubenfeld Synergy Method

• www.rubenfeldsynergy.com
  This is the website of the National Association of Rubenfeld Synergists.
• www.healing-journeys.com--excerpts
  From the book of the same name, the site features stories of healing body, mind, emotions and spirit, through the use of Rubenfeld Synergy.

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Health and Environmental Issues

• www.truefoodnow.org
  This site is sponsored by Greenpeace and provides information on organic, non-gmo food.
• www.scorecard.org
  This alarming but necessary and informative site lets you put in your zip code and see what environmental contaminants are being released near you and by whom.
• www.noharm.org
  This is the site for Health Care without Harm, a nonprofit founded by a nurse which focuses on reducing the environmental impact of medical institutions and practices (i.e. hazardous waste, disposables, etc.)

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Nutrition

• www.fitday.com
  Using your food/fitness journal entries, Fitday analyzes your diet, exercise regime and weight.
• www.drkoop.com/wellness/nutrition
  This is the nutrition center on the Dr. Koop website.
• www.medicalview.com/nutrition/obesity1/section6.html
  Dr. David Heber, of the UCLA Medical Center, and one of the leaders in nutrition science, developed this new pyramid with improved food choices for those who are overweight.
• www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/index.html
  This is the USDA nutrient database.
• www.deliciousdecisions.org
  This site features heart health recipes.
• www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/nutrit.htm
  This site provides information on diet and obesity.
• www.nat.uiuc.edu
  This nutrient analysis tool is offered by the University of Illinois Nutrition department.

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Others We Like

• www.nofreelunch.org
  This site is all about dishing up the underbelly of the pharmaceutical Industry, with good information about the industry's investment in direct-to-patient and to-physician marketing.
• www.mana.org
  This site, of the Midwives Alliance of North America, a professional association, can help you locate a midwife in your community.
• www.midwife.org
  The American College of Nurse Midwives is a professional association that can help you locate a midwife in your community and provides information about women's health, pregnancy, and legislative advocacy issues.
• www.centeringpregnancy.com
  This is the site of the Centering Pregnancy and Parenting Association.
• www.tat-intl.com
  This website explains the Tapas Acupressure Technique, a way to clear out the energy flow and restore balance in issues of Core Beliefs, Learned Beliefs and remembered Trauma.
• www.tftrx.com
  Thought Field Therapy is a method of dealing with traumas, phobias and fears held in the energy system and offers a way to smooth out the problem area and attain a sense of relief by stimulating the acupuncture points.

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Other Sites

• www.nih.gov
  National Institutes of Health
• www.onhealth.com
  National Medical Society Online Medical Diagnosis
• www.naric.com
  National Rehabilitation Information Center
• www.clinicaltrials.gov
• www.druginfonet.com
• www.emedicine.com
• www.familydoctor.org
• www.healthfinder.gov
• www.medicinenet.com
• www.medlineplus.gov
• www.medscape.com
• www.merckhomeedition.com
• www.guideline.gov
• www.pubmed.gov
• www.rxlist.com

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