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Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the ACA, Part 2 Day 3 of oral arguments in the Supreme Court case on healthcare reform focuses on whether Medicaid expansion tramples states' rights and whether voiding the individual mandate means voiding the entire law. http://www.medscape.com/

Medscape Free CME, Medical News, Full-text Journal Articles & More

http://www.healthliteracy.org.nz/ People with good health literacy can make informed and appropriate health decisions, and better manage their own health. This means better patient outcomes and more effective use of health resources. Around half of New Zealand adults have low health literacy, which results in a wide range of problems and challenges for the health system, individuals, their whānau and families.

Workbase Health Literacy

Te Puna Web Directory NZ Health

http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/nz/health/ Presents information on physical fitness, nutrition, diet and lifestyle balance encouraging users to develop a personal training programme that works for them. Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology : [web site]
http://www.southerncross.co.nz/about-the-group/health-resources/medical-library.aspx Welcome to our Medical Library.

Southern Cross Medical Fact Sheets

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PubMed Tutorial - Overview

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed PubMed comprises more than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

PubMed Home

http://www.druginfo.sl.nsw.gov.au/ World No Tobacco Day takes place around the world on May 31 each year. The aim of the day is to inform people about the dangers of smoking.

NSW State Library - drug info @ your library

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project

Overview The Visible Human Project ® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.
This nonprofit, charitable organisation promotes the quality of life and well-being of older people. Their website lists nationwide centres and services, highlights current affairs and government policy relating to older people, and provides many resources including their newpaper, Positive Living.

Karori Medical Centre Limited

http://www.kmc.co.nz/links.aspx

InteliHealth

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/408/408.html Some cancers found by mammograms might not need treatment, a new study says.

Health On the Net Foundation

The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use.

Everybody - Health Information for New Zealanders

The progress of nearly 7000 New Zealand babies born between April 2009 and March 2010 is detailed in the first longitudinal report of the study Growing Up in New Zealand .

DISCERN

Despite a rapid growth in the provision of consumer health information, the quality of the information remains variable. DISCERN is a brief questionnaire which provides users with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem. DISCERN can also be used by authors and publishers of information on treatment choices as a guide to the standard which users are entitled to expect.

BMJ BestTreatments Home

Best Health gives you reliable, easy-to-understand information, to help you make the best decisions about your healthcare. Discover all you need to know about medical conditions, and find out which treatments really work.
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