General Health Resources

Evidence-based information to help you maximize your health care experience. Site includes tips for preventing medical errors, checklists for choosing a health plan, doctor, treatment, hospital and long-term care facility, and references to help you prepare for medical tests, plan for surgery and get the most from your appointment with your physician.

Lung-related information including asthma, tobacco control, air quality, occupational health, school programs, living with lung disease, data, statistics and research.

General medical reference information, physician lookup (background/malpractice history for past 10 years), hospital finder, and group practice finder. .

Scientific information and applications of sports medicine.

General health information, data and statistics.

Search background and malpractice information of licensed Massachusetts physicians.

Health information, medical dictionaries, encyclopedia and journals; health topics by demographic groups, information on doctors, dentists, public clinics, hospitals, long-term care, nursing homes, health insurance, scripts, fraud, Medicare and Medicaid and privacy.

Links to resources and answers about end of life care.

Health information, publications and statistics.

A medical information resource including an online library.

Health care information and information about their products.

Current and past issues of the Journal, including a collections page by disease or topic.

Health resources; research centers; publications; dissertations and theses.