HealthBase

Here is a new health resources that offers a unique approach to sifting through the vast quantities of online medical/health websites and zeroing in on quality, authoritative, and reliable information.  HealthBase  is a (self described) research solution for healthcare powered by NetBase Solutions.  It relies on “content intelligence technology”**  to scour millions of documents to provide results in 4 areas – treatments for health conditions, causes of health conditions, complications of health conditions, and pros & cons of drugs, foods, chemicals and treatments.   Answers are retrived from authoritative health resources including:  PubMed, eMedicine, WebMD, Health Central, Mayo Clinic, Health Finder, and NetWellness. 

** NetBase’s Content Intelligence Technology reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences that deliver highly relevant answers and insights. It’s the world’s only technology that can:

  • Harness billions of documents
  • Linguistically understand sentences
  • Automatically find answers

NetBase is used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, consumer packaged goods, publishing, manufacturing, government and more. 

Disclaimer:  This Site Does Not Offer Medical Advice and Nothing in the Content Is Intended to Constitute Professional Advice for Medical Diagnosis or Treatment.  The Contents on this Site is presented in a summary fashion with links to external health-related Internet Sites, and is intended to be used for educational and entertainment purposes only.

Flu Information in World Languages

Medline Plus (a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health) now has flu information available in 19 world languages.  From Arabic to Vietnamese and including Chinese, Somali and Spanish, these resources are available as PDFs and some are in a bilingual format.

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