Headache Support

• The American Council for Headache Education
  www.achenet.org
   
• National Headache Foundation
  www.headaches.org
   
• M.A.G.N.U.M., Inc.
  www.migraines.org
   
• World HeadacheAlliance
  www.w-h-a.org
   
• Dawn Marcus MD
  www.dawnmarcusmd.com
   
• Help For Headaches
  www.headache-help.org
   
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/headache/headache.htm
   
• MIDAS is the 'Migraine Disability Assessment Questionnaire', developed to improve migraine care by getting treatment right the first time the patient consults their physician. MIDAS was created by Professor Richard Lipton of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA and Dr Walter ('Buzz') Stewart of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, in partnership with AstraZeneca.
  http://www.midas-migraine.net/edu/about.asp

BLOGs:

• The Daily Headache
  www.Thedailyheadache.com

• The America Psychiatric Association's "Internet Drug Index" 
  This area contains a number of related sites dealing with psychiatric medications.
   
• Dr. Ivan's Depression Central
  Dr. Ivan Goldberg is a psychiatrist who has been active on the web in psychopharmacology related sites.
   
• Quackwatch
  Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
   
• The Merck Manual on line.
   
• Pharmaceutical Companies Online
  Several lists of websites of pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
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  About.com Pharmacology Site 
  
  AudioHealth List
  
  MT Desk Weekly Update of Medical Equipment and Pharmaceutical Companies
   
• Pharmaceutical Journals on the Web
  Links to pharmaceutical journals that publish abstracts and full-text articles online.
   
• New Drug Development and Approval Process
  It takes an average of 15 years for a new medication to get from the laboratory to the American consumer. What is the drug approval process? Figure 3.1 graphically summarizes the process.
  
  Drugs, Brain and Behavior 
  This text covers issues pertaining to neurochemistry, behavioral pharmacology and psychopharmacology. 
   
• Free Prescription Program  
  This NAMI site provides information on how to obtain free or reduced price medication for low-income patients.
   
• Free and Reduced Fee Prescriptions
  A list of companies that provide this service and how to contact them (from the pharmaceutical industry)
  
  Consumer's Guide to Managing Medication Side Effects
  This site lists side effects by symptom, not by medication and suggests what one can do to minimize the discomfort and when one might want to call the doctor.
   
• Center Watch 
  This is a clearinghouse for information on clinical trials of new and experimental Medications. It also lists information on medications recently approved by the FDA. 
   
• Medication Interactions
  Use the drug database from CVS to look for potential interactions between prescription medications.

• Medical Libraries On Line
  This page links to a vast number of medical and other health-sciences libraries which have online URLs. A good aid to research. 
  FreudNet 
  The Abraham A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  Articles, library and links related to psychoanalytic thinking.
  Ask Eric
  Educational Resources Information Center. This excellent site, sponsored by the US Dept. of Education, links to over 30 Eric-sponsored web and gopher sites dealing with education. It includes multiple ways to search the Eric database, all from your computer! 
  Eric Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education 
  Library of Congress 
  MEDLINE Search
  The National Library of Medicine sponsors this site which includes an advanced MEDLINE Search. 
  Knowlege Exchange Network
  Sponsored by the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dept of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. This site provides information on books, periodicals, pamphlets, and mental health statistics. Includes information from 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health.
  CliniWeb Search 
  A service of the Oregon Health Sciences University. It allows searches for WWW pages associated with specific medical diseases. 
  SERI "Special Education Resources on the Internet" 
  This site makes an effort to compile information useful to professionals dealing with a wide variety of special education needs. One particularly useful area is the "Disability Products and Commercial Sites". Using these links, one can access a wide variety of links to products to help with learning disabilities and other special needs. 
  The Virtual Hospital 
  The University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook This is an on-line primary care textbook. It includes a traditional table of contents and a search feature. 
   
• NIH Consensus Statements
  Search the National Institutes of Health site for their consensus statements by subject. Some include on-line CME exam.
  "NIH Consensus Development Conferences are convened to evaluate available scientific information and resolve safety and efficacy issues related to biomedical technology. The resultant NIH Consensus Statements are intended to advance understanding of the technology or issue in question and to be useful to health professionals and the public. NIH Consensus Statements are prepared by a non-advocate, non-Federal panel of experts, based on (1) presentations by investigators working in areas relevant to the consensus questions during a 2-day public session; (2) questions and statements from conference attendees during open discussion periods that are part of the public session; and (3) closed deliberations by the panel during the remainder of the second day and morning of the third. This statement is an independent report of the panel and is not a policy statement of the NIH or the Federal Government."
  
  NHelp Legal Research  
  Links to multiple legal search sites as well as links to selected government agencies.
   
• FindLaw Library
  Index to text of specific laws, links to other legal libraries, government agencies and legal experts.