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ShastaNet Health & Wellness Help, Inc Go To: Public Health Hospitals Laboratories Community Clinics and Health Services Mental Health Programs Health and Welfare Wellness Programs Physician Information For Medical Professionals See also Self Help Agencies & Groups Public Health Shasta County Public Health Siskiyou County Public Health Department California State Department of Public Health Center for Disease Control (CDC) World Health Organization (WHO) National Institute of Health (NIH) U.S.Food and Drug Administration Hospitals Redding Medical Center Mercy Medical Center Mayer Memorial Hospital (Fall River Mills) Redding Speciality Hospital. Laboratories Community Clinics and Health Services Family Planning Inc., of Shasta County Help Crisis Line Shasta Community Health Center Mental Health Programs California Department of Mental Health Know the mental health programs and services offered by the state; link to other mental health related web sites. Health and Welfare Health Services from the California Department of Health Services Link to health WWW sites; find referral phone numbers for frequently asked questions about AIDS, immunizations, family planning, insect bites and more. Consumer Health Information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Search a database of health-related information available on the Internet. Disease Fact Sheets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Get the facts on 62 diseases. Wellness Programs Shasta County Women's Refuge Offers help for women abused individuals, their children, and their mates. California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs Read about alcohol and drug abuse recovery programs; browse through a clearinghouse of publications. California Department of Health Services--Managed Care Check out the State's Medi-Cal managed care program. Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force Check out the State's Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force. Medicare & Medicaid Information from the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration Find out about health care services available for low-income persons, Medicare, and assistance for people 65 and over, Medicaid; understand eligibility requirements for benefits. Physician Information Physicians in California Information from the California Medical Association--professional association Find a California physician through CMA's Doctorfinder; compare plans and features of various health plans. American Medical Association--professional association Browse a multitude of Internet sites for national health specialty societies, illness related resources, regional medical societies and international medical links. For Medical Professionals The following links are public information, but directed at readers with some familiarity with medical and scientific terminology. Please feel free to visit, but you may find some of the material a little dense. Shasta Community Health Center Family Practice Residency Program For physicians, the Shasta Community Residency Center Track of the Shasta-Cascade Family Practice Residency Program offers the participating residents the opportunity to work with patients in a Community Health Center (CHC) environment. As a well established CHC, Shasta Community Health Center's (SCHC) mission is to provide primary care to a medically underserved population and service to the community at large. Outbreak An on-line information service addressing emerging diseases. Morbidity and Mortality Reports Links to CDC's weekly publications, including summary pages of the articles and an index. To read or down load the full weekly publications, you will need to down load the Adobe Acrobat, available at the site. MRL's Dr. Watson A source page for Microbiologists. WWW Virtual Library of Electronic Journals National Library of Medicine (NLM) Located on the southeast corner of the campus of the U.S. National Institutes of Health NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, NLM is the world's largest library dealing with a single scientific/professional topic. It cares for over 4.5 million holdings (including books, journals, reports, manuscripts and audio-visual items). The NLM offers extensive on-line information services (dealing with clinical care, toxicology and environmental health, and basic biomedical research), has several active research and development components (including an extramural grants program), houses an extensive History of Medicine collection, and provides several programs designed to improve the nation's medical library system. Annual Reviews Founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping scientists copy with the ever-increasing volume of research and data, Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in science. Harvard University Database An extensive index of journals, conferences and other scientific literature. British Medical Journal On-line