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• Family Resource Center
  
  The Family Resource Center (FRC) is a resource for families and the community, providing health information materials, computer-based resources and support, staffed by the professional librarians and a Nurse Educator.
  
  
• Upstate Connect - Finding current information and accurate advice about today's health issues or choosing the right doctor is not always an easy thing to do...
  

  University Hospital can help you! We are proud to offer Upstate Connect: a free, confidential service available 24 hrs a day. Our professional staff of RNs has access to the most up to date health information on a wide variety of diagnoses and health issues. Our nurses can provide information over the phone or even mail it to you free of charge. And, if you have an immediate health problem, they can help you to decide what to do.

• HealthLink
  
  HealthLink is an initiative of Upstate Medical University bringing health information and education to you and your family at no cost. That's right! FREE Health Information.
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Additonal Resources

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WebMD - valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.

National Emergency Medicine Association (NEMA) - their mission is the prevention of injury and illness by addressing health and social issues through education, applied research, technology, and equipment. NEMA sponsors several special programs, including: National Heart Council, National Stroke Council, Kids Do Matter, National Alzheimer's Council and Senior Life.

National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.

MedLine Plus - interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute.

The New England Journal of Medicine - a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

United States National Library of Medicine - the world's largest medical library.

Snopes.com - officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a web site discussing urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of uncertain or questionable origin. It is the best-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture.

Politifact.com - a project of the St. Petersburg Times to help find the truth in American politics. Reporters and editors from the Times fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups and rate them on their Truth-O-Meter.

Factcheck.org - a nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and funded primarily by the Annenberg Foundation.

DiagKNOWsis.org Resource Library - empowering patients with the tools they need to make tough medical decisions.