Twin County Regional Healthcare Links!
Healthcare Links
» American Cancer Society - The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community- based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
» American Medical Association - AMA is the largest professional organization of physicians in the United States. This site allows you to verify physicians credentials and access important research and educational information regarding the health of Americans.
» Blue Ridge Poison Center - The Blue Ridge Poison Center (BRPC) serves 62 counties in Central and Western Virginia as well as Virginia Beach. The BRPC receives 35,000 calls per year for information and advice. For immediate help call the BRPC at 1-800-222-1222.
» Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Government sponsored site that provides health information on multiple topics arranged A-Z, including HIV surveillance, population surveys and flu vaccines.
» Dr. Koop - Commercial site featuring former surgeon general provides a wide variety of medical information and an extensive health news archives that is updated frequently.
» Food and Drug Administration - Government sponsored site that provides the latest drug warnings as well as information on food, drugs and cosmetics.
» Health Finder - Government sponsored site that provides health and human services information.
» MEDLINEplus - MEDLINEplus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.
» National Cancer Institute - Government sponsored site that explains cancer research findings in both physician level text and layman/patient text. A toll-free telephone number is provided for those who wish to speak with an associate of the institute.
» National Library of Medicine - Government sponsored site that provides access to the database of the world’s largest biomedical library. Search results are provided by title, abstract or full text.
» ProBNP - ProBNP is a diagnostic marker used in the diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure and other cardiac diseases.
» Save7Lives.org - This Website allows you to sign up on-line to be an organ and tissue donor in Virginia. Your organ and tissue donation could save the lives of seven people and help more than 50 people.
» SeniorNavigator - unites knowledge, technology, community networks and community spirit to ensure timely information about and access to local services for aging adults and those who care about them. SeniorNavigator.com's mission is to identify, energize and orchestrate available resources to empower older adults and their families in making informed life choices in support of independence, dignity and a positive quality of life.
» Southwest Virginia Medical Reserve Corps - The Southwest Virginia Medical Reserve Corps is a cadre of volunteer health care professionals and community members trained to respond and assist with public health crises in the 13 counties and 3 cities that comprise southwestern Virginia.
» The Patient Channel - GE Medical Systems launched The Patient Channel on April 30, 2002 to help US Hospitals provide credible, accurate and up-to-date information to their patients. Over the next few months, our TV channel and this web site will grow to provide a large variety of patient-oriented programming on the most common medical conditions and related topics. By 2003, The Patient Channel will be available in over 1000 U.S. hospitals. Patient Channel Features: A new 24 hour a day, 7 day a week TV Channel in US Hospitals; content focused on the most common hospital patient conditions; external review of all content and advertising;
a web site to allow patients, family and friends access to information before, during and after hospital stays.
» Virginia Department of Health - Our mission is to achieve and maintain optimum personal and community health by emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention and environmental protection.
Local Area Links
» Galax Tourism Department - Galax, Virginia is the gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The City is rich with tradition, shopping, recreation and scenic beauty. Come, explore Galax!
» Galax-Carroll-Grayson Chamber of Commerce - The Galax-Carroll-Grayson Chamber of Commerce services the businesses and residents in the city of Galax and the counties of Carroll and Grayson.
» The Gazette - Community News for the city of Galax, and Grayson and Carroll counties.
» Town of Hillsville, VA - Visit the home page of Historic Hillsville Virginia. A State and National desiginated historic district and a National Main Street Affiliate Community.
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