Beyond an Apple a Day Class

New Spring sessions of the Beyond an Apple a Day class are now being scheduled. This class is a wonderful way to learn about health and wellness resources on the Internet. The Outreach staff of Health-E Illinois will present this class to any Illinois library or community group with in a 30 mile [...]

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Google Health?

Google announced today (Thursday, February 21st 2008) that the Cleveland Clinic will begin a pilot project to link patients health information with Google personal health records. (click here for full statement)
“We believe patients should be able to easily access and manage their own health information,” said Marissa Mayer, VP of search products and user [...]

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Have you had your nap today?

An article in the February issue of the Journal of Sleep discusses the results of a study on how a nap containing only NREM sleep (or non-dreaming sleep without rapid eye movements) improves memory skills. The study found that, compared to folks who stayed awake, nappers did better on some memory tests. The [...]

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Drug Information Portal

The National Library of Medicine announced the release of the NLM Drug Information Portal (http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov. ) on February 12. The NLM Drug Information Portal provides current, accurate and understandable drug information to the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers.
This database contains more than 12,000 drug records. The search interface is easy to use. [...]

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Finding a Support Group for Genetic Disorders

Maintaining and updating the Go-Local database has been a challenge for everyone involved. One of the difficulties has been providing the best resources with the limited amount of time staff has to research, input, and maintain records. Due to this challenge Health-E Illinois offers links to approved outside websites who are better able [...]

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