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Databases & Websites
Medicare.gov: The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare
Medicare.gov provides official benefit information regarding the various programs that constitute Medicare as well as tools to help Medicare beneficiaries.
Social Security Administration: Medicare Benefits
CMS.gov: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Healthcare.gov
Stop Medicare Fraud: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and U.S. Department of Justice
The stopmedicarefraud.gov website is a collaborative effort involving several U.S. government organizations’ effort to stop Medicare fraud.
Medicare Rights Center
The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs and public policy initiatives.
OPM.gov: Office of Personnel Management
AARP: Medicare
Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Description
Current reference material, full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from authoritative medical sources. Descriptions and links to Web sites. Medical encyclopedia, medical dictionary, directory of health organizations, and guides to prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, and alternative medicines.
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Requires a JCLC card and residence in Birmingham, AL.
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Health Source : Consumer Edition
Description
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
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Requires a JCLC card.
Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition
Description
Health Source : Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more.
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Requires a JCLC card.
MedlinePlus
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MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
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Publicly Available.
PubMed
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PubMed comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites (from site).
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Publicly Available.
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