Librarian Virginia Tanji of the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii has been a great source of help and inspiration in getting this site established.  Her "Consumer Health links" can be accessed below.

Sincerely,

David J. Elpern, M.D.
 
 

Information on Skin Diseases

Is Screening Effective?

Dermatology Handouts

American Academy of Dermatology Patient Handouts   (this is the othhodox view)

Ginny Tanji's Consumer Health Links

Lonny Jarrett's Acupuncture Page

Online Drug Stores   (you can save money on drugs if you don't have drug coverage with your insurance)

People's Medical Society - Consumer Advocacy - Valuable resource - Charles Inlander, President

Additional DERMATOLOGY Links

AcneNet is a helpful site which is easy to use and informative.

Eczema Association (USA) (Atopic Dermatitis)
The Eczema Foundation (UK)

Dr. Elpern's office Handouts

Ichthyosis Web Page  (excellent!)

Lice

Melanoma and Cancer:  Site of Pete Tustison: "My main interest is researching cancer on the Internet. If you or a
    loved one or friend has the 'beast' you might find the following resources helpful."

National Psoriasis Foundation

Poison Ivy

Pubmed - ths is a very user friendly subset of MEDLINE

Larry Weed's article on the new health care paradigm

Massachusetts General Hospital Neurological Disease Web
       (scroll down page for diseases covered)

BMJ 1997;315:231-235 (26 July)
Information in practice:  New connections between medical knowledge and patient care
Lawrence L Weed
  The meteoric shower of medicine's scientific achievements can overwhelm a doctor's mind. A patient has no assurance that his or her doctor is able to take into account all relevant scientific knowledge and integrate it with detailed data about the patient's own condition. Yet few doctors, patients, or policy makers recognise that modern information tools can become the loom for weaving these two bodies of knowledge into a fabric. In fact, few recognise the dimensions of the problem.
  This state of affairs has one underlying cause: misplaced faith in the unaided human mind. Medical practice requires tools to extend the mind's limited capacity to recall and process large numbers of relevant variables, just as medical science requires the microscope to extend our capacity to see at the microscopic level. We must abandon the arrogance of professional "expertise" that shuns such tools. Instead, we must use the new tools routinely as they are developed for more and more diagnostic and management problems.

A good DERMATOLOGY site is Dermnet that is maintained by the New Zealand Dermatology Association.  I thas links to many other sites dealing with skin diseases 

Consumer Health Information site from The School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii.
This site s Ginny Tanji's baby.

Virginia (Ginny) Tanji, MSLS
Librarian, School of Public Health
University of Hawaii at Manoa
To contact Ginny:   tanji@hawaii.edu

Ginny Tanji been a health sciences librarian for over 20 years.  Her current
passion is teaching students, faculty, health professionals and consumers
how to effectively search the Internet: especially databases such as
MEDLINE and HealthSTAR. Presently, Ginny is also a doctoral student in
education and is learning statistical procedures!  She feels, "The Internet
helps bridge the gap between the continental U.S. and the 50th state!"
To access Consumer Health Information