Compass strives to provides
our insured clients the information to help them have a healthy &
successful international experience. In addition to applying our experience and
resources to this effort, the web provides a vast resource of excellent
information. One objective of this page was to identify & locate the
information or tools relevant to your needs
GENERAL
HEALTH RESOURCES
NIH has an extensive listing of health care
information and resources at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
U.S. Department of Health & Human
Services “Healthfinder” http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/
Government health sites from
other nations
Consumer health resources from NHS Direct (UK), Canadian Health Network (Canada) and HealthInsite (Australia)
Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org
PRESCRIPTION
& DRUG INFORMATION –
National Institute of Health “Medline Plus Presciption Information” An excellent summary of available
prescriptions and their ingredients http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Detailed Internet Drug Index, a drug name
cross reference list http://www.rxlist.com/interact.htm#keyword and http://www.healthsquare.com/drugmain.htm
DrugDigest provides details of prescriptions, over the counter
drugs and herbs. Find these at http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/Herbs &
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/Drugs
The
FDA’s Electronic Orange Book lists approved drug products with therapeutic
equivalence evaluations. http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
If you need information about prescriptions
outside the
PRESCRIPTION
TRANSLATIONS
The RX Search function at MyDoktor is an independently designed Database and
contains authoritative and detailed information on over 3000 Prescription
Pharmaceuticals agents with over 20,000 Trade Names. Basic information is drawn
from the Manufactures' Product literature, textbooks in Medicine and
Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical journals and literature. The home page is http://www.mydoktor.com/ , you will then
need to navigate to the RX Search page.
If you need a “translation” of name brands
between countries that is not at MyDoktor, first
obtain the generic name from the Electronic Orange book at http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm
and then go to the website of the “target” country at http://www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/pwk/pharmwebk.html#int or http://www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/pw9/pharmweb9.html
.
ALTERNATIVE
MEDICINE
MEDLINEplus Alternative Medicine Page
MEDLINEplus Herbal Medicine Page
Information on Chinese Herbal Remedies http://www.rxlist.com/chinese.htm
Information on Homeopathic Medicines http://www.rxlist.com/homeo.htm
Information on Western
Herbal Remedies http://www.rxlist.com/westherb.htm
NIH Page Herbal Supplements:
Consider Safety, Too
NEWS
– Individualized Email updates by
topic can be found at:
Google News Alerts http://www.google.com/newsalerts
Reuters Health
Information Services www.reutershealth.com
CNN Health http://cnn.com/HEALTH/
Health World
Online www.healthy.net
OTHER
INTERACTIVE TOOLS
Translators
73 Languages http://www.foreignword.com/
More limited languages, but broader
translation terms (including sentence conversion) can be found at http://www.linguatec.net/etstext/ptwebtext and http://www.systransoft.com/
Jet lag calculator http://www.masta.org/travel-tools/jetcalc.asp