Below are Websites we feel you can use in order to receive knowledge of the area.  We do not have any control over these websites so if they do not work, please contact the Webmaster.

Links of Local Interest

Mountain States Health Alliance
Dickenson County
City of Norton
Dickenson Star
Dickenson County Public School System
Norton Community Hospital
Dickenson County Circuit Court
University of Virginia's College at Wise
Mountain Empire Community College
Southwest Virginia Community College
Dickenson County Coal Miners Memorial

Disease & Illness Sites

American Liver Foundation
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
American Association of Blood Banks
Prevent Blindness America
National Transplant Society
American Heart Association
American Diabetes Association
American Cancer Society
American Lung Association
Alzheimer's Association
Epilepsy Foundation of America
Arthritis Foundation
Muscular Dystrophy Association
Multiple Sclerosis Society - Blue Ridge Chapter

Health & Wellness Sites

American Running and Fitness Association
Fitness Event Site
American Red Cross
Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association

Support Websites

Alcoholics Anonymous
National Cancer Institute
Southwest Virginia Multiple Sclerosis Support Group

 

Sites for Physicians

National Library of Medicine
American Academy of Optometry
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Physicians Corner
American Academy of Pediatrics
Journal of the American Medical Association

Learning Resources

Edward Via Virginia College of
Osteopathic Medicine


VCOM is a post-baccalaureate professional medical college in Blacksburg, Virginia. VCOM is located in the heart of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. The College's mission is to prepare osteopathic primary care physicians to serve the rural and medically underserved areas of the Commonwealth of Virginia, North Carolina, and the Appalachian region and to provide scientific research that will improve the health of all humans. Our electronic library is available to the public and contains links to free medical resources and texts as well as news, weather, and links to our favorite web sites.

Virtual Hospital
A digital library of health information

Highwire Press at Stanford University

HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content.

Up To Date

UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right
at the point of care.

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

Merck Medicus
MerckMedicus is a medical portal for  today's healthcare professional combines breaking medical news, a wide variety of online learning resources, cutting-edge diagnostic tools, and even the patient's perspective on the world of medicine.

MD Consult

A division of world leading health science publisher Elsevier, MD Consult operates a family of electronic information resources that meet the clinical content needs of physicians and other health care professionals.

PRIMEDIA Healthcare

PRIMEDIA Healthcare improves outcomes by educating and training healthcare professionals.