Marvel Health

I spent some time exploring under Publications.  I found it a bit difficult to determine what type of publication was being referenced,  For example, when I clicked on one I discovered it was actually a book and not a journal or a report.  I will have to go back and see if there is an easier way to determine what type of publication I'm looking at before I actually look at it.

I did do a Diabetes search and then sorted by most current date.  The article I read was Go Nuts for Health which was abut how eating nuts was very healthy and how it can help prevent Type 2 diabetes, The article was very easy to understand.

Now on to MedLine Plus. Just looking at the main page I can see how useful it might be.  On the right are the top health news headlines and one of today's is about alcohol adding about 100 calories per day to the average adult diet.  I actually read that article in the newspaper yesterday.  On the left are some of the most often searched topics.  I see autism, diabetes, hypertension and Vitamin D in very bold print.

I researched the drug Lorazepam and found wonderful information.  Why it might be prescribed, side effects, how to take it, what to do in case of missed pills or an overdoes,etc.  This was really interesting.  I looked it up under it's other name Atevan and found  that it was  referenced to Lorazepam which was excellent.

I researched diabetes and compared this site to health Source Consumer edition.  I much preferred this site.  I seemed much easier to narrow down to the exact information that I wanted because it had all those suggestions on the left hand side.  I did discover that if I wanted something really specific that was on the list on the left, there was no way to search.  I wanted to see if there was a link between alcoholism and diabetes.  With health source I was able to do an advanced search and find the information  that I wanted. I did search MedlinePlus by typing alcohol and diabetes in the search space at the type right.  I was able to get information, but I had to sift through many results to find what I wanted. The information in MedlinePlus seems easier to understand and less technical. I found both sites to be extremely useful and it is good to know the pros and cons of each of them.

I had a technical issue with watching the videos, but was finally able to get them to play.  I watched the entire food allergy video that was on the homepage of the videos and tutorial pages and then watch a video about aortic aneurisms and surgery.  Wow! That was fascinating, especially the animated segment, but I stopped when they showed the actual surgery.  If I was having that procedure done I probably would want to watch the whole thing.  So much information is available that it is just mind boggling.

I really enjoyed learning about these sites and I personally will use them in the future.