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This page has links to sites with information on topics and resources that might be of interest. The information we are pointing you toward is not intended as, and is not, a substitute for professional medical advice. All decisions about clinical care should be made in consultation with your treating physician. While we feel that the information we are pointing you toward is well-researched and current, we are not responsible for errors or omissions on other web sites. Use of Antidepressant Medications in Children and AdolescentsThis topic has been in the news lately. The ParentsMedGuide has been written by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It is well researched, easy to read and comprehensive.National Alliance for the Mentally IllThe National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is a great resource. The national organization has a good web site, with news, information about various illnesses, online support and discussion groups, and links to state and local chapters.They also have a good section on medications, with a link to information about prescription drug patient assistance programs offered by pharmaceutical companies. And they have posted The Mental Health Community Responds to Tom Cruise's Today Show Interview, which is short and to the point. National Library of MedicineThis is the place to go for information about anything medical. Our tax dollars at work. Medline Plus is the most user-friendly part of the site. Just type in your topic and click around till you find what you are looking for.If you want to really find out the most complete and up-to-date information about a particular topic, then go to PubMed. It might take a couple of searches to find the information you are looking for. If you don't find what you're looking for at first, try searching on different keywords. You rarely need to go down to the library and actually look up the articles in medical journals; the abstracts usually tell you what you want to know. No matter what you are looking for in PubMed you will probably somehow also get a lot of obscure references to medical journals in foreign languages or biochemical research on sea slugs. Just ignore that stuff, or read it for grins. You can use the "Limits" tab to restrict your search to recent publications, or only those in English. |