• Other Activist Pages
• Legal Aid and Pro Bono Listings
• Your Legislators
• Communication Media Addresses
• Federal Forms for Downloading
• DOL's Disability Info Site
• Specific Legal
  • Health Law
  • California Law
  • Federal Law
• General Legal
  • .COMmercial
  • .EDUcational
  • .ORGanizations
• Non-Legal
  • Medical
  • Communication Media
  • Miscellaneous
  • Finding People
  • State Health Facts
• Calif. HMO Webpages
• Consumerist, Info on Companies

How to find your Legislators

• US House of Representatives
• US Senate
• California

.COMmercial

• Yahoo - Law
• FindLaw: Legal Resources
• Lawyers.com
• 'Lectric Law Lib
• Legal Ethics

.EDUcational

• Cornell Legal Information Institute
• GSU Legal Meta-Index
• Washburn Research Site
• UCLA Cyberspace Law
• Online Law Schools
• Paralegal Education

.ORGanizations

• ABA LawLink Legal Research Jumpstation
• ALI-ABA Home Page
• Calif. Trial Lawyers Assoc.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Vote Smart Web
• Nader's Groups

Specific Legal

.California

• California Code
• Calif. Cases, 9th Circ., callaw
• Calif. Court Decisions
• Judicial Council of California
• Handbook of California Civil Procedure
• Yahoo - Government: California
• Official California Legislative Information
• California State Senate
• Calif. Bar Assoc.
• California Gopher

.Federal

• THOMAS: U.S. Congress
• Federal Web Locator
• Federal Info Locator
• U.S. Code (Cornell)
• U.S. Code Gopher
• GPO Access
• Code of Fed. Regs (Cornell)
• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, Cornell
• FTP for Supreme Court decisions
• Federal Circuit Courts
• Federal Judiciary HomePage
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, HTML
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, EHTM
• Customs Law
• UCC
• Congress EMail Addresses, Gopher

Other Activist Pages

• Nursing Home Sites
  • Nursing Home Ombudsmen, Nationwide
  • Nursing Home Abuse Law Firm, Sokolove Law
  • Nursing Home Monitors.org
  • Nursing Home Abuse.net
  • Nursing Home Injury Laws by State
  • Calif. Dept. of Health Services site on Rights of Nursing Home residents
  • Consumer Reports Nursing Home Guide, doesn't get specific.
  • Medicare's Nursing Home Comparison Pages, It's not clear to me how a nursing home that gets 2 stars for "Medical Quality" can get 5 stars overall!
  • Calif. Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
  • Care Scout (charges a fee)
  • A list of Long Term Nursing Home Resources
  • List of Nursing Homes Nationwide, listed in alphabetic order across the entire state, no information, no URLs.
  • nursing-homes.findthebest.com, the site is a bit wacky, covering everything from dogfood to snowboards, but the Nursing Home section seems fairly reasonable. Info on pricing would be nice.
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme Disease sites
  • Chronic Fatigue/ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome
  • Guide To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Lyme Disease Foundation
  • Lyme Disease Resource Center
  • A German Lyme Disease Site
• Mesothelioma
  • Mesothelioma Web
  • Mesothelioma.com
  • MesotheliomaSymptoms.com
  • ResearchMalignantMesothelioma.com
  • Asbestos.com
  • Asbestos.net
• Other Specific Diseases
  • Brain and Spinal Cord - CatastrophicInjury.com
  • Cerebral Palsy Source - Cerebral Palsy Lawyers FAQ
  • Pancreatic Cancer
• Sites devoted to particular companies
  • Kaiser Thrive
  • The Kaiser Papers
  • Kaiser Consumers
  • Kaiser Victims
  • Kaiser Medical Record Fraud
• Ethnic Oriented Health Care Groups
  • Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
  • California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
  • Western Center for Law and Poverty
  • Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
• American Pain Foundation
• California HealthCare Foundation
• California Nurses Association
• Champaign County Health Care Consumers
• Citizens for Choice in Health Care, Minnesota
• Consumer Watchdog, California
• ERISA LTD pro se hints
• Families USA
• Federal Workers Compensation . Net
• Fight Bad-Faith Insurance Companies
• Fighting Managed Care, Marcio Pinheiro
• Health Care Coach (Calif.)
• Healthcareproblems.org
• Health Consumer Alliance (Calif.)
• Health Powerhouse, European "do-tank"
• HMO Hardball
• Hospice Patients Alliance
• Institute for Child Health Policy
• LeapForPatientSafety.org
• Mark Gaines' Health Care Activist Site
• Masters Program in Health Advocacy, Sarah Lawrence College
• Masters Programs in Nursing
• Masters Programs in Public Health
• National Association for Proton Therapy
• National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers
• National Patient Advocate Foundation
• Directory of Nursing Degree Programs
• Online Nurse Practitioner Programs
• People Over Profits
• Personal Insurance Complaint pages

Legal Aid & Pro Bono Lists

• Public Counsel
• Going Pro Se in Federal Court
• Law Help California
• Legal Aid Clinics, by State
• Findlaw Legal Aid List
• Amer. Bar Assoc. Pro Bono List
• Pine Tree Legal Assistance Links
• National Senior Citizens' Law Center
• Social Security Disability Attorneys Referral Service
• These sites sell books which seem as if they may be useful.
  • Adult Disability Answer Guide ($100)
  • Child SSI Answer Guide ($40)

..Health Law

• Insure.com
• Health Affairs Journal
• News Archive, list.healthplan
• Malpractice law summary, by State
• Center for Health Law Studies, St. Louis
• National Health Law Program
• Health Hippo Lots of good federal sites and news articles too.
• Palliation, Advance Directives, etc.
• Prof. Edward Richard's Health Law Tutorial
• Ernst & Mattesin's Calif. HMO Law page
• The Health Law Resource, Wm. Manning
• National Committee for Quality Assurance
• Health Care Liability Alliance (HCLA)
• BenefitsLink(tm) - The Employee Benefits Web Site
• ERISA in the U.S. Code (BenefitsLink)
• Some Leading Cases

Medical

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Infectious Disease, Travel health, Prevention
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Medline Plus, Diseases - BioMedSearch.com
• AMA Doctor Lookup
• Amer. Diabetes Assn.   Amer. Heart Assoc.   Amer. Cancer Soc.   Brain and Spinal Cord
• WebMD.com - Health Central - Healthline.com - www.HealthScout.com - www.AllHealth.com - www.MedScape.com
• Mayo Clinic - Cleveland Clinic
• HealthAndAge.com (Novartis) - 100 Best Aging Resources
• Links for special needs families
• www.Intellihealth.com (Aetna/US Healthcare)
• Medco
• Kaiser Permanente Online (Members only)
• Medical Dictionary
• American Medical Association
• Tobacco Papers
• AAAS - Science Magazine
• Drug Information
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Drug Watch, side effects
  • Best Buy Drugs (Consumer Reports)
  • Merck Manual: Table of Contents
• General Cancer Links
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • People Living With Cancer,ASCO, trial information and oncologist database
  • Nat. Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
  • Centerwatch, Lists clinical trial & new therapies
  • Assoc. of Cancer Online Resources, chat groups
  • CancerTrialsHelp.org, Open trials
  • NCI Clinical Trials site
  • OncoLink
  • Amer. Cancer Soc., offers decision-making tools
• Breast Cancer Links
  • Amer. Cancer Soc./Breast Cancer Network
  • AMA Breast page
  • Amer. Medical Women's Assn.
  • Cancer Care, Inc.
  • CDC Breast Cancer Site
  • Int. Union against Cancer Breast Page
  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer
  • Natl. Alliance of Breast Cancer Orgs
  • Natl. Breast Cancer Coalition
  • NCI/Cancernet Breast Site
  • Natl. Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
  • Network of Strength
  • Women's Cancer Network
  • Women's Info. Network against Breast Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer Links
  • National Pancreas Foundation
  • Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
  • The Lustgarten Foundation,
• End-Stage Renal Disease Links
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  • American Kidney Fund
  • ESRD Networks
  • DisabilityInfo.gov
  • Cookbook for people on dialysis
  • State Health Insurance Assistance Programs
  • Social Security, (800-772-1213) for questions about enrolling in Medicare
• ICD-9 Code Lookup
  • eicd.com
  • flash code
  • chrisendres.com
• ICD-10 Code Lookup
  • medical coding career guide

Finding People

• College and University Directories: braintrack.com -- matchcollege.com
• Area Code Lookup
• Yahoo People Search
• Zip Codes
• Canadian Postal Codes
• Bigfoot
• National Address Server
• Switchboard
• WhoWhere
• AllPages
• Companies, Hoovers

Miscellaneous

• The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue)
• Research-It!
• CEO Pay Database
• ASH
• Macmillan Bookstore
• Amazon Books!
• London Times

Federal Circuit Courts

• Fed. Cir. ....D.C. Cir.
• 1st Cir ....2d Cir ....3d Cir
• 4th Cir ....5th Cir ....6th Cir
• 7th Cir ....8th Cir ....9th Cir
• 10th Cir ....11th Cir.
• All Circuit Courts, Washburn

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