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Walgreens’ multi-lingual label service has added German, Italian and Tagalog (Filipinos) to the prescription label service, bringing the number of languages available at any Walgreens pharmacy counter to 11. Other languages available include English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Vietnamese.  Also, from their English page, they offer a way to check for drug interactions with OTCs, vitamins, supplements, and herbals, under "Check drug interactions."

http://www.walgreens.com/

Drug information, including pill images, is online via the Spanish portal site for Walgreens.  Click on: "Información sobre medicamentos." 

http://www.walgreensespanol.com/

FirstGov.gov presents a Spanish language version.  The FirstGov site provides information about government programs and services, including health and medical information.

http://www.firstgov.gov/Espanol/

Provides online medical dictionaries, glossaries and translators, especially those in other languages than English.  Take a look at “Health/Language Connection.”

http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/library/guides

Asian-American Resources:  Asian American Health Site:  Information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the US.

http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov

Association of Asian-Pacific Community Health Organizations (Chinese, English, Hmong, Ilocano, Korean, Lao, Samoan, Tagalog, and Vietnamese).

http://www.aapcho.org/

KoreaMed, a service of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE), provides access to articles published in Korean medical journals since 1997.  Includes links to many sites providing full text articles.

http://www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php

The NNLM consumer health site gives several good sources for "multi-lingual" consumer health education materials at a “Workshop for Librarians Providing Health Information to the Public.”

http://nnlm.gov/train/chi/multi.html

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication.  The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) links five leading institutions together to accomplish its goal of strengthening public health in the developing world through strategic communication programs.  Through its strategic approach to communication, HCP and its partners work to create an environment that supports individuals, families, and communities for their own health and to advocate for and have access to quality services.

http://www.jhuccp.org/mmc/beta/index.php?cart=3dd2ada38a037

Federal Agency Information in Spanish.  Includes the English names of US Government agencies, but focuses on web resources from these agencies that are written in Spanish.

http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/topiclists/us-spanish.htm

Spanish Extension Publications

http://www.fcs.uga.edu/extension/sp_pubs.php

Spanish version of MedlinePlus: a database of current and reliable sources of information about hundreds of diseases and healthcare topics.  Also features health encyclopedia and audio-visual interactive tutorials, all in Spanish.

http://medlineplus.gov/spanish/

Developed by a group of NYC Medical Librarians, this site offers annotations to medical sites, directories, an encyclopedia, and other resources.  CHOICES is the community health information service designed to help get the information patients need to take care of themselves and their families.

http://www.nypl.org/branch/choices/

A clearinghouse of freely available health education materials in twenty-two languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, created, contributed and translated by a worldwide community of health professionals.  Look under “Multilingual Library” of EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network.

http://www.eurasiahealth.org

The Spencer S. Eccles Health Science Center provides electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages.  This resource even includes resources in Arabic on Hepatitis.

http://medlib.med.utah.edu/library/refdesk/24lang.html#arabic


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