Comprehensive Health Sites
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov)
- Health Topics A-Z (www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm) and Traveler's Health (www.cdc.gov/travel/) are especially useful.
- Combined Health Information Database (http://chid.nih.gov/)
- CHID is a bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health-related articles.
- Discovery Health (http://health.discovery.com)
- A great mega health site offering a complete menu of health-related editorial content.
- drkoop.com (www.drkoop.com)
- Includes over 66,000 pages of information for men, women, children, and seniors. There are over 50 disease centers and more than 1,700 health and wellness topics from a variety of distinguished healthcare sources.
- Health Care Quality (www.consumer.gov/qualityhealth/)
- A cooperative educational effort from a number of government agencies. Find advice on choosing a doctor or health plan, patient rights and responsibilities, and privacy.
- HealthCentral (http://healthcentral.com)
- News, articles, a video library, and drug library, among many other features.
- HealthLinks: Your Health (http://healthlinks.washington.edu/)
- From the University of Washington Health Sciences Library, find medical news, updates on medical issues, and toolkits of health information organized by audience.
- HealthLinks.net (http://www.healthlinks.net/)
- See particularly the "featured sites" at this health and medical profession portal.
- Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayohealth.org/)
- Accessible health information and a free Housecall e-mail bulletin for timely updates on health, fitness and nutrition.
- MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html)
- Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries.
- Medscape (http://www.medscape.com/)
- Free registration gives you access to full-text articles from Medline, Aidsline, and Toxline, and daily medical news, and resources.
- Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition (http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/)
- Based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the home edition is a publication from Merck geared for the layperson but still containing the same "vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment."
- New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) (http://www.noah-health.org/)
- English and Spanish language information and resources from volunteer and local government agencies and from other health sites on the Internet. Currently focused on thirteen main health topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, nutrition. Entire site is searchable.
- Online Medical Symptom Checker (http://www.symptom.webmd.com)
- This tool by WebMD provides general information and recommendations,
based on symptoms that you describe.
- PersonalMD (http://www.personalmd.com/index.shtml)
- Store your medical records in one place online, get customized news, get pager notification of medication timing, and notify emergency contacts if you enter an emergency room.
- Self-Care Flow Charts (http://familydoctor.org/symptom.xml)
- From the American Academy of Family Physicians, symptoms, diagnosis, and self-care indicators.
- WebMD Health (http://my.webmd.com/index)
- Searchable for all sort of information, including a Find a Doctor feature. Free registration entitles you to a newsletter and other special services.
- World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/en/)
- Searchable and browsable by areas of interest or alphabetical order of topics; global focus.
- American Medical Association Publishing (http://pubs.ama-assn.org/)
- Tables of contents of their journals [including JAMA] plus full-text of press releases on major medical news. Access to their journals is free, but you must first register. Be sure to remember your userid and password.
- Emerging Infectious Diseases (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/)
- A peer-reviewed journal tracking and analyzing disease trends.
- Health Scout (http://www.healthscout.com/)
- A personal health agent that brings you daily news and information about your special interests and also has 3D Health Animations and Health Videos.
- InteliHealth (http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/)
- From Aetna US Healthcare and Harvard Medical School, this site provides the latest health and medical information for consumers and professionals.
- InteliHealth Dental (http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtDNT/WSDNT000/24724/24724.html)
- Consumer information from the Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Dental
Medicine. Topics include root canal, gum surgery, crowns, filings and
implants.
- The Internet Medical Journal (http://www.medjournal.com/)
- Medical news from a variety of sites and sources.
- The Lancet (http://www.thelancet.com/)
- Information from the independent medical journal online.
- MEDLINEplus http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)
- From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, at the
National Institutes of Health access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions with links to consumer health information, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.
- NCBI PubMed (http://www4.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/)
- National Library of Medicine's National Center for Biotechnology Information division provides free access to Medline and Pre-Medline medical literature databases.
- New England Journal of Medicine On-line (http://www.nejm.org/)
- Tables of contents for the most current as well as back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Search Tools for Health and Medical Information
- Centerwatch (http://www.centerwatch.com/)
- A clinical trials listing service that includes a summary of the research and whom to contact for more information.
- Health AtoZ (http://www.HealthAtoZ.com/)
- Includes a personal online health record, BMI and healthy weight calculator, and heart attack risk calculator.
- MedHunt (http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/)
- Medical search engine from the Health on the Net Foundation.
- Medical Matrix (http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp)
- The index for health, science and medicine. Directories by categories and email notification of new sites. Free registration required.
- Search Tools with Separate Health Directories
- About Health & Fitness (http://home.about.com/health/index.htm)
- Human Guides pick the best of the Internet and provide insightful articles and tools on many health-related issues.
- Excite Health (http://health.excite.com/)
- Separate sections for Women, Men, Kids, and Seniors.
- Google Health Directory (http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/)
- Google resources ranked by numbers of sites that link to them, producing useful and relevant results.
- Librarian's Index to the Internet: Health (http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?more=SubTopic4)
- Particularly high standards of selection mark this directory.
- LookSmart Health (http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus317837/eus317920/r?l&)
- Drill down through categories to get to information on health-related topics from many different sites.
- Open Directory Health (http://dmoz.org/Health/)
- Well chosen and organized links in a no-frills format.
- Yahoo Health (http://www.yahoo.com/Health/)
- Subject guide with text searching.
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