Health: Gateways to Resources
See also: Nursing Sites ::: Consumer Health
Aetna InteliHealth
From site: Provides credible information from the most trusted sources, including Harvard Medical School and Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery.
Amedeo: The Medical Literature Guide
“includes weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. All these new information resources are free of charge.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Provides information on various Health & Safety Topics. Also, a good source for health data and statistics.
ClinicalTrials.gov
eMedicine.com
From site: eMedicine.com comprises the largest and most current Clinical Knowledge Base available to physicians and other healthcare professionals. Contains articles on 7,000 diseases and disorders.
Family Doctor.org
By the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Provides information related to family health.
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
"We list the sites that list the sites" ... Hardin Meta Directory pages have pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists in each subject.
Health Finder
Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies.
Healthweb
From Michigan, a collaboration between the of University, Taubman Medical Library and the School of Nursing, with links to sites for career information, communication, clinical nursing, education, and more.
Lab Tests Online
A public resource on clinical lab testing.
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) - Health
From site: websites you can trust
Martindale's Health Science Guide
A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" currently containing teaching files, medical cases, multimedia courses/textbooks, multimedia, tutorials, databases, and movies.
Mayoclinic.com
Provides current and reliable health information.
MedicineNet.com
From site: MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.
Medical Matrix
Subject lists of disease catagories, clinical practice, education, literature, and more. Registration required.
From site: offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools”. Free registration
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
National Institutes of Health
From site: The National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
NLM Gateway
Allows users to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources. Databases include MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, MedlinePlus and ClinicalTrials.gov.
Smoking and Health Database -National Center For Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
From site: Many items are abstracts of articles that have been published in peer-reviewed scientific or technical journals. The database also includes abstracts of many hard-to-find documents including government documents and conference proceedings, many with historical significance. Focuses on information published in the past 35 years, although several records date back to the 1800s.
WebMD
From site: content offerings include access to health and wellness news articles and features, and decision-support services.