Quality of Health Information   General Health Resources   General with Medline Access   Government Medical Sites   Searching for Medical Info: Other Medical Links   Searching for Medical Info:  Journals/Periodicals/Search Engines Alternative/Natural Medicine

Children's Health Doctors & Hospitals Medical Journals Medical Tests/Surgery Nutrition & Diet Patient Privacy Reference Sources Teen Health

Quality of Health Information

• Evaluating Health Information on the Internet from the Michigan eLibrary, http://mel.org/health/health-evaluating.html
   

General Health Resources

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (BTPL Subscription database) (Journal List)
• Health Reference Center Academic (BTPL Subscription database) ( Journal List )
• Allergy & Asthma Center, www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/conditioncenters/centers.cfm?objectid=0006 F961-3891-1B32-82D780C8D77A0000&
• AMA Health Information, www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3457.html
• American Cancer Society, www.cancer.org
• American Heart Association, www.americanheart.org
• Adam, www.adam.com
• All Health, www.allhealth.com
• America's Doctor, www.americasdoctor.com
• Ask a Specialist, www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/answers
• National Cancer Institute, www.cancer.gov
• CBS News Healthwatch, www.cbsnews.com/sections/health/main204.shtml
• Dr. Koop, www.drkoop.com
• Drug Digest -- Check Drug Interactions, www.drugdigest.com/DD/Interaction/ChooseDrugs
• FluWatch, www.fluwatch.com
• Healthgate, www.healthgate.com
• Health A to Z, www.healthatoz.com
• HealthAnswers, www.healthanswers.com
• Health Grades, www.healthgrades.com
• HON Codes, www.hon.ch
• John Hopkins Health Information, www.intelihealth.com
• MayoClinic.com, www.mayoclinic.com
• Medical Resources Information for the Consumer, www.ala.org/acrl/resdec00.html
• Medicinenet, www.medicinenet.com
  MEDLINEplus: Clinical Trials, www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/clinicaltrials.html
• MEDLINEplus Health Information, http://medlineplus.gov
• Medscape, www.medscape.com
• NCQA,  www.ncqa.org -- measuring the quality of health care
• NewYork Times - Health -- http://nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html
• OnHealth, www.onhealth.com
• Planet Rx, www.planetrx.com
• Prescription Drug and other Assistance Programs, www.medicare.gov/assistanceprograms
• Sever Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) from MEDLINEplus, www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/severacuterespiratorysyndrome.html
• Thrive, www.thriveonline.com
• WebMD, http://my.webmd.com
• West Nile Virus Resources (MEL), http://mel.org/health/health-westnile.html
• World Health Organization, www.who.int
• Yahoo-Health, http://health.yahoo.com
   

General with Medline Access

• MEDLINE (BTPL Subscription Datatabase) (Journal List)
• www.intelihealth.com (registration required)
• www.americasdoctor.com
• www.cbsmedscape.com
• www.allhealth.com
• www.thriveonline.com
• www.drkoop.com
   

Searching for Medical Info: Other Medical Links

• Michigan Electronic Library/Medical, http://mel.org/health/health-index.html
• Internet Public Library's Pathfinder to medical resoures, www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/medsources.html
• Yahoo/Medical, http://dir.yahoo.com/Health
• Excite/Medical, www.excite.com/health
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources, www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html
• www.healthfinder.gov
• www.medexplorer.com
• www.healthweb.org
• www.mwsearch.com
• http://healthatoz.com
   

Government Medical Sites

• National Library of Medicine, www.nlm.nih.gov
• National Institutes of Health, http://health.nih.gov
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov
• Centers for Disease Control Travelers' Health www.cdc.gov/travel/diseases.htm
• HealthFinder, www.healthfinder.gov
   

Searching for Medical Info: Journals/Periodicals/Search Engines

• Health and Wellness Resource Center (BTPL Subscription database) (Journal List)
• Health Reference Center Academic (BTPL Subscription database) ( Journal List )
• JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Assocation (full-text, in-house library use only)
• MEDLINE (BTPL Subscription Datatabase) (Journal List)
• Medscape, www.medscape.com (registration required)
• Drug Information, www.pdr.net (registration required)
• www.intelihealth.com (Drug Resource Center)
• www.drugstore.com (Pharmacy-Drug Index)
• Internet Drug Index, www.rxlist.com
• www.medicinenet.com (Medications)
• www.planetrx.com (Pharmacy)
• www.druginfonet.com (Official package inserts)
• www.webmd.com (Enter here - Drug reference)
• www.cbsmedscape.com (Library - Drug directory)
• www.healthanswers.com (Drug database)
• www.allhealth.com (Drug database)
• www.fda.gov/cder (New Drugs)
   

Medical Tests/Surgery

• Diagnostic Tests Information, www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/diagnostics.shtml
• www.cbsmedscape.com (go to "Library" then to "Medical Test Handbook")
• Questions To Ask Your Doctor Before You Have Surgery, www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/surgery.htm
• www.yoursurgery.com
• www.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/Surgery
   

Reference Sources

• Households Products Database, http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov
• Human Anatomy On-Line, www.innerbody.com/indexbody.html
• Merck Manual, www.merckhomeedition.com
• Medical Dictionaries, www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dictionaries.html
• Onelook Dictionaries, www.onelook.com/browse.shtml
• NLM's Medical Encyclopedia, www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
   

Nutrition & Diet

• American Dietetic Association, www.eatright.org
• Cancer Nutrition Info, www.cancernutritioninfo.com
• Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
• Cultural Food Pyramid, www.semda.org/info/#pyramid
• CyberDiet, www.cyberdiet.com
• Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer, www.fatcalories.com
• Food Nutritional Information Center (FNIC), www.nal.usda.gov/fnic
• Health Central, www.healthcentral.com/healthview/healthview.cfm
• In Fitness and In Health, www.phys.com
• NutriBase, www.nutribase.com
• Nutrition Facts Analyzer, www.nutritiondata.com
• Nutrition Navigator, www.navigator.tufts.edu
• Thrive Online, www.thriveonline.com/medical
• USDA Nutrition Database, www.intelihealth.com
   

Medical Journals

• WebMedLit, www.webmedlit.com
• JAMA, http://jama.ama-assn.org/pi
• New England Journal of Medicine, www.nejm.org
• Psychiatry/Psychology - PsychArticle Search, http://telehealth.net/articles/essays.html
   

Doctors and Hospitals

• American Medical Association, www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm
• DocBoard, www.docboard.org
• American Hospital Director, www.ahd.com
• The Certified Doctor, www.certifieddoctor.org
• Health Grades, www.healthgrades.com
• State of Michigan License Verification database, www.cis.state.mi.us/verify.htm
   

  Patient Privacy

• Medical Privacy - National Standards to Protect the Privacy of Personal Health Information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa
• Health Privacy Project, www.healthprivacy.org
• Center for Patient Advocacy, www.patientadvocacy.org

Alternative/Natural Medicine

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, www.nccam.nih.gov
• www.healthatoz.com
• www.healthfinder.gov
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Health
• http://cgi.pathfinder.com/drweil
• http://altmed.od.nih.gov/nccam
• www.healthwell.com
• www.holisticonline.com/Herbal-Med/hol_herb.htm
• www.egregore.com (medicinal herbs)
   

Children's Health

• American Academy of Pediatrics, www.aap.org
• KidsHealth - for Kids, Parents and Teens, www.kidshealth.org
• MEL's Children and Pediatrics page, http://mel.org/health/health-children.html
   

Teen Health

Teen Health - General

• TeenGrowth, www.teengrowth.com (pediatricians & educators)
• Nemours Foundation's KidsHealth, www.kidshealth.org
• ZapHealth www.zaphealth.com (older teen info)
• Facts for Families from American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, www.aacap.org/info_families/index.htm
• HealthFinder www.healthfinder.gov/justforyou/default.htm
• Society for Adolescent Medicine, www.adolescenthealth.org
• National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash
• Columbia University's Health Education Progam, www.goaskalice.columbia.edu

Teen Health - Girls

• iEmily.com, www.iemily.com (girls' health concerns)
• U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, www.health.org/gpower/

Teen Health - Eating Disorders

• Academy for Eating Disorders, www.aedweb.org
• National Eating Disorders Association, www.nationaleatingdisorders.org
• Eating Disorders Awareness & Prevention, Inc., www.edap.org

Teen Health  - Drugs/Substance Abuse

• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information, www.health.org
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, www.samhsa.gov

Women's Health

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, www.acog.org
• Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research, www.womenshealth.wisc.edu