Consumer/Patient Health Information -- General Information
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
This searchable site provides health information that is government sponsored. It has links to the National Center for Health Statistics and various topics such as women's health. Format: Website Provider: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)DailyMed
DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). Other information about prescription drugs may also be available. NLM regularly processes data files uploaded from FDA's system and provides and maintains this Web site for the public to use in accessing the information.Note:This web site does not contain a complete listing of labels for approved prescription drugs nor does it contain any supplements, drugs under review by the FDA, or over-the-counter (OTC) products. Format: Website Provider: National Library of Medicine
Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. The search box in the middle of the page lets you search many of these resources simultaneously. More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug. Format: Website Provider: National Library of MedicineDrugs@FDA
A searchable catalog of approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs, including drug approval letters, labels, and review packages. Information on the FDA's approval process can be found here. Format: Website Provider: U.S. Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA)FamilyDoctor.org
Provides health information for women, men, parents and children, and seniors. The Health Tools section includes a dictionary of common medical terms, drug information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, symptom-based self-care flowcharts for common health problems, a directory of family physicians, and more. Format: Website Provider: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)Includes information in Spanish (información en español)
Google Health Co-op
Google Health Co-op is a project which allows subject expert individuals or organizations to create annotations with categories or limits to links in the Google Health database. Contributors to topics annotate websites that they think are especially useful, relevant, or authoritative to a topic with pre-defined category labels. These labels appear as links at the top of search results pages when you search for something related to the topic. You can click these labels to refine your search results, giving priority to sites that have been labeled by topic contributors. Format: Website Provider: GoogleHealthfinder
This site is a gateway consumer health and human services information Website. It has a list of medical libraries in the U.S., an index of medical and health related journals on the Web, searchable medical dictionaries, and a listserv open to the public. Format: Website Provider: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS). Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP).Intelihealth
Aetna InteliHealth's mission is to empower people with trusted solutions for healthier lives. They strive to accomplish this by providing credible information from the most trusted sources, including Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Their health information includes health news and content as well as access to tools and risk assessments. To promote quality, health information developed by InteliHealth is reviewed and approved by leading medical and dental experts. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth's content, including the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, major non-profit organizations, other publishers and news media. Format: Website Provider: AetnaKidsHealth
KidsHealth is the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. Created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media, the award-winning KidsHealth provides families with accurate, up-to-date, and jargon-free health information they can use. KidsHealth has been on the Web since 1995 - and has been accessed by about 300,000,000 visitors. KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens. Format: Website Provider: The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health MediaMayoClinic.com
Mayo Clinic's Web sites provide information and services from the world's first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice. Manage your health with information and tools that reflect the expertise of Mayo's 2,500 physicians and scientists, learn how to access medical services, and discover Mayo's medical research and education offerings. Format: Website Provider: Mayo ClinicMEDLINEplus
Produced by the National Library of Medicine for consumers, MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and non prescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Format: Website Provider: National Library of MedicineMerck Manual of Medical Information -- Second Home Edition
Selected sections of the Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Second Home Edition are also searchable online; this version includes the complete sections on the heart, infections, the eye, and obstetrics and gynecology. Resource for consumer health information. Also as a book: Ref. Consumer Health WB120 M53 Format: Website Provider: Merck & Co., Inc.MLA's Deciphering Medspeak Brochures
While trying to make informed health decisions, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health eprofessionals. The Medical Library Association developed "Deciphering Medspeak" to help translate common "medspeak" terms. Also available are disease-specific versions of the popular "Deciphering Medspeak" brochure including breast cancer, diabetes, eye disease, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and stroke. Each brochure (in PDF) features a list of Rx riddles or abbreviations as well as a glossary of medspeak terms and MLA-recommended Websites related to each disease. Format: Website Provider: Medical Library AssociationAdobe Acrobat Reader required
