Health & Medicine

Children's Health

• American Academy of Pediatrics - Information on health of all children, child care books, immunization, parent resource guide, family & medical leave act, safety & injury

Dental

• ADA.org - for dental professionals by American Dental Association, dentist's practice, government & advocacy, education & careers, meeting & events, publications, and products & services

Diseases

• Alzheimer's Association - Information on the disease, programs & services, advocacy efforts, and research
• American Cancer Society - cancer treatment options, statistics, prevention & early detection for health information seekers, cancer survivors network & support programs, publications, media information and research programs
• American Diabetes Association - Diabetes research, information, and advocacy for health care professional
• American Heart Association - Information on warning signs, diseases & conditions, health tools, healthy lifestyle, heart & stroke encyclopedia, American Stroke Association, children heart & disease, publications & resources
• American Stroke Association - division of the American Heart Association, providing information on warning signs, stroke care & programs, heart & stroke encyclopedia, American Heart Association, science & professional, and publications & resources
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America - practical information, community based services, support and referrals through a national network of chapters and educational support groups
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health topics, publications, software & products, data & statistics, CDC fact book, and related web sites
• MedPix - Information organized by disease category, disease location (organ system), and by patient profiles, for physicians, medical students, graduate nursing students and other postgraduates
• National Cancer Institute - Cancer information, clinical trials, statistics, and research programs
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society - Information on disease, research, education, programs, and advocacy

Geriatrics

• Merck Manual of Geriatrics - Information for the aged in 16 categories including basics of geriatrics, pulmonary disorders, and men's & women"s health issues
• NIHSeniorHealth.gov - Provides general background information, quizzes, frequently asked questions, open-captioned video clips, transcripts for the videos, and photos and illustrations with captions, providing a "talking" Web site for listening to the text as an option

Health Education & Research

• MEDWEB - catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University with emphasis on educational and research programs

Health Information

• CAPHIS - General health web sites, by Consumer and patient health information section, a forum for health sciences librarians
• Gateway to Government Food Safety Information - News & safety alerts, consumer advice, report illnesses & product complaints, national food safety programs, and federal & state government agencies and related web sites
• Healthfinder - Health topics, health care, health informaton web sites, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Healthinfoquest - Pathfinders to common consumer health questions, designed for public librarians and health information specialists
• HealthLinkPlus - General health information, health care providers, health insurance, medical research, mental health, integrative & alternative medicine, and live reference chat with online librarian for 24 hours, 7 days/week
• MedicalMatrix - Ranked, peer-reviewed, annotated, updated clinical medicine resoureces for health care professionals
• MEDLINEplus - Health Information, directories, medical encyclopedia and dictionary
• Medscape - Integrated medical information and education tools for specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals
• MPIP: Melanoma Patients' Information Page - Patient guides, patient's network, therapy, news, research and recommended readings
• National Institutes of Health - Health information, grants & funding opportunities, news & events, scientific resources, institutes, centers and offices, by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• PubMed - Provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals, with links to related websites providing full text articles and other databases, by National Library of Medicine
• ReleMed - Searches millions of biomedical articles for the most relevant answers, covering the whole MEDLINE, and updated daily
• U.S. National Library of Medicine - Health information with links to MEDLINE/PubMed, MEDLINEplus, NLM Gateway, research programs, and news
• WebMD - Providing information on healthcare system for physicians, consumers, healthcare providers and commercial health plan
• Health & Fitness - Alternative/complementary medicines, disabilities, fitness/wellness, mental health, and women's health
• SeekWellness - Providing information, services and products for health care consumers to improve their level of wellness

Hospitals

• New York State Hospital Profile (NYSHP) - Includes each hospital's available services and licensed beds, quality of care measures, volume and types of procedures performed, and contact information

Medicines

• drkoop.com - Drug information, medically-reviewed cancer links, vitamin supplement news, and links to Medline, by C. Everett Koop, former surgeon general of the U.S.
• MEDLINEplus - Drug Information, on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications, browsable by first letter of generic or brand name drug
• Merck Manuals - Medical, diagnosis and therapy, geriatrics, veterinary manuals, and index

Physicians & Scientists

• Healthology - Offers consumers the hands-on experience of doctors nationwide for direct contact with a national network of practicing physicians
• MayoClinic.com - First-aid guide, providing access to more than 2,000 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic, by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research