Comprehensive health sites
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control provides current CDC news, traveler's health update, publications and products, scientific data, and information on diseases, health risks, prevention guidelines, and strategies. Also provided are links to external resources. The CDC mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
Family Doctor: health information for the whole family
All content on this website is written or selected by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Information comes in a variety of formats and groupings (self-care flowcharts, senior health topics, medications, etc.), but is uniformly reliable and understandable.
For Health Consumers (MLA)
The Medical Library Association (MLA) provides a list of the top ten most useful consumer health web sites
Health Information in American Sign Language
Healthfinder
Healthfinder is a free guide to reliable health information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The site provides an easy-to-use, searchable index of carefully reviewed health information from over 1,800 government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and universities.
Information for Consumers (New York State Department of Health)
The New York State Department of Health's web site features information aimed at consumers on topics such as patient rights, health and wellness information, statistics and insurance.
Mayo Clinic
MayoClinic.Com provides understandable health and disease information, often highlighted with helpful, colorful illustrations. A number of interactive tools, such as healthy lifestyle planners and disease self-managers are also featured. All material on the site is developed and/or reviewed by Mayo Clinc physicians and researchers, with updates each weekday.
Medem. Patient Network
The nation's leading medical societies have joined forces to create Medem, an e-health network you can trust.
MEDLINEplus
Developed by the NLM to provide authoritative, up-to-date health information to both health professionals and consumer, MEDLINEPlus is a portal to information from the National Institutes of Health and other reliable sources on diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, health information in Spanish, information on prescription and over-the-counter medications, news articles, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
Merck Manual Home Edition
This searchable, online text contains, in addition to everything in the print edition, a section with corrections and late-breaking important information.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health = Acceso Computerizado a la Salud de Nueva York
Provides high-quality consumer health information in both English and Spanish. Health care professionals and librarians from the organizations which sponsor and run this site find, select, and organize full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased.
WebMD
WebMD offers health and wellness information, articles, news, and interactive tools.
Disclaimer: The medical information provided is for educational purposes only. It is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult your physician or health care provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.