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Includes guides on topics relating to general health, as well as the prevention or treatment of diseases and disorders. |
| BioMedNet |
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Elsevier's portal to Life Sciences. Free registration required. |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
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CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. |
| Galaxy international directory of Medical sites and Diseases sites |
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Medical Subject Directory. |
| Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources |
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Produced by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa. |
| Health on the Net |
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HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. |
| Healthfinder |
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U.S. government health and human services information |
| Healthweb |
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HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the Committee for Institutional Cooperation. |
| DOEgenomes.org |
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Website of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Founders of the Human Genome Project. |
| Institute of Medicine (IOM) Topics Listing |
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A component of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the IOM provides a public service by working outside the framework of government to ensure independent guidance on matters of science and medicine. The IOM's mission is to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve human health. |
| Librarian's Index to the Internet - Health and Medicine |
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Medical Subject directory. |
| Mayo Clinic |
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Mayo Clinic Health Information's award-winning consumer Web site offers health information, and self-improvement and disease management tools. MayoClinic.com's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for all consumer health information needs, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to nutrition, exercise and pregnancy. |
| Medem |
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Healthcare information provided and approved by the leading U.S medical societies |
| Medical Matrix |
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The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." Medical Matrix assigns ranks to Internet resources based on their utility for point-of-care clinical application. Quality, peer review, full content, multimedia features, and unrestricted access are emphasized in the rankings. |
| Medical Professionalism Project - includes Charter on Medical Professionalism |
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A collaborative effort designed to raise the concept of professionalism within the consciousness of internal medicine, both in the United States and Europe. |
| MEDLINEplus Health Information |
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National Library of Medicine. A guide to using MedlinePlus MedlinePlus Basicsis also available. |
| Medscape |
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Free Registration required. Medscape is organized by medical specialty, with each supported specialty having its own custom Web Site. Specialty content is evaluated, created, and presented under the guidance of editorial boards. |
| MedWeb |
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Produced by Emory University Health Sciences Center Library. |
| National Institutes of Health (U.S.) |
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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. |
| National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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The world's largest Medical Library and creator of Medline/PubMed. |
| Virtual Hospital |
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Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. |
| World Health Organization |
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The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. |
| WWW Virtual Library: Medicine and Health |
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The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. It is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.
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| WWW Virtual Library: Public Health |
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Maintained by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW, of the Virtual Public Health Library aims to bring together public health sites and resources in a systematic and easily accessible way for all those wishing to be in touch with the most relevant and meaningful public health resources. |
| Yahoo Medicine Index |
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Medical Subject Directory. |
