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Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov
Focused on research and related topics, the website, created by The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), leads to dozens of databases, journals and websites, with both current and archival material. While the website is not searchable, many of the linked resources are.
Subjects:   Addiction & Substance Abuse  

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
http://nccam.nih.gov
Government agency (part of the National Institutes of Health) for general information about alternative medicine and the field. Site contains alerts and advisories, training opportunities, research resources, how to find clinical trials, and current news and events.
Subjects:   Alternative  

DrWeil.com
http://www.drweil.com
Information on balanced living, food, herbs and lifestyles, from the alternative medicine guru, Dr. Andrew Weil. The strengths of this website are its Community Boards, one of which features advice from Dr. Weil himself, and the section on Home Health Remedies using natural ingredients.
Subjects:   Alternative  

HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org
This website offers a list of herbs and their common names, along with information on the use of herbs for medicinal reasons. Links to other sites with additional information are also provided. Site is searchable and can also be browsed alphabetically.
Subjects:   Alternative  

Rxlist
http://www.rxlist.com
Information, articles, and videos on thousands of drugs and treatments, featuring special most dispensed, highest sales, and top searches lists. Searchable by simple keywords or more advanced code or detail searches, this database is updated every several days.
Subjects:   Drugs & Treatments  

PDRHealth
http://www.pdrhealth.com/
In depth professional and consumer information on a wide variety of FDA-approved drugs, including recommended dosages and side effects. Based on the print Physicians' Desk Reference.
Subjects:   Drugs & Treatments  

Food and Nutrition Information Center
http://fnic.nal.usda.gov
Great collection of sites on nutritional information assembled by the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC), an information center at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), United States Department of Agriculture. It features resources on cooking, recipes and canning, practical tools such as body mass calculators, and a wealth of topical information ranging from anorexia to weight management
Subjects:   Fitness & Nutrition  

My Pyramid
http://www.mypyramid.gov
The United States Department of Agriculture wants you to know how to eat and live healthy. To that end, this searchable site will help you design your own therapeutic eating and exercise plans. It includes links to many other useful sites dealing with dietary guidelines, nutritional labeling, food safety, and more.
Subjects:   Fitness & Nutrition  

Nutrition Source
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/index.html
Designed to provide members of the medical community and the public with the most up-to-date information on diet and nutrition. You can navigate via subject tabs or search by keyword. Created and maintained by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Subjects:   Fitness & Nutrition  

Office of Dietary Supplements
http://ods.od.nih.gov
Maintained by the National Institutes of Health, the ODS supplies users with information on dietary supplements, nutrient recommendations and a portal to database resources. Searchable at the homepage and also within its specialized research databases.
Subjects:   Fitness & Nutrition  

American Council on Exercise
http://www.acefitness.org
The American Council on Exercise is a nonprofit organization committed to enriching quality of life through safe and effective physical activity. You'll find a host of exercise tips, healthy recipes, exercise guides and a complete free exercise library for instruction on how to properly get fit and avoid injury. While it cannot be searched, the website is well-designed, so that resources are easy to find.
Subjects:   Fitness & Nutrition  

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Excellent biomedical research tool for students, professionals and the consumer. Includes articles from MEDLINE and other sources, and its search engine has access to over 15 million citations reaching back to the 1950s. Provided by the National Library of Medicine.
 

Family Doctor
http://familydoctor.org
A searchable site maintained by the American Academy of Family Physicians, Family Doctor has health information you can really use. Conditions and subjects are addressed from A to Z. There are Health tools, tips and the 5 "most popular" conditions (!). Available in Spanish and English.
 

Kaiser Family Foundation
http://kff.org
Maintained by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation, this searchable site provides information ranging from handling disputes about employer supplied health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid to statistics on HIV/AIDS and a study of entertainment media and health. Good for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
 

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
Links to over 1300 medical journals that provide full text articles for free. Journals are arranged by specialty, title, and language, and specify which journals are indexed in the popular database Medline. Site is provided by Bernd Sebastian Kamps.
 

Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com
One of the strengths of this Mayo Clinic site is its Drug Information Section. Here you will find an exhaustive and authoritative list of most drug names (and their U.S. Brand names) and detailed information about each drug.
 

World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int
A first-rate multilingual site for obtaining health information by country (describing conditions, resources, statistics), by topics (giving access to related sites, links, factsheets, or by WHO publication. Includes research tools, a site map, a site search function, and current news.
 

American Medical Association (AMA)
http://www.ama-assn.org
This official website not only provides facts about the AMA itself, but a great deal of health related information for both doctors and patients and a "Doctor Finder" as well. Drop-down menus and a search function make this site easily navigated.
 

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
http://www.noah-health.org
Offers internal information and external links on popular health topics in layman's terms and simple organized sections. Information available in Spanish also and features a "page of the month" area. Access information through their subject and alphabetical indexes as well as their multifunction search engine.
 

Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray
http://www.bartleby.com/107
Included in their many reference works, this well-known text is available for your perusal online thanks to Bartleby.com. It provides a subject index with 13,000 entries, a table of contents menu, a search function, and the 1,247 original engravings.
 

Interactive Health Tutorials (MedlinePlus)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html
With conditions ranging from aneurysms to warts and procedures stretching from amniocentesis to vasectomy, this easy-to-navigate website offers animated graphics to clearly explain complicated medical issues. Most require a free Flash plug-in, version 6 or above. Also available in Spanish.
 

NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/home.html
Excellent starting point for getting statistics on population and ethnic growth rates in New York City. Also available are birth and death certificate application forms, dog license information, and restaurant inspection updates. In addition, community health profiles by zip code can also be found here, as well as a directory of health topics from a to z.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov
A first-rate resource for locating information about health safety, disease prevention, health statistics, CDC Prevention Guidelines and a ‘Current Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors’ page. Centros Para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades is the Spanish counterpart to the English site.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov
A very good site to learn more about the products regulated by the FDA. Other highlights include the ‘Safety Alert’ section that lists drugs that have been recalled by the FDA and the ‘Product Approvals’ section. Useful for finding out the real contents of cosmetic products.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov
Healthfinder is a worthwhile guide to consumer health information (e.g. medical errors and locating doctors by specialty), minority health information and tips on making quality health care decisions. This site can also be searched in Spanish.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

NYC Health Insurance Information, Counseling & Assistance Program
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dfta/html/senior/hiicap.shtml
The NYC HIICAP is New York's source for free, current and impartial information about health care coverage for seniors.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov
The National Institutes of Health web site is your main gateway to research centers and institutes with national and global repute. Some of these 25 Institutes include the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Eye Institute and the National Cancer Institute. The NIH can also be viewed in Spanish at Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (http://salud.nih.gov).
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
http://www.osha.gov
The OSHA site is perhaps the first place to go to in order to obtain current information about health and safety standards in the U.S.A. Keyword searching, an alphabetical site index and the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) are search features available on this site.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

New York State Department of Health
http://www.health.state.ny.us
From this site you will learn about recent medical developments in the ‘Info. for Consumers’ section and New York State’s medical conduct system. Both the keyword and topic searching features are user-friendly.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

Medline Health Information Plus
http://www.medlineplus.gov
Reliable health information provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health for professionals and consumers on over 600 diseases and conditions. The site also includes a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, hospitals, physicians, drug information, information in Spanish, news and other resources.
Subjects:   Government Agencies  

U.S. News.com Directory of America's Hospitals
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/hospitals/hosp_home.htm
Provides basic data on over 6,000 hospitals in the United States. You can search by state, hospital name or other criteria. Also links to hospital's website, a webpage on America's best hospitals, and articles such as insurance.
Subjects:   Hospitals/Care Centers  

HealthGrades
http://www.healthgrades.com
Read the latest hospital ratings for the procedure or diagnosis which is relevant to you. Find the right physician or nursing home or research the one you have.
Subjects:   Hospitals/Care Centers  

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization
http://www.jcaho.org
Check your local healthcare organizations' accreditation. Discover the quality of their performance in advance or report a complaint.
Subjects:   Hospitals/Care Centers  

HealthyPlace.com
http://www.healthyplace.com
A very user-friendly mental health site, with information by both experts and consumers, and support and discussion helpful for all. Features materials on diseases and conditions, drugs and medications and online psychological tests.
Subjects:   Mental Health  

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
http://www.samhsa.gov/
Valuable mental health news and publications about related issues. Provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Subjects:   Mental Health  

Psychology Help Center
http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/
The American Psychological Association's site for helping the public find psychological services, get information, and cope with emotional problems. You can also search for a topic of interest by keyword.
Subjects:   Mental Health  

Psych Central
http://psychcentral.com
Around since 1992, this site focuses on disorders and offers links to thousands of supports groups and mental health resources. Also has book reviews of professional and popular mental health books.
Subjects:   Mental Health  

Go Ask Alice!
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
Columbia University's website listing questions and responses about health questions regarding relationships, sex and sexual health, and health in general. Mostly directed at teens and young adults, Alice! was one of the first major health Q&A sites ever, begun in 1993. This site has a search engine, a menu of major topics, and comments and themes on the front page.
Subjects:   Children & Adolescents  

Dr. Greene Pediatrics
http://www.drgreene.com/
This website, created by a board certified pediatrician, offers handy information and advice on a panoply of childhood diseases and conditions. Browse through the A-Z guide or the Ages & Stages sections, or do a keyword search.
Subjects:   Children & Adolescents  

Kid's Health
http://www.kidshealth.com
This award-winning site is divided into sections for parents, kids, and teens. Each is designed and populated with information for the relevant age groups. Funded by The Nemours Foundation, created by philanthropist Alfred I. duPont in 1936. Available in Spanish and English. Searchable and browsable.
Subjects:   Children & Adolescents