Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
AHRQ is the federal agency in the United States that is largely responsible for research on the health care system. On how the health care system is working. On the quality. On the costs. On access. On use of services. And on health care outcomes.
American Academy of Family Practice
Health information for the whole family.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health. Traveler's Health, data and statistics, immunization schedules as well as general health topics may be found here. English and Espanol.
Cleveland Clinic Health Information Center
Search the Cleveland Clinic library of health information and patient education.
Food & Drug Administration
Patient education information from the FDA.
Harvard School of Public Health
Users can fill out questionnaires to assess their risk for diabetes, heart diease, osteoporosis, stroke, and various cancers.
Health Hotlines from the National Library of Medicine
Toll free numbers to health organizations, English and Spanish.
HealthFinder
Your guide to reliable health information.
HealthInfoQuest
A step by step tutorial for the healthcare provider. Provides instruction in locating and identifying resources suitable for patient/consumer health questions.
JAMA Patient Page
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) features a weekly health information page designed specifically for America's patients.
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
This site is produced by a team of writers, editors, multimedia and graphics producers, health educators, nurses, doctors, and scientists. Mayo's presence on the web is a natural extension of their long-standing commitment to provide health education to patients and the general public.
Medem
Healthcare information from the nations leading medical societies.
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia. Consumer health database indexing evaluated, quality web-based resources. Online tutorials, full-text, drug information, medical encyclopedia and much more! Many resources available in Spanish as well.