Health & Medical Resources
Gateway Sites
- Medline Plus
- For consumers and patients, from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.
Top Ten Websites- Medical Library Association's list of top 10 health sites.
Consumer and Patient Health Information (CAPHIS)- Want even more links? Medical Library Association's list of top 100 health sites.
Evaluating Medical Information on the Internet- An excellent guide from Oakland Public Library.
Hardin MD- Directory of medical sites by subject.
Healthfinder- is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government.
HealthWeb- Created by the Health Libraries of a consortia of universities and sponsored by the National library of Medicine, this site brings together clinical and academically-oriented sites.
Medicine-Net- Excellent site for disease-specific information, complete drug info and discussion groups, with an online medical dictionary and drug reference, first aid & poison control advice.
Emory's Med Web
- Yahoo Health
- Yahoo's list of health related links.
Reference Books & Articles
- Health and medicine articles
- Health Reference Center database contains materials for both academic interests and personal health research. Journal articles in nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; selected newsletters, pamphlets, and newspaper articles; topical overviews; and core reference books.
(Sonoma County Library card required to search from outside the library)
Merck Manual - Home Edition- Standard diagnostic text rewritten for those without a medical degree. The online version is searchable. Includes sections on children's, men's, and women's health, accidents and injuries, infections, drugs, alternative and complementary medicine, etc.
PubMed- National Library of Medicine's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
Medical Matrix- One of the best directories of professional medical resources. Includes ratings of resources, with links to journal articles, web sites, reference books, email lists and online "textbooks."
BMJ - British Medical Journal- Dedicated to developing scholarly publishing online, the full text of articles published and the review process itself occurs online.
Martindale's Health Science Guide- Contains links to thousands of: Medical Cases & Grand Rounds, Teaching Files & Teaching Modules, Courses/Textbooks, Journals, Databases, Atlases, Videos/Movies. Be careful - some of these works may be seriously out of date.
Merck Manuals- Merck is a major pharmaceutical manufacturer and health publisher. Their Merck Manual for Diagnosis and Therapy is a standard respected one-volume desktop reference for physicians, and they offer an online, searchable version of it. Other online manuals include the Merck Manual Home Edition and the Merck Veterinary Manual.
Medicine-Net- Excellent site for disease-specific information, complete drug info and discussion groups, with an online medical dictionary and drug reference, first aid & poison control advice.
Physician Directories
- Physician Select
- From the American Medical Association. A database of physicians, the online equivalent of the American Medical Association's Directory of Physicians.
MedlinePlus physician directories- Includes a directory of Medicare physicians.
Alternative Medicine
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Studies on supplements from the National Institute of Health. Information on side-effects and potentially toxic effects of supplements also.
Alternative and Complementary Health Sites- From the Rosenthal Center, affiliated with Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. A good set of links to major starting points and search engines for doing research on alternative health topics.
Alternative Medicine Homepage- Links to databases, directories and other information.
Ask NOAH- New York Public Library Health web site with links to many topics in alternative medicine.
Alternative Health News- An interesting site, the best articles online are gathered and annotated with daily updates in health research news.
HealthWWWeb- Lists discussion groups, information on herbs, nutrition, naturopathy.
ConsumerLab- Tests vitamin and herbal products to check actual ingredients. Some information available only by subscription.
HerbMed- Provides access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public.
Mrs. Grieve's A Modern Herbal- The text of a classic (1931) herbal encyclopedia from the web site of Botanica.com. You can search on an index and on common names. There are also indexes for poisons and recipes.
NIH's Office of Dietary Supplements- Database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals.
HerbNet- Information on growing, obtaining and using herbs. Very good links to other sites, e.g. universities that offer programs in herbalism.
Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases- From Dr. Duke's site. This web site allows you to search on plants or specific chemical compounds and activities, and allows you to limit searches by geographic region. Also provides access to an ethnobotanical dictionary, and links to other plant and nutrition databases.
Cancer Resources
- Medline Plus Cancer Topics
CancerLit- From the National Cancer Institute, contains citations from 1966 to the present. Contains more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Updated monthly.
CancerLinks- Created by a non-profit to aid patients to find information.
OncoLink- From the University of Pennsylvania - a wonderful resource for researching clinical information on particular cancers, with links to support groups, financial help, cancer causes, international resources and more.
Drug Information
- Drug Information from MedlinePlus
- The USP DI (United States Pharmacopeia) Advice to the Patient.
FDA Center for Drug Evaluation- Information about the drugs under current evaluation by the FDA.
Rx List- Searchable database of drug information.