Please select from the categories below:
Directories
Online Glossaries of Medical Terms
Health Megasites
Health News Sites
Resources for Evaluation of Health Websites
Search Tools (General)
Support Groups
Directories - Locate hospitals, physicians, dentists, or consumer health libraries in your area.
Online Glossaries of Medical Terms - Searchable tools that can help you to find the meaning and pronunciation of health-related words.
Health Megasites - These sites all cover a broad range of topic areas and are good starting points for locating quality information written for consumers.
| DelaWeb Health Links |
Part of DelAWARE, the Digital Library of the First State. The sites listed in the Health category of DelaWeb have been selected and evaluated by the librarians of the Delaware Academy of Medicine.
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Family Doctor.org
From the American Academy of Family Physicians. Provides patient information documents on over 200 health-related topics.
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| HealthAtoZ |
Catalogs, indexes, describes and rates healthcare sites for the professional and consumer. Ratings of 1-5 stars based on content, ease of use, layout, and appeal.
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| HealthFinder |
U.S. government site with links to over 500 other consumer health sites. Lists online self help and support groups.
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| HealthScout |
A portal for health related news. Can be personalized to send you via email the health news topics that relate to your interests. Also rates health web sites and lists product recalls.
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| HealthWeb |
Provides links to specific, evaluated information resources selected by information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers.
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| MayoClinic.com |
Consumer health, disease and drug info produced by a team of physicians, scientists, writers and educators from the Mayo Clinic. Includes an "Ask the Doctor" feature.
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| MedlinePlus |
Links to information on hundreds of disorders and conditions put together by the librarians at the National Library of Medicine. Includes links to many health pamphlets written at an easy reading level by agencies of the federal government. Also includes some resources in Spanish.
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NetWellness
Provides information created and evaluated by medical professional faculty at three Ohio universities. Includes an “Ask an Expert” feature, news, and links to evaluated sites.
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| NOAH (New York Online Access to Health) |
Health information for the consumer in English and Spanish produced by a coalition of libraries in the NYC area.
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NORD: (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
A good source for hard-to-find information on rare diseases. Includes listings of support groups
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Virtual Hospital
"The 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". |
Health News Sites - These are major news portals that have sections devoted to health. Also see some of the "Health Megasites" listed above for links to health news.
CNN Health News
New York Times Science/Health Access to the online New York Times is free, but registration is required
Resources for Evaluation of Health Websites - Reliable sources of advice to help you assess the validity of the information you find on the Web.
Search Tools (General) - A select few of the tools that index webpages as well as other types of resources on the Internet; these are not limited to coverage of health and medicine-related sites. When you search, keep in mind that no single tool covers all of the Internet. The approximate number of sites covered by each of these tools (as of April 2000) is listed after each of their descriptions.
| Librarians' Index to the Internet |
A "virtual library" that indexes sites that have been selected and reviewed by a committee of librarians. Indexes about 5,000 sites.
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| Yahoo |
A directory of websites arranged by topic; also includes a search engine. Currently links to roughly 1 million sites.
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| HotBot |
A "first generation" search engine which prioritizes sites retrieved by relevance to your topic. Has many different features that help you to focus your search. Searches about 36-39 million sites.
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| Google |
A "second generation" search engine which prioritizes search results by relevance as well as by popularity of the retrieved sites. The number of other sites that link to the retrieved site is used as an indicator of quality. Searches about 140-154 million sites.
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| Northern Light |
| Another second generation tool. Also searches databases available via the web. Results are grouped into "folders"; click on one to refine your search. Searches about 189 million sites. |
Support Groups
Sturge-Weber - The Sturge-Weber Foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals with Port Wine Stains (PWS), Sturge-Weber Syndrome (SWS) and Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome (KT). The Foundation strives to meet this goal by providing worldwide education and support and by facilitating research that could ultimately lead to a cure.
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