Virtual Reference Desk : Health & Medicine

Additional health-related resources are available from the Nursing and Health Sciences Subject Portals. See also Health Research Databases.

Drug Information

• Drug InfoNet: the Internet Source for Healthcare Information
• MEDLINEplus: Drug Information
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index

Health

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Go Ask Alice! (question and answer site produced by Columbia University)
• Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
• Health & Medical Sciences Reference (Internet Public Library)
• Healthfinder (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
• healthinsuranceinfo.net
• Healthopedia
• Health Web (librarian-selected links)
• HerbMed
• InteliHealth
• Librarians' Index to the Internet: Health and Medicine
• MayoClinic.com
• Merck Manual (2nd home edition)
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (17th ed.)
• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• National Institutes of Health
• NetWellness (ask a medical expert from Ohio medical schools)
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
• Quackwatch
• Consumer.gov: Health
• WebMD

Hospitals & Doctors

• AMA DoctorFinder
• American Hospital Directory
• familydoctor.org

Statistics

• Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas
• ClevelandHealth.info
• FASTATS (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Health Statistics (Ohio Department of Health)
• Health, United States (National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• HealthWeb: Public Health: Health Statistics (National Center for Health Statistics and other sources)
• Ohio Health Facts
• statehealthfacts.org (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
• WHO Statistical Information System (international)

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