Links to Health Info
Links to Medical Resources on the Web
A Word of Warning
Before plunging into the world of medical information available to you on the world wide web, bear in mind that anyone -- reputable scientist or quack -- could be the author of a medical website, and there's no way to tell which just by looking at it. "You can't believe everything you read," is an old adage; it is true of things that you read on the Internet as well. While the sites listed below are known to be reliable, we cannot vouch for all the sites they link to from there or for all the medical sites your web surfing may bring you to. As such, before you take the content of any health-related website to heart, carefully check on the source of this content. Also remember that any claim is most securely verified by a multitude of independent sources, by sources of different types if possible (i.e., both Internet and conventional). To confirm the reliability of a medical web presentation, you may also find the rating services listed below to be useful.
Links to Resources
- AARP Pharmacy Service (Online resource for drug purchases)
- AARP Webplace: Explore Health (Health guide; AARP's health information portal; includes links to publications, articles, and research)
- Alzheimer's Association
- American Cancer Society
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- American Liver Foundation
- American Lung Association
- American Medical Association (Online text for 13 AMA journals are available through this site)
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) (Reliable, up-to-date drug information)
- Arthritis Foundation
- Cancer Hope Network
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Information on diseases, travel health, prevention, and other health issues)
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Family Doctor (A searchable library from the American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Food and Drug Administration
- Healtheon/Web MD (Site includes variety of material designed for consumers and medical practitioners)
- Health Scout (Helps identify the better web sites)
- Health Finder (Maintained by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- Mayo Clinic (Includes "Ask the Mayo Physician")
- Medical Matrix (A peer-reviewed guide to Internet medical resources)
- Medscape (One of the internet's biggest collections of peer-reviewed articles)
- Medseek (An Internet directory of physicians and medical services)
- MedWeb: Biomedical Internet Resources
- Mental Health Net
- Mesothelioma and also Mesothelioma
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Part of the National Institutes of Health, offers starting point for anyone interested in alternative medicine)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Kidney Foundation, Inc.
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- New England Journal of Medicine
- New York State Department of Health
- Westchester County (The official website of Westchester County)
- Women's Issues (Information in conjunction with the Ford Foundation)
- Yahoo Search Engine: Health and Medicine
Medical Web Page Listing and Rating Services
- Health Scout - Helps identify the better web sites.
Magellan - Magellan reviews web sites in 26 different categories, one of which is health. It does not give sites a specific rating for accuracy of information, but accuracy and depth of content are among the criteria by which they fashion their ratings.
- Physicians' Choice - Physicians' Choice, as the name implies, gives ratings to sites based on the evaluations of a review board of physicians.
Reuters Health Information Service - This site's Internet Health Watch service focuses specifically on the quality of the information presented in the sites it reviews.
The Six Senses Program - The Six Senses Program gives numerical ratings based on the accuracy of information presented in a site and the quality of the presentation.