Nursing/Medicine
NursingWorld
American Nurses' Association's (ANA) Web site. This easily accessed site is a comprehensive resource for registered nurses.
Center for Disease Control
Excellent site for public health and safety information. Includes fact sheets, information and CDC journal articles on diseases and chronic conditions, and statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics. The full text of several CDC publications, including "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" and "Emerging Infectious Diseases," is available.
Cancer.gov
Comprehensive cancer information from the National Cancer Institute. Included are cancer topics with links to the most updated booklets, What You Need to Know about Cancer of [type] ; information on clinical trials; other cancer topics.
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Site from the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, a division of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the full authority of the FDA behind it.Catalog of FDA approved prescription, over-the-counter and discontinued drugs.
National Center for Health Statistics
The primary agency for American health statistics from the Center for Disease Control, the NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people.
National Institutes of Health - Health Information
Health information from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Browse health categories or select Quick Links based on age, sex, and lifestyle.
National Mental Health Information Center
Link to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this site offers a comprehensive collection of secure and rapid links to various topic-related resources, including funding sources.
World Health Organization
UN health agency has an authoritative, comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly Web site on international health
National Institute of Nursing Research
Site is maintained under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. Most information falls within the public domain, and e-mail inquires are directed to the Office of Science Policy and Public Liaison.
Household Products Database
From the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services. Links over 4,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets provided by the manufacturers. Can search or browse by product name, chemical, or MSDS.
HIV InSite
A University of California San Francisco site offering up-to-date information on treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. This site contains on online textbook, treatment guidelines, and sections on prevention, country reports, and statistics.
Neuroguide
Sarchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet: Neurobiology, neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, psychology, cognitive science sites and information on human neurological diseases.
MayoClinic
A health education site for the general public. With an RSS feed, blogs, newsletters, and ASK a Specialist - this is an interactive resource for consumer health information.
Familydoctor.org
A site created by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Included is health information by topic, an A to Z list of health information, a health dictionary, health calculators, a doctor search, and more.
MEDLINEplus
The National Library of Medicine's consumer-oriented Website. It has a list of 750 health topics alphabetically and topically organized.
BioMed Central: The Open Access Publisher
This site gives full-text access to 185 peer-reviewed open access journals in the fields of medicine and biology. All articles published by BioMed Central are archived and available in PubMed Central.
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
Provides thorough, authoritative, up-to-date information related to emerging infectious diseases, based on scientific research and collaboration. Available through the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center. Working with a variety of organizations, CIDRAP develops training materials and implements and evaluates public health exercises.
Go Local Texas Gulf Coast
A joint consumer health website project between the Jesse H. Jones Community Health Information Service of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Moody Medical Library in partnership with the National Libary of Medicine. Provides a directory of regional health services for the Texas Gulf Coast.