Government Sites Hosting Health Information

Websites For the Consumer

Healthfinder - consumer health information - site maintained by the National Health Information Center of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

MedlinePlus - a user friendly, very reliable medical-consumer portal for health and drug information for patients, family, and friends.

National Institutes of Health - Health Information - consumer health information organized by conditions, body systems, type of patient, etc.

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AIDS.GOV - Internet gateway to federal HIV/AIDS information - to guide users to information on prevention, testing, treatment and research programs, and to federal HIV/AIDS policies and resources.

CDC Recommends - a searchable storehouse of documents containing CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommendations on a variety of health, prevention, and public health practice issues

     NCHS  (National Center for Health Statistics) - Products and Series Reports

CMS - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (Department of Health & Human Services) - internet only manuals

National Institute of Health (NIH) - primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research - it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases - it includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

       NCI (National Cancer Institute)

National Library of Medicine (NLM) - the world's largest medical library - a component of NIH.

       NLM Gateway - gateway to the National Library of Medicine - provides a global search function for Pubmed, Pubmed Central, and Medline Plus.

       Pubmed - more than 15 million citations from Medline for biomedical and nursing articles, dating back to the 1950s

           Click on "Books" from the search bar and search the NCBI Bookshelf  - a free, full-text collection of biomedical books.

       PubMed Central (PMC) - a free digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical behavioral, clinical, and life sciences journal literature -- a publicly-accessible, stable, permanent, and searchable electronic archive.

                        700+Health Topics - alphabetical - subjects are sorted into broad groups (diseases or conditions, body groups,

                         tests and procedures) - interactive health tutorials section - easy to read section - section for Low Vision Users.

                        Drug Information - 2 (two) drug resources are used to provide information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter

                        medications.

                        Medical Encyclopedia - over 4000 entries on diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries.

                        Current Health News - rolling 30-day newspaper coverage from the New York Times syndicate.

National Institute of Nursing Research   

PandemicFlu.Gov - the official U.S. government web site for information on pandemic flu and avian influenza.

Some other good Health-related Websites

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