Best Health Favorites for Your Computer
... or to put on a public access computer
MedlinePlus®:
Best starting point for all consumer health
questions
http://medlineplus.gov/
healthfinder®: links to
dependable consumer health information from the federal
government and other sources, much of it
easy-to-read
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Healthwise®
Knowledgebase: Unbiased information to help consumers
make decisions about their health. Access courtesy of
Group Health.
http://www.ghc.org/kbase/
FamilyDoctor.org:
links to information about health conditions, healthy
living, parents & kids, health tools and more. Hosted
by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
http://familydoctor.org/
CDC: Centers for
Disease Control: links to health topics,
traveler's health information, data, statistics and
more.
http://www.cdc.gov/
Cancer.gov: from the National
Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
The best starting place for cancer information.
http://cancer.gov/
DIRLINE:
Directory of thousands of health organizations, support
groups, health hotlines
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
Lab Tests
Online: a public resource on clinical lab
testing from the professionals who do the testing. Great
information about lab tests and conditions for which
tests might be ordered.
http://labtestsonline.org/
For health information in Spanish:
MedlinePlus (in
Spanish):
http://medlineplus.gov/spanish/
NOAH:
New York Online Access to Health's Spanish health topics
pages
http://www.noah-health.org/
healthfinder®Español:
Healthfinder's Spanish pages
http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/
CDC en
Español
http://www.cdc.gov/spanish/
