Health
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Additional Databases
Free-Web Sites
- Evaluating Internet Health Information (Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine.)
- OSF Healthcare Health Library
- MEDLINEplus Health Topics (Quality health care information for the public from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.)
- Healthfinder (Searchable gateway to selected consumer health information provided by U.S. government agencies and other organizations serving the public interest.)
- MayoClinic.com
- Merck Manual Home Health Handbook (Information in everyday language about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- WebMD (American corporation providing health information.)
- Your Disease Risk (Find out your risk of developing some of the most important diseases in the U.S. and get personalized tips for preventing them.)
- Who Named It? (Survey of medical phenomena named for a person--e.g. Achilles' tendon or Alzheimer's disease.
- Clinical Trials (Current information about clinical research studies--site developed by the National Institutes of Health.)
- National Cancer Institute (Information on every type of cancer including stages, treatment, clinical trials, etc.)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Disorders of the brain and nervous system.)
- Smoking & Tobacco Use (From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- InnerBody (Uses text, illustrations, and animations to explain the various systems of the body.)
- Neuroscience for Kids (Comprehensive site on the nervous system--includes effects of drugs and neurological and mental disorders.)
Page last revised on August 10, 2023.