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The following sites provide access to health-related reference works, as well as reliable sources of health information on the Web.
Ageline
http://research.aarp.org/ageline/home.html
AARP’s comprehensive bibliographic database on aging. Includes books, journals, research reports, consumer guides, and book chapters, as well as an online thesaurus of gerontology and geriatric terms.
Aetna InteliHealth
http://www.intelihealth.com/
A partnership between Aetna and Harvard Medical School, offering a user-friendly source of authoritative consumer health information.
AllRefer Health Encyclopedia
http://health.allrefer.com/
Includes the A.D.A.M. Health Encyclopedia plus a wide variety of additional resources.
Brandon/Hill Selected Lists of Books and Journals
http://www.mssm.edu/library/brandon-hill/small_medical/index.shtml
Brandon/Hill core lists of books and journals for the "Small Medical Library", "Nursing" and "Allied Health", arranged by subject with purchase costs for the collections and for individual titles. These lists, although no longer being updated, were used thru 2003 by librarians, nurses, health care practitioners and other interested people as authoritative selection guides for books and journals in the health sciences.
CAPHIS Top 100
http://www.caphis.mlanet.org/consumer/index.html
The Medical Library Association Consumer and Patient Health Information Section’s list of trustworthy sources for health information on the Web.
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/
Contains a wealth of reliable health information, including health and safety topics, health statistics, travelers' health information, and more.
TheFreeDictionary.com
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
A broad-based online resource with about 2,000,000 articles and definitions from leading dictionaries and encyclopedias. Resources include Stedman's Medical Dictionary, as well as legal, computing, and financial dictionaries, acronyms, and two general encyclopedias.
Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Gateway site to reliable consumer health information, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Healthopedia.com
http://www.healthopedia.com/
A medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focused health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications.
HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org/
An interactive herbal database offering hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. It is an impartial, evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public, provided by the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.
LocatorPlus
http://locatorplus.gov
The National Library of Medicine's Online Catalog of books, journals and audiovisuals.
Martindale's Reference Desk
http://www.martindalecenter.com/
Incredible collection of online reference tools on everything from Aerospace medicine to Zoology: calculators, dictionaries, shareware, and more.
MedBioWorld
http://www.medbioworld.com/index.html
One of the the largest medical reference sites. Links include 6,000 medical journals in 80 subspecialties, and the home pages of 4,000 medical associations. Other research tools include medical glossaries, disease databases, clinical trials and guidelines, and medical journals offering full-text articles.
Medical Mnemonics
http://www.medicalmnemonics.com/
A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details about anatomy, biological systems, and medical symptoms. Includes downloadable PDA software.
MedicineNet.com
http://www.medicinenet.com/
Provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers. Lengthy articles cover diseases, symptoms and signs, tests, and drugs. The MedTerms dictionary contains over 16,000 terms, including abbreviations, acronyms, jargon, eponyms, and medical history not easily found in other online medical dictionaries.
MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov
The National Library of Medicine’s consumer health information website. Contains links to MEDLINE, as well as dictionaries and other reference tools, physician and hospital directories, and specialized health science databases.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Browser
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
An indispensable thesaurus for medical indexers; used for indexing MEDLINE and other NLM databases. Also searchable via PubMed.
Merck Manuals Online
http://www.merck.com/pubs/
Contains searchable full-text online editions of Merck Manual of Medical Information, 2nd Home Edition, Merck Manual of Geriatrics, 3rd ed., Merck Manual of Health & Aging, Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th ed., and Merck Veterinary Manual, 8th ed.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/
The National Institutes of Health website for authoritative information on complementary and alternative health methods.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
RxList
http://www.rxlist.com/
Searchable database of prescription drugs, containing physical descriptions, indications, adverse effects, etc. Includes a list of the 200 most-prescribed products.
1000 Dictionaries.com
http://www.1000dictionaries.com/medical_dictionaries_1.html#medicine
Links to hundreds of health-related dictionaries and reference tools.
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/
Services that help physicians, consumers, providers and health plans navigate the complexity of the healthcare system, including dictionaries, symptom checkers, and information about physicians and insurance plans.
YourDictionary.com Specialty Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html
Full-text English language dictionaries for biology, chemistry, dentistry, medicine, psychology, sociology, and other disciplines.
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